33 Cars, Eight Manufacturers on Full-Season Entry

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GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS has revealed a full-season entry list featuring 33 cars representing eight manufacturers.

The car count remains steady from the 2024 campaign owing to capacity limitations, although one-off entries will also be added to the grid across the course of the six-round campaign that kicks off at Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit next month.

Corvette joins the roster of manufacturers and is represented by a two-car entry from Malaysian squad Johor Motorsports Racing, which announced its tie-up with the GM marque at the beginning of the month.

Porsche, Audi, Mercedes-AMG, BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Nissan all return from last year, while Aston Martin no longer has representation with EBM switching to running Porsche and Mercedes-AMG machinery and D’station Racing withdrawing.

Over a third of the entry is made up of Porsche 911 GT3 Rs, with no fewer than 13 examples of the Weissach-built car on the grid, as defending champion team Origine Motorsport expands to three cars.

Mercedes-AMG is the next-best represented marque with six cars, followed by Ferrari with four and Audi with three.

BMW and Lamborghini join Corvette in having two entries each, while Nissan is represented by a single GT-R NISMO GT3 run by Team 5ZIGEN.

Having quit SUPER GT, Team Studie returns to the grid in its ‘PLUS Racing’ guise having sat out the 2024 campaign, joining Team KRC in the BMW camp.

Another notable change is that Absolute Racing’s Absolute Corse arm has switched from a single Ferrari 296 GT3 to a pair of Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2s, with Lamborghini’s previous sole customer VSR missing from the entry list.

The entry list does not specify which class each entry will contest and the drivers, which will be revealed in the run-up to the Sepang curtain-raiser on April 11-13.