MOTORSPORT – Bahraini-British GT team 2 Seas Motorsport get their season underway today in the 2026 GT World Challenge Europe.
An official two-day prologue is to be held at Circuit Paul Ricard in France, and it is part of the competing teams’ final preparations for the start of the 10-round campaign, which will feature both endurance and sprint events.
The championship’s curtain-raiser is scheduled for this weekend at the same venue, and it will be an endurance meeting.
2 Seas, owned by Shaikh Isa bin Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, are competing with two cars in the GT World Challenge Europe.
The first is their #222 Mercedes-AMG GT3, to be driven in round one by the all-British triumvirate of Charles Dawson, Kiern Jewiss, and Reece Barr in the Bronze class.
Dawson and Jewiss are the reigning British GT Championship’s GT3 drivers’ champions, but are taking on a different challenge this year, with Barr joining them for endurance races.
2 Seas are also contesting the Pro category, running the #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Team Verstappen Racing, owned by four-time Formula One drivers’ world champion Max Verstappen.
Together, they secured last season’s Gold Cup title, and will be returning this campaign to go for back-to-back crowns.
Getting behind the wheel of this contender are Briton Chris Lulham, Spaniard Daniel Juncadella, and Frenchman Jules Gounon, who completes their line-up for endurance races.
2 Seas will be hitting the track today for a pair of test sessions – the first over four hours long starting at 10am and the second over three hours beginning at 3pm. Both times are Bahrain.
Another test is scheduled for tomorrow on the concluding day of the prologue.
2 Seas have completed setting up their garage and team base at the French track.
The opening round’s action will be headlined by a six-hour endurance race, scheduled to flag off at 7pm, Bahrain time, on Saturday night and wrap up at 1am early Sunday morning.
2 Seas will be running their two contenders amongst a stacked 59-car grid, which also features entrants in the series’ Gold and Silver classes.
The season’s calendar is composed of 10 rounds – five each for the two race durations.
Other endurance events this campaign will be held at Monza in Italy in May; at Spa in Belgium in June, which will be a 24-hour event; at the Nurburgring in Germany in August; and at Algarve in Portugal in October.
Sprint weekends will take place at Brands Hatch in the UK in May; at Misano Adriatico in Italy in July; at Magny-Cours in France in July and August; at Zandvoort in the Netherlands in September; and at Barcelona in Spain in October.
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