Asia Road Racing Championship

The FIM Asia Road Racing Championship is the regional motorcycle road racing championship for Asia, held since 1996.

FIM Asia Road Racing Championship
FIM ARRC Official Logo
CategoryMotorcycle sport
RegionAsia
Inaugural season1996
Classes
  • Asia Superbikes 1000cc
  • SuperSports 600cc
  • Asia Production 250cc
  • Underbone 150cc
Official websitewww.asiaroadracing.com
ASB1000
ConstructorsHonda, Kawasaki, BMW, Yamaha, Ducati
Tyre suppliersDunlop
Riders' champion2019 Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman
Teams' championONEXOX TKKR SAG Team
Constructors' championBMW
SuperSports 600cc
ConstructorsHonda, Kawasaki, Yamaha
Tyre suppliersDunlop
Riders' champion2019 Peerapong Boonlert
Teams' championYamaha Thailand Racing Team
Constructors' championYamaha
Asia Production 250cc
ConstructorsHonda, Kawasaki, Yamaha, TVS
Tyre suppliersDunlop
Riders' champion2019 Andy Muhammad Fadly
Teams' championManual Tech KYT Kawasaki Racing
Constructors' championKawasaki
Underbone 150cc
ConstructorsHonda, Yamaha
Tyre suppliersDunlop
Riders' champion2019 McKinley Kyle Paz
Teams' championUMA Racing Yamaha Philippine Team
Constructors' championYamaha
Current season

This championship is part of the production-based category of racing, similar to the Supersport World Championship, British Supersport Championship and AMA Supersport Championship. Modified versions of road-going motorcycles available to the public are featured in the race.

The championship is currently divided into four open-make classes - the ASB1000 (Asia Superbikes), SuperSports 600cc, Asia Production 250cc and Underbone 150cc. The new Asian Superbikes class revved off in 2019.

Overview

The Asia Road Racing Championship was first organized in 1996 as part of an Asian-wide initiative boost the development of the sport of motorcycle racing in the continent. The championship received the endorsement of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM, "International Motorcycling Federation") in 1997 and has been recognized since as the Asian continental championship for the FIM.[1]

The commercial rights are owned by Two Wheels Motor Racing, with FIM Asia as the sports sanctioning body.

The 2020 season consists of seven rounds with two races organized per round.[2]

Circuits

The championship tours in Asia but is open to riders from all nationalities.

The Asia Road Racing 2020 season consisted of 14 races at 5 circuits in 5 Asian countries.

Other venues that had previously hosted the Asia Road Racing Championship included:

2020 race classes and motorcycles
Race class BMW Ducati Honda Kawasaki Yamaha TVS
ASB1000 S1000RR Panigale V4R CBR1000RR R Fireblade ZX-10RR YZF-R1M
SuperSports 600cc CBR600RR YZF-R6
Asia Production 250cc CBR250RR Ninja 250 YZF-R25 TVS Apache RR 310
Underbone 150cc RS150R YSuku

Current broadcasters

Worldwide

Live coverage, on-demand, and highlights for free practices, qualifications, and races is available on Asia Road Racing Championship's official Facebook page and Youtube channel, as well as Bikeandrace.com.[4]

Asia-Pacific
Country/Region Broadcaster
 Brunei Astro Arena
 Malaysia
RTM
 China Selected regional channels, online platforms, and social medias
Star Sports
 Korea
 Hong Kong Fox Sports
 Macau
 Mongolia
 Papua New Guinea
 Indonesia tvOne
 Thailand True4U

Spain (the one and only European country)

All races are streamed through subscription service DAZN.

Chronology: winners and race classes

1996–1999

The road racing series began on 2-stroke engines.

Year Series Production 250cc (2-stroke) Sports Production 150cc (2-stroke) Underbone 125cc (2-stroke) Underbone 110cc (2-stroke)
1996 Shahrol Yuzy Ahmad Zaini Direk Achawong Somkuan Raemee
1997 Chow Yan Kit Direk Achawong Niphon Saengsawang Eakrach Punbuppha
1998 Youichi Nakajima Direk Achawong Eakrach Punbuppha Amporn Siriphat
1999 Naoto Ogura Direk Achawong Eakrach Punbuppha Surapong Boonlert

2000

The gradual shift to 4-stroke engines began in 2000 when the SuperSports 600cc class replaced the previous 250cc bikes as the premier class of the championship.[5]

Year SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) GP125 (2-stroke) Underbone 125cc (2-stroke) Underbone 110cc (2-stroke)
2000 Chia Tuck Cheong Suhathai Chaemsap Surapong Boonlert Thammanoon Sillapakul

