• Silver class duo claim pole, fastest lap and Ferrari’s first victory since Okayama 2023
• Phantom beats Origine to second overall and Pro-Am win
• KRC's post-race penalty promotes 5ZIGEN to Silver-Am top spot
• LM Corsa collects first Am victory of the season

Deng Yi and Luo Kailuo converted pole position into maiden GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS victories at Okayama where a low scoring race for both leading title contenders ensured the destination of this year’s drivers’ crown will remain undecided until Beijing.

Winhere Harmony’s #96 Ferrari initially stood firm on the run to Turn 1 where contact further back ended the hopes of the team’s sister machine and triggered an early Safety Car period. Deng then scampered clear at the restart before building a gap sufficiently large to overcome the Silver duo’s extra five seconds in the pits. His co-driver Luo was never challenged thereafter en route to a seven-second victory over two Pro-Am Porsches shared by Anthony Liu and Dorian Boccolacci (Phantom Global Racing) and Lu Wei and Bastian Buus (Origine Motorsport).

Team KRC’s Ruan CunFan and Maxime Oosten would have taken another significant step towards winning the Silver-Am title with class victory and fourth overall. However, Oosten’s pass on Yu Kanamaru halfway through the second stint counted for little post-race when a penalty for contact on lap one dropped the BMW down the order and promoted 5ZIGEN to class top spot.

Further back, Ferrari collected its second win of the day courtesy of Am duo Shigekazu Wakisaka and Kei Nakanishi despite the latter being spun around early in the race.