2016 Asia Talent Cup

2016 Asia Talent Cup
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The 2016 Shell Advance Asia Talent Cup was the third season of the Asia Talent Cup. The season featured six rounds held at circuits in Asia, with three rounds held in support of the MotoGP World Championship and two rounds in support of the Superbike World Championship. The season started at Chang in Thailand on 11 March, and finished at Sepang in Malaysia on 28 October.

Thai rider Somkiat Chantra won the title after beating closest rival and future Honda Team Asia teammate Ai Ogura.

Race calendar and results

The calendar was announced in December 2015.

Rnd.		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Winning rider
1	R1	Chang International Circuit	12 March	Andi Farid Izdihar	Ai Ogura
	R2		13 March		Somkiat Chantra
2	R1	Losail International Circuit	19 March	Somkiat Chantra	Gerry Salim
	R2		20 March		Andi Farid Izdihar
3	R1	Sepang International Circuit	14 May	Kazuki Masaki	Andi Farid Izdihar
	R2		15 May		Somkiat Chantra
4	R1	Zhuhai International Circuit	17 September	Gerry Salim	Ai Ogura
	R2		18 September		Yuki Kunii
5	R1	Twin Ring Motegi	15 October	Yuki Kunii	Yuki Kunii
	R2		16 October		Ai Ogura
6	R1	Sepang International Circuit	29 October	Andi Farid Izdihar	Andi Farid Izdihar
	R2		30 October		Somkiat Chantra

Entry list

The entry list was announced in November 2015.

No.	Rider	Rounds
2	Kazuki Masaki	All
3	Can Öncü	All
4	Gerry Salim	All
5	Yuki Kunii	All
6	Irfan Ardiansyah	1–3, 5–6
7	Deniz Öncü	All
8	Tom Edwards	1–3, 5–6
9	Ai Ogura	All
10	Dwiki Suparta	1–2, 4–6
11	Izam Ikmal	All
12	Ryusei Yamanaka	All
13	Idham Khairuddin	All
14	Bahattin Sofuoğlu	All
15	Shogo Kawasaki	All
16	Hiroki Nakamura	5–6
17	Alif Utama	1–4, 6
18	Somkiat Chantra	All
19	Riku Sugawara	All
20	Chun Kit Law	1–4
21	Waraphod Niamsakhonsakul	All
22	Ahamed Yanseen	1–4
23	Andi Farid Izdihar	All

Championship standings

Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Points	25	20	16	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Pos. Rider THA QAT MAL1 CHN JPN MAL2 Pts R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 1 Somkiat Chantra 4 1 6P 2P 4 1 3 8 6 4 Ret 1 178 2 Ai Ogura 1 4 2 7 5 Ret 1 3 3 1 4 Ret 173 3 Andi Farid Izdihar RetP 3P 5 1 1 3 2 7 5 7 1P RetP 167 4 Ryusei Yamanaka 3 2 4 5 2 2 Ret 5 4 2 6 4 167 5 Gerry Salim 2 6 1 3 3 Ret 4P 2P 10 6 16 7 145 6 Yuki Kunii 6 8 8 6 7 4 5 1 1P RetP 3 9 142 7 Kazuki Masaki 5 5 3 4 6P 12P Ret 4 2 3 2 Ret 134 8 Shogo Kawasaki 7 7 7 8 11 7 Ret 9 8 5 11 2 77 9 Can Öncü 9 13 13 16 10 Ret 7 9 8 5 15 2 75 10 Deniz Öncü 11 9 12 15 Ret 14 6 6 Ret 10 5 3 72 11 Riku Sugawara 13 12 10 10 8 5 9 Ret 9 9 Ret 13 62 12 Idham Khairuddin 12 14 14 13 9 6 8 11 12 Ret 7 8 62 13 Irfan Ardiansyah 8 Ret 9 9 Ret 8 Ret 13 10 5 50 14 Tom Edwards 10 10 Ret 11 Ret 9 13 11 8 10 46 15 Waraphod Niamsakhonsakul 11 11 12 15 11 10 Ret Ret 15 13 12 34 16 Bahattin Sofuoğlu Ret 17 15 17 Ret 13 12 12 14 12 Ret 6 28 17 Izam Ikmal 18 18 16 20 12 10 Ret Ret 15 14 Ret 11 18 18 Alif Utama 15 16 17 14 Ret Ret 11 13 14 Ret 13 19 Hiroki Nakamura 11 Ret 9 Ret 12 20 Dwiki Suparta 14 15 18 19 15 Ret 16 Ret 12 Ret 8 21 Ahamed Yanseen 16 19 19 18 13 15 14 14 8 22 Chun Kit Law 17 20 20 21 14 16 13 Ret 5 Pos. Rider R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 Pts THA QAT MAL1 CHN JPN MAL2

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) P – Pole position