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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.
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
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
Icon
Class
PA
Pro-Am
S
Silver
AA
Am-Am
Inv
Invitational
Bold indicates overall winner.
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
Points
25
18
15
12
10
8
6
4
2
1
Drivers' championships[ edit ]
Key
Colour
Result
Gold
Race winner
Silver
2nd place
Bronze
3rd place
Green
Points finish
Blue
Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple
Did not finish (Ret)
Black
Disqualified (DSQ)
Excluded (EX)
White
Did not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Withdrew (WD)
Blank
Did not participate
Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap
Notes
1 – Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak and Yu Lin were guest drivers in Shanghai and therefore ineligible to score points.
Notes
1 – Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak was a guest driver in Shanghai and therefore ineligible to score Pro-Am class points.
Driver
Team
SEP
CHA
SUZ
FUJ
SHA
ZHE
Points
1
James Cai Kenneth Lim
CMRT Eurasia
20
19
16
14
29
21
14
21
14
11
178
2
Andrew Haryanto
X-One Motorsports
DNS
DNS
17
10
15
18
12
20
15
15
173
3
Yue Lin
FFF Racing Team by ACM
15
18
20
15
20
23
15
16
16
14
163
4
Takuya Shirasaka Naoto Takeda
KCMG
18
15
14
Ret
19
19
30
Ret
16
19
131
5
Junhan Zhu
FFF Racing Team by ACM
15
18
20
15
20
23
15
16
130
6
Gregory Teo David Tjiptobiantoro
T2 Motorsports
19
14
18
13
19
22
17
Ret
122
7
Samson Chan
X-One Motorsports
17
10
50
8
Philip Ma Jacky Yeung
Arrows Racing
21
17
22
25
44
9
Ting Zheng
FFF Racing Team by ACM
16
14
33
Jun San Chen Yu Lin
FIST - Team AAI
Ret
DNS
Vincent Wong
X-One Motorsports
DNS
DNS
Driver
Team
SEP
CHA
SUZ
FUJ
SHA
ZHE
Points
Teams' championship[ edit ]
Notes
1 – Arrows Racing and FIST - Team AAI were guest teams in Shanghai and therefore ineligible to score points.
^ "Blancpain GT Series Asia reveals inaugural calendar and championship details" . blancpain-gt-series.com . SRO Motorsports Group . 19 October 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2017 .
^ "Blancpain GT Series Asia Finale Moved Forward to Oct. 14-15" . sportscar365 . John Dagys Media. 28 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017 .
^ a b "FFF Team Announces Blancpain GT Asia Entries" . sportscar365 . John Dagys Media. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af "Blancpain GT Series Asia 2017 Round 1 - Sepang, Malaysia Provisional Entry List" (PDF) . vmail.vertouk.net . SRO Motorsports Group . 5 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Blancpain GT Series Asia 2017 Rounds 9 & 10 - Shanghai, China Provisional Entry List" (PDF) . dailysportscar.com . Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-08-14. Retrieved 14 August 2021 .
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^ a b c d "Team EBI Joins Blancpain GT Asia Grid For Fuji" . dailysportscar.com . Dailysportscar. 1 July 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017 .
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^ a b c d e f g "Blancpain GT Series Asia 2017 Suzuka International Circuit / Entry List" . blancpain-gt-series-asia.com . SRO Motorsports Group . Retrieved 23 June 2017 .
^ a b c d "ARN Racing Ferrari 488 set for Japan's Blancpain GT Series Asia double header" . blancpain-gt-series-asia.com . SRO Motorsports Group . 2 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017 .
^ a b c d "HubAuto Racing joins GT3 grid with pair of Porsches in Shanghai" . blancpain-gt-series-asia.com . SRO Motorsports Group . 15 September 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017 .
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^ a b c d e f g h i j "Blancpain GT Series Asia 2017 Round 7 & 8 - Fuji, Japan Provisional Entry List" (PDF) . vmail.vertouk.net . SRO Motorsports Group . 15 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017 .
^ a b c d "Ara To Race With Hoshino In Blancpain GT Series Asia" . dailysportscar.com . Dailysportscar. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017 .
^ a b "VSR Joins Blancpain GT Asia as Lamborghini Junior Team" . sportscar365 . John Dagys Media. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017 .
^ a b "Heimgartner leads list of driver changes ahead of Zhejiang finale" . blancpain-gt-series-asia.com . SRO Motorsports Group . 11 October 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2017 .
^ a b c d e f "Eurasia, EKS Motorsports Commit to Blancpain GT Asia" . sportscar365 . John Dagys Media. 20 December 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2017 .
^ a b c d e f "OD Racing Confirms Audi for Blancpain GT Asia" . sportscar365 . John Dagys Media. 13 March 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017 .
^ a b c d e f "Craft-Bamboo Set for Two-Class Blancpain GT Asia Entry" . sportscar365 . John Dagys Media. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017 .
^ a b "Bhirombhakdi and Van Der Drift join Craft-Bamboo Racing for Buriram" . blancpain-gt-series-asia.com . SRO Motorsports Group . 9 May 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2017 .
^ a b "Foster joins Modell at Craft-Bamboo for Suzuka" . blancpain-gt-series-asia.com . SRO Motorsports Group . 21 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017 .
^ a b Kilshaw, Jake (29 March 2017). "O'Young Joins Li in Craft-Bamboo Porsche" . sportscar365 . John Dagys Media. Retrieved 29 March 2017 .
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^ a b c d "CarGuy Racing becomes Blancpain GT Series Asia's first Japanese team" . blancpain-gt-series-asia.com . SRO Motorsports Group . 12 May 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017 .
^ "Cozzolino, Yokomizo Claim Race 1 Win in Fuji" . sportscar365 . John Dagys Media. 19 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017 .
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^ a b c d "TT Racing Announces Porsche GT4 Entry in Blancpain GT Asia" . sportscar365 . John Dagys Media. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017 .
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