What is the Sporting Format of the Porsche Carrera World Cup?
The Porsche Carrera World Cup features an innovative and high-intensity sporting format built around pure sprint racing, designed to highlight driver talent and deliver non-stop action on track.
Each race follows a 30-minute + 1 lap sprint format, ensuring flat-out racing from start to finish. With a maximum grid capacity of 120 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars, the event is one of the largest and most competitive one-make race weekends in the world.
The race weekend unfolds through a progressive elimination format:
Drivers begin the weekend divided into four starting groups, each contesting three sprint races in the group phase.
Points earned in each race determine who progresses.
The top half of each driver class advances into one of two Semi Final races.
From there, the 30 best-performing drivers across all classes earn their place in the highly anticipated Final Race, where the Porsche Carrera World Cup titles are decided
This structure keeps the pressure high from the very first race and rewards not only outright speed but also consistency and racecraft.
To ensure accessibility and safety across all three driver categories, the use of ABS is permitted for all competitors. This allows a wider range of talent — from seasoned professionals to ambitious gentlemen drivers — to fully engage in the competition with confidence.
The result is a weekend filled with spectacular sprint racing, rising tension, and a dramatic showdown that crowns the world’s best Porsche One-Make Series drivers — all on equal footing, in identical machinery.
