2017–18 Asian Le Mans Series

The 2017–18 Asian Le Mans Series was the sixth 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 season began at the Zhuhai International Circuit in October 2017 and ended at Sepang International Circuit in Selangor on 4 February 2018.^[1]

Calendar

The 2017–2018 calendar was revealed in February 2017.^[2] It was then updated in June, removing the Zhejiang round.^[1]

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	4 Hours of Zhuhai	Zhuhai International Circuit, Zhuhai, China	29 October 2017
2	4 Hours of Fuji	Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan	3 December 2017
3	6 Hours of Buriram	Chang International Circuit, Buriram, Thailand	13 January 2018
4	4 Hours of Sepang	Sepang International Circuit, Selangor, Malaysia	4 February 2018

Entry list

LMP2

Entrant/Team	Car	Engine	Class	No.	Drivers	Rounds
ARC Bratislava^[3]	Ligier JS P2	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	P2	4	Konstantīns Calko^[4]	All
					Miroslav Konôpka^[4]	All
					Rik Breukers^[4]	1–2
					Gustavo Yacamán^[5]	3
Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota^[6]	Oreca 05	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	P2	7	David Cheng^[6]	1–2
					Ho-Pin Tung^[6]	1
					Jazeman Jaafar^[7]	2–4
					Weiron Tan^[5]	3–4
					Afiq Yazid^[5]	3–4
			P2	8	Thomas Laurent^[6]	All
					Harrison Newey^[6]	All
					Stéphane Richelmi^[6]	All
Algarve Pro Racing	Ligier JS P2	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	P2	25	Ate de Jong^[4]	All
					Dean Koutsoumidis^[4]	All
					John Graham^[4]	1, 3–4
Eurasia Motorsport^[8]	Ligier JS P2	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	P2	33	Alex Au^[4]	1
					Keiko Ihara^[4]	1
					Scott Andrews^[7]	2
					Marko Asmer^[7]	2, 4
					Yoshiharu Mori^[7]	2
					Nabil Jeffri^[9]	4
					Jake Parsons^[9]	4
BBT	Ligier JS P2	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	P2	37	Pipo Derani^[4]	All
					Anthony Liu^[4]	All
					Davide Rizzo^[4]	All

Icon	Class
P2	LMP2

LMP3

Entrant/Team	Car	Engine	Class	No.	Drivers	Rounds
WIN Motorsport^[8]	Ligier JS P3	Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8	P3	1	Richard Bradley^[4]	All
					Philippe Descombes^[4]	All
					William Lok^[4]	All
Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota^[6]	Ligier JS P3	Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8	P3	6	Patrick Byrne^[6]	All
					Guy Cosmo^[6]	All
					Gabriel Aubry^[5]	3–4
Taiwan Beer GH Motorsport	Ligier JS P3	Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8	P3	11	Hanss Lin^[4]	All
					Shaun Thong^[4]	1–2, 4
					Leo Ye^[7]	2–3
					Scott Andrews^[5]	3
KCMG	Ligier JS P3	Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8	P3	18	Josh Burdon^[4]	All
					Louis Prette^[4]	All
					Neric Wei^[4]	All
Viper Niza Racing	Ligier JS P3	Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8	P3	65	Dominic Ang^[4]	All
					Douglas Khoo^[4]	All
					James Winslow^[7]	2
					Nigel Moore	3–4
TKS^[7]	Ginetta-Juno LMP3	Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8	P3	99	Yuta Kamimura^[7]	2
					Shinyo Sano^[7]	2
					Takuya Shirasaka^[7]	2

Icon	Class
P3	LMP3

GT and GT Cup

Entrant/Team	Car	Engine	Class	No.	Drivers	Rounds
TianShi Racing Team	Audi R8 LMS	Audi DAR 5.2 L V10	GT Am	66	Weian Chen^[4]	All
					Max Wiser^[4]	All
					Peng Liu^[4]	1–2
					Alex Au^[5]	3
					Mitchell Gilbert^[9]	4
Team NZ	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	GTC	77	Will Bamber^[5]	3–4
					Graeme Dowsett^[5]	3–4
					John Curran^[5]	3
					Alif Hamdan^[9]	4
FIST-Team AAI	Mercedes-AMG GT3 1 Ferrari 488 GT3 2–4	Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 1 Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 2–4	GT	90	Ollie Millroy^[4]	All
					Lam Yu^[4]	1–3
					Raffaele Marciello^[4]	1
					Marco Cioci^[7]	2–3
					Bhurit Bhirombhakdi^[9]	4
					Sarun Sereethoranakul^[9]	4
	BMW M6 GT3	BMW S63 4.4 L Turbo V8	GT	91	Jun-San Chen^[4]	All
					Jesse Krohn^[4]	All
					Chaz Mostert^[4]	1–3
					Markus Palttala^[9]	4

Icon	Class
GT	GT3
GT Am	GT3 Am
GTC	GT Cup

Results

Bold indicates overall winner.

