2017 Blancpain GT Series Asia
The 2017 Blancpain GT Series Asia was the inaugural season of SRO Motorsports Group and Team Asia One GT Management's Blancpain GT Series Asia, an auto racing series for grand tourer cars in Asia. The races were contested with GT3-spec and GT4-spec cars.
Calendar
[edit]On 19 October 2016, the Stéphane Ratel Organisation announced the 2017 calendar and championship details.[1] The series started at Sepang on 8 April and ended at Zhejiang on 15 October, as the event at Zhejiang was moved forward one week, after the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.[2]
Event | Circuit | Date |
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1 | Sepang International Circuit, Sepang, Malaysia | 8–9 April |
2 | Chang International Circuit, Buriram, Thailand | 20–21 May |
3 | Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka, Japan | 24–25 June |
4 | Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan | 19–20 August |
5 | Shanghai International Circuit, Jiading, China | 23–24 September |
6 | Zhejiang International Circuit, Shaoxing, China | 14–15 October |
Entry list
[edit]GT3
[edit]GT4
[edit]Team | Car | No. | Drivers | Class | Rounds |
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EKS Motorsports[25] | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR[25] | 10 | Eric Lo[4] | AA | All |
Byron Tong[4] | |||||
117 | Nazim Azman[4] | Inv | 1 | ||
Swen Herberger[4] | |||||
TTR Team SARD[37] | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR[37] | 11 | Tony Fong[37] | AA | All |
Terence Tse[37] | |||||
Clearwater Racing[38] | McLaren 570S GT4[38] | 12 | Weng Sun Mok[38] | AA | 4 |
Richard Wee[38] | |||||
Taiwan Top Speed Racing Team[39] | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR[39] | 17 | Keo Chang[39] | AA | All |
Jeremy Wang[39] | 1–2, 4, 6 | ||||
George Chou[16] | 3 | ||||
Jeff Lu[19] | 5 | ||||
Craft-Bamboo Racing[27] | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR[27] | 77 | Jean-Marc Merlin[27] | AA | All |
Frank Yu[27] | |||||
HubAuto Racing[40] | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR[40] | 89 | Ringo Chong[4] | AA | All |
Alan Yeo[4] | 1 | ||||
Douglas Khoo[5] | 2 | ||||
Masahiko Ida[16] | 3 | ||||
Kan Zang[21] | 4, 6 | ||||
James Wong[19] | 5 |
Race results
[edit]Bold indicates overall winner.
Round | Circuit | Pole position | Pro-Am Winners | Silver Winners | Am-Am Winners | GT4 Winners | |
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1 | R1 | Sepang | No. 86 OD Racing Team | No. 999 GruppeM Racing Team | No. 86 OD Racing Team | No. 19 KCMG | No. 77 Craft-Bamboo Racing |
Mitchell Gilbert Aditya Patel | Hunter Abbott Raffaele Marciello | Mitchell Gilbert Aditya Patel | Takuya Shirasaka Naoto Takeda | Jean-Marc Merlin Frank Yu | |||
R2 | No. 6 Audi R8 LMS Cup | No. 37 BBT | No. 86 OD Racing Team | No. 75 T2 Motorsports | No. 10 EKS Motorsports | ||
Alex Au Alex Yoong | Anthony Liu Davide Rizzo | Mitchell Gilbert Aditya Patel | Gregory Teo David Tjiptobiantoro | Eric Lo Byron Tong | |||
2 | R1 | Buriram | No. 37 BBT | No. 38 Spirit of Race | No. 5 Audi Hong Kong | No. 19 KCMG | No. 17 Taiwan Top Speed Racing Team |
