Race 1: 
• LM Corsa’s best-ever result completes Ferrari 1-2; Origine battles to third
• Class wins for Wakisaka/Ogawa, Lee/Oosten and Wang/Liu

Harmony Racing celebrated its first GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS victory of the season at Fuji where Liu Kaishun and the returning David Chen Weian held off LM Corsa’s Ferrari in the first of this weekend’s two 60-minute races.

The pole-winning Silver class Ferrari slipped to third on the opening lap behind the team’s sister car driven by Adderly Fong and FAW Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom’s R8 before additional pitstop time dropped both down the order.

Shigekazu Wakisaka and Ryo Ogawa were the chief beneficiaries in LM Corsa’s Ferrari, which collected the team’s best-ever GT World Asia result on its return to the championship, as well as Pro-Am spoils.

The final podium place changed hands on the final lap when Laurin Heinrich got the better of Yu Kuai. Origine’s Porsche, driven by Lu Wei in the opening stint, emerged from its driver change in sixth before engaging in a particularly eye-catching battle with the 5ZIGEN Nissan that clawed its way from 23rd on the grid to fifth by the finish.

Silver-Am victory went the way of GTO with KRC’s BMW shared by Brian Lee and Max Oosten, while Origine’s Liu Hangcheng and Wang Zhongwei extended their Am championship lead with a third win in five races.