Rnd.	Circuit	LMP2 Winning Team	LMP3 Winning Team	GT Winning Team	GT Cup Winning Team	Results
Rnd.	Circuit	LMP2 Winning Drivers	LMP3 Winning Drivers	GT Winning Drivers	GT Cup Winning Drivers	Results
1	Zhuhai	No. 8 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota	No. 18 KCMG	No. 91 FIST-Team AAI	No entries	Report
1	Zhuhai	Thomas Laurent Harrison Newey Stéphane Richelmi	Josh Burdon Louis Prette Neric Wei	Jun-San Chen Jesse Krohn Chaz Mostert	No entries	Report
2	Fuji	No. 8 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota	No. 6 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota	No. 90 FIST-Team AAI	No entries	Report
2	Fuji	Thomas Laurent Harrison Newey Stéphane Richelmi	Patrick Byrne Guy Cosmo	Marco Cioci Ollie Millroy Lam Yu	No entries	Report
3	Buriram	No. 7 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota	No. 18 KCMG	No. 91 FIST-Team AAI	No. 77 Team NZ	Report
3	Buriram	Jazeman Jaafar Weiron Tan Afiq Yazid	Josh Burdon Louis Prette Neric Wei	Jun-San Chen Jesse Krohn Chaz Mostert	Will Bamber John Curran Graeme Dowsett	Report
4	Sepang	No. 8 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota	No. 6 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota	No. 91 FIST-Team AAI	No. 77 Team NZ	Report
4	Sepang	Thomas Laurent Harrison Newey Stéphane Richelmi	Gabriel Aubry Patrick Byrne Guy Cosmo	Jun-San Chen Jesse Krohn Markus Palttala	Will Bamber Graeme Dowsett Alif Hamdan	Report

Teams championships

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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LMP2 Teams Championship

Pos.	Team	Car	ZHU	FUJ	BUR	SEP	Points
1	#8 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota	Oreca 05	1	1	2	1	95
2	#37 BBT	Ligier JS P2	2	2	3	2	70
3	#4 ARC Bratislava	Ligier JS P2	3	4	4	4	51
4	#7 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota	Oreca 05	Ret	3	1	5	50
5	#33 Eurasia Motorsport	Ligier JS P2	4	Ret		3	28
6	#25 Algarve Pro Racing	Ligier JS P2	5	5	Ret	Ret	20

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

Bold – Pole

LMP3 Teams Championship

Pos.	Team	Car	ZHU	FUJ	BUR	SEP	Points
1	#6 Jackie Chan DC Racing X Jota	Ligier JS P3	3	1	4	1	77
2	#18 KCMG	Ligier JS P3	1	Ret	1	Ret	54
2	#11 Taiwan Beer GH Motorsport	Ligier JS P3	2	Ret	2	2	54
3	#65 Viper Niza Racing	Ligier JS P3	4	2	5	4	52
4	#1 WIN Motorsport	Ligier JS P3	5	Ret	3	3	40
5	#99 TKS	Ginetta-Juno LMP3		3			15

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

Bold – Pole

GT Teams Championship

Pos.	Team	Car	ZHU	FUJ	BUR	SEP	Points
1	#91 FIST-Team AAI	BMW M6 GT3	1	2	1	1	95
2	#90 FIST-Team AAI	Mercedes-AMG GT3	2	1	3	2	78
3	#66 TianShi Racing Team	Audi R8 LMS	3	3	2	Ret	48

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

Bold – Pole

GT Am Teams Championship

Pos.	Team	Car	ZHU	FUJ	BUR	SEP	Points
1	#66 TianShi Racing Team	Audi R8 LMS	1	1	1		78

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

Bold – Pole

GTC Teams Championship

Pos.	Team	Car	ZHU	FUJ	BUR	SEP	Points
1	#77 Team NZ	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup			1	1	52

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

Bold – Pole

Drivers championships

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

^[11]

LMP2 Drivers Championship

Pos.	Driver	ZHU	FUJ	BUR	SEP	Points
1	Stéphane Richelmi	1	1	2	1	95
	Harrison Newey
	Thomas Laurent
2	Anthony Liu	2	2	3	2	70
	Davide Rizzo
	Pipo Derani
3	Miroslav Konôpka	3	4	4	4	51
3	Konstantīns Calko	3	4	4	4	51
4	Jazeman Jaafar		3	1	5	50
5	Weiron Tan			1	5	35
5	Afiq Yazid			1	5	35
6	Rik Breukers	3	4			27
7	Ate de Jong	5	5			20
7	Dean Koutsoumidis	5	5			20
8	Marko Asmer		Ret		3	16
	Jake Parsons				3
	Nabil Jeffri				3
9	David Cheng	Ret	3			15
10	Alex Au	4				12
	Keiko Ihara	4
	Gustavo Yacamán			4
11	Yoshiharu Mori		Ret			0
	Scott Andrews		Ret
	Ho-Pin Tung	Ret
	John Graham			Ret	Ret

