Asia’s leading one-make Porsche championship is set to return for its 23rd season at the Shanghai International Circuit in three weeks. Racing Reframed tells you all you need to know about the upcoming Porsche Carrera Cup Asia season.

By Marco Albertini

Four months ago, at Shanghai, the same venue that will host the season opener and the Formula One Grand Prix, Frenchman Alessandro Ghiretti took the Pro title by 40 points of Luxembourg’s Dylan Pereira. Bao Jinlong won the Pro-Am title by winning all but four races in his class, while Eric Kwong won the Am title by 7 points over Munkong Sathienthirakul.

The 2025 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia season will see returning and new faces on the grid, from Porsche Carrera Cup veterans and champions, to newcomers to GT racing, along with a revised calendar and driver classes.

The calendar

For the 2025 season, the championship will scale back to six rounds, compared to last year’s seven, with the removal of the season-ending Shanghai round. However, that isn’t the only change in the calendar as the championship’s only Japanese round will move to Mobility Resort Motegi, while Sepang will move from the fifth to the third round of the season, as Chang will drop off the calendar in favour of a round at the Mandalika International Street Circuit, taking place in late August.

• Round 1–2: Shanghai International Circuit, China (21–23 March)
• Round 3–4: Mobility Resort Motegi, Japan (18–20 April)
• Rounds 5–7: Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia (6–8 June)
• Round 8–9: Bangsaen Street Circuit, Thailand (4–6 July)
• Round 10–12: Mandalika International Circuit, Indonesia (22–24 August)
• Round 13–14: Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore (3–5 October)

Where to watch

All the races will be streamed for free on the official Porsche Carrera Cup Asia facebook account.

The drivers

Pro class

Staying with Shanghai Yonda Racing, 2022 Porsche Supercup champion, Dylan Pereira is aiming to take the title after finishing runner-up in his rookie season, however he will face against Porsche New Zealand’s Brock Gilchrist, who competed as a guest driver in the final round of last year’s season and didn’t finish lower than fourth in the three races.

Returning to the championship are also Team Jebsen’s Rodrigo Almeida and Phantom Global Racing’s Dylan Yip who finished fifth and sixth in last year’s standings respectively. Four drivers are set to make their rookie season in the championship as Hugo Ellis, Josh Rowledge, Enzo Trulli and Amer Harris Jefry.

Trulli comes off a career mostly spent in single-seaters where he won the 2021 Formula 4 UAE Championship, while Ellis and Rowledge come from Carrera Cup GB and British GT respectively, whilst Jefry comes from the Thailand Super Series.

Pro-Am class

Last year’s Pro-Am champion, Bao Jinlong will return along with Francis Tjia, Li Chao, Li Xuanyu and Eric Zang, who all competed in the series last season. The class will also see a newcomer in Wang Zhongwei, who will stay with Origine Motorsport after competing in Formula Regional Middle East.

Am class

The Am class will also see last year’s champion return to the series, with Eric Kwong staying with Bergwerk Motorsport and will also be joined by Henry Kwong, who expands Bergwerk’s operations to two cars. Last year’s runner up, Munkong Sathienthirakul will also return along with Xu Zhefeng, Hu Bo and Yan Chuang, with the former racing on a part-time basis and the latter two having competed as guest drivers last season.

Masters class

For the first time in the championship’s history, the championship will feature a Masters class, with drivers over 50 years old competing, with Adrian D’Silva, Jacky Wu and Christian Chia will compete for top honours in the newly-created category.

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