Shaun Thong

Education

He entered his first touring car race by the age of 16 and had a chance to participate in the Renault Clio Cup China 2011 and finished twice on the podium. Thong finished 3rd in his debut year of single seater championship.

Career

Born in 1995, Shaun began karting at the age of 15 and went into the Chinese Karting Championship in Rotax Max junior, Asian Karting Open Championship and Hong Kong Kart Club Championship later that year. In, Shaun has been selected to participate in the Audi Sport Customer Racing Asia young driver development program and will compete in the coveted 24 Hours Nürburgring, Blancpain Endurance Series, Audi Sport TT Cup, as well as the Audi R8 Learning Management System Cup. Shaun joined Tarmac Management (wwwtarmac-managementcom) in to manage his motorsports career.

Thong raced in the Asian Formula Renault Challenge with Formula Racing Development Limited, winning 1 race and with 2 podium finishes.

Apart from Asian Formula Renault Challenge, Shaun also participated in the final round of the Maserati Trofeo Military Cross World Series and finished 6th and was awarded for "The Best Asian Driver".Thong also participated in the Malaysia Super Series GT Open Class with 2 podium finishes. Apart from car racing Shaun also entered the final round of the CIK-FIA KF-1 World Championship held in Macau after finishing 2nd overall in the Hong Kong Kart Club 125cc Class C with 2 wins and 2 other podium finishes.

Thong joined Fortec Motorsports squad to race in the Protyre Formula Renault Championship in and secured 1 pole position and 1 fastest lap in the final round held in Silverstone. Despite finishing 16th in the championship, Thong showed strong potential by constantly qualifying in top 3 in He also made an appearance in the round 7 and 8 Audi R8 Learning Management System Cup as guest driver and finished 5th in round 8 on his debut for the championship.

Thong graduated to the main class for the season driving the Dallara F312 / Toyota with Team West-Tec.

In Thong was signed by Audi Sport Customer Racing Asia to be their first young driver development program talent and aim to promote young drivers to GT Racing. Blancpain Endurance Series driving the Audi R8 Learning Management System Ultra for Phoenix Racing (Germany) alongside Marchy Lee and Markus Winkelhock. Thong is also one of the drivers among the Audi Customer Racing Asia lineup that participated the 24 Hours Nürburgring under a full Asian lineup for the first time, with Cheng Congfu, Marchy Lee and Alex Yoong completing the lineup.

The full Asian team finishing 12th overall in the team"s debut.

Achievements

• Shaun was then chosen by Formula Racing Development Limited to race in the Asian Formula Renault Challenge and finished 3rd overall after securing 1 win and 2 podiums. Shaun also made his debut in the 3rd round of Asian Lemans Series in Zhuhai and won the overall and LMP2 class with OAK Racing in a Morgan / Judd LMP2 prototype. Thong also finished 3rd in his debut visit to the Macau Grand Prix, racing in the Formula Masters China - Macau Grand Prix Invitational race with Eurasia Motorsports. Shaun Thong joined Team West-Tec for the Euroformula Open Championship and won the Winter Series which was held in Paul Ricard, having to qualified on pole position and securing a race win with a fastest lap in the Copa Class Dallara F308 / Toyota. Shaun Participated in Various championship including the inaugural season of the Audi Sport TT Cup, having 1 win and 2 pole positions in Round 2 held in Nourisring.