The 2026 GT World Challenge (GTWC) Asia powered by AWS title fight tightened considerably during the third event of the season at Fuji International Speedway.
David Chen Weian and Liu Kaishun claimed Race 1 victory for Harmony Racing, while Shigekazu Wakisaka and Ryo Ogawa finished second and secured Pro-Am honours for LM Corsa. Lyu Wei and Laurin Heinrich then completed the podium for Origine Motorsport.
Origine struck back in Race 2 as Heinrich and Lyu overcame their success penalty to take victory. Anthony Liu Xu and Dorian Boccolacci charged from 15th to second for Phantom Global Racing, while Ruan Cun Fan and Max Hesse completed the podium for Team KRC.
Consequently, Huang Ruohan and Alessandro Ghiretti retained the overall championship lead, but Lyu reduced their advantage to only four points. Meanwhile, several class battles also tightened as the championship reached its halfway point.
Huang and Ghiretti retain narrow Drivers’ Championship lead
Huang and Ghiretti remain at the top of the overall Drivers’ Championship with 80 points after the six races at Sepang, Mandalika and Fuji.
However, the Absolute Racing pair endured its least productive weekend of the season so far. Huang and Ghiretti finished ninth in Race 1 and sixth in Race 2 after previously recording four consecutive top-four results.
Lyu capitalised fully for Origine Motorsport. Third place in Race 1 and victory alongside Heinrich in Race 2 lifted him to 76 points, leaving him only four behind the leaders.
Anthony Liu also closed the gap after Boccolacci helped him recover from 15th on the Race 2 grid to finish second. He now holds third with 72 points, only eight behind Huang and Ghiretti.
Further back, Cheng Congfu and Yu Kuai share fourth on 54 points. Boccolacci follows on 47, while Ruan’s Race 2 podium moved him to 43. Heinrich also entered the top 10 after scoring 40 points across his first weekend of the season.
2026 GTWC Asia: Standings after Round 3 Fuji: Drivers’ Championship
- Huang Ruohan & Alessandro Ghiretti – 80 points
- Lyu Wei – 76 points
- Anthony Liu Xu – 72 points
- Cheng Congfu & Yu Kuai – 54 points
- Dorian Boccolacci – 47 points
- Ruan Cun Fan – 43 points
- Laurin Heinrich – 40 points
- Andres Pato, Jaxon Evans & Akash Nandy – 39 points
- Liu Kaishun – 38 points
- Alessio Picariello – 36 points
- Takayuki Aoki – 35 points
- Atsushi Miyake – 34 points
- Chen Weian – 26 points
- Loek Hartog – 25 points
- Shigekazu Wakisaka & Ryo Ogawa – 24 points
- Max Hesse – 21 points
- Dean Yu Hao Chen, Jiatong Liang & Adderly Fong – 18 points
- Sean Gelael – 15 points
- Kiyoshi Uchiyama & Tsubasa Kondo – 14 points
- Neil Verhagen & Deng Yi – 12 points
- Lichao Li & Elias Seppanen – 11 points
- Jesse Krohn, Brian Lee & Maxime Oosten – 10 points
- Andy Tan & Thierry Vermeulen – 8 points
- Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak, Klaus Bachler, Song Jiajun & Brendon Leitch – 6 points
- Kimiya Sato – 1 point
Absolute Racing maintains Teams’ Championship advantage
Absolute Racing continues to lead the Overall Teams’ Championship with 119 points. Although the team did not challenge for victory at Fuji, it collected enough points across both races to preserve a 25-point advantage.
Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom remains second on 94 points. Cheng and Yu finished fourth in Race 1 before recovering from an early off to take ninth in Race 2.
However, Origine Motorsport made the largest move among the leading teams. Heinrich and Lyu’s third place and victory lifted Origine to 78 points and third in the standings.
Phantom Global Racing follows only six points behind on 72 after Anthony Liu and Boccolacci’s Race 2 recovery. Meanwhile, Team KRC strengthened fifth place through Hesse and Ruan’s podium and Brian Lee and Maxime Oosten’s Silver-Am double victory.
Harmony Racing also made significant progress. Chen and Liu’s Race 1 win moved the team to 46 points and sixth place.
