R&B Racing Wins 2024 12 Hours of Sepang!

The Chinese team, who also won the inaugural Shanghai 8 Hours in 2023, took the overall win and first in GT3 Am.

Despite dropping down the order at the start of the race, GT3 Am pole-sitters  #44 R&B Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R crew of Yuan Bo, Lu Wei and Ye Honghi were able to fight back in class, have a dominant performance and hold the lead for the remainder to take not only class victory, but also the overall win.

Francois Beziac, Heremana Malmezac and Jono Lester finished second in GT3 Am in the #71 Prime Speed Sport Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO II ahead of Li Donghui, Li Dongsheng, Zhou Bihuang and Yang in the #777 Climax Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II Ruoyu in third.

In GT3, Porsche was once again victorious, this time with the #911 Absolute Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R of Andrew Haryanto, Eshan Pieris and Dorian Boccolacci, who finished first in class and second overall. Henk Kiks, Akash Nandy and Christopher Haase finished second in GT3 behind the wheel of their #26 B-Quik Absolute Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II, ahead of the #31 Phantom Global Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II of Bian Ye, Cheng Congfu and Adderly Fong.

The #7 Vortex Racegraph Lamborghini Super Trofeo EVO2 of Jonathon Cecotto, Song Jiajun, Goh Eng Peng and Luo Qiren had a strong start in GTC and moved from 15th to 7th overall and lead in class for the first hour. Pole-sitters #710 D1 Racing Team Lamborghini Super Trofeo EVO2 of Hong Shijie, Chen Fangping, He Xinyang and Andre Couto fought back and were first in class from the second hour until the chequered flag.  John Shen, Francis Tjia, Christian Chia and Benny Simonsen in the #216 Modena Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 Cup finished third.

A faultless race in TCR Endurance Asia saw the #326 326 Racing Team Audi RS3 LMS TCR of Wu Yifan, Liu Zichen, Lai Jingwen, Qiu Yiheng and Xiao Kunpeng seal a lights to flag win, ahead of Max James Hart, Yan Chuang, Jiang Nan, Liu Qiren in the #18 Z Speed Hyundai N i30 TCR.

The Motul 12 Hours of Sepang once again saw a field made entirely of teams from the Asia Pacific, with a wide range of professional international racers, gentleman drivers and young talent. 

The next endurance race for Top Speed will see a return to the Shanghai International Circuit for the second Shanghai 8 Hours, 4-6 October. 

Davide de Gobbi – Managing Director of Top Speed:  We are very happy to have returned to Sepang International circuit once again, bringing teams together from the Asia Pacific to race around the iconic track for 12 hours, and complete another successful event. We have been lucky to have such wonderful support from our partners, Pirelli and Motul, on and off the track, along with over 120 accredited media from the region and overseas, onsite. Now, we look towards the second Shanghai 8 Hours in October!