Category: Asian LMS

Rinaldi Racing will bring some of the very best drivers for this year’s Asian Le Mans Series, which will start next month. Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo #5 will have Davide Rigon sharing the car with David Perel and Rino Mastronardi. Perel was part of Kessel Racing in both the Michelin Le Mans Cup and European Le Mans Series throughout the 2020 season, while Mastronardi won the LMC championship with Iron Lynx, and made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans too. The three drivers are certainly amongst the…

The Asian Le Mans Series has revised the schedule for the upcoming season. This is the third version, due to the constant COVID-19 stumbles, that the world is facing. This change isn’t however as big as the two previous changes. The start of the season has been pushed back one week, and about 100 kilometres to the north. The latest race schedule will start on 13-14 February with two races at Dubai Autodrome, before the series moves to Abu Dhabi and the Yas Marina Circuit in the following weekend. The…

An incredible season is waiting for the Asian Le Mans Series 2021. The list is still subject to changes, with quite a lot of empty seats, but those gaps will hopefully soon be filled. The LMP2 category consists of seven cars, where well-known LMP teams like Eurointernational, G-Drive Racing (Algarve Pro Racing), Era Motorsport (JOTA) and JOTA, will fight against the rookies Racing Team India and Phoenix Racing. While the former is brand new in motorsport, we know Phoenix racing from GT3 racing, and former DTM team with Audi. The…

Rinaldi Racing will enter two Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo cars in the upcoming Asian Le Mans Series. The German team is well known in the sportscar world, being very active in the Blancpain/GT World series, but also in the Michelin Le Mans Cup, most recently with LMP3 cars. They will run a single car in the GT category, and a single in the GT Am category. The team hasn’t announced any drivers yet, but they are expected to do so, in the very near future. The Asian Le Mans Series…

United Autosports will bring two sets of well-known drivers for the Asian Le Mans Series, for the upcoming races in Abu Dhabi. Jim McGuire was the first driver to be confirmed, when the team announced it’s participation. The team is ready to tell now, that he will be joined by his two European Le Mans Series teammates for 2020 and 2021, Duncan Tappy and Andrew Bentley in the Ligier JS P320 Nissan racer LMP3 car. The second car will have Ian Loggie, Andy Meyrick and Rob Wheldon behind the wheel.…

Algarve Pro Racing will enter the Asian Le Mans Series with two very exciting driver lineups in the Asian Le Mans 2021, which is scheduled for February. The team are the defending Asian LMS champions in the LMP2 category, and has previously also won the Gentleman Trophy standings Rene Binder will share one of the cars with Ye Yifei and Ferdinand Habsburg. Binder has turned into being a sportscar driver, after starting out in single-seaters. He raced in the World Series Formula V8, before moving into Indycar in the USA,…

Era Motorsport is an ever-expanding team. They are active in historic racing in the US, and stepped onto the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship scene in January 2020, and racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in September 2020, in collaboration with IDEC Sport. They have just announced an Asian Le Mans Series programme for 2021. The team will work together with JOTA, who will run the programme. Kyle Tilley and Dwight Merriman, the two men being Era Motorsport, will share the car entered in the series. The car will…

United Autosports will return to the Asian Le Mans Series, when the 2021 season will be run in Abu Dhabi. The Anglo/American team will enter two Ligier JS P320 LMP3 cars, with Jim McGuire being the first confirmed driver. The team raced in the 2018/19 season with two LMP2 cars and two LMP3 cars, winning the LMP2 title with Paul Di Resta and Phil Hanson. The 2020/21 season was scheduled to start at Suzuka, but those plans were changed to an all-January schedule with races at Sepang and Buriram due…

The Asian Le Mans Series has changed their plans for the upcoming 2021 season. The previous schedule for the 2020/21 season was announced earlier in the year, but was a January-only edition, with races at Buriram and Sepang. Those plans have changed now, with the COVID-19 situation to blame. The series has announced in a press release, that they have asked for clarification on potential restrictions in both Thailand and Malaysia in the coming months, but they haven’t got a definitive answer. So the series has chosen to move the…

TF Sport returns to the Asian Le Mans Series for the upcoming season. The British team will run under the Oman Racing with TF Sport name, with a bit of an all-star team, racing in the Aston Martin Vantage V8 GT3. Multiple British GT GT3 Champion Jonny Adam will be joined by 2019 GT4 Champion from the same series, Tom Canning. The third member of the team will be bronze rated driver Ahmad Al Harthy, and he is the one bring the Oman angle to the team. Al Harthy won…