The new for 2025 SRO GT Cup Series is another who has not quite reached the end to their season this weekend as the fourteen strong GT4 only series heads to the all-new Beijing Street circuit for their third of a four-round season.

Having started off at Shanghai in early March and last time out at the more obscure Zhuhai International, there has been one Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 Evo within the entry list with Taipei based driver Stanley Yang taking charge of that entry from the last round.

In interesting event at the Zhuhai International Circuit last week as the Chinese BSEM AMR team held a multi-vehicle corporate day at the circuit with its fleet of Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 cars.

With many Chinese provinces still locked down to motor racing events, this has been one of the few showings within the country for a team that hasn’t now competed on track since the end of 2019.

The Chinese based Uno Racing team are back in business this weekend with their fourth round of their COVID interrupted GT Super Sprint Challenge Series, this time from their local Zhuhai International Circuit close to the Macau peninsula of the country.

First time out at Shanghai in early May, the team’s sole Aston Martin Racing GT3 entry for David Pun came away with a post-race awarded class win aboard his #91 car for the series to be then postponed again immediately prior to the second round due to an increased infection rate within the country.

 

A pivotable moment for the new Motorsports Services AMR Asia (MSAA) team was delivered to their Zhuhai facility in China last week ahead of an exciting programme of racing that is hoped to be announced soon.

Receiving the first 2019 variant of Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT3 into China last week, it didn’t take the Weiron Tan lead team long to get their latest acquisition on track for a brief shakedown run around the Zhuhai circuit.

Last weekend saw the China GT Championship kick off its 2018 campaign from the  Zhuhai International Circuit with a colourful collection of four Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4's.

Stepping up from two, part time cars of last season, China Equity AMR acquired to two of the latest GT4's off the Prodrive production line just in time for last months Official test and are this year the sole AMR runners with Team Zea Fea not returning for 2018. Due to the wash out that was the Official Test in Beijing last month, most of the GT3/GTC/GT4 teams of the China GT Championship had two days of further testing made available to them before the opening two races.


Running three cars in the Pro-Am class and the other in the Am-Am class we had hoped that both Ross Gunn and Jack Mitchell would each be taking a full season part in the championship with the team but last minute deals meant that only Mitchell would travel out to coastal China this time together with the three supporting Prodrive engineers.

Mitchell would share the #618 car with financier Ryan Liu whilst the remainder of the driver line up would be regionally based including Yuan Tinting - one of two lady racers in the championship this year.


As still a fledgling championship in terms of world wide interaction and news flow, we know that testing came painfully to both Liu and Tingting after both their cars suffered extensive damage during testing and free practice to such a degree as the #618 would missed Qualifying for Saturdays race.


Despite that, two great drives from that pair saw them charge from plum last to second by the end of the race and then went one better to dominate race 2 for the top step. Further podiums were earned by the team over the weekend with their #118 car of Zhang Dasheng and Shen Cheng securing P3 in race as well as Tingting claiming P3 in the Am class despite her running as a single driver for the event.


The Championship now moves on to rounds 3 and 4 from Zhejiang at the start of June.

Photo credits - China Equity AMR / China GT

A very colourful quartet of Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4's belonging to China Equity AMR took to the track today for the first official sessions of the 2018 China GT Championship.

Having already spent the last couple of days testing at the circuit with the teams final driver line up for the first time, it has apparently been something of a bruising introduction to the circuit for a couple of the teams amateur drivers with two cars badly damaged in separate incidences.


As previously reported, AMR's Ross Gunn was due to return to the team after his 75% podium success rate of last year but that deal sadly fell through in favour of regional pay drivers. That leaves former MacMillan GT4 racer Jack Mitchel over their on his own with his own Am co-driver Ryan Liu in the beautifully liveried #618 car. Liu was one of those to damage their car in Free Practice to such an extent for them to miss Qualifying today although it is hoped that they will make the grid for race 1 tomorrow.


With more seasoned campaigners ahead of them, the relative inexperience of those within China Equity's #118, #619 and #117 cars sadly saw them bringing up the rear of tomorrow grid.


One thing of positivity to come out of today was that Zhang Dashang smashed the class lap around around the Zhuhai International Circuit by over a second in his #118 car.


 Photo credits - China GT / China Equity AMR

Found these incredible photographs of the China Equity AMR car entered into the China GT event at Zhuhai earlier in July.

Considering the damage, some seriously long hours put in by the team's mechanics miraculously got the  car back on the grid for the race which seemed to be a feat in itself!!


Despite all of the the car failed to finish the race!

Round 3 from the Zhuhai International circuit represented the half way point of the 2017 China GT Series.

Unfortunately, races 5 and 6 only saw two Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4 entries from the ZEA FIA Racing team with no entries at all this time from the Prodrive supported China Equity Racing squad and despite some good early indications both the #721 and #999 cars failed to finish either race.


Despite that, ZEA FIA remain second in the GT4 Champiosnhip table behind the Winning Team McLaren 570S.

Round 4 takes place in Shanghai on the 8/9th September.

Photo credits - China GT

Chinese private racing team, ZIA FEA Racing enjoyed their best weekend yet in the blossoming China GT Series' GTC/GT4 class at round 2 from Zhuhai this weekend.

With the series only allowing the GT4 platform into their midst for the first time this year, Aston Martin Racing honours have been left to them and the Prodrive supported China Equity Racing squad.

For Race 1 both the #999 and #721 ZIA FEA Racing cars secured third and fourth places respectively beaten only by The Winning Team's macLaren 570S. The sole China Equity car failed to finish.


In the later Race 2, again the #999 ZIA FIA car finished on the podium in P3 with the other two AMR Vantage GT4's failing to finish in the tricky conditions.

Round 3 of the series also comes from Zhuhai at the end of July.

Photo credits - China GT

The second meeting, featuring the third and fourth rounds of the China GT Series take place from the Zhuhai International Circuit in south-eastern China this weekend.

Again featuring an increasing number of GT3, GTC and (new for 2017) GT4 machinery it is hoped that this round will feature more cars than those that entered the opening rounds at the Goldenport Motor park in Beijing.


As with every GT series, this event will also feature the first wave of Balance of Power adjustments which will result in the Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 runners getting a 30kg weight break whilst the previous race domineering McLaren 570S and KTM X Bow get an additional 70 and 125kg weight penalty plus a negative ride height adjustment from their SRO Homolgation standard.


Team ZIA FEA Racing will again be back with their #999 and #721 Vantages whilst it is hoped that fellow AMR squad, China Equity Racing return with more than just one car although the #77 did finish P3 in race 1 in Beijing.


Photo credits - China GT