2018–19 Asian Le Mans Series

The 2018–19 Asian Le Mans Series was the seventh season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's Asian Le Mans Series. It is the fourth 24 Hours of Le Mans-based series created by the ACO, following the American Le Mans Series (since merged with the Rolex Sports Car Series to form the United SportsCar Championship), the European Le Mans Series and the FIA World Endurance Championship. The four-event season began at the Shanghai International Circuit on 25 November 2018 and ended at the Sepang International Circuit in Selangor on 24 February 2019.^[1]

The calendar for the 2018–2019 season was announced on 3 February 2018, featuring four FIA Grade 1 circuits.^[1] The series returned to the Shanghai International Circuit for the first time since the 2014 season, with the venue replacing the Zhuhai International Circuit as the opening round of the season.

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Location	Date
1	4 Hours of Shanghai	Shanghai International Circuit	Shanghai, China	25 November 2018
2	4 Hours of Fuji	Fuji Speedway	Oyama, Japan	9 December 2018
3	4 Hours of Buriram	Chang International Circuit	Buriram, Thailand	12 January 2019
4	4 Hours of Sepang	Sepang International Circuit	Selangor, Malaysia	24 February 2019

Entrant/Team Car Engine Class No. Drivers Rounds Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota Sport[2] Oreca 05 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 P2 1 Jazeman Jaafar[2] 1 Nabil Jeffri[2] 1 Weiron Tan[2] 1 ARC Bratislava[2] Ligier JS P2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 Am 4 Darren Burke[2] All Miroslav Konôpka[2] All Kang Ling[2] All Spirit of Race[3] Ligier JS P2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 P2 8 Pipo Derani[3] 1–2, 4 Côme Ledogar[3] 1–2, 4 Alexander West[3] 1–2, 4 United Autosports[4] Ligier JS P2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 P2 22 Phil Hanson[5] All Paul di Resta[5] All Am 23 Patrick Byrne[6] All Guy Cosmo[6] All Salih Yoluç[6] All Algarve Pro Racing[7] Ligier JS P2 Judd HK 3.6 L V8 P2 24 Ate de Jong[7] 1, 3–4 Harrison Newey[7] All Andrea Pizzitola[7] All Am 25 Anders Fjordbach[7] All Chris McMurry[7] All Mark Patterson[7] All Panis Barthez Competition[8] Ligier JS P2 Judd HK 3.6 L V8 P2 35 François Heriau[8] All Matthieu Lahaye[8] All Jean-Baptiste Lahaye[8] 1, 3–4

Icon Class P2 LMP2 Am LMP2 Am

Entrant/Team Car Engine Class No. Drivers Rounds United Autosports[4] Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8 P3 2 Wayne Boyd[9] All Chris Buncombe[9] All Garett Grist[9] All P3 3 Matthew Bell[10] All Jim McGuire[10] 1, 3–4 Kay van Berlo[10] All Christian England 2 Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen[11] Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8 P3 7 Nick Adcock[12] All Christian Stubbe Olsen[12] All P3 79 Colin Noble[13] All Anthony Wells[13] All Inter Europol Competition[14] Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8 P3 13 Jakub Śmiechowski[14] All Martin Hippe[14] All Eurasia Motorsport[15] Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8 P3 36 Nobuya Yamanaka[16] All Aidan Read[16] All Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota Sport[2] Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8 P3 37 Yoshiharu Mori[2] 1 Hwang Do-yun[2] 1 Neale Muston[2] 1 P3 38 Wei Chaoyin[2] 1 Hugo de Sadeleer 1 Jake Parsons 4 Jamie Winslow 4 Rick Yoon 4 ARC Bratislava Ginetta-Juno P3-15 Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8 P3 44 Neale Muston 4 Michael Simpson 4 N24[2][N 1] R24[2][N 1] Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8 P3 50 Sarah Bovy[2] 1 Stéphane Kox[2] 1, 3 Marie Iwaoka[2] 1–3 Anna Inotsume 2 Sayaka Katō 2 Katherine Legge 4 Michelle Gatting 4 Margot Laffite 4 Viper Niza Racing[2] Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8 P3 65 Douglas Khoo[2] All Nigel Moore[2] All

