Antonio Fuoco scored Ferrari’s first win in the FIA GT World Cup following a sublime performance on Macau’s ultra-demanding street track.

Fuoco, who also triumphed in the earlier Qualification Race to secure the Pirelli Pole Position Award having banked the inaugural Super Pole, was never truly threatened during the 16-lap contest.

Driving a Ferrari 296 GT3, the Italian took the chequered flag for AF Corse Srl with a winning margin of 3.960s ahead of two-time FIA GT World Cup winner Raffaele Marciello (BMW).

Porsche-driving Laurin Heinrich made it three different Pirelli-equipped manufacturers in the top three as Audi-powered Joel Eriksson finished fifth behind Yifei Ye (Ferrari)..

There was action from the outset in the 2025 FIA GT World Cup when Alessio Picariello spun his Porsche exiting the first corner after a brush with Marciello as the pack jostled for position. Ayhancan Güven, who’d just demoted the slow-starting Yifei Ye for third, then crashed into the tyre barriers at Lisboa Bend following contact with Heinrich. Unable to take avoiding action, Luca Engstler charged into the back of Güven’s stranded Porsche with Dorian Boccolaci colliding with the rear of Engstler’s Lamborghini to trigger a safety car intervention.

Racing resumed on lap four with Fuoco pressing home his advantage to score the first FIA GT World Cup win by a non-German manufacturer.

Chinese driver Ye, who’d started second in his Ferrari, was promoted to fourth following a post-race penalty for Eriksson, with Sheldon van der Linde coming through from 12th on the grid to claim sixth in his BMW M4 GT3 (Evo).

Edoardo Mortara, nicknamed Mr Macau for his seven overall race wins on the streets of the Special Administrative Region of China, retired at the Melco Hairpin with a suspected mechanical issue on lap 12.

Antonio Fuoco said: “It was a perfect weekend. We can never ask for something better than this and I’m just so happy for me, for the team and everyone, we really deserved this. It has been a really intensive season but this is something we’ll remember for many years.”

The 73rd Macau Grand Prix takes place from 19-22 November. Headlined by the FIA FR World Cup and FIA GT World Cup, the event also includes the second running of the FIA F4 World Cup and the deciding round of the 2026 Kumho FIA TCR World Tour.

Relive the 2025 FIA GT World Cup by clicking HERE. Visit FIA.com on 12 November to recall another moment in Macau Grand Prix history.