2024 GT World Challenge Asia
The 2024 Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS will be the fifth season of SRO Motorsports Group and Team Asia One GT Management's GT World Challenge Asia, an auto racing series for grand tourer cars in Asia. The races will be contested with GT3-spec and GT4-spec cars with hopes of GT2-spec entries. The season will begin on 20 April at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia and is scheduled to end on 15 September at Shanghai International Circuit in China.[1] This season the Japan Cup also separate from the main GTWCA race, and will run as a stand alone race.[1]
Calendar[edit]
GT World Challenge Asia Calendar
Round | Circuit | Date | |
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1 | Sepang International Circuit, Sepang District, Selangor | 20–21 April | |
2 | Chang International Circuit, Buriram, Thailand | 11–12 May | |
3 | Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Shizuoka | 22–23 June | |
4 | Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka, Mie | 6–7 July | |
5 | Okayama International Circuit, Mimasaka, Okayama | 24–25 August | |
6 | Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai, China | 14–15 September | |
Sources:[1] |
Japan Cup Calendar
Round | Circuit | Date | |
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1 | Sportsland SUGO, Murata, Miyagi | 8–9 June | |
2 | Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Shizuoka | 22–23 June | |
3 | Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka, Mie | 6–7 July | |
4 | Okayama International Circuit, Mimasaka, Okayama | 24–25 August | |
Sources:[1] |
Entry list[edit]
GTWC Asia[edit]
Japan Cup[edit]
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Race results[edit]
Bold indicates overall winner for each car class (GT3 and GT4).
GTWCA Results[edit]
Round | Circuit | Pole Position | Pro/Am Winners | Silver Winners | Silver-Am Winners | Am Winners | |
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1 | R1 | Sepang | No. 36 FAW Audi Sport Asia Racing Team | No. 6 VSR | No. 36 FAW Audi Sport Asia Racing Team | No. 87 Origine Motorsport | No. 75 Garage 75 |
Franky Cheng Congfu Adderly Fong |
Edoardo Liberati Ye Bian |
Franky Cheng Congfu Adderly Fong |
Yuan Bo Leo Ye Hongli |
Christian Colombo David Tjiptobiantoro | |||
R2 | No. 4 Origine Motorsport | No. 4 Origine Motorsport | No. 77 Harmony Racing | No. 87 Origine Motorsport | No. 19 The Spirit of FFF Racing | ||
Laurin Heinrich Lu Wei |
Laurin Heinrich Lu Wei |
Liang Jiatong Luo Kailuo |
Yuan Bo Leo Ye Hongli |
Hiroshi Hamaguchi Mineki Okura | |||
2 | R1 | Buriram | No. 41 Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute | No. 40 Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute | No. 41 Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute | No. 87 Origine Motorsport | No. 19 The Spirit of FFF Racing |
Akash Nandy James Yu Kuai |
Huang Ruohan Markus Winkelhock |
Akash Nandy James Yu Kuai |
Yuan Bo Leo Ye Hongli |
Hiroshi Hamaguchi Mineki Okura | |||
R2 | No. 888 Triple Eight JMR | No. 4 Origine Motorsport | No. 911 Absolute Racing | No. 500 Team 5ZIGEN | No. 75 Garage 75 | ||
Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim Luca Stolz |
Lu Wei Patrick Pilet |
Eshan Pieris Tanart Sathienthirakul |
"Hirobon" Yu Kanamaru |
David Tjiptobiantoro Massimiliano Wiser | |||
3 | R1 | Fuji Speedway | |||||
R2 | |||||||
4 | R1 | Suzuka | |||||
R2 | |||||||
5 | R1 | Okayama | |||||
R2 | |||||||
6 | R1 | Shanghai | |||||
R2 | |||||||
Japan Cup Results[edit]
Round | Circuit | Pole Position | Silver Winners | Pro/Am Winners | Silver-Am Winners | Am Winners | GTC Winners | GT4 Silver-Am Winner | GT4 Am Winner | |||
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1 | R1 | SUGO | ||||||||||
R2 | ||||||||||||
2 | R1 | Fuji Speedway | ||||||||||
R2 | ||||||||||||
3 | R1 | Suzuka | ||||||||||
R2 | ||||||||||||
4 | R1 | Okayama | ||||||||||
R2 | ||||||||||||
Championship standings[edit]
- Scoring system
Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers are required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Drivers' championships[edit]
GT World Challenge Asia[edit]
Overall[edit]
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Italics – Fastest Lap |
Notes:
- † – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance.
