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GT World Challenge Asia

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GT World Challenge Asia
CategoryGrand tourer sportscars
CountryInternational
Inaugural season2017
Drivers' championChina Yuan Bo
China Leo Ye Hongli
Teams' championChina Origine Motorsport
Official websitewww.gt-world-challenge-asia.com
Current season

The Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS (formerly Blancpain GT Series Asia and Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia) is a GT series motor racing competition promoted by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation and organized by Team Asia One GT Management.[1]

From its inception in 2017 to 2023, GT World Challenge Asia was a multi-class championship featuring GT3 and GT4 cars. In 2024, the series adopted the same GT3-only format as the other GT World Challenge series on other continents.

The Japan Cup series debuted in 2022 as a parallel championship within GT World Challenge Asia, with races held exclusively in Japan. It was split into a separate championship in 2024.

Circuits

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  • Bold denotes an active circuit used in the 2024 season.
Number Circuits Rounds Years
1 Malaysia Sepang International Circuit 6 2017–2019, 2022–present
Japan Suzuka International Racing Course 6 2017–2019, 2022–present
Japan Fuji Speedway 6 2017–2019, 2022–present
4 Thailand Chang International Circuit 5 2017–2019, 2023–present
5 China Shanghai International Circuit 4 2017–2019, 2024
6 Japan Okayama International Circuit 3 2022–present
7 Japan Sportsland Sugo 2 2022, 2024
8 China Zhejiang International Circuit 1 2017
China Ningbo International Circuit 1 2018
South Korea Korea International Circuit 1 2019
Japan Mobility Resort Motegi 1 2023

Champions

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Drivers

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Year GT3 Overall GT3 Silver GT3 Pro-Am GT3 Silver-Am GT3 Am-Am (2017)
GT3 Am (2018–)
GT4 Overall
2017 United Kingdom Hunter Abbott Hong Kong Marchy Lee
Hong Kong Shaun Thong
United Kingdom Hunter Abbott China James Cai
Malaysia Kenneth Lim
France Jean-Marc Merlin
Hong Kong Frank Yu
2018 Croatia Martin Kodrić
Denmark Dennis Lind
Croatia Martin Kodrić
Denmark Dennis Lind
Japan Hiroshi Hamaguchi
Switzerland Marco Mapelli
Japan Takuya Shirasaka
Japan Naoto Takeda
Germany Reinhold Renger
2019 South Korea Roelof Bruins South Korea Roelof Bruins Thailand Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak Australia Andrew Macpherson
Australia William Ben Porter
Japan Sunako Jukuchou
2022 Japan Kei Cozzolino
Japan Takeshi Kimura
Japan Naoki Yokomizo Australia Nick Foster
Malaysia Prince Jeffri Ibrahim
Australia Andrew Macpherson
Australia William Ben Porter
Chinese Taipei Brian Lee
Japan Hideto Yasuoka
2023 China Anthony Liu Xu China Kang Ling
China Cao Qi
China Anthony Liu Xu China Bian Ye
China Hu Yuqi
Japan Masaki Kano
Japan Manabu Orido
2024 China Leo Ye Hongli
China Yuan Bo
China Franky Cheng Congfu
Hong Kong Adderly Fong
Belgium Alessio Picariello
China Anthony Liu Xu
China Leo Ye Hongli
China Yuan Bo
Indonesia David Tjiptobiantoro

Teams

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Year GT3 GT4
2017 Hong Kong GruppeM Racing Team Hong Kong Craft-Bamboo Racing
2018 China FFF Racing Team by ACM Japan BMW Team Studie
2019 China Absolute Racing Chinese Taipei Team iRace.Win
2022 Australia Triple Eight JMR Japan GTO Racing Team
2023 China R&B Racing Japan YZ Racing with Studie
2024 China Origine Motorsport

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "GT World Challenge Asia". SRO Motorsports Group. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
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