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2016 Masters Series season

Competition	Masters Series
Platform Used	rFactor 2
Rounds	5
Vehicle(s)	Audi TT Cup
Tyre Supplier(s)	Hankook
Drivers
Teams	15
Drivers' Champion
Teams' Champion
Masters Series Seasons
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The 2016 Masters Series will be the seventh season of the Masters Series at the GPVWC. David Jundt will enter the series as the reigning champion, having taken the crown in the ultimately shortened 2014 season and with the 2015 season never having taken place.

Teams and Drivers

The following teams have confirmed their 2016 participation:

Masters Series Team	Base	Abbreviation	Tyre	No.	Race Drivers	Rounds
Ice Cold Racing	Gothenberg, Sweden	Ice Cold	H	2	Eric Stranne
				3	Lewis McGlade
Epic Racing Team	Banbury, England	Epic	H	4	Chris Shepherd
				5	Geoffrey Fournier
TSA Racing	Stowmarket, England	TSA	H	6	Philip Morby
				7	Tom Parker
Racing Team Schroten	Bennekom, Netherlands	RTS	H	8	TBA
				9	TBA
CM-Tech Racing	Schoonhoven, Netherlands	CM-Tech	H	10	Wopke Hoekstra
				11	TBA
Malta Force GP	Siggiewi, Malta	Malta Force	H	12	Bart De Vos
				14	Jason Muscat
Hinss Motorsport	Melbourne, Australia	Hinss	H	15	TBA
				16	David Francic
Simtech Enterprise GP	Bromley, England	EGP	H	17	Kevin Siggy
				18	Argo Teder
Cosmo Autosport	Simonside, England	Cosmo	H	19	Andrew Waring
				20	TBA
TR Motorsports	Detroit, MI, United States	TR	H	21	TBA
				22	Maurice Brackhahn
EJ Engineering	Perth, Australia	EJ	H	23	Jarrod Vanderweide
				24	Joel Pereira
Bosphorus Racing Team	Dordrecht, Netherlands	BRT	H	25	TBA
				26	TBA
SportsCar Driving Evolution	Paris, France	SDEv	H	27	Niranjan Kumar
				28	TBA
SimTech Jota Sport	Limerick, Ireland	SimTech	H	29	Jordan Weekes
				30	Adam Ozgur
RPM Racing	Bourne, England	RPM	H	31	TBA
				32	TBA

Returning Teams

• Only Racing Team Schroten and TSA Racing returned to the series from the 2013 season, previously the last such season to feature teams.

New Entries

• Bosphorus Racing Team, EJ Engineering, RPM Racing, SportsCar Driving Evolution and TR Motorsports are all rookies to GPVWC competition.

2016 Calendar

Round	Event	Circuit	Conditions	Date	Time
					Laps	GMT/BST
1	Silverstone Masters	Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire	TBC	January 3rd	TBC	19:00
2	Assen Masters	TT Circuit Assen, Assen	TBC	January 10th	TBC	19:00
3	San Francisco Masters	San Francisco Street Circuit, San Francisco	TBC	January 17th	TBC	19:00
4	Adelaide Masters	Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide	TBC	January 24th	TBC	19:00
5	Brno Masters	Masaryk Circuit, Brno	TBC	January 31st	TBC	19:00

Calendar changes

• With the return to the Masters' original evening format came only one returning event, the Silverstone Masters, which last ran in the 2012 season.
• All other events on the calendar, based in Assen, San Francisco, Adelaide and Brno, were making their debuts in the series.

Results and Standings

Rounds

Rd.	Masters	Pole Position	Race One Fastest	Race One Winner	Race Two Fastest	Race Two Winner	Report
1	Silverstone Masters	(-)	(-)		(-)		Report
2	Assen Masters	(-)	(-)		(-)		Report
3	San Francisco Masters	(-)	(-)		(-)		Report
4	Adelaide Masters	(-)	(-)		(-)		Report
5	Brno Masters	(-)	(-)		(-)		Report