Pro-Am Cup[edit]
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP |
BUR |
FUJ |
SUZ |
OKA |
SHA |
Points | ||||||
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1 | Lu Wei | No. 4 Origine Motorsport | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 70 | ||||||||
2 | Anthony Liu Xu Alessio Picariello |
No. 1 Absolute Racing | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 59 | ||||||||
3 | Huang Ruohan Markus Winkelhock |
No. 40 Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute | 12 | Ret | 1 | 3 | 40 | ||||||||
4 | Bastian Buus Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak |
No. 93 AAS Phantom Global Racing | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 40 | ||||||||
5 | Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim | No. 888 Triple Eight JMR | 7 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 38 | ||||||||
6 | Cao Qi | No. 30 Craft-Bamboo Racing | 8 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 36 | ||||||||
7 | Laurin Heinrich | No. 4 Origine Motorsport | 5 | 1 | 35 | ||||||||||
8 | Patrick Pilet | No. 4 Origine Motorsport | 5 | 1 | 35 | ||||||||||
9 | Ralf Aron Wang Zhongwei |
No. 22 Climax Racing | 10 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 26 | ||||||||
10 | Edoardo Liberati Ye Bian |
No. 6 VSR | 1 | 11 | 12 | Ret | 25 | ||||||||
11 | Daniel Morad | No. 30 Craft-Bamboo Racing | 8 | 2 | 22 | ||||||||||
12 | Tomonobu Fujii Satoshi Hoshino |
No. 777 D'station Racing | 4 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 22 | ||||||||
13 | Jordan Love | No. 888 Triple Eight JMR | 7 | 3 | 21 | ||||||||||
14 | Jeffrey Lee | No. 88 Craft-Bamboo Racing | 6 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 20 | ||||||||
15 | Fabian Schiller | No. 88 Craft-Bamboo Racing | 6 | 5 | 18 | ||||||||||
16 | Luca Stolz | No. 888 Triple Eight JMR | 3 | 9 | 17 | ||||||||||
17 | Sun Jingzu | No. 13 Phantom Global Racing | 11 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 16 | ||||||||
18 | Maro Engel | No. 30 Craft-Bamboo Racing | 8 | 5 | 14 | ||||||||||
19 | Marco Mapelli Zhou Bihuang |
No. 63 VSR | 9 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 12 | ||||||||
20 | Jaxon Evans | No. 13 Phantom Global Racing | 7 | 8 | 10 | ||||||||||
21 | Joel Eriksson | No. 13 Phantom Global Racing | 11 | 7 | 6 | ||||||||||
22 | Maximilian Götz | No. 88 Craft-Bamboo Racing | 9 | 11 | 2 | ||||||||||
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP |
BUR |
FUJ |
SUZ |
OKA |
SHA |
Points |
Silver Cup[edit]
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP |
BUR |
FUJ |
SUZ |
OKA |
SHA |
Points | ||||||
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1 | Franky Cheng Congfu Adderly Fong |
No. 36 FAW Audi Sport Asia Racing Team | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 76 | ||||||||
2 | Akash Nandy James Yu Kuai |
No. 41 Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 76 | ||||||||
3 | Eshan Pieris Tanart Sathienthirakul |
No. 911 Absolute Racing | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 64 | ||||||||
4 | Ryo Ogawa Shigekazu Wakisaka |
No. 60 LM Corsa | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 49 | ||||||||
5 | Liang Jiatong Luo Kailuo |
No. 77 Harmony Racing | 5 | 1 | 5 | Ret | 45 | ||||||||
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP |
BUR |
FUJ |
SUZ |
OKA |
SHA |
Points |
Silver-Am Cup[edit]
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP |
BUR |
FUJ |
SUZ |
OKA |
SHA |
Points | ||||||
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1 | Leo Ye Hongli Yuan Bo |