2026 GTWC Asia: Standings after Round 3 Fuji: Overall Teams’ Championship
- Absolute Racing – 119 points
- Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom – 94 points
- Origine Motorsport – 78 points
- Phantom Global Racing – 72 points
- Team KRC – 53 points
- Harmony Racing – 46 points
- TEAM 5ZIGEN – 36 points
- LM Corsa – 24 points
- Craft-Bamboo Racing – 18 points
- 33R Harmony Racing – 18 points
- Garage 75 – 15 points
- Porsche Center Okazaki – 14 points
- Climax Racing – 11 points
- Absolute Corse – 8 points
Lyu moves ahead in Pro-Am title fight
Lyu now leads the Pro-Am Drivers’ Championship with 103 points after scoring heavily in both Fuji races.
His Race 2 victory proved particularly important because Huang and Ghiretti added two sixth-place class finishes to their total. They now share second on 100 points, only three behind the Origine driver.
Anthony Liu holds third with 93 points. His Race 2 runner-up finish limited the damage from a difficult opening race, when Phantom Global Racing’s maximum success penalty restricted the Porsche to 10th overall.
Ruan follows on 68 points after he defended third place in Race 2 by only 0.004s. Boccolacci sits fifth with 64, while former Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom pairing Andres Pato and Jaxon Evans share sixth on 62.
Heinrich also entered the standings with 43 points after his first 2026 appearance, while Wakisaka and Ogawa collected 35 through their class victory and second-place overall finish in Race 1.
2026 GTWC Asia: Standings after Round 3 Fuji: Pro-Am
- Lyu Wei – 103 points
- Huang Ruohan & Alessandro Ghiretti – 100 points
- Anthony Liu Xu – 93 points
- Ruan Cun Fan – 68 points
- Dorian Boccolacci – 64 points
- Andres Pato & Jaxon Evans – 62 points
- Alessio Picariello – 60 points
- Song Jiajun & Brendon Leitch – 49 points
- Laurin Heinrich – 43 points
- Shigekazu Wakisaka & Ryo Ogawa – 35 points
- Max Hesse – 30 points
- Loek Hartog – 29 points
- Andy Tan & Thierry Vermeulen – 28 points
- Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak – 27 points
- Klaus Bachler & Neil Verhagen – 20 points
- Tomohide Yamaguchi & Seiji Ara – 19 points
- Jesse Krohn – 18 points
- Hiroaki Nagai – 14 points
- Kazuto Kotaka – 10 points
- Bastian Buus – 7 points
- Yuichi Nakayama – 4 points
Nandy holds three-point Silver advantage
Akash Nandy retains the Silver championship lead, but Fuji brought his closest rivals firmly back into contention.
The Absolute Racing driver now has 103 points after collecting two fourth-place class finishes. However, Cheng and Yu sit only three points behind after their Audi scored 18 and 15 points across the weekend.
Takayuki Aoki also closed significantly through another exceptional performance for TEAM 5ZIGEN. Aoki charged from 23rd on the Race 1 grid before finishing second in class, while he and Atsushi Miyake took the Silver victory in Race 2.
As a result, Aoki holds third with 97 points, only six behind Nandy. Liu Kaishun follows on 90 after combining Race 1’s overall and Silver victories with another points finish on Sunday.
Miyake also moved to 70 points, although his absence from the opening race at Sepang leaves him behind Aoki despite their shared results since Mandalika.
2026 GTWC Asia: Standings after Round 3 Fuji: Silver
- Akash Nandy – 103 points
- Cheng Congfu & Yu Kuai – 100 points
- Takayuki Aoki – 97 points
- Liu Kaishun – 90 points
- Atsushi Miyake – 70 points
- Deng Yi – 53 points
- Chen Weian – 37 points
- Adderly Fong – 30 points
- Kimiya Sato – 27 points
- Sean Gelael – 18 points
One point separates Silver-Am leaders
Silver-Am features one of the championship’s closest battles after Fuji.
Jiatong Liang holds the lead with 107 points after sharing Craft-Bamboo Racing’s Mercedes-AMG with Daisuke Yamawaki during the Japanese event.
