2004 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia

The 2004 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia (known for commercial reasons as the 2004 Porsche Infineon Carrera Cup Asia) was the second season of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia. The season commenced on March 21 at the Sepang International Circuit and finished at the Guia Circuit on November 21.

After a strong finish to the season, Matthew Marsh won the championship after reining in season-long points leader, Nattavude Charoensukawattana. Taiwanese driver Max Chen became the inaugural champion of the newly-founded Class B championship.

Calendar The following venues hosted at least one round of the 2004 championship. Round Circuit Date Supporting 1 Sepang International Circuit, Selangor, Malaysia 19–21 March Malaysian Grand Prix 2 8–9 May Asian Touring Car Series 3 Bira Circuit, Pattaya, Thailand 19–20 June Asian Touring Car Series 4 Goldenport Park Circuit, Beijing, China 14–16 August Formula BMW AsiaAsian Formula Three ChampionshipAsian Touring Car Series 5 Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai, China 24–25 September Chinese Grand PrixFormula BMW AsiaAsian Formula Renault Challenge 6 Taebaek Racing Park, Taebaek, South Korea 16–17 October Formula BMW Asia 7 Guia Circuit, Macau 20–21 November Macau Grand PrixAsian Formula Renault Challenge

Teams and drivers All entrants utilised Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Type 996 cars. Team Driver Class Rounds Team Infineon-Nouvellus 1 Charles Kwan All MioTech 2 Scott Miau B 2–7 The Pizza Company 3 William Heinecke B 1–2, 4–7 Manit Vravut 3 77 Anil Thadani B 1 Sven Herberger 3 William E. Connor II B 6 Porsche Zentrum München 6 Sebastian Zollhoefer 1 GruppeM Racing 8 Jonathan Cocker 5 Fuspeed Racing 13 Nattavude Charoensukawattana All Boro Racing 15 Toshihide Hashimura B 1–4, 7 Toshio Nakamura B 5 Akira Hirakawa B 6 Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak 18 Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak All Team IWS Holdings 19 Dilantha Malagamuwa All Porsche Asia Pacific / Mobil 1 20 Alex Yoong 5 Siu Tit Lung 22 Siu Tit Lung B 4–6 Brian Saunders 23 Brian Saunders 1–2 A1 Racing Team 28 Max Chen B All A-Ha Racing 33 Matthew Marsh All Crest Jaseri Racing Team 55 Rizal Ramli All 66 Mark Goddard 1–2 Kenji Kawagoe B 3 Siu Yuk Lung B 4–7 Team Jebsen 88 Darryl O'Young All Eurokars Racing 89 Ringo Chong All Patrick Ma 98 Philip Ma B 1, 3–5, 7 Patrick Ma B 2, 6 Alex Yan 99 Alex Yan B 1, 5, 7IconClass B B ClassGuest Starter

Championship standings Scoring system Points were awarded to the top fifteen classified drivers in every race, using the following system:

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15thPoints 20 18 16 14 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Overall Driver SEP1 SEP2 BIR BEI SHA TAE MAC Points 1 Matthew Marsh 4 2 7 4 4 1 1 5 1 1 2 179 2 Nattavude Charoensukawattana 3 1 2 2 3 4 5 1 2 6 4 176 3 Charles Kwan 2 3 1 3 2 Ret 6 2 4 3 3 162 4 Rizal Ramli 1 Ret 5 1 1 Ret 3 3 6 2 1 152 5 Darryl O'Young 5 7 4 6 6 2 2 4 5 5 6 139 6 Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak 6 5 3 7 7 3 4 6 3 4 5 138 7 Ringo Chen 8 4 6 8 8 8 8 Ret 7 8 7 90 8 Max Chen 12 12 9 11 9 5 9 8 8 10 9 75 9 Dilantha Malagamuwa 7 6 DNS Ret Ret 6 7 7 9 7 Ret 63 10 Philip Ma 9 10 11 10 11 9 8 44 11 William Heinecke Ret 11 11 7 12 11 10 12 13 41 12 Scott Miau 13 12 12 12 9 14 10 13 9 Ret 40 13 Toshihide Hashimura 11 8 DNS Ret 10 Ret 10 11 30 14 Siu Yuk Lung 11 13 12 11 11 12 26 15 Sven Herberger 5 5 24 16 Mark Goddard 10 9 8 21 17 Patrick Ma 10 10 DNS DNS 12 18 Alex Yan 13 13 10 12 19 Siu Tit Lung 12 Ret 15 12 Ret 9 20 Manit Vravut 9 Ret 7 21 Toshio Nakamura 14 2 22 Brian Saunders Ret Ret DNS 0 23 Kenji Kawagoe Ret Ret 0 24 Sebastian Zollhoefer Ret 0 25 Anil Thadani Ret 0 Driver SEP1 SEP2 BIR BEI SHA TAE MAC Points Source:

Class B Driver SEP1 SEP2 BIR BEI SHA TAE MAC Points 1 Max Chen 3 4 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 71 2 William Heinecke Ret 3 3 2 4 4 2 4 6 41 3 Scott Miau 5 4 3 4 3 6 3 5 1 Ret 40 4 Philip Ma 1 1 3 4 3 2 1 39 5 Toshihide Hashimura 2 1 DNS Ret 2 Ret 2 4 30 6 Siu Yuk Lung 5 5 5 3 3 5 25 7 Siu Tit Lung 6 Ret 8 4 Ret 9 8 Alex Yan 4 6 3 9 9 Patrick Ma 2 2 DNS DNS 6 10 Toshio Nakamura 7 2 11 Kenji Kawagoe Ret Ret 0 12 Anil Thadani Ret 0 Driver SEP1 SEP2 BIR BEI SHA TAE MAC Points Source:

See also 2004 Porsche Supercup

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External links Official website