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GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA MAKES FURTHER CHANGES TO 2020 CALENDAR
GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS organisers, SRO Motorsports Group, have made further changes to this year’s calendar in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Sepang, which was due to host round one, now closes out the campaign on December 5/6. It will be the first time that a non-Chinese venue has staged the … Continue reading
SHANGHAI 888 HEADLINES GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA’S REVAMPED 2020 CALENDAR
One of the region’s biggest endurance races, the Shanghai 888, will headline GT World Challenge Asia’s fourth season next year following confirmation of the championship’s 2020 calendar. Updates to the provisional schedule issued in July see Thailand’s round at Buriram reinstated and Shanghai now hosting separate sprint and endurance events. Its second, the season-ending Shanghai … Continue reading
BLANCPAIN GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA PODIUM FINISH FOR NIELSEN AND O’YOUNG AFTER GREAT FIGHT THROUGH THE FIELD
Craft-Bamboo Racing’s Christina Nielsen and Darryl O’Young achieve their second podium of the 2019 Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia after an incredible fight through the field starting from 14th position in Race 2. In the #88 car, Alessio Picariello scored his third straight pole position, but despite setting the fastest lap in Race 2, was … Continue reading
LAST GASP PASS SEES TAN AND RUMP CLAIM AUDI’S FIRST BLANCPAIN GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA VICTORY OF THE SEASON
Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute’s Weiron Tan passed Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak on the final lap to claim his, Martin Rump’s and Audi’s first Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia victories of the season in this weekend’s second race at Fuji Speedway earlier today. The Malaysian’s late dive down the inside into Turn 1 topped an action packed … Continue reading
TAN AND RUMP CLIMB TO BLANCPAIN GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA SECOND BENEATH MOUNT FUJI
Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute’s Weiron Tan and Martin Rump took an impressive round seven Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia podium in the shadow of Mount Fuji, Japan. Tan’s getaway when the lights went green launched the Audi Sport Asia pair immediately into podium contention despite starting seventh on the grid. A well-managed pit stop … Continue reading
CHOI’S BLANCPAIN GT TITLE AMBITIONS BACK ON TRACK AFTER VICTORY WITH METZGER AND INDIGO AT FUJI
Manuel Metzger and MG Choi claimed theirs and Solite Indigo Racing’s second Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia victories of the season at Fuji Speedway this afternoon despite a slow puncture that threatened to derail the latter’s title hopes. The Korean team’s Mercedes-AMG finished just 0.5s ahead of Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute’s Weiron Tan and … Continue reading
ABSOLUTE PORSCHE AND CRAFT-BAMBOO MERCEDES-AMG SHARE BLANCPAIN GT QUALIFYING SPOILS AT FUJI
Tanart Sathienthirakul and Alessio Picariello shared Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia qualifying honours this morning at Fuji Speedway where Absolute Racing’s Porsche and Craft-Bamboo’s Mercedes-AMG sealed a pole apiece. Sathienthirakul has a chance to extend his championship lead from pole later today after beating Weiron Tan’s Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute entry by 0.5s. However, … Continue reading
CRAFT-BAMBOO RACING HEADS TO FUJI FOR SECOND HALF OF THE 2019 BLANCPAIN GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA SEASON
The first half of the 2019 Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia saw Craft-Bamboo Racing realize the potential of the Mercedes-AMG GT3, finishing in the top-three on several occasions including two outright GT3 victories in Sepang and Suzuka. It has also been a strong first half of the season for the sole GT4 entry, with the … Continue reading
THREE FERRARIS TARGET BLANCPAIN GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA PODIUM AT FUJI
The impressive Fuji International Speedway hosts the second consecutive Japanese round of the Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia, where 31 cars will compete on the circuit that stands on the slopes of the most famous volcano in the Land of the Rising Sun. Three Ferrari 488 GT3s will take part, entered by HubAuto Corsa, T2 … Continue reading
RAHEL FREY JOINS AUDI SPORT ASIA TEAM TSRT FOR BLANCPAIN GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA
Fresh from her SP8 class victory at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, Rahel Frey enters the fray for the Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia with Audi Sport Asia Team TSRT. Audi Sport driver Frey will partner Audi Sport Asia counterpart David Chen as the championship embarks upon the second half of its 2019 season at Japan’s … Continue reading
