Asian Le Mans Series

Asian Le Mans Series
Asian Le Mans Series 2018/19
Vehicle type	Le Mans prototypes , Gran Turimos and Group CN
Country or region	Asia
Current name	Asian Le Mans Series
First season	2009
Official website	asianlemansseries.com

The Asian Le Mans Series has been a racing series for Le Mans prototypes and Gran Turimos that has been held since 2009 . It is organized by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and represents the Asian counterpart to the European Le Mans Series and the American Le Mans Series . It succeeds the 2006 and 2007 organized by the SERO (Sports Car Endurance Race Operation) Japan Le Mans Challenge .

history

The first Asian Le Mans Series event was scheduled to take place at the Shanghai International Circuit in November 2008 . But this was canceled.

Two racing events were planned for 2009. The second championship run in Shanghai was canceled again. Only the event in Okayama on October 31st and November 1st as part of the World Touring Car Championship counted towards the championship. Two 500 km races were held here. The races were won by Sora Racing ( Pescarolo - Judd ) and Aston Martin Racing ( Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 ). Due to the low number of starters from the Asian region, the ACO stayed with only one championship run in 2010, which was also advertised for the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup . The 1,000 km race in Zhuhai was won by the Peugeot works team .

For 2015, the ACO has announced 5 vehicle classes: LMP2, LMP3, CN, GT & GT-Am, since then 4 races have been held per season. The championship-winning LMP2 team wins a starting position in the Le Mans 24-hour race .

master

Start of the first Asian Le Mans Series race, the 1000 km race in Okayama in 2009

An LMP2 prototype, in front of the Fuji , in the 4-hour race of Fuji 2018

year	class	Driver ranking	Team evaluation
2009	LMP1	Christophe Tinseau Shinji Nakano	Sora Racing
	LMP2	Jacques Nicolet Matthieu Lahaye Richard Hein	OAK Racing
	GT1	Atsushi Yogo Hiroyuki Iiri	JLOC
	GT2	Dominik Farnbacher Allan Simonsen	Hankook Team Farnbacher
2010	LMP1	Stéphane Sarrazin Franck Montagny	Team Peugeot Total
	LMP2	Jacques Nicolet Frédéric Da Rocha Patrice Lafargue	OAK Racing
	GT1	Patrick Bornhauser Laurent Groppi Pedro Lamy	Larbre Compétition
	GT2	Jörg Müller Dirk Werner	BMW Team Schnitzer
2013	LMP2	David Cheng	OAK Racing
	GTE	Naoki Yokomizo Akira Iida Shogo Mitsuyama	Team Taisan Ken Endless
	GTC	Andrea Bertolini Michele Rugolo Steve Wyatt	AF Corse
2014	LMP2	David Cheng Ho-Pin Tung	Oak Racing Team Total
	CN	Kevin Tse	Craft - Bamboo Racing
	GT	Jun San Chen Tatsuya Tanigawa	AAI - Rstrada
2015/2016	LMP2	Nicolas Leutwiler	Race performance
	LMP3	David Cheng Ho-Pin Tung	DC Racing
	CN	Denis Lian Giorgio Maggi	Avelon Formula
	GT	Mok Weng Sun Rob Bell Keita Sawa	Clearwater Racing
2016/2017	LMP2	Andrea Ronda	Algarve Pro Racing
	LMP3	Nigel Moore Philip Hanson	Tockwith Motorsport
	CN	Kenji Abe Akihiro Asai Qin Tianqi Tira Sosothikul Medhapan Sundaradeja	PS Racing
	GT	Michele Rugulo	DH Racing
	GT Cup	Shinyo Sano Takuma Aoki	TKS
2017/2018	LMP2	Harrison Newey Stéphane Richelmi Thomas Laurent	Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota
	LMP3	Guy Cosmo Patrick Byrne	Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota
	GT	Jesse Krohn Jun San Chen	Fist Team AAI
	GT Am	Massimiliano Wiser Weian Chen	Tianshi Racing Team
	GT Cup	Graeme Dowsett Will Bamber	Team NZ
2018/2019	LMP2	Paul di Resta Philip Hanson	United Autosports
	LMP2 Am	Darren Burke Ling Kang Miro Konopka	ARC Bratislava
	LMP3	Jakub Smiechowski Martin Hippe	Inter Europol Competition
	GT	James Calado Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura	Car guy
	GT Am	Massimiliano Wiser	Tianshi Racing Team
	GT Cup	Philippe Descombes Benny Simonsen	Modena Motorsports

Web links

Commons : Asian Le Mans Series  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of the vehicle classes 2015 , motorsport-total.com from April 21, 2015
2. ↑ 2013 driver & team rating ( Memento from February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ 2014 driver & team rating ( Memento from February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ 2016/2017 driver & team rating. asianlemansseries.com, accessed December 21, 2018 . 
5. ↑ 2016/2017 Driver Standings. asianlemansseries.com, accessed December 21, 2018 . 
6. ↑ 2016/2017 Team Standings. asianlemansseries.com, accessed December 21, 2018 . 
7. ↑ 2017/2018 Driver Standings. asianlemansseries.com, accessed December 21, 2018 . 
8. ↑ 2017/2018 Team Standings. asianlemansseries.com, accessed December 21, 2018 . 
9. ↑ 2018/2019 Driver Standings. asianlemansseries.com, accessed August 26, 2019 . 
10. ↑ 2018/2019 Team Standings. asianlemansseries.com, accessed August 26, 2019 .