The Porsche Carrera Cup Asia is looking ahead to its 12th season as the leading category in regional sports car competition. The contenders in the international field from 10 countries and territories was unveiled last week, just prior to the official test at Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit last weekend.
Twenty-eight of the sensational, all-new Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 991) racing cars will contest the prestigious 11 race, seven meeting calendar.
The more powerful 3.8 liter flat six engine produces 460 horsepower, 10 more than previously, and the six-speed sequential gearbox is operated by a pneumatic paddle shift system, yet another first for the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia.
Porsche 911 GT3.
The calendar includes support races at three rounds of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship: in Malaysia, Shanghai and Singapore. Further strengthening its ties with Porsche motorsport activities across Asia, the series will race in Japan for the first time in 2014, heading to the Fuji International Speedway in June. Double headers at China’s Pearl River Delta Region Zhuhai track, and at Malaysia’s Sepang circuit, see the region’s premier international sports car championship cross the Tropic of Cancer four times as it thunders towards the season finale at the Sports car Champions Festival in Shanghai in October.
