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Three months before the start of the 2017/18 Asian Le Mans Series season, the first four entries – three in LMP2 and the first in the GT class – have already been received.
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First entries come in for the
2017/18 Asian Le Mans Series

5 Aug 2017
Three months before the start of the 2017/18 Asian Le Mans Series season, the first four entries – three in LMP2 and the first in the GT class – have already been received.
 
2016/17 LMP2 Champions, Algarve Pro Racing were among the first of a flurry of teams to confirm their entries in the new season. The team has confirmed they will be returning to the LMP2 class with a Ligier that will be driven by Dutch driver Ate de Jong and Korean driver Tack Sung Kim. As a result of winning the 2016/17 Championship, the team received an invitation to race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans – an invitation they took up in June this year.
 
Joining them in the LMP2 class will be ARC Bratislava. The Slovak team came second in the LMP3 class of the 2016/17 Asian Le Mans Series with their #4 Ginetta LMP3. This year has already seen the team make the step up from the LMP3 Class in Asia, to LMP2 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
 
For the 2017/18 Asian Le Mans Series, ARC Bratislava will race a Ligier JSP2 that was previously owned by Krohn Racing. Miro Konopka will again be behind the wheel and he will be joined by two other drivers that will be confirmed at a later date.
 
Team BBT, and driver Anthony Liu, have confirmed they will make the step up from GT racing into prototype racing for the 2017/18 season. The team finished 3rd in the GT Class in the 2016/1 Asian Le Mans Series, racing the #37 Ferrari 488 GT3.
 
After spending seven years racing in the GT class, Team BBT will, for the first time, run a Ligier JSP2 in the LMP2 class for the 2017/18 season, and will again receive support from AF Corse. They will run with a yet to be confirmed pro driver racing alongside Liu.
 
Spirit of Race were the first GT team to get their entry in for the 2017/18 season.  Nasrat Muzayyin and FIA gold rated driver, Rui Aguas will once again join forces behind the wheel of the Team’s Ferrari 488 GT3.
 
The Team finished 5th in the 2016/17 Championship, and joined Algarve Pro Racing and ARC Bratislava, in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The trio were part of a strong contingent of teams that had raced previously in the Asian Le Mans Series.
 
These entries are a clear indication of the strong interest already being shown by teams and drivers in the Asian Le Mans Series. The interest in part is thanks to the ACO Series demonstrating that it is a strong stepping stone into the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the World Endurance Championship.

 

Contact Us

Media Delegate:  Jane Rowe – asianlemans-media@lemans.org
Event & Marketing Coordinator: Colin Ong – c.ong@lemans.org
Team Coordinator: Matthijs Hoitink – m.hoitink@lemans.org
Technical Delegate: Jean-Michel Pialot – jm.pialot@lemans.org
For any general queries: asianlemanssprintcup@lemans.org
ABOUT THE ASIAN LE MANS SERIES

The Asian Le Mans Series is the reference endurance racing series for prototypes and GT classes in Asia.
 
The Series offers the regions only direct pathway into World Championships for both Prototype and GT race cars, and into the world’s most significant endurance race – the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
 
The Asian Le Mans Series is an important part of the Le Mans endurance racing pyramid, sitting alongside the European Le Mans Series and the IMSA Weather Tech Sports Car Championship in North America.
 
At the top of this pyramid is the FIA World Endurance Championship, which, along with the 24 Hours of Le Mans represents the summit of excellence. The race is the ultimate challenge, one that all teams and drivers want to win. The Asian Le Mans Series offers LMP2, LMP3 and GT class winners a money-can’t-buy invitation to participate in the following 24 Hours of Le Mans.
 
Launched in 2013 by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), the Asian Le Mans Series is the embodiment of Le Mans endurance racing for the Asian continent. Initially operated by a third party company, the ACO took over management, organization and promotion of the Series at the end of 2014. Since then the series has gone from strength to strength.
 
The 2016/17 season built on the confidence that was developed the previous season, and saw the format evolve, with races increasing to four hours in duration, and the Series visiting four different circuits in Asia, including a return to China.


ABOUT THE ACO
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) founded in 1906 is the creator and organiser of major motor sporting events including the first grand prix in the history of motor racing in 1906 followed by the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1923. The ACO’s aim is to develop long-distance racing and since 2012 it has been the organiser and promoter of the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC).

The club is also the creator of the continental series: the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, former American Le Mans Series (1999), the European Le Mans Series (2004), and the Asian Le Mans Series (2013). On its own circuits at Le Mans, the ACO organises the 24 Heures Motos, the 24 Heures Karting, the 24 Heures Camions and the French Motorcycle Grand Prix. But above all the ACO is a club made up of enthusiasts who defend the rights of car users on a daily basis, and it gives its members a privileged welcome to enable them to live their passion for motor sport at the events it organises.

The ACO also has a driving school, Le Mans Driver, a leisure and kart competition complex and simulators, an Enterprise department for the organisation of seminars, a team of guides providing tours of the installations of the Le Mans circuits, two official boutiques in Le Mans and Paris as well as eight regional agencies.
© 2017 Asian Le Mans Endurance Management Ltd. All rights reserved.
www.asianlemansseries.com

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