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Antonio Fuoco delivered Ferrari a landmark victory at the Macau GP, mastering the Guia Circuit to secure the brand’s first FIA GT World Cup Race triumph. The Italian controlled the 16-lap Main Race from pole and never came under serious threat. While chaos unfolded behind him, with Raffaele Marciello and Laurin Heinrich fighting over the remaining podium places for BMW and Porsche.

Opening – lap drama at the FIA GT World Cup Race of the Macau GP

Fuoco made a clean start and defended his lead into Lisboa, immediately setting into his rhythm at the head of the field. Behind him, Marcielllo launched strongly, swept past Alessio Picariello’s Porsche through Mandarin and, after what appeared to be light contact, sent the Belgian spinning into the barriers. The BMW then used the long run down to Lisboa to draft past Yifei Ye’s Ferrari and claim second place, as Ayhancan Güven briefly surged into third in his Porsche.

Güven’s race unravelled moments later at Lisboa, where a nudge from Laurin Heinrich’s sister Porsche appeared to tip him into the barriers and triggered a pile-up that delayed Luca Engstler and Dorian Boccolacci. When the safety car came out, Heinrich emerged in third, followed by Joel Eriksson’s Audi and Ye’s Harmony Racing Ferrari. With both Heinrich and Eriksson placed under investigation for their roles in the opening-lap incident.

Fuoco in control, Marciello under pressure

At the lap-four restart of the FIA GT World Cup Race, Fuoco judged the moment perfectly, accelerated early, and immediately broke Marciello’s tow down the main straight of the Macau GP. From there he built his advantage step by step. Opening the gap to nearly two seconds on the first green-flag lap, stretching it to around four seconds as the race settled into its middle phase.

Behind him, Marciello’s race became one of measured defence rather than outright attack. Heinrich’s Porsche sat firmly in his mirrors, especially through the tight and twisty mountain section, but the straight-line speed of the ROWE Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO allowed Marciello to protect the inside line into Lisboa each lap. Heinrich followed him home in third, completing the podium ahead of Eriksson’s Audi in fourth and Ye’s Ferrari in fifth. While Sheldon van der Linde recovered to sixth in his WRT BMW after an early shuffle.

Late crash sees the second Lamborghini out, as Ferrari goes for victory

Further back, Christopher Haase worked his way into seventh with a determined move on Deng Yi’s Ferrari, which slipped to eighth, as Laurens Vanthoor had to settle for ninth after an earlier misjudged braking attempt on Deng at Lisboa. A late crash at Melco for Edoardo Mortara’s Lamborghini cleared the way for Benjamin Goethe’s Optimum Motorsport McLaren to rejoin the top ten. Rounding out a race that mixed precision at the front with familiar Macau chaos in the pack. As Fuoco crossed the line with a margin of just under four seconds to secure Ferrari’s first FIA GT World Cup victory at the Macau GP, making it a perfect weekend.