2001–2002
Year SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) GP125 (2-stroke) Underbone 125cc (2-stroke)
2001 Chia Tuck Cheong Direk Achawong Mazlan Khamis
2002 Toshiyuki Hamaguchi Suhathai Chaemsap Mohamad Hisham Ngadin

2003
Year SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) Underbone 125cc (2-stroke)
2003 Toshiyuki Hamaguchi Mohamad Hisham Ngadin

2004–2005
Year SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) Underbone 125cc (2-stroke) Underbone 115cc (4-stroke)
2004 Toshiyuki Hamaguchi Ahmad Fazli Sham M. Fadli Immammuddin
2005 Toshiyuki Hamaguchi Ahmad Fazli Sham Doni Tata Pradita

2006
Year SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) Underbone 115cc (4-stroke) Underbone 115cc (Under 21)
2006 Toshiyuki Hamaguchi Gilang Pranata Sukma Feizy Juniardith

2007–2011
Year SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) Underbone 115cc (4-stroke)
2007 Decha Kraisart Wahyu Widodo
2008 Toshiyuki Hamaguchi Owie Nurhuda
2009 Chalermpol Polamai Mohd Affendi Rosli
2010 Decha Kraisart Hadi Wijaya
2011 Katsuaki Fujiwara Rafid Topan Sucipto

2012–2014
Year SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) Underbone 115cc (4-stroke) Asia Dream Cup
2012 Ryuichi Kiyonari Hadi Wijaya Hikari Okubo
2013 Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman Hadi Wijaya Hiroki Ono
2014 Mohd Zaqhwan Zaidi Gupita Kresna Wardhana Khairul Idham Pawi

2015–2016
Year SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) Asia Production 250cc (4-stroke) Underbone 130cc (4-stroke) Asia Dream Cup Suzuki Asian Challenge
2015 Yuki Takahashi Takehiro Yamamoto Gupita Kresna Wardhana Mukhlada Sarapuech Andreas Gunawan
2016 Mohd Zaqhwan Zaidi Apiwat Wongthananon Wahyu Aji Trilaksana Hiroki Nakamura Jefri Tosema

2017
Year SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) Asia Production 250cc (4-stroke) Underbone 150cc (4-stroke) Suzuki Asian Challenge
2017 Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman Gerry Salim Md Akid Aziz Punchana Kulrojchalalai

2018
Year SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) Asia Production 250cc (4-stroke) Underbone 150cc (4-stroke)
2018 Ratthapong Wilairot Rheza Danica Ahrens Md Helmi Azman

2019–2020
Year ASB1000 (4-stroke) SuperSports 600cc (4-stroke) Asia Production 250cc (4-stroke) Underbone 150cc (4-stroke)
2019 Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman Peerapong Boonlert Andy Muhammad Fadly McKinley Kyle Paz
2020

Notable achievements

The Asia Road Racing Championship is a mix of well-known riders racing against upcoming talents from the Asian region. Some of the big names that have contributed to the growth of the sport of road racing in Asia include Katsuaki Fujiwara, Ryuichi Kiyonari,[6] Yuki Takahashi and Noriyuki Haga.[7] In 2016, Anthony West was the latest addition in the roster of internationally recognized names.[8] For the 2019 season, Australian racers who have participated in both MotoGP and World Superbike take part in the series, they are Broc Parkes, and Bryan Staring.

This formula of pitting upcoming talents against seasoned campaigners have resulted in a number of successes. In recent years, riders from the Asian region are beginning to make their breakthrough into the MotoGP arena. These include:

  • Shahrol Yuzy Ahmad Zaini (250cc, 1996 to 2002)
  • Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman (Moto2, 2013 to 2015)[9]
  • Hafizh Syahrin Abdullah (Moto2, 2011 to 2017; MotoGP, 2018 to present)
  • Thitipong Warokorn (Moto2, 2013 to 2015)
  • Rafid Topan Sucipto (Moto2, 2012–13, 2018)
  • Doni Tata Pradita (GP250cc, 2008; and Moto2, 2013)
  • Dimas Ekky Pratama (Moto2, 2019)
  • Khairul Idham Pawi (Moto3, 2016; Moto2, 2017 to present)[10]
  • Hiroki Ono (Moto3, 2013 to 2016)

On July 4 to 11, 2016, five young riders from the Asia Production 250cc class became the first batch of riders to be trained at the VR46 Academy in Italy as part of the Yamaha|VR46 Master Camp. They were Peerapong Loiboonpeng (21, Thailand), Imanuel Putra Pratna (19, Indonesia), Galang Hendra Pratama (17, Indonesia), Soichiro Minamimoto (16, Japan) and Kasma Daniel Kasmayudin (16, Malaysia).[11][12]

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