Macau GT World Cup: Antonio Fuoco dominates to score…

Antonio Fuoco clinched victory in the 2025 FIA GT World Cup in Macau with a commanding performance from pole position.

The AF Corse Ferrari driver made up for the lost victory of 2024, when a clash with Raffaele Marciello had cost both a chance to stand on the top step of the podium.

This time, the 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours winner completed a perfect weekend in the Ferrari 296 GT3, scoring pole position and wins in both the qualification race and the main event.

Rowe Racing’s Marciello secured second place from fourth on the grid thanks to a superb start and the strong top-speed performance of the BMW M4 GT3 Evo. Third went to Laurin Heinrich, who started the race in eighth in the Schumacher CLRT Porsche.

Unlike the largely uneventful start in the qualification race at the top of the field, the main race opened with action straight away. At Reservoir Bend, Alessio Picariello’s Absolute Porsche made light contact with Marciello’s BMW, spun and hit the barrier.

Marciello wasn’t done yet. He also slipped past the Harmony Ferrari of Yifei Ye, who briefly lifted before Mandarin Bend, leaving a gap on the inside that the two-time Macau winner exploited without hesitation. Ye dropped to fifth as a result.

The traditional Lisboa incident followed moments later — and this time it affected the front of the field. Ayhancan Guven was pushed into the tyre barriers by Heinrich, who had been nudged from behind by Joel Eriksson’s Phantom Global Audi.

Guven came to a stop in the barriers, with both Luca Engstler’s Absolute Corse Lamborghini and Dorian Boccolacci’s Phantom Global Porsche unable to avoid him, hitting the Schumacher CLRT Porsche and retiring on the spot.

Picariello, already out from his first-corner spin, made it four early casualties. In the chaos, Adderly Fong (Uno Audi, 11th) picked up a puncture and was forced to pit.

The two incidents brought out the safety car for two laps. That left a 13-lap sprint to the chequered flag.

Fuoco raised the pace on the restart as early as possible, well aware of the BMW’s top-speed advantage. He stayed ahead on the long run to Lisboa and then pulled clear to take a commanding victory.

A second safety car was avoided when Edoardo Mortara slid into the tyres at the Melco hairpin due to an electrical shutdown on board his Absolute Corse Lamborghini.

Race control handled the situation under local yellows — permanent in that corner anyway — and opted against calling the safety car again.

Marciello faced race-long pressure from Heinrich and Eriksson, but neither could challenge the BMW on the straights. In the narrow sections they were able to apply serious pressure, only for Marciello to repeatedly stretch the gap on the long straight.

Ye was unable to join that fight and finished his home event in fifth place, followed by Sheldon van der Linde’s WRT BMW.

Starting from P12, van der Linde pulled off a rare Macau overtake on the Ferrari of Yi Deng, who then lost another position to Phantom Global Audi's Christopher Haase, who had started way back in P13.

Ninth went to Porsche’s Laurens Vanthoor, who slipped back after a small lock-up at Lisboa, while Benjamin Goethe’s Optimum McLaren completed the top ten.

Update: Eriksson was handed a 10-second time penalty for causing the opening-lap collision, dropping him behind Ye to fifth in the updated classification. Heinrich escaped any punishment and retained his podium finish.

Race results:

Cla	Nº	Driver	Car / Engine	Time	Gap
1	50	Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari	40'19.865
2	53	R.Marciello	BMW	40'23.825	3.960
3	22	Laurin Heinrich	Porsche	40'24.474	4.609
4	46	Joel Eriksson	Audi	40'24.838	4.973
5	83	Yifei Ye	Ferrari	40'25.410	5.545
6	31	S.van der Linde	BMW	40'35.116	15.251
7	45	C.Haase	Audi	40'35.680	15.815
8	37	Deng Yi	Ferrari	40'38.160	18.295
9	992	Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche	40'38.505	18.640
10	5	Benjamin Goethe	McLaren	40'45.177	25.312
11	36	Adderly Fong	Audi	41'31.292	1'11.427
-	63	Edoardo Mortara	Lamborghini	26'53.187
-	19	Luca Engstler	Lamborghini	-
-	911	A.Picariello	Porsche	-
-	11	Ayhancan Guven	Porsche	-
-	23	D.Boccolacci	Porsche	-