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

Bold – Pole

LMP3 Drivers Championship

Pos.	Driver	ZHU	FUJ	BUR	SEP	Points
1	Guy Cosmo	3	1	4	1	77
1	Patrick Byrne	3	1	4	1	77
2	Josh Burdon	1	Ret	1	Ret	54
	Louis Prette	1	Ret	1	Ret
	Neric Wei	1	Ret	1	Ret
	Hanss Lin	2	Ret	2	2
3	Douglas Khoo	4	2	5	4	52
3	Dominic Ang	4	2	5	4	52
4	William Lok	5	Ret	3	3	40
	Philippe Descombes
	Richard Bradley
5	Gabriel Aubry			4	1	37
6	Shaun Thong	2	Ret		2	36
7	Nigel Moore			5	4	22
8	James Winslow		2			18
	Ye Hongli		Ret	2
	Scott Andrews			2
9	Shinyo Sano		3			15
	Yuta Kamimura
	Takuya Shirasaki

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

Bold – Pole

GT Drivers Championship

Pos.	Driver	ZHU	FUJ	BUR	SEP	Points
1	Jun-San Chen	1	2	1	1	95
1	Jesse Krohn	1	2	1	1	95
2	Ollie Millroy	2	1	3	2	78
3	Chaz Mostert	1	2	1		69
4	Weian Chen	3	3	2	Ret	48
4	Max Wiser	3	3	2	Ret	48
5	Lam Yu	2	1	DNS		45
6	Marco Cioci		1	3		41
7	Peng Liu	3	3			30
8	Markus Palttala				1	26
9	Raffaele Marciello	2				19
10	Sarun Sereethoranakul				2	18
	Bhurit Bhirombhakdi				2
	Alex Au			2
11	Mitchell Gilbert				Ret	0

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

Bold – Pole

GT Am Drivers Championship

Pos.	Driver	ZHU	FUJ	BUR	Points
1	Weian Chen	1	1	1	78
1	Max Wiser	1	1	1	78
2	Peng Liu	1	1		52
3	Alex Au			1	26

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

Bold – Pole

GTC Drivers Championship

Pos.	Driver	BUR	SEP	Points
1	Graeme Dowsett	1	1	52
1	Will Bamber	1	1	52
2	John Curran	1		26
2	Alif Hamdan		1	26

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

Bold – Pole

References

1 2 "Asian LMS Announces Significant Changes For 2017/18 Season". dailysportscar.com. 14 August 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
↑ "2017/2018 ASIAN LE MANS: MOVING FORWARD". Asian Le Mans Series. 29 October 2016. Archived from the original on 26 November 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
↑ "ARC Bratislava LMP2 Programme Sees Greaves Motorsport Return To The Fray". dailysportscar.com. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 "4 Hours of Zhuhai - Asian Le Mans Series 2017-2018 - Final results Qualifying" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 28 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "6 Hours of Buriram - Asian Le Mans Series 2017-2018 - Final results Qualifying" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kilshaw, Jake (25 October 2017). "DC Racing Reveals Three-Car Asian LMS Lineup". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "4 Hours of Fuji - Asian Le Mans Series 2017-2018 - Final results Qualifying" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 2 December 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
1 2 "Eurasia & WIN Motorsport Confirm Asian Le Mans Series Entries". dailysportscar.com. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "4 Hours of Sepang - Asian Le Mans Series 2017-2018 - Final results Qualifying" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 3 February 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
↑ "2017-18 Asian Le Mans Series Teams Classification" (PDF).
↑ "2017-18 Asian Le Mans Series Drivers Classification" (PDF).

External links

Official website

[calendar-1] 1 2 "Asian LMS Announces Significant Changes For 2017/18 Season". dailysportscar.com. 14 August 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.

[2] "2017/2018 ASIAN LE MANS: MOVING FORWARD". Asian Le Mans Series. 29 October 2016. Archived from the original on 26 November 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.

[ARCGreaves-3] "ARC Bratislava LMP2 Programme Sees Greaves Motorsport Return To The Fray". dailysportscar.com. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.

[ZhuhaiEntries-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 "4 Hours of Zhuhai - Asian Le Mans Series 2017-2018 - Final results Qualifying" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 28 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.

[BuriramEntries-5] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "6 Hours of Buriram - Asian Le Mans Series 2017-2018 - Final results Qualifying" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

[DCRacing-6] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kilshaw, Jake (25 October 2017). "DC Racing Reveals Three-Car Asian LMS Lineup". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 25 October 2017.

[FujiEntries-7] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "4 Hours of Fuji - Asian Le Mans Series 2017-2018 - Final results Qualifying" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 2 December 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2017.

[WINEurasiaLigier-8] 1 2 "Eurasia & WIN Motorsport Confirm Asian Le Mans Series Entries". dailysportscar.com. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.

[SepangEntries-9] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "4 Hours of Sepang - Asian Le Mans Series 2017-2018 - Final results Qualifying" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 3 February 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2018.

[10] "2017-18 Asian Le Mans Series Teams Classification" (PDF).

[11] "2017-18 Asian Le Mans Series Drivers Classification" (PDF).

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