Icon Class P3 LMP3

Entrant/Team Car Engine Class No. Drivers Rounds Red River Sport by TF Sport[17] Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Aston Martin 6.0 L V12 GT Am 5 Johnny Mowlem[17] All Bonamy Grimes[17] 1–3 Ivor Dunbar[17] 2–4 CarGuy Racing[18] Ferrari 488 GT3 Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 GT 11 James Calado[18] All Kei Cozzolino[18] All Takeshi Kimura[18] All Earl Bamber Motorsport[19] Porsche 991 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 GTC 12 Jeffrey Chiang[19] 1 Graeme Dowsett[19] 1 Will Bamber[19] 1 Modena Motorsports[19] Porsche 991 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 GTC 16 Philippe Descombes[19] 1 Benny Simonsen[19] 1 OpenRoad Racing[19] Porsche 991 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 GTC 21 Francis Tjia[19] 1 Michael Soeryadjaya[19] 1 Spirit of Race[20] Ferrari 488 GT3 Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 GT 51 Francesco Piovanetti[20] All Oswaldo Negri Jr.[20] All Alessandro Pier Guidi[20] All EKS Motorsports[19] Porsche 991 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 GTC 59 Bao Jinlong[19] 1 Lu Wenlong[19] 1 TianShi Racing Team by Anstone Racing[21][N 2] Audi Sport Customer Racing Asia by TSRT[2][N 2] Mercedes-AMG GT3 Mercedes-Benz 6.2 L V8 GT Am 66 Xu Wei[22] 1 Max Wiser[22] 1 Audi R8 LMS 1 Audi R8 LMS Evo 4 Audi 5.2 L V10 GT Am 66 Xu Wei[22] 2 Max Wiser[22] 2–4 Zhang Yaqi[22] 2–4 Lo Kai Fung 3 Qi Peiwen 4 GT 88 Dries Vanthoor[22] 1–2, 4 Chen Weian[22] All Dennis Zhang[22] 1 Anthony Liu Xu 2 Alex Au 3 Jean-Karl Vernay 3 Xu Wei[22] 4

Icon Class GT GT3 GT Am GT3 Am GTC GT Cup

Bold indicates overall winner.

Rnd.	Circuit	LMP2 Winning Team	LMP3 Winning Team	GT Winning Team	GT Cup Winning Team	Results
		LMP2 Winning Drivers	LMP3 Winning Drivers	GT Winning Drivers	GT Cup Winning Drivers
1	Shanghai	No. 8 Spirit of Race	No. 13 Inter Europol Competition	No. 11 CarGuy Racing	No. 16 Modena Motorsports	Report
		Pipo Derani Côme Ledogar Alexander West	Martin Hippe Jakub Śmiechowski	James Calado Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura	Philippe Descombes Benny Simonsen
2	Fuji	No. 24 Algarve Pro Racing	No. 3 United Autosports	No. 11 CarGuy Racing	No Entrants	Report
		Harrison Newey Andrea Pizzitola	Matthew Bell Kay van Berlo Christian England	James Calado Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura
3	Buriram	No. 22 United Autosports	No. 2 United Autosports	No. 11 CarGuy Racing		Report
		Phil Hanson Paul di Resta	Wayne Boyd Chris Buncombe Garett Grist	James Calado Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura
4	Sepang	No. 24 Algarve Pro Racing	No. 13 Inter Europol Competition	No. 11 CarGuy Racing		Report
		Ate de Jong Harrison Newey Andrea Pizzitola	Martin Hippe Jakub Śmiechowski	James Calado Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura

Points are awarded according to the following structure:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Other	Pole
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1	0.5	1

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Pos. Team Car SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 #22 United Autosports Ligier JS P2 2 2 1 2 80 2 #24 Algarve Pro Racing Ligier JS P2 Ret 1 2 1 69 3 #4 ARC Bratislava Ligier JS P2 4 3 4 4 51 4 #35 Panis Barthez Competition Ligier JS P2 6 4 3 3 50 5 #8 Spirit of Race Ligier JS P2 1 6 5 45 6 #23 United Autosports Ligier JS P2 3 5 6 Ret 33 7 #25 Algarve Pro Racing Ligier JS P2 5 7 5 Ret 26 8 #1 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota Sport Oreca 05 Ret 0

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Pos. Team Car SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 #4 ARC Bratislava Ligier JS P2 2 1 1 1 94 2 #23 United Autosports Ligier JS P2 1 2 3 Ret 60 3 #25 Algarve Pro Racing Ligier JS P2 3 3 2 Ret 49

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Pos. Team Car SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 #13 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P3 1 2 2 1 87 2 #2 United Autosports Ligier JS P3 2 5 1 3 70 3 #79 Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen Ligier JS P3 4 3 3 4 54 4 #3 United Autosports Ligier JS P3 6 1 5 5 53 5 #7 Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen Ligier JS P3 5 4 4 2 52 6 #36 Eurasia Motorsport Ligier JS P3 3 Ret 6 6 31 7 #65 Viper Niza Racing Ligier JS P3 8 6 8 7 23 8 #50 R24 Ligier JS P3 7 7 7 8 22 9 #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota Sport Ligier JS P3 9 10 3 10 #44 ARC Bratislava Ginetta-Juno P3-15 9 2 11 #37 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota Sport Ligier JS P3 DSQ 0

