Big grids of GT3 machinery may be nothing out of the ordinary in Europe, but the sight of 36 cars assembling for June’s GTWorld Challenge Asia round at Fuji represented an important achievement for a championship that was forced into hibernation for two seasons during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With cross-border travel in Asia made impossible, GT Asia ground to a halt in 2020-21 before relaunching last year with a new ‘Japan Cup’ element. The idea was simple: four of that year’s six planned races were held in
