 The championship was contested over an eleven race series which ran from 6 March to 20 November 1988.Martin Brundle was awarded the World Sports Prototype Championship for Drivers, Gordon Spice and Ray Bellm jointly won the FIA Cup for Group C2 Drivers, Silk Cut Jaguar was awarded the World Sports Prototype Championship for Teams and Spice Engineering won the FIA Cup for Group C2 Teams.In order to be classified for points, a team had to complete 90% of the winner's distance.