PandaAsia Racing

PandaAsia Racing is a Chinese-English Racing Team with base in Shanghai, China. The team was founded as a joint-effort to get Chinese Car Company Geely to join the Formula Custom Series. After Geely left the sport, they were bought by a British Group of Investors called OneDrive.

Season 1 (GDC)
PandaAsia's debut in the rFactor Global Drivers Cup was terrible, to say the least. Preseason Testing for the team was bittersweet, as Akimitsu Arima managed to clock the 4th Fastest Time, +0.053 second behind leader Arsenio Remo. However, Chin Jiang was unable to set a single time, as his car suffered an engine fire. The Team's First Points came in the opening round at Toban, when Jiang finished 4th in the Feature Race. At Barcelona, Jiang set pole position for the Feature Race and Arima's first points finally came in the Feature Race, with 6th (Last of the Classified Runners). This however, was just a bliss of what could have been, as Arima retired and Jiang finished last of the classified runners in the sprint race. Essington Park generated a 5th Place from Jiang in the Feature Race, however, the race was marred by a huge crash for FiCro's Karlo Milic. The series was cancelled after the Essington Round due to a lack of entries (Velocity withdrew for the Euroring Round due to Milic's crash).

2021 (FC)
The struggling PandaAsia was guaranteed a slot for Formula Custom, however, after Geely left the sport, the team's financial situations were worsened when they couldn't build a chassis for 2021. They were saved by British Group of Investors OneDrive, who renamed the team OneDrive PandaAsia, and gave the team enough funds so they could build a challenger for the 2021 season. The name given to the chassi was OP-21, and it is yet to be revealed.