Asian LMS

More drivers announced for the Asian Le Mans Series – updated

Monday February 1st, 2021Tuesday February 2nd, 2021 Jens Jensen

The Asian Le Mans Series 2021 season will be a somewhat different version, of what it’s used to be, in the previous years. But we will still have four rounds like we are used to. The series will run in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, with two races on 13 and 14 February in Dubai, with the two final races of the season being run in 19 and 20 February at the Formula 1 circuit in Abu Dhabi. 36 teams had originally entered, with two more joining in later on. Absolute…

United Autosports with more driver announcements

Wednesday January 20th, 2021 Jens Jensen

United Autosports has announced several drivers for the upcoming European Le Mans Series 2021 season. The English-American team will once again enter two LMP2 and two LMP3 cars, so they need a lot of drivers. Manuel Maldonado will be on double duty for the team in 2021. He will race in the LMP3 category in the Asian Le Mans Series, where the team will run a total of three LMP3 cars. The team is yet to announce his teammates. It is however certain, that he will do the European Le…

Rinaldi with strong outfit in the Asian LMS

Thursday January 14th, 2021Thursday January 14th, 2021 Jens Jensen

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…

Dubai added to revised schedule

Wednesday January 13th, 2021Wednesday January 13th, 2021 Jens Jensen

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…

JOTA with the same drivers in WEC and AsLMS

Saturday January 9th, 2021 Jens Jensen

JOTA Sport has announced for one of their cars in the FIA World Endurance Championship plus the Asian Le Mans Series. It will be the same three drivers, who are going to share the car throughout the 2021 season. Stoffel Vandoorne, Tom Blomqvist and Sean Gelael will share the ORECA 07 Gibson #38 LMP2 car. Vandoorne has a bit of FIA WEC LMP1 experience from SMP Racing, that he had two outings for during the 2018/19 season, after Jenson Button left the team. The two race programmes will be in…

36 cars enter Asian Le Mans

Friday December 18th, 2020 Jens Jensen

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 with two cars in Asia

Tuesday December 15th, 2020 Jens Jensen

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…

UA with well-known drivers in Asian LMS

Saturday December 12th, 2020 Jens Jensen

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.…

APR with two cars in Asia

Saturday December 12th, 2020 Jens Jensen

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 in Asia too

Sunday December 6th, 2020 Jens Jensen

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…

Eurasia Motorsport also in the USA

Monday November 30th, 2020 Jens Jensen

Eurasia Motorsport will start a programme in the US, entering the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Daytona International Speedway. The Philippine team will work together with Rick Ware Racing, which was their competitors in the 2019/20 season of the Asian Le Mans Series. The new collaboration will be named RWR Eurasia. The first announced driver for the team will be Cody Ware, who was the LMP2 Trophy during the most recent season in Asia. Eurasia is shipping their two Ligier JS P217 cars to the USA, where they will…

United Autosports returns to Asia

Sunday November 15th, 2020Sunday November 15th, 2020 Jens Jensen

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…

Asian Le Mans Series changes 2021 season

Thursday October 29th, 2020 Jens Jensen

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…

Few, but important driver category changes

Thursday October 22nd, 2020 Jens Jensen

The FIA Driver Categorisation Committee has announced the changes for the sportcar drivers in 2021. The categorisation consists of 4 categories, from Bronze in the bottom, for the drivers with limited experience in a racing car, or if they have hit a certain age, via Silver ranking for amateurs or young talents, to Gold and Platinum, which more or less is the same – i.e. a professional driver, or drivers that show the same pace as professional drivers. The majority of the just shy of 4000 drivers on the list,…

Phoenix Racing enters LMP racing

Wednesday September 9th, 2020 Jens Jensen

Phoenix Racing will expand their racing programme to include Le Mans Prototypes. The German team which is based in Meuspath near the Nürburgring, have bought an ORECA 07 LMP2 car, which they will run in the Asian Le Mans Series, this coming season. They are also working on getting an LMP3 car entered in the same series. The next step will be running in the European Le Mans Series, and then their ultimate goal – an entry to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team has been a long-standing…

Oman Racing with TF Sport enters Asian LMS

Friday September 4th, 2020 Jens Jensen

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…

Le Mans entry list grows

Tuesday September 1st, 2020Saturday December 26th, 2020 Jens Jensen

The entry list for the 24 Hours of Le Mans has only been shrinking lately, but the list has started to grow now. G-Drive Racing by Algarve will enter another Aurus 01 car in the LMP2 category. The collaboration has a connection to the Asian Le Mans Series, where they were the championship-winning combination from the 2019/20 season. Algarve Pro Racing will run the car, with the black and orange G-Drive Racing colours on the car. This will be an addition to the G-Drive Racing #26, which is already entered,…

Le Mans entry list updated again

Tuesday August 25th, 2020Saturday December 26th, 2020 Jens Jensen

The entry list for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans has been updated once again, and sadly with a few teams dropping out. The current list has 59 entrants. Thunderhead Carlin Racing has dropped out of the LMP2 entry list. The team was originally planned to run both the European Le Mans Series and the 24 hours race, but their ELMS programme has been put on pause, and the team hasn’t run any of the first two rounds and isn’t on the entry list for the third round this…

Le Mans 2020 behind closed doors

Monday August 10th, 2020Saturday December 26th, 2020 Jens Jensen

The 24 Hours of Le Mans for cars, will be run behind closed doors in 2020. Automobile Club de l’Ouest has announced that they have made the decision together with the local health reponsibilities. ACO was hoping to be able to limit the amount of spectators to groups of 5000 persons, but not even that is possible, due to too much uncertainty. All people with tickets for the race will be contacted by either their travel company or by the ACO themselves, depending on where they have bought the tickets.…

New Le Mans entry list for the 2020 edition

Friday July 17th, 2020Saturday December 26th, 2020 Jens Jensen

The ACO has announced an updated entry list for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The COVID-19 situation has taken another bite off the entry list, so we have used up the 10 original reserves, that actually were ready to race. Several of those have also called their participation off. That gives us a current list of 60 cars entered for this year’s race. The LMP1 category has lost one of the Team LNT Ginetta cars, which was slated to be raced by Charlie Robertson, Ben Hanley and Egor…