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2019 Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia

2019 Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia

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The 2019 GT World Challenge Asia (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2019 Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia) was the third 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 were contested with GT3-spec and GT4-spec cars. The season began on 6 April at Sepang and ended on 28 September at Shanghai. It was the first season of the unification of GT3 sprint series across the globe under the World Challenge name.[1]

Calendar

At the annual press conference during the 2018 24 Hours of Spa on 27 July, the Stéphane Ratel Organisation announced the first draft of the 2019 calendar. Ningbo was replaced by Korea.[2] The dates for the races at Shanghai were confirmed on 11 December.[3]

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Entry list

GT3

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GT4

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Race results

Bold indicates overall winner.

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Championship standings

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.

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Drivers' championships

Overall

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Silver Cup

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Pro-Am Cup

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Am Cup

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Teams' championship

Only the two best results of a team per race counted towards the Teams' championship.

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See also

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Car No. 12 and 13 entered as Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute Racing under Chinese licence, car No. 26 entered as B-Quik Racing under Thai licence, car No. 59 entered as Singha Plan-B by Absolute Racing under Thai licence, cars No. 911 and 912 entered as Absolute Racing under Chinese licence and car No. 918 entered as Panther / AAS Motorsport under Thai licence.
  2. [N 2]
    Daniel Bilski entered under Hong Kong licence at Round 1 and under Australian licence from Round 2 on.
  3. [N 3]
    Henk Kiks entered under Thai licence at Round 1 and under Dutch licence from Round 2 on.
  4. [N 4]
    Alexandre Imperatori entered under Hong Kong licence at Round 1 and under Swiss licence from Round 2 on.
  5. [N 5]
    Car No. 16 entered as Modena Motorsports and car No. 21 entered as OpenRoad Racing.
  6. [N 6]
    The No. 8 ARN Racing Porsche took pole position, but crashed out of Race 1 and was unable to make the start of Race 2, elevating the No. 910 JRM Porsche to pole position.

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