No. 87 Origine Motorsport | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 93 | ||||||||
2 | "Hirobon" Yu Kanamaru |
No. 500 Team 5ZIGEN | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 67 | ||||||||
3 | André Canard Finn Gehrsitz |
No. 296 Absolute Corse | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 49 | ||||||||
4 | Min Heng Jaylyn Robotham |
No. 66 Climax Racing | 3 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 43 | ||||||||
5 | Yuta Kamimura Hiroaki Nagai |
No. 18 Porsche Centre Okazaki | 2 | 2 | Ret | 10 | 37 | ||||||||
6 | Jono Lester Ruan Cunfan |
No.89 Team KRC | 11 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 37 | ||||||||
7 | Tsubasa Kondo Kiyoshi Uchiyama |
No. 25 Porsche Centre Okazaki | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 26 | ||||||||
8 | Han Min-kwan | No. 44 Vollgas Motorsports | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 22 | ||||||||
9 | Kim Jae-hyun | No. 44 Vollgas Motorsports | 7 | 6 | 14 | ||||||||||
10 | Akira Mizutani Yuki Nemoto |
No. 563 ANR with VSR | 10 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 13 | ||||||||
11 | Brian Lee Hideto Yasuoka |
No. 14 GTO Racing Team | DNS | 10 | 9 | 7 | 9 | ||||||||
12 | André Couto Liu Lic Ka |
No. 3 Elegant Racing Team | 6 | Ret | 8 | ||||||||||
13 | Li Lichao Liu Hangcheng |
No. 52 Climax Racing | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 4 | ||||||||
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP |
BUR |
FUJ |
SUZ |
OKA |
SHA |
Points |
Am Cup[edit]
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP |
BUR |
FUJ |
SUZ |
OKA |
SHA |
Points | ||||||
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1 | David Tjiptobiantoro | No. 75 Garage 75 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 83 | ||||||||
2 | Hiroshi Hamaguchi Mineki Okura |
No. 19 The Spirit of FFF Racing | 2 | 1 | 1 | Ret | 68 | ||||||||
3 | Andrew Macpherson William Ben Porter |
No. 51 AMAC Motorsport | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 66 | ||||||||
4 | Setiawan Santoso | No. 8 EBM | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 46 | ||||||||
5 | Massimiliano Wiser | No. 75 Garage 75 | 2 | 1 | 43 | ||||||||||
6 | Christian Colombo | No. 75 Garage 75 | 1 | 3 | 40 | ||||||||||
7 | Henk Kiks Rodney Jane |
No. 26 B-Quik Absolute Racing | 4 | 3 | 27 | ||||||||||
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP |
BUR |
FUJ |
SUZ |
OKA |
SHA |
Points |
Teams' Championship[edit]
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See also[edit]
- 2024 British GT Championship
- 2024 GT World Challenge Europe
- 2024 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
- 2024 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
- 2024 GT World Challenge America
- 2024 GT World Challenge Australia
- 2024 Intercontinental GT Challenge
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d Car No. 1 and No. 911 entered as Absolute Racing, car No. 26 entered as B-Quik Absolute Racing, car No. 40 and No. 41 entered as Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute, and car No. 296 entered as Absolute Corse.
- ^ Phantom Global Racing is based in China, but competes under a Hong Kong license.
- ^ a b c Car No. 13 entered as Phantom Global Racing, car No. 36 entered as FAW Audi Sport Asia Racing Team, and car No. 93 entered as AAS Phantom Global Racing.
- ^ Adderly Fong is a Hong Kong driver, but competes under a Chinese license.
References[edit]
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