Eurasia Motorsport

Eurasia Motorsport

Founded	2004
Base	Mabalacat, Pampanga, Philippines
Team principal(s)	Mark Goddard
Founder(s)	Mark Goddard Piers Hunnisett[1] Martin Quick[1]
Current series	TCR Asia Series
Former series	Asian Le Mans Series European Le Mans Series FIA World Endurance Championship Formula BMW Pacific Formula V6 Asia
Noted drivers	Richard Bradley Nick de Bruijn Sean Gelael Antonio Giovinazzi Tristan Gommendy Axcil Jefferies Pu Junjin Roberto Merhi Daniel Ricciardo Marlon Stöckinger
Teams' Championships	2012 Formula Pilota China
Drivers' Championships	2010 Formula BMW Pacific, 2012 Formula Pilota China, 2017 Blancpain GT Series Asia Am-Am
Website	https://eurasiamotorsport.com/

Eurasia Motorsport is an auto racing team from the Philippines, founded in 2003 by British racing driver Mark Goddard.^[2] The team currently operate in two headquarters near two Asian circuits; Clark International Speedway at Mabalacat, Pampanga, Philippines and Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Malaysia.^[3][4]

Since their inception, the team have competed in junior formula, sports car racing, and touring car racing, including series such as Formula BMW Pacific, Asian Le Mans Series, and European Le Mans Series. Eurasia have also previously participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 2016 to 2021, where they were the first and, so far, the only team based in the Philippines to have raced at Le Mans. Eurasia Motorsport currently race in the TCR Asia Series.^[5]

British racing driver Mark Goddard moved to Asia in 1994 to manage and race with various racing teams in Formula Toyota, Formula Asia, and the Asian Formula Three Championship, eventually earning a drivers' title in the latter series with a team entered under his own name.^[6] Goddard retired from racing in 2004 and founded Eurasia Motorsport in the Philippines later that year.^[1][7]

Eurasia Motorsport entered a partnership with Italian Formula One team Minardi in 2004 to run their junior development team for Asian young drivers. The combined team would race as Minardi Team Asia in both the Formula BMW Pacific series and the Asian Formula Three Championship. In the two years that the team competitively raced, they were listed under the Malaysian and Hong Kong flags.^[8]

In the 2006 Asian Formula Three Championship, Eurasia were in contention for the drivers' title with Daniel Ricciardo. Ricciardo won two races that season, both at Bira Circuit,^[9] completing the season in 3rd overall behind Sam Abay and eventual champion Earl Bamber.

Eurasia Motorsport won the 2010 Formula BMW Pacific drivers' title with rookie Richard Bradley, scoring 7 wins and 217 points.^[10]

The team completed a dominant campaign in the 2012 Formula Pilota China season, as they would score 10 victories across 18 races. Team driver and series debutant Antonio Giovinazzi would be responsible for six of the ten, finishing as the overall champion. Eurasia's efforts would also allow them to take the Best Asian Driver Trophy with Parth Ghorpade and the overall team's title.^[11] They would fight for the driver's titles on two more occasions in 2014 with Matt Solomon and in 2016 with Aidan Read,^[12] completing the season 2nd overall on both occasions.

Eurasia Motorsport explored sports car racing for the first time in 2014, when they announced that they would be competing in the Asian Le Mans Series.^[13] They contested the season against OAK Racing, the only other entry in the LMP2 class, however, were beaten comprehensively by the French squad, who were far more experienced in comparison and would later proceed to sweep the season.^[14] Amidst further mixed results in later seasons, Eurasia Motorsport were able to win the final two rounds of the 2015–16 Asian Le Mans Series, doing so in a second entry driven by Sean Gelael and Antonio Giovinazzi. The team switched to LMP3 machinery a few years later in 2018–19.^[15] In 2019–20, they entered two cars, bearing numbers #1 and #36. Each car saw contrasting campaigns; the #36 secured three consecutive podium finishes and a pole position to conclude the season 3rd in class,^[16] whereas the #1 retired in three out of the four rounds.

The team expanded their sports car programme to Europe in 2015, by entering the 2015 European Le Mans Series in the LMP2 class with Nick de Bruijn and Pu Junjin.^[17] Richard Bradley would return to Eurasia to substitute for Junjin in the fourth round. The team concluded their first ELMS season 6th in class, settling into the midfield. Tristan Gommendy joined Eurasia in 2016, where they would improve to 5th in class, collecting a podium in the 2016 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring.

That same year, Eurasia Motorsport also competed in the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, entering an Oreca 05 with Gommendy, de Bruijn, and Junjin. Their entry marked the first time in the history of the 24 Hours of Le Mans that a team from the Philippines would participate in the event. Despite suffering sensor issues, the team remained out of trouble to finish in the top 10, taking home 9th overall and 5th in class.^[18] Eurasia attempted Le Mans four more times in 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021, but were unable to repeat the same success.^[19] As of 2025, Eurasia Motorsport are the only racing team from the Philippines to have competed at Le Mans.

In 2017, Eurasia Motorsport joined the 2017 Blancpain GT Series Asia, entering an Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 with James Cai and Kenneth Lim in the Am-Am class.^[20] Despite missing a round at Suzuka Circuit, Cai and Lim won the Am-Am class championship, five points clear of the closest competitor.

Eurasia made a one-off appearance in the 2019–20 FIA World Endurance Championship, competing in the 2020 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.^[21]

In 2021, Eurasia Motorsport confirmed that they would be fielding a Ligier JS P217 for the 2021 24 Hours of Daytona in collaboration with American outfit Rick Ware Racing.^[22] The car would be driven by Austin Dillon, Cody Ware, Salih Yoluç, and Sven Müller, who replaced Mathieu Jaminet who was originally set to drive, but had tested positive for COVID-19.^[22][23][24] Racing as RWR-Eurasia, the joint team fared well in the race, crossing the line 10th overall and 4th in class.

In 2019, Eurasia Motorsport entered the 2019 TCR Asia Series with Daniel Miranda and Gao Hua Yang.^[25][26] Miranda collected two podiums and Yang earned one, ending their seasons in 4th and 5th overall respectively. Eurasia Motorsport returned to the championship six years later in the 2025 TCR Asia Series with Andy Liang Wenyao and Reignbert Diwa.^[5] The pair scored a double podium for the team at Sepang International Circuit.^[27]

Year	Entrant	No.	Car	Drivers	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2021	RWR-Eurasia	51	Ligier JS P217	Austin Dillon Sven Müller Cody Ware Salih Yoluç	LMP2	778	10th	4th

Year	Entrant	No.	Car	Drivers	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2016	Eurasia Motorsport	33	Oreca 05	Nick de Bruijn Tristan Gommendy Pu Junjin	LMP2	348	9th	5th
2017	Eurasia Motorsport	33	Ligier JS P217	Erik Maris Jacques Nicolet Pierre Nicolet	LMP2	341	15th	13th
2018	Eurasia Motorsport	44	Ligier JS P217	Andrea Bertolini Niclas Jönsson Tracy Krohn	LMP2	334	NC	NC
2020	Eurasia Motorsport	35	Ligier JS P217	Nick Foster Roberto Merhi Nobuya Yamanaka	LMP2	351	18th	14th
2021	Racing Team India Eurasia	74	Ligier JS P217	Tom Cloet John Corbett James Winslow	LMP2 Pro-Am	348	28th	7th