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]
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] |
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Bold indicates overall winner for each car class (GT3 and GT4).
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 | |||||
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3 | R1 | Fuji Speedway | |||||
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4 | R1 | Suzuka | |||||
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5 | R1 | Okayama | |||||
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6 | R1 | Shanghai | |||||
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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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3 | R1 | Suzuka | ||||||||||
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4 | R1 | Okayama | ||||||||||
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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 |
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Italics – Fastest Lap |
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Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP | BUR | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | SHA | Points | ||||||
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1 | Laurin Heinrich Lu Wei | No. 4 Origine Motorsport | 5 | 1 | 35 | ||||||||||
2 | Edoardo Liberati Ye Bian | No. 6 VSR | 1 | 11 | 25 | ||||||||||
3 | Anthony Liu Xu Alessio Picariello | No. 1 Absolute Racing | 3 | 6 | 23 | ||||||||||
4 | Cao Qi Daniel Morad | No. 30 Craft-Bamboo Racing | 8 | 2 | 22 | ||||||||||
5 | Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim Jordan Love | No. 888 Triple Eight JMR | 7 | 3 | 21 | ||||||||||
6 | Bastian Buus Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak | No. 93 AAS Phantom Global Racing | 2 | 9 | 20 | ||||||||||
7 | Jeffrey Lee Fabian Schiller | No. 88 Craft-Bamboo Racing | 6 | 5 | 18 | ||||||||||
8 | Tomonobu Fujii Satoshi Hoshino | No. 777 D'station Racing | 4 | 8 | 16 | ||||||||||
9 | Ralf Aron Wang Zhongwei | No. 22 Climax Racing | 10 | 4 | 13 | ||||||||||
10 | Joel Eriksson Sun Jingzu | No. 13 Phantom Global Racing | 11 | 7 | 6 | ||||||||||
11 | Marco Mapelli Zhou Bihuang | No. 63 VSR | 9 | 10 | 3 | ||||||||||
— | Huang Ruohan Markus Winkelhock | No. 40 Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute | 12 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP | BUR | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | SHA | Points |
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 | 40 | ||||||||||
2 | Akash Nandy James Yu Kuai | No. 41 Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute | 2 | 2 | 36 | ||||||||||
3 | Liang Jiatong Luo Kailuo | No. 77 Harmony Racing | 5 | 1 | 35 | ||||||||||
4 | Ryo Ogawa Shigekazu Wakisaka | No. 60 LM Corsa | 3 | 5 | 25 | ||||||||||
5 | Eshan Pieris Tanart Sathienthirakul | No. 911 Absolute Racing | 4 | 4 | 24 | ||||||||||
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP | BUR | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | SHA | Points |
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 | 50 | ||||||||||
2 | Yuta Kamimura Hiroaki Nagai | No. 18 Porsche Centre Okazaki | 2 | 2 | 36 | ||||||||||
3 | "Hirobon" Yu Kanamaru | No. 500 Team 5ZIGEN | 4 | 3 | 27 | ||||||||||
4 | André Canard Finn Gehrsitz | No. 296 Absolute Corse | 5 | 4 | 22 | ||||||||||
5 | Min Heng Jaylyn Robotham | No. 66 Climax Racing | 3 | 11 | 15 | ||||||||||
6 | Han Min-kwan Kim Jae-hyun | No. 44 Vollgas Motorsports | 7 | 6 | 14 | ||||||||||
7 | Jono Lester Ruan Cunfan | No.89 Team KRC | 11 | 5 | 10 | ||||||||||
8 | Tsubasa Kondo Kiyoshi Uchiyama | No. 25 Porsche Centre Okazaki | 8 | 7 | 10 | ||||||||||
9 | André Couto Liu Lic Ka | No. 3 Elegant Racing Team | 6 | Ret | 8 | ||||||||||
10 | Akira Mizutani Yuki Nemoto | No. 563 ANR with VSR | 10 | 8 | 5 | ||||||||||
11 | Li Lichao Liu Hangcheng | No. 52 Climax Racing | 9 | 9 | 4 | ||||||||||
12 | Brian Lee Hideto Yasuoka | No. 14 GTO Racing Team | DNS | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP | BUR | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | SHA | Points |
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP | BUR | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | SHA | Points | ||||||
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1 | Hiroshi Hamaguchi Mineki Okura | No. 19 The Spirit of FFF Racing | 2 | 1 | 43 | ||||||||||
2 | Christian Colombo David Tjiptobiantoro | No. 75 Garage 75 | 1 | 3 | 40 | ||||||||||
3 | Andrew Macpherson William Ben Porter | No. 51 AMAC Motorsport | 3 | 2 | 33 | ||||||||||
4 | Setiawan Santoso | No. 8 EBM | 4 | 4 | 24 | ||||||||||
Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP | BUR | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | SHA | Points |
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