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Pos. Team Car SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 #11 CarGuy Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 1 1 1 1 101 2 #51 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GT3 2 2 3 3 67 3 #88 TianShi Racing Team Audi R8 LMS Audi R8 LMS Evo Ret 4 2 2 50 4 #66 TianShi Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 Audi R8 LMS Audi R8 LMS Evo 4 3 4 Ret 39 5 #5 Red River Sport by TF Sport Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 3 5 Ret 4 37

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Pos. Team Car SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 #66 TianShi Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 Audi R8 LMS Audi R8 LMS Evo 1 1 Ret 78 2 #5 Red River Sport by TF Sport Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Ret 0

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Pos. Team Car SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 #16 Modena Motorsports Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 1 26 2 #59 EKS Motorsports Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 2 18 3 #21 OpenRoad Racing Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 3 15 4 #12 Earl Bamber Motorsport Porsche 991 GT3 Cup Ret 0

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Points are awarded according to the following structure:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Other	Pole
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1	0.5	1

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Pos. Driver SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 Paul di Resta 2 2 1 2 80 Phil Hanson 2 Andrea Pizzitola Ret 1 2 1 69 Harrison Newey 3 Darren Burke 4 3 4 4 51 Kang Ling Miroslav Konôpka 4 François Heriau 6 4 3 3 50 Matthieu Lahaye 5 Alexander West 1 6 5 45 Côme Ledogar Pipo Derani 6 Ate de Jong 2 1 44 7 Jean-Baptiste Lahaye 6 3 3 38 8 Guy Cosmo 3 5 6 Ret 33 Patrick Byrne Salih Yoluç 9 Anders Fjordbach 5 7 5 Ret 26 Chris McMurry Mark Patterson 10 Jazeman Jaafar Ret 0 Nabil Jeffri Weiron Tan

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Pos. Driver SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 Darren Burke 3 1 1 1 94 Kang Ling Miroslav Konôpka 2 Guy Cosmo 1 2 3 Ret 60 Patrick Byrne Salih Yoluç 3 Anders Fjordbach 3 3 2 Ret 49 Chris McMurry Mark Patterson

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Pos. Driver SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 Jakub Śmiechowski 1 2 2 1 87 Martin Hippe 2 Chris Buncombe 2 5 1 3 70 Garett Grist Wayne Boyd 3 Anthony Wells 4 3 3 4 54 Colin Noble 4 Kay van Berlo 6 1 5 5 53 Matthew Bell 5 Christian Stubbe Olsen 5 4 4 3 52 Nick Adcock 6 Aidan Read 3 Ret 6 6 31 Nobuya Yamanaka 7 James McGuire 6 5 5 28 8 Christian England 1 25 9 Douglas Khoo 8 6 8 7 23 Nigel Moore 10 Marie Iwaoka 7 7 7 18 11 Stéphane Kox 7 7 12 12 Sarah Bovy 7 6 Sayaka Katō 7 13 Katherine Legge 8 4 Michelle Gatting Margot Laffite 14 Wei Chaoyin 9 2 Hugo de Sadeleer Michael Simpson 9 Neale Muston DSQ 9 15 Jake Parsons 10 1 Jamie Winslow Rick Yoon 16 Hwang Do-yun DSQ 0

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Pos. Driver SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 James Calado 1 1 1 1 101 Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura 2 Alessandro Pier Guidi 2 2 3 3 67 Francesco Piovanetti Oswaldo Negri Jr. 3 Chen Weian Ret 4 2 2 50 4 Xu Wei 4 3 2 46 5 Max Wiser 4 3 4 Ret 39 6 Johnny Mowlem 3 5 Ret 4 37 7 Dries Vanthoor Ret 4 2 32 8 Zhang Yaqi Ret 3 4 Ret 28 9 Bonamy Grimes 3 5 Ret 25 10 Ivor Dunbar 5 Ret 4 22 11 Alex Au 2 18 Jean-Karl Vernay 12 Anthony Liu Xu 4 12 Lo Kai Fung 4 13 Qi Peiwen Ret 0

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Pos. Driver SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 Max Wiser 1 1 78 2 Xu Wei 1 1 52 Zhang Yaqi 1 1 3 Lo Kai Fung 1 26 4 Bonamy Grimes Ret 0 Ivor Dunbar Johnny Mowlem

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

Pos. Driver SHA FUJ CHA SEP Points 1 Benny Simonsen 1 26 Philippe Descombes 2 Bao Jinlong 2 18 Lu Wenlong 3 Francis Tjia 3 15 Michael Soeryadjaya 4 Graeme Dowsett Ret 0 Jeffrey Chiang Will Bamber

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole

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