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Shaun Thong 唐偉楓
Nationality
Hong Kong
Born
(1995-11-01) 1 November 1995 (age 28) British Hong Kong
Super Taikyu Series European Le Mans Series Asian Le Mans Series Dubai 24 Hours Asian Le Mans Series Blancpain GT Asia GT Asia Series 24 Hours Nürburgring Blancpain Endurance Series Audi Sport TT Cup Euroformula Open Championship British Formula Renault Asian Formula Renault
Championship titles
2020 2017 2016 2014
Super Taikyu Series Blancpain GT Asia GT Asia Series EuroFormula Open Winter Series
Wei Fung Shaun Thong 唐偉楓 (Born 1 November 1995 in Hong Kong, China) is a racecar driver from Hong Kong. Born in 1995, He is the 2017 Blancpain GT Series Asia Silver Cup champion and the 2020 Super Taikyu Series Champion. Thong is the first and only Chinese driver so far to win the Super Taikyu Series title in history. Thong began karting at the age of 14 and participated in various Asian Karting Championships including the Chinese Karting Championship (CKC), Asian Karting Open Championship (AKOC), Hong Kong Kart Club Championship (HKKC) and CIK KF1.
By the age of 16 he participated in the Renault Clio Cup China in 2011 as a guest driver and finished twice on the podium. Thong was then chosen by Formula Racing Development Limited to race in the 2012 Asian Formula Renault Series and finished third overall after securing one win and two podiums at his inaugural season. After his debut season in single seaters, Thong proceeded to Europe for Formula Renault and Formula 3 before moving to the Sportscar / Prototype racing categories.
In 2015, Thong joined Audi Sport Customer Racing Asia young driver development program and competes in the coveted 24 Hours Nürburgring, Blancpain Endurance Series, Audi Sport TT Cup, as well as the Audi R8 LMS Cup. Thong remains as their selected driver until today with Audi Sport Asia.
In 2019 Thong entered full season of Super GT, becoming the first Hong Kong Driver to enter a full season alongside Marchy Lee. The pair scored a 100% Q2 Super Pole qualify in their debut season as an International team and remained as the only team to achieve it so far.
In 2020 Thong became the first Hong Kong Driver to win the Super Taikyu Series Fuji SuperTec 24 Hours and claimed the overall title after winning two races in the season with Hirix Racing. In 2022 Thong joined Helm Motorsport for the Fuji SuperTec 24 Hours only and won his second Fuji SuperTec 24 Hours, becoming the first and only non Japanese driver to win twice and the first driver to win the pinnacle Japan endurance race with two different manufacturers (Mercedes AMG in 2020) and (Nismo in 2022).
Wei Fung ShaunThong 唐偉楓 (Born 1 November 1995 in Hong Kong, China) is a racecar driver from Hong Kong. Born in 1995, He is the 2017 Blancpain GT Series...
Saca 2 Pedro Torres 2 Ricardo Costa 3 Will Langhorne 3 Marco Müller 3 ShaunThong 3 Terence Tse 3 Porsche Baltic Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6...
Am-Am (2017) GT3 Am (2018–) GT4 Overall 2017 Hunter Abbott Marchy Lee ShaunThong Hunter Abbott James Cai Kenneth Lim Jean-Marc Merlin Frank Yu 2018 Martin...
87 car. X Works Racing hired multiple replacement drivers to partner ShaunThong. Takuro Shinohara drove in Round 1. Ex-Formula Renault Eurocup driver...
a Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3. Two drivers from Hong Kong, Marchy Lee and ShaunThong, were announced as the full-time driver lineup. The team featured a new...
Stuvik 1–2 Marchy Lee 2 David Pun 2–3 ShaunThong 3 Elf Bar Racing Team X Works 91 David Pun PA 1–2, 4 ShaunThong Porsche Centre Okazaki Porsche 911 GT3...
Civic FK8 TCR 15 Liu Wei-Chih Chen Chun-Hua A All 4 91 Shih Shih-Wei ShaunThong Chen Chun-Hua A All 1, 3–4 2 KOE Racing Honda Civic FK8 TCR Cupra TCR...
Hockenheim finale. Three other drivers won races during the season; ShaunThong won at the Norisring, but that was his only podium finish of the 2015...
24 David Cheng All Jeffrey Lee 1–2 Ho-Pin Tung 1, 3–4 Congfu Cheng 2 ShaunThong 3 Craft Racing Oreca 03 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 27 Richard Bradley 4 Pu...
Sam Dejonghe Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 199 Andy Yan Tommy Ku David Lau ShaunThong TCX (1 entry) Team Sorg Rennsport Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 CS Porsche 3...
Motorsport Ginetta G61-LT-P3 Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8 21 Jordan Grogor All ShaunThong All Gabriele Rindone All Wochenspiegel Team Monschau Duqueine M30 - D08...
M13-SJ/Scholar 4 David Wagner 3 6 Harrison Scott S All 7 Neil Winn 1 72 ShaunThong 5 78 Wing Chung Chang G 8–9 81 Simon Rudd G 10 Richardson Racing Mygale...
Chassis Tyre Laps Engine 1 LMP2 24 OAK Racing Ho-Pin Tung David Cheng ShaunThong Morgan LMP2 M 114 Judd HK 3.6 L V8 2 LMP2 18 KCMG Gary Thompson Jordan...
GT3 R 3 Yuya Sakamoto S 4 Naoya Yamano Audi R8 LMS 5 Marchy Lee S All ShaunThong 6 Alex Au PA All Alex Yoong 16 Keong Wee Lim PA 6 Melvin Moh Audi R8...
Tjiptobiantoro 1–2, 4–6 Gregory Teo 3 X Works Audi R8 LMS 83 Philip Tang PA 4 ShaunThong Solite Indigo Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 97 Roelof Bruins S All Gabriele...
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