2017 Asia Talent Cup

The 2017 Asia Talent Cup was the fourth season of the Asia Talent Cup (ATC), an international motorcycle racing series for young riders from Asia and Oceania. The season marked a significant transition for the championship, as Idemitsu replaced Shell as the title sponsor, officially renaming the competition the Idemitsu Asia Talent Cup.

Season Summary

The 2017 championship consisted of twelve races held across six rounds. The first race of second round at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar was cancelled due to hazardous track conditions caused by heavy rain and a storm that occurred overnight. The season won by Turkish rider Deniz Öncü who secured the title following a season-long rivalry with his twin brother, Can Öncü, and Japanese rider Haruki Noguchi.

Entry list

No.	Rider	Rounds
2	Takuto Suzuki	All
3	Can Öncü	All
4	Gerry Salim	All
5	Yuki Kunii	All
6	Irfan Ardiansyah	1–2, 5–6
7	Deniz Öncü	All
8	Koji Hirama	All
9	Haruki Noguchi	All
10	Kai Saito	All
11	Haziq Hamdan	All
12	Ryusei Yamanaka	All
13	Lucky Hendriansya	All
14	Bima Febrinda Arfin	1–2, 4
15	Kritchaporn Kaewsonthi	All
16	Reid Terrence Battye	1–4
17	Maxi Hattori	1–3
18	Kohki Suzuki	All
19	Syairul Suhaimi	All
20	Azroy Anuar	All
21	Surya Surojo	1
22	Riefsa Firdaus Hakim	1–2
23	Koko Masaharu Tadachi	1–4, 6
24	Erfin Firmansyah	1–5

Race calendar and results

Rnd.		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Winning rider
1	R1	Chang International Circuit	11 March	Yuki Kunii	Deniz Öncü
	R2		12 March		Deniz Öncü
2	R1	Losail International Circuit	25 March	Yuki Kunii	Race Cancelled
	R2		26 March		Yuki Kunii
3	R1	Suzuka Circuit	3 June	Ryusei Yamanaka	Haruki Noguchi
	R2		4 June		Yuki Kunii
4	R1	Sepang International Circuit	29 July	Can Öncü	Can Öncü
	R2		30 July		Can Öncü
5	R1	Twin Ring Motegi	14 October	Yuki Kunii	Ryusei Yamanaka
	R2		15 October		Yuki Kunii
6	R1	Sepang International Circuit	28 October	Azroy Anuar	Can Öncü
	R2		29 October		Can Öncü

Championship standings

Scoring system

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

Pos. Rider THA QAT SUZ MAL1 JPN MAL2 Pts R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 1 Deniz Öncü 1 1 C 5 Ret 5 6 2 3 3 7 4 156 2 Haruki Noguchi 6 3 C 3 1 2 4 5 Ret 4 5 2 155 3 Can Öncü 7 4 C 4 5 15 1P 1P Ret Ret 1 1 147 4 Ryusei Yamanaka 3 2 C 2 4P 14P 5 3 1 Ret 6 6 143 5 Yuki Kunii 8P 5P C 1P 3 1 Ret Ret RetP 1P 3 3 142 6 Azroy Anuar 2 Ret C 6 2 6 2 4 2 Ret 4P 9P 133 7 Gerry Salim 5 6 C 8 Ret Ret 3 6 Ret 5 2 8 94 8 Genki Nakajima C Ret 7 3 8 Ret 5 2 8 7 81 9 Koji Hirama Ret 7 C 10 6 4 7 Ret Ret Ret 9 5 65 10 Lucky Hendriansya 11 9 C 7 14 10 10 7 Ret 6 Ret 15 55 11 Kritchaporn Kaewsonthi 4 10 C Ret 8 Ret Ret 9 Ret 8 10 10 54 12 Takuto Suzuki 10 13 C Ret 13 11 9 11 7 10 13 11 52 13 Kohki Suzuki Ret 12 C 11 11 7 12 10 Ret 7 11 12 51 14 Erfin Firmansyah 14 11 C 12 10 9 11 8 Ret 9 44 15 Kai Saito 16 16 C 15 9 8 13 Ret 6 13 12 13 39 16 Irfan Ardiansyah 9 8 C 9 4 Ret 17 16 35 17 Syairul Suhaimi C Ret 17 17 Ret 14 8 11 15 17 16 18 Haziq Hamdan 15 Ret C 18 15 13 14 12 Ret 12 16 Ret 15 19 Maxi Hattori 12 Ret C Ret 12 12 12 20 Reid Terrence Battye 17 14 C 13 Ret 16 Ret 13 8 21 Koko Masaharu Tadachi 18 17 C 17 16 18 16 15 14 14 5 22 Thitivarak Passawit 13 15 4 23 Riefsa Firdaus Hakim 19 18 C 14 2 24 Bima Febrinda Arfin 20 19 C 16 15 Ret 1 25 Surya Surojo 21 20 0 Pos. Rider R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 Pts THA QAT SUZ MAL1 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

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