However, Kiyoshi Uchiyama and Tsubasa Kondo sit only one point behind on 106. The Porsche Center Okazaki pairing added two second-place class finishes at Fuji to remain firmly in contention.
Brian Lee and Maxime Oosten produced the strongest weekend in the category. The GTO with KRC drivers won Silver-Am in both races and moved to 100 points, only seven behind Liang.
Dean Yu Hao Chen remains fourth with 77 points after missing Fuji, while Lichao Li and Elias Seppanen follow on 73. Therefore, three entries head into the second half of the season separated by only seven points.
2026 GTWC Asia: Standings after Round 3 Fuji: Silver-Am
- Jiatong Liang – 107 points
- Kiyoshi Uchiyama & Tsubasa Kondo – 106 points
- Brian Lee & Maxime Oosten – 100 points
- Dean Yu Hao Chen – 77 points
- Lichao Li & Elias Seppanen – 73 points
- Sun Jingzu & Adderly Fong – 42 points
- Daisuke Yamawaki – 30 points
Liu and Wang protect Am championship lead
Liu Hangcheng and Wang Zhongwei continue to lead the Am standings after adding another Fuji class victory to their 2026 campaign.
The Origine Motorsport pairing won Race 1 and finished second in Race 2, taking its total to 126 points.
However, Zhou Bihuang and Setiawan Santoso reduced the deficit by winning the second race for Climax Racing. They now sit second with 113 points, 13 behind the leaders.
William Ben Porter and Andrew Macpherson hold third on 87 after two fourth-place class finishes at Fuji. David Tjiptobiantoro and Christian Colombo follow on 66, while Aaron Lim Say Joon and Haziq Zairel Oh remain fifth with 24.
2026 GTWC Asia: Standings after Round 3 Fuji: Am
- Liu Hangcheng & Wang Zhongwei – 126 points
- Zhou Bihuang & Setiawan Santoso – 113 points
- William Ben Porter & Andrew Macpherson – 87 points
- David Tjiptobiantoro & Christian Colombo – 66 points
- Aaron Lim Say Joon & Haziq Zairel Oh – 24 points
Cheng and Yu lead reshaped China Cup battle
Cheng and Yu lead the China Cup standings with 113 points after scoring in both Fuji races.
Although the FAW Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom pairing missed the overall podium, its consistent class results preserved a 15-point advantage.
Liu Kaishun climbed to second on 98 points after winning Race 1 alongside Chen. His result also moved him ahead of Jiatong Liang and Dean Yu Hao Chen, who share third with 79.
Adderly Fong sits only two points further behind on 77 after finishing sixth and fifth overall during his solo Fuji appearance. Liu Hangcheng and Wang Zhongwei hold fifth with 73, while Deng Yi remains sixth on 58.
Race 1 winner Chen entered the standings with 40 points and now sits seventh, three ahead of Sun Jingzu.
2026 GTWC Asia: Standings after Round 3 Fuji: China Cup
- Cheng Congfu & Yu Kuai – 113 points
- Liu Kaishun – 98 points
- Dean Yu Hao Chen & Jiatong Liang – 79 points
- Adderly Fong – 77 points
- Liu Hangcheng & Wang Zhongwei – 73 points
- Deng Yi – 58 points
- Chen Weian – 40 points
- Sun Jingzu – 37 points
Fuji transforms the championship picture
Fuji changed the complexion of the 2026 GTWC Asia title contests as the championship reached the halfway point.
Huang and Ghiretti still control the overall standings, but Lyu’s resurgence has reduced their advantage to four points. Anthony Liu also remains firmly involved, with only eight points separating the leading three drivers.
Meanwhile, Origine moved into third in the Teams’ Championship, Lyu took control of Pro-Am and Aoki closed to within six points of Nandy in Silver.
Silver-Am now features an even closer contest, with Liang, Uchiyama, Kondo, Lee and Oosten separated by only seven points. Liu Hangcheng and Wang also face renewed Am pressure after Zhou and Santoso’s Race 2 victory.
GT World Challenge Asia will continue at Okayama International Circuit from 27-30 August. The Japanese venue will host Rounds 7 and 8 before the championship concludes with two events in China.