Anthony Liu Davide Rizzo | Rui Águas Rino Mastronardi | Marchy Lee Shaun Thong | Takuya Shirasaka Naoto Takeda | Keo Chang Jeremy Wang | |||
R2 | No. 7 J-Fly by Absolute Racing | No. 999 GruppeM Racing Team | No. 5 Audi Hong Kong | No. 69 CMRT Eurasia | No. 77 Craft-Bamboo Racing | ||
Jeffrey Lee Alessio Picariello | Hunter Abbott Maximilian Buhk | Marchy Lee Shaun Thong | James Cai Kenneth Lim | Jean-Marc Merlin Frank Yu | |||
3 | R1 | Suzuka | No. 99 Craft-Bamboo Racing | No. 38 Spirit of Race | No. 5 Audi Hong Kong | No. 27 X-One Motorsports | No. 77 Craft-Bamboo Racing |
Peter Li Darryl O'Young | Rui Águas Francisco Guedes | Marchy Lee Shaun Thong | Samson Chan Andrew Haryanto | Jean-Marc Merlin Frank Yu | |||
R2 | No. 7 J-Fly by Absolute Racing | No. 999 GruppeM Racing Team | No. 66 Vincenzo Sospiri Racing | No. 27 X-One Motorsports | No. 17 Taiwan Top Speed Racing Team | ||
Jeffrey Lee Alessio Picariello | Hunter Abbott Maximilian Götz | Nicolas Costa Sandy Stuvik | Samson Chan Andrew Haryanto | Keo Chang George Chou | |||
4 | R1 | Fuji | No. 88 Craft-Bamboo Racing | No. 999 GruppeM Racing Team | No. 777 CarGuy Racing | No. 27 X-One Motorsports | No. 12 Clearwater Racing |
Nick Foster Devon Modell | Hunter Abbott Maximilian Buhk | Kei Cozzolino Naoki Yokomizo | Andrew Haryanto | Weng Sun Mok Richard Wee | |||
R2 | No. 39 Spirit of Race | No. 999 GruppeM Racing Team | No. 5 Audi Hong Kong | No. 27 X-One Motorsports | No. 12 Clearwater Racing | ||
Xin Jiang Massimiliano Wiser | Hunter Abbott Maximilian Buhk | Marchy Lee Shaun Thong | Andrew Haryanto | Weng Sun Mok Richard Wee | |||
5 | R1 | Shanghai | No. 66 Vincenzo Sospiri Racing | No. 6 Audi R8 LMS Cup | No. 5 Audi Hong Kong | No. 27 X-One Motorsports | No. 77 Craft-Bamboo Racing |
Yuki Nemoto Sandy Stuvik | Alex Au Alex Yoong | Marchy Lee Shaun Thong | Andrew Haryanto | Jean-Marc Merlin Frank Yu | |||
R2 | No. 7 J-Fly by Absolute Racing | No. 6 Audi R8 LMS Cup | No. 99 Craft-Bamboo Racing | No. 2 FFF Racing Team by ACM | No. 17 Taiwan Top Speed Racing Team | ||
Jeffrey Lee Alessio Picariello | Alex Au Alex Yoong | Marvin Dienst Darryl O'Young | Yue Lin Junhan Zhu | Keo Chang Jeff Lu | |||
6 | R1 | Zhejiang | No. 66 Vincenzo Sospiri Racing | No. 999 GruppeM Racing Team | No. 86 OD Racing Team | No. 69 CMRT Eurasia | No. 77 Craft-Bamboo Racing |
Christopher Dreyspring Sandy Stuvik | Hunter Abbott Maximilian Buhk | Mitchell Gilbert Aditya Patel | James Cai Kenneth Lim | Jean-Marc Merlin Frank Yu | |||
R2 | No. 86 OD Racing Team | No. 18 KCMG by Champion Racing | No. 86 OD Racing Team | No. 69 CMRT Eurasia | No. 89 HubAuto Racing | ||
Mitchell Gilbert Aditya Patel | Martin Rump Rick Yoon | Mitchell Gilbert Aditya Patel | James Cai Kenneth Lim | Ringo Chong Kan Zang |
Championship standings
[edit]- Scoring system
Championship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were 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 |
Drivers' championships
[edit]Overall
[edit]
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Bold – Pole |
- Notes
- 1 – Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak and Yu Lin were guest drivers in Shanghai and therefore ineligible to score points.
