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List of FIA GT Champions

Featured list candidates/List of FIA GT Champions/archive1

Nominator(s): EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) 07:15, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The FIA GT Championship was a sports car racing series for Grand Touring cars that was held from 1997 to 2009. This list contains the names of every driver, team and manufacturer to have won a title in the series. All comments are welcome EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) 07:15, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"For 2005, both categories reverted to the GT1 and GT2 titles" => "For 2005, the two categories reverted to the GT1 and GT2 titles"
"There were 16 drivers who had won a Drivers' Championship in either of the GT1 or GT2 categories and there were 17 racers who had won titles in either of the GT2 or N-GT classes" - this is slightly confusing. Should the second one read "GT or N-GT".....?
"The cup was not formally awarded in 2008 due to a lack of eligible non-professional drivers throughout the season" - but there are winners listed.....?
"the FIA moved it to the GT2 class for seven races in 2009" - yet it was clinched in race 7 of 8? Slightly confused by this......
That's all I got - great work!! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:54, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@ChrisTheDude: I've amended the list based on all of the above points. Please let me know if there is anything else that needs addressing EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) 06:37, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

More comments

"At the end of the 2009 season, 31 drivers had won an FIA GT title. There were 16 drivers who had won a Drivers' Championship in either of the GT1 or GT2 categories and there were 17 racers who had won titles in either of the GT or N-GT classes" - by my count there are actually 17 distinct drivers in the GT1/GT2 tables, 15 distinct drivers in the GT/N-GT tables, and 30 distinct drivers overall
"The Citation Cup was introduced by the SRO in partnership with Cessna Citation in 2007 for non-professional racing drivers participating in the GT1 category over a series of eight rounds" - table shows that Aucott clinched in race 9 of 10......? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:24, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @ChrisTheDude: Have addressed both issues EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) 07:39, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:40, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Alavense

The caption needs a full stop.
JMB were declared champions because it - Maybe "were" and "they" or "was" and "it", I think.
Maybe I'm too obtuse, but why are there seasons with one driver and seasons with two?

That's what I saw. Kind regards, Alavense (talk) 07:14, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alavense: Have amended the list based on the above points. As for the third point, the reasons that there are seasons with one champion instead of two is because their regular co-driver did not participate in all of the races that the champion took part in and was replaced by another driver. Hence, they are not listed. Sources listed in the list as well as each individual FIA GT Championship season article can provide further detail as to what races they entered EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) 07:53, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be worth explaining that somewhere, EnthusiastWorld37? Thank you for the other edits. Alavense (talk) 07:56, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alavense: Done EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) 08:08, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Nice work. Support. Alavense (talk) 08:10, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by RunningTiger123

"German drivers had won more titles..." and "Vitaphone Racing Team had won..." – just say "won" instead of "had won"
When a row header spans multiple rows (i.e., when a year has multiple winners), use scope=rowgroup instead of scope=row
"A Manufacturers' Cup was introduced..." – awkward run-on sentence; I suggest "A Manufacturers' Cup was introduced for the 2005 season and was awarded in both the GT1 and GT2 categories through 2007; it was not awarded in 2008 and was limited to the GT2 class in 2009."
For the 2008 Citation Cup, could they really have clinched after only 2 races? Nobody else got points after that race, but theoretically there were enough points available that someone could have passed them, right? (I am not an expert so I could be missing something.)
- It would not have been realistic with a full eight-race season but I have amended the table to reflect the fact there were only two races that ended up being held as part of the 2008 Citation Cup EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) 08:34, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Link Cessna Citation family at the first occurrence of "Cessna Citation"

— RunningTiger123 (talk) 21:08, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@RunningTiger123: Have made changes based on the issues raised above EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) 08:34, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support – RunningTiger123 (talk) 15:45, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source review passed; promoting. --Pres N 18:46, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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