GT World Challenge Asia
| Category | Grand tourer sportscars |
|---|---|
| Country | International |
| Inaugural season | 2017 |
| Drivers' champion | Yuan Bo Leo Ye Hongli |
| Teams' champion | Origine Motorsport |
| Official website | www |
| Current season | |
The GT World Challenge Asia (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.
Each season consists of six rounds, each with two 60-minute races. Each entry has two drivers, which must swap in a compulsory pitstop between the 25th and 35th minute.
Circuits
- Bold denotes an active circuit used in the 2025 season.
| Number | Circuits | Rounds | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sepang International Circuit | 6 | 2017–2019, 2022–present |
| Suzuka International Racing Course | 6 | 2017–2019, 2022–2024 | |
| Fuji Speedway | 6 | 2017–2019, 2022–present | |
| 4 | Chang International Circuit | 5 | 2017–2019, 2023–present |
| 5 | Shanghai International Circuit | 4 | 2017–2019, 2024 |
| 6 | Okayama International Circuit | 3 | 2022–present |
| 7 | Zhejiang International Circuit | 1 | 2017 |
| Ningbo International Circuit | 1 | 2018 | |
| Korea International Circuit | 1 | 2019 | |
| Sportsland Sugo | 1 | 2022 | |
| Mobility Resort Motegi | 1 | 2023 | |
| 12 | Mandalika International Street Circuit | 0 | 2025 |
| Beijing Street Circuit | 0 | 2025 |
Champions
Drivers
| Year | GT3 Overall | GT3 Silver | GT3 Pro-Am | GT3 Silver-Am | GT3 Am-Am (2017) GT3 Am (2018–) |
GT4 Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Hunter Abbott | Marchy Lee Shaun Thong |
Hunter Abbott | — | James Cai Kenneth Lim |
Jean-Marc Merlin Frank Yu |
| 2018 | Martin Kodrić Dennis Lind |
Martin Kodrić Dennis Lind |
Hiroshi Hamaguchi Marco Mapelli |
Takuya Shirasaka Naoto Takeda |
Reinhold Renger | |
| 2019 | Roelof Bruins | Roelof Bruins | Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak | Andrew Macpherson William Ben Porter |
Sunako Jukuchou | |
| 2022 | Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura |
Naoki Yokomizo | Nick Foster Prince Jeffri Ibrahim |
Andrew Macpherson William Ben Porter |
Brian Lee Hideto Yasuoka | |
| 2023 | Anthony Liu Xu | Kang Ling Cao Qi |
Anthony Liu Xu | Bian Ye Hu Yuqi |
Masaki Kano Manabu Orido | |
| 2024 | Leo Ye Hongli Yuan Bo |
Franky Cheng Congfu Adderly Fong |
Alessio Picariello Anthony Liu Xu |
Leo Ye Hongli Yuan Bo |
David Tjiptobiantoro | — |
Teams
| Year | GT3 | GT4 |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | GruppeM Racing Team | Craft-Bamboo Racing |
| 2018 | FFF Racing Team by ACM | BMW Team Studie |
| 2019 | Absolute Racing | Team iRace.Win |
| 2022 | Triple Eight JMR | GTO Racing Team |
| 2023 | R&B Racing | YZ Racing with Studie |
| 2024 | Origine Motorsport | — |
See also
- British GT Championship
- GT Asia Series, a similar series from 2010-2016
- GT World Challenge Europe
- GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
- GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
- GT World Challenge America
- GT World Challenge Australia
References
- ^ "GT World Challenge Asia". SRO Motorsports Group. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
External links