Pro-Am
[edit]Pos. | Driver | Team | SEP | CHA | SUZ | FUJ | SHA | ZHE | Points | ||||||
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1 | Hunter Abbott | GruppeM Racing Team | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 24 | Ret | 3 | 4 | 223 |
2 | Alex Au Alex Yoong | Audi R8 LMS Cup | 10 | 9 | 3 | Ret | 10 | 9 | Ret | 9 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 147 |
3 | Jeffrey Lee | Team WRT | 11 | 8 | 146 | ||||||||||
J-Fly by Absolute Racing | 4 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 12 | Ret | 25 | 11 | 7 | 10 | |||||
4 | Maximilian Buhk | GruppeM Racing Team | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 24 | Ret | 3 | 4 | 140 | ||||
5 | Alessio Picariello | J-Fly by Absolute Racing | 4 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 12 | Ret | 25 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 121 | ||
6 | Xin Jiang Massimiliano Wiser | Spirit of Race | 6 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 5 | 8 | 17 | Ret | DNS | 106 |
7 | Franky Cheng Jingzu Sun | Milestone Racing | 9 | 12 | DNS | 12 | Ret | 16 | 16 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 103 |
8 | Rui Águas | Spirit of Race | 12 | 18 | 1 | Ret | 5 | 7 | Ret | 2 | 93 | ||||
9 | Martin Rump Rick Yoon | KCMG | DNS | 13 | 61 | ||||||||||
KCMG by Champion Racing | 5 | Ret | 16 | Ret | Ret | 16 | DNS | DNS | 8 | 3 | |||||
10 | Anthony Liu Davide Rizzo | BBT | 13 | 1 | Ret | Ret | 6 | 13 | 55 | ||||||
11 | Rino Mastronardi | Spirit of Race | 1 | Ret | Ret | 2 | 43 | ||||||||
11 | Raffaele Marciello | GruppeM Racing Team | 2 | 4 | 43 | ||||||||||
12 | Francisco Guedes | Spirit of Race | 5 | 7 | 40 | ||||||||||
12 | Maximilian Götz | GruppeM Racing Team | 7 | 1 | 40 | ||||||||||
13 | Hiroaki Nagai Kota Sasaki | ARN Racing | 6 | Ret | 21 | 4 | 37 | ||||||||
14 | Seiji Ara Satoshi Hoshino | D'station Racing | 27 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 30 | ||||||||
15 | Bhurit Bhirombhakdi Kantasak Kusiri | Singha Plan-B Motorsport Team | 13 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 27 | ||||||||
16 | Will Stevens | Team WRT | 11 | 8 | 25 | ||||||||||
17 | Voravud Bhirombhakdi Carlo van Dam | Singha Motorsport Team Thailand | 7 | 7 | 20 | ||||||||||
18 | Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak | est cola Thailand | 9 | 10 | 14 | ||||||||||
Bentley Team Absolute | 51 | 121 | |||||||||||||
18 | Maxime Jousse | est cola Thailand | 9 | 10 | 14 | ||||||||||
19 | Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura | CarGuy Racing | 15 | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||
20 | Jun San Chen Shinichi Takagi | FIST - Team AAI | 13 | 19 | 11 | ||||||||||
21 | Nasrat Muzayyin | Spirit of Race | 12 | 18 | 10 | ||||||||||
22 | Fairuz Fauzy Philip Ma | Arrows Racing | 14 | 17 | 8 | ||||||||||
23 | Makio Saitou Yuki Urata | SACCESS Racing | 18 | 20 | 6 | ||||||||||
23 | Naiyanobh Bhirombhakdi Chris van der Drift | Craft-Bamboo Racing | 10 | 13 | 6 | ||||||||||
24 | Junhan Zhu Ho-Pin Tung | FFF Racing Team by ACM | 15 | 27 | 3 | ||||||||||
Rob Bell Richard Wee | Clearwater Racing | Ret | DNS | ||||||||||||
Guest drivers ineligible to score Pro-Am class points | |||||||||||||||
Adderly Fong | Bentley Team Absolute | 5 | 12 | ||||||||||||
Earl Bamber |