Anthony Liu returned to victory lane for the first time since 2024 in the second of this weekend’s GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS races at Mandalika.
The Phantom Global Porsche he shared with series debutant Loek Hartog claimed a regulation lights-to-flag win from championship leaders Huang Ruohan and Alessandro Ghiretti (Absolute Racing) who battled through from seventh on the grid, while Andrés Pato stood on his home podium for the second time this weekend alongside Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom Kiwi co-driver Jaxon Evans.
Race 2’s result completed Phantom’s excellent outing in Indonesia after its R8s finished one-two on Saturday. Liu, meanwhile, joins his compatriot Lu Wei on seven overall wins – the most of any driver in championship history.
The result leaves Liu nine points behind this year’s early pace setters Huang and Ghiretti who added a second place to the first, third and fourth positions collected over the opening three races.
Silver honours went to Akash Nandy (Absolute Racing) who finished an excellent fourth overall, Dean Chen and Liang Jiatong (Craft-Bamboo) claimed their second Silver-Am victory of the weekend after GTO with KRC’s BMW was pinged for a short pitstop, and AMAC’s Andrew Macpherson and Ben Porter scored maximum Am points following a late drive-through for Setiawan Santoso and Zhou Bi Huang.
Sixth overall was also enough for Chen and Jiatong to scoop China Cup top spot.
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