1998 British GT Championship


The 1998 Privilege Insurance GT Championship was the sixth season of the British GT Championship, an auto racing series organized by the British Racing [Drivers Club] and sponsored by Privilege Insurance. The races featured grand touring cars conforming to two categories of regulations known as GT1 and GT2, and awarded an overall driver championship from the combined categories. The season began on 5 April 1998 and ended on 4 October 1998 after nine events, one of which was held outside Great Britain for the first time in the championship's history.
Kurt Luby and Richard Dean won the overall championship for Oftedahl Motorsport ahead of the GT1 class-leading pair of Steve O'Rourke and Tim Sugden of O'Rourke's own EMKA Racing team.

Calendar

All races were 50 minutes in duration.
RndCircuitDate
1Silverstone International Circuit, Northamptonshire5 April
2Oulton Park, Cheshire4 May
3Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire24 May
4Snetterton Circuit, Norfolk31 May
5Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit, Northamptonshire12 July
6Donington Park National Circuit, Leicestershire2 August
7Silverstone International Circuit, Northamptonshire23 August
8Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium27 September
9Silverstone International Circuit, Northamptonshire4 October