2025 Northeast GT Rules Preview and Format

Northeast GT 2.0
The complete rulebook is soon to come. Highlights include:

Real Clean Racing | Real, tough and fair racing can be had without contact.  We want this to be a no-contact series.  Racing room + a tire width must be left, always.  No Hail Marys, always respect your fellow competitors.

Inclusive | Our mission beyond good clean racing, is to be as inclusive as possible to driver, car and team while maintaining the quality of said racing.

Production Vehicles and More | Any production vehicle (mass produced, VIN tagged, or intended for street use) of any year that is sold in any market.  Purpose built racecars within our performance window are welcome.

Prepared | All vehicles participating in Northeast GT wheel-to-wheel sessions, including the Northeast GT Race School, must be fully prepared for wheel-to-wheel racing.  Roll cage, fire system, master switch, in-date harnesses/seat/window net, no leaks.  

Licensed or Experienced Drivers | Drivers need either a competition license or must have recent wheel-to-wheel experience, otherwise we offer the GT Race School to help drivers new to, or returning to, wheel-to-wheel have a clean first race.

Tires | Unrestricted, with modifiers applying for GT Cup to level the playing field.

Engines | Unrestricted, with modifiers applying for GT Cup.  Sorry, no boosted engines for GT Cup, but they are welcome in Bracket GT.

Body, Chassis and Suspension | Largely open, with modifiers applying for GT Cup.

Fueling/Pit Lane | 5 minute pit stops. (in to out)   One wheel gun, torque wrench, jack and extra wheel/tire over the wall at a time.  

Safety Gear | Driver and fueling crew safety gear: SA 2015 or newer helmet, FIA or SFI rated; fire suit, balaclava(for fuelers), gloves, shoes, and HNR.

Flagtronics  |  Each car will be required to have a Flagtronics FT200.  This will support our drive for clean racing as well as our into night endurance theme, including pit stop timing.  We will have them available to rent.

Format, Championships, Teams and Classing

2 Hour Races | 2 hours per race, 2 stops each race

8 Race Championship | 4 rounds, 8 races, driver and team championships.  Best 5 individual races count (up to 3 drops).

1-3 Driver Teams  The race format is designed for 1-3 drivers.  Driver changes are not required, but the two required pit stops are.

GT Relay Teams | Drivers with cars in the same GT Cup class or in Bracket GT will be able to team up in a relay race type format, changing not just drivers, but car and driver on pit stops.  More on this new concept soon!

GT Cup: Power to Weight Based Classing | Your car’s minimum competition weight will be based on a formula using your car’s OEM horsepower, torque and a cumulative modifier percentage.  Our GT Cup modifiers are based on vehicle age, drivetrain and suspension layouts, engine modifications, tire type and width, differential, transmission, suspension updates, aero and so on.  Our classes and their modified P/W ratios are coming soon.  Currently we are gathering data to help us chose ratios to allow the most cars to fit without making large changes.  Purpose built racecar classing will be handled on a case by case basis to ensure parity.

Bracket GT: Bracket Style, Performance Based Classing | In this low stress, run what you brung system, your team’s lap times in your car will determine your bracket.  Your team’s bracket will determine your handicap and allow all bracket classed cars to all compete against each other, without any cars being trapped between classes or running away with a class.  This category rewards good race craft and consistent driving over being all out fast. 

GT Cup Calculator

Click here to see how your car “ranks” in our NEGT Cup classing system. Fill-out the drop-downs and required info, then the tool generates your car’s adjusted Northeast GT Cup power to weight ratio. This information will be used to help us select our class ratios.

 

Cars built for and running the following series and classes and those similar will fit into the Northeast GT Cup: 

  • SCCA: Spec Miata, Spec Mx5, T2-T4, STL, STU, B Spec, C Spec, as well as all IT and Prod classes
  • NASA: H1, H2 and H4, GTS1-4, ST3-ST6
  • EMRA: ST3 and slower
  • GLTC prepared vehicles
  • WRL: GP1-3 
  • AER: Class 1-4
  • CCES: all official classes
  • 24HOL: A and B cars, minus the decorations
  • SpecE30, E36 and E46-prepared BMW 3-series
  • Spec Boxster-prepared first-generation 2.5L Porsche Boxsters
  • PCA Stock-class prepared base Porsche Caymans and Boxsters