Australian Aidan Read ignited his Formula Masters China Series title hopes with a double victory at Thailand’s Chang International Circuit.
The Western Australian made no mistakes from pole position as he blitzed the field to take the chequered flag by 10.2s from China’s Shang Guan Zheng, while championship leader Philip Hamprecht was third.
Read repeated the feat in Race 2 albeit in slightly less dominant fashion with the Eurasia Motorsport driver again leading home Zheng.
Title rival Hamprecht could only manage sixth after contact with Thomas Swift.
Read ended the weekend with a third place finish after coming through a dice with Jeong Tae Kim.
Hamprecht claimed the spoils in the final race to leave the weekend 18 points ahead of Read.
The championship heads to Korea for the next round from September 24-25.
Lamborghini Super Trofeo Series
New Zealander Jono Lester scored a pair of podium finishes in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Series at the Buriram circuit.
Lester and co-driver Yasuyuki Uchida began the weekend by securing pole position but a brake issue saw the pair lose valuable time.
Hampered by a slow pit stop, the duo were left to settle for second behind eventual winners Toshiyuki Ochiai and Afiq Yazid.
Drama struck at the start of the second race when Uchida lost control of the Huracan and subsequently made contact with the wall.
Despite the incident, a strong drive from Lester saw him haul the car back to third at the flag.
The Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Series heads to Sepang for the fourth round from August 13-14.
Audi R8 LMS Cup
Former Formula 1 driver Alex Yoong and rising star Martin Rump shared the spoils in the Audi R8 LMS Cup.
Yoong managed to fight his way by pole-sitter Alessio Picariello and Hong Kong’s Marchy Lee, who endured a scrap early in the race, before going on to claim the win.
“The first half of the race went perfectly as far as I’m concerned and after that I was trying to keep my head down,” said Yoong.
“Alessio was all over me in the second half of the race so I had to be very clever with how I drove. I had to not make any mistakes or he would have got through.
“I’m happy for the first win of the season for Phoenix Racing Asia and Audi TEDA Racing Team.”
Reigning Formula Masters China Series champion Rump completed a lights-to-flag win in the second race from Picariello and Jan Kisiel.
Picariello now leads the championship standings by three points from Yoong ahead of the next round at the Korea International circuit from September 24-25.
SuperGT
Daiki Sasaki and Masataka Yanagida scored a shock come-from-behind victory in the fourth round of the SuperGT Series at Sugo.
The Forum Engineering Nissan GT-R squad recovered from early race contact to power to the chequered flag, having initially started the 81-lap race from ninth.
An early pit stop played into Sasaki and Yanagida’s hands as the pair inherited the lead midway through the race.
In the end, Nissan duo held on to take the win by 0.3s from the Lexus of Heikki Kovalainen and Kohei Hirate, while the Yuji Tachikawa/Hiroaki Ishiura Lexus secured third.
The race ended six laps early due to a crash from a GT300 specification Toyota 86.
New Zealander Nick Cassidy came through to finish in 11th position after being hit with a 10 second stop/go penalty for a car set-up infringement.
The series visits Fuji Speedway for the next round from August 6-7.
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