Five former champions confirmed for FIA GT World Cup

Five former champions from Macau’s annual car race will set their eyes on claiming the trophy for the first-ever FIA GT World Cup. The championship is slated to make its debut during this year’s Grand Prix.
Edoardo Mortara, Darryl O’Young, Maro Engel and Andre Couto, each representing one of the five manufacturers, will race each other for the GT3 machinery, according to the car-racing committee’s entrant list. Two-time Macau winner Keita Sawa will also be seen during the race, which has attracted a total of 24 drivers from around the globe.
Mortara, twice a winner of the F3 Macau Grand Prix and three-time victor in the Macau GT Cup, will be racing on the challenging 6.2-kilometer Guia Circuit in an Audi R8 LMS for one of the leading teams from German manufacturer Audi Sport Team Phoenix.
Belgium’s Laurens Vanthoor and Hong Kong’s Marchy Lee will be there on the circuit to race against the 28-year-old, also in Audi racers. The former, who drives for Audi Sport Team WRT, has clinched 18 major race victories over the previous four seasons, while the latter, a frequent racer in Macau, competes with the Audi Hong Kong squad.
The first winner of Macau’s 2008 GT Cup will take a spin in one of the three Aston Martin V12 Vantages entered by Craft-Bamboo.
Local driver André Couto, a regular in the MGP for the past 20 years, has joined McLaren’s roster for the World Cup. He will be driving a McLaren 650S GT3 for the FFF Racing Team.