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Motor racing competition season
The 2025 GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS is the sixth season of the GT World Challenge Asia , an auto racing series for grand tourer cars in Asia , co-promoted by the SRO Motorsports Group and Team Asia One GT Management. The races are contested with GT3-spec cars. The season began on April at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia and is scheduled to end on October in the new Beijing Street Circuit in China . The series will come to Mandalika Circuit in Indonesia which originated to compete in 2022 before the race cancelled.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Round
Circuit
Date
1
Sepang International Circuit , Sepang District , Selangor
11–13 April
2
Mandalika International Street Circuit , Central Lombok , West Nusa Tenggara
9–11 May
3
Chang International Circuit , Buriram , Thailand
30 May–1 June
4
Fuji Speedway , Oyama , Shizuoka
11–13 July
5
Okayama International Circuit , Mimasaka , Okayama
29–31 August
6
Beijing Street Circuit, Beijing , China
17–19 October
Sources:[ 1] [ 4] [ 3]
Icon
Class
Drivers
S
Silver Cup
PA
Pro-Am Cup
SA
Silver-Am Cup
Am
Am Cup
Bold indicates overall winner of the race.
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
Points
25
18
15
12
10
8
6
4
2
1
Drivers' championships[ edit ]
Colour
Result
Gold
Winner
Silver
Second place
Bronze
Third place
Green
Points classification
Blue
Non-points classification
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple
Retired, not classified (Ret)
Red
Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black
Disqualified (DSQ)
White
Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank
Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)
Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap
Notes:
† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance.
Driver
Team
SEP
MAN
BUR
FUJ
OKA
BEI
Points
1
Maxime Oosten Ruan Cunfan
No. 89 Team KRC
1
1
1
1
100
2
Huang Ruohan Akash Neil Nandy
No. 29 Absolute Corse
2
2
5
2
64
3
Kiyoshi Uchiyama
No. 25 Porsche Centre Okazaki
6
3
4
6
43
4
Li Xuanyu Lu Wenlong
No. 321 Absolute Racing
3
5
8
4
41
5
Han Ming-Wan
No. 33 Vollgas Motorsports
8
4
6
3
39
6
Anders Fjordbach Li Kerong
No. 86 Origine Motorsport
7
7
2
Ret
30
7
Yu Kanamaru
No. 500 Team 5ZIGEN
10
6
7
5
25
7
" "
No. 500 Team 5ZIGEN
10
6
7
5
25
8
Chris On Chia Adderly Fong
No. 13 Phantom Global Racing
9
10
3
7
24
9
Yuta Kamimura
No. 25 Porsche Centre Okazaki
6
3
23
10
Daan Arrow
No. 33 Vollgas Motorsports
6
3
23
11
Tsubasa Kondo
No. 25 Porsche Center Okazaki
4
6
20
12
Liu Hangcheng
No. 55 Winhere Harmony Racing
4
8
Ret
8
20
12
Lorenzo Patrese
No. 55 Winhere Harmony Racing
4
8
Ret
8
20
13
Dominic Ang
No. 33 Vollgas Motorsports
8
4
16
14
Ling Kang Zhang Yaqi
No. 44 Climax Racing
5
9
Ret
DNS
12
Elias Seppänen
No. 55 Winhere Harmony Racing
" "
No. 500 Team 5ZIGEN
—
Lee Chan-Joon
No. 33 Vollgas Motorsports
WD
WD
0
Driver
Team
SEP
MAN
BUR
FUJ
OKA
BEI
Points
Driver
Team
SEP
MAN
BUR
FUJ
OKA
BEI
Points
1
Christian Colombo David Tjiptobiantoro
No. 75 Garage 75
2
1
2
3
76
2
William Ben Porter
No. 51 AMAC Motorsport
1
3
3
2
73
3
Liu Lic Ka Reinhold Renger
No. 30 Elegant Racing Team
4
4
1
4
61
4
Setiawan Santoso
No. 8 EBM
3
2
Ret
1
58
5
Andrew Macpherson
No. 51 AMAC Motorsport
WD
WD
3
2
33
6
Martin Berry
No. 8 EBM
3
2
33
7
Andrew Bentley
No. 8 EBM
Ret
1
25
8
Kei Nakanishi Shigekazu Wakisaka
No. 60 LM corsa
5
5
20
Driver
Team
SEP
MAN
BUR
FUJ
OKA
BEI
Points
Team
SEP
MAN
BUR
FUJ
OKA
BEI
Points
1
Origine Motorsport
1
5
1
1
94
14
10
23
6
2
Phantom Global Racing
2
6
3
2
59
22
28
14
27
3
Team KRC
3
4
5
4
49
4
Johor Motorsports Racing JMR
4
1
8
8
46
28
Ret
11
10
5
Craft-Bamboo Racing
19
2
6
3
45
29
Ret
9
9
6
5
3
7
24
36
22
7
31
Ret
7
Winhere Harmony Racing
6
20
4
22
20
11
26
Ret
29
8
Absolute Corse
7
9
10
5
19
18
Ret
13
12
9
Climax Racing
12
22
2
25
18
Ret
27
Ret
DNS
10
LM corsa
27
25
20
7
6
11
Uno Racing Team
Ret
8
17
11
4
12
GTO Racing Team
8
29
19
Ret
4
13
AMAC Motorsport
9
23
29
19
2
14
Absolute Racing
10
15
28
14
1
15
18
30
15
—
Porsche Centre Okazaki
13
11
15
21
0
27
23
—
Plus with BMW M Team Studie
16
12
26
26
0
—
Vollgas Motorsports
21
14
21
13
0
—
EBM
17
13
16
17
0
25
21
Ret
Ret
—
Team 5ZIGEN
23
17
22
16
0
—
Garage 75
24
16
25
20
0
—
Elegant Racing Team
26
24
24
28
0
Team
SEP
MAN
BUR
FUJ
OKA
BEI
Points
^ Li Kerong competed under a Chinese license for the first round.
^ a b c Car No. 45 entered as FAW Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom, No. 46 entered as Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom, and No. 13 & No. 37 entered as Phantom Global Racing.
^ a b Car No. 19, No. 29 & No. 98 entered as Absolute Corse and car No. 321 and No. 911 entered as Absolute Racing.
^ Absolute Corse No. 19 was entered into the first round, but withdrew ahead of the round due to logistical issues.
^ Lee Chan-Joon was entered into the first round, but withdrew ahead of the round. He was replaced by Dominic Ang
^ Andrew Macpherson was entered into the first round, but withdrew ahead of the round. William Ben Porter entered the race by himself.
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