2015–16 Asian Le Mans Series

The 2015–16 Asian Le Mans Series was the fourth 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 Fuji Speedway on 10 October 2015 and ended at Sepang International Circuit in Selangor on 24 January 2016.[1][2]

2015–16 Asian Le Mans Series
Previous:	2014	Next:	2016–17

Calendar

The 2015 calendar was revealed on 12 February 2015. An updated race calendar was released on 20 April 2015, which added the round at Buriram and rescheduled the Sepang round,[2] before a further revised calendar cancelled the planned event at Shanghai International Circuit and replaced it with a second race in Sepang.[3] The Fuji round will be held alongside the FIA World Endurance Championship.[1]

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	2 Hours of Fuji	Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan	10 October 2015
2	3 Hours of Sepang I	Sepang International Circuit, Selangor, Malaysia	8 November 2015
3	3 Hours of Thailand	Chang International Circuit, Buriram, Thailand	10 January 2016
4	3 Hours of Sepang II	Sepang International Circuit, Selangor, Malaysia	24 January 2016

Entry list

All entries use Michelin tyres.[4]

LMP2

Entrant/Team	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Race Performance[5]	Oreca 03R	Judd HK 3.6 L V8	8	Nicolas Leutwiler[5]	All
				Shinji Nakano[5]	1–2
				Oliver Webb[6]	3–4
Jagonya Ayam with Eurasia[6]	Oreca 03R	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	9	Sean Gelael[6]	3–4
				Antonio Giovinazzi[6]	3–4
Algarve Pro Racing[7]	Ligier JS P2	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	25	Dean Koutsoumidis[7]	2–4
				Michael Munemann[7]	2–4
				James Winslow[7]	2–4
Eurasia Motorsport[5]	Oreca 03R	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	99	William Lok[5]	All
				Tacksung Kim[5]	1–2, 4
				Tristan Gommendy[5]	1
				Richard Bradley[8]	2–4
				Nick de Bruijn[6]	3

LMP3

Entrant/Team	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Rounds
DC Racing[9]	Ligier JS P3	Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8	1	David Cheng[9]	All
				Ho-Pin Tung[9]	All
				Thomas Laurent[8]	2–4
Team AAI[5]	ADESS-03	Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8	88	Tatsuya Tanigawa[5]	1, 3
				Zhi Cong Li[5]	1
				Ryohei Sakaguchi[5]	1
				Chen Junrong[6]	3
				Chen Siyu[6]	3
			89	Masataka Yanagida[5]	All
				Terry Fang[5]	1
				Takamitsu Matsui[5]	1
				Ollie Hancock[8]	2
				Alex Kapadia[8]	2
				Ryohei Sakaguchi[6]	3
				Tanart Sathienthirakul[6]	3
				Chen Siyu[10]	4
				Lam Yu[10]	4

CN

Entrant/Team	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Avelon Formula[8]	Wolf GB08	Honda 2.0 L I4	21	Denis Lian[8]	2–4
				Giorgio Maggi[8]	2–4
Atlantic Racing Team[8]	Wolf GB08	Honda 2.0 L I4	69	Zen Low[8]	2–4
				John Bryant-Meisner[8]	2
				Toshiyuki Ochiai[8]	2
				Shinyo Sano[6]	3–4

GT

Entrant/Team Car Engine Class No. Drivers Rounds Clearwater Racing[5] McLaren 650S GT3 McLaren 3.8 L Turbo V8 GT3 3 Rob Bell[5] All Keita Sawa[5] All Weng Sun Mok[5] All Absolute Racing[5][N 1] Bentley Team Absolute[10][N 1] Audi R8 LMS Ultra 1–2 Audi R8 LMS 3–4 Audi 5.2 L V10 GT3 5 Jeffrey Lee[5] All Shaun Thong[5] 1 Alex Yoong[5] 1 Alessio Picariello[8] 2–4 Andrew Kim[8] 2 Adderly Fong[6] 3 Christopher Mies[10] 4 Bentley Continental GT3 Bentley 4.0 L V8 twin-turbo GT3 6 Adderly Fong[10] 4 Andrew Palmer[10] 4 GT3 66 Andrew Kim[10] 4 Tanart Sathienthirakul[10] 4 Jonathan Venter[10] 4 ARC Bratislava[5] Audi R8 LMS Ultra Audi 5.2 L V10 GT3 7 Miroslav Konopka[5] All Pierre Kaffer[5] 1 Fairuz Fauzy[8] 2–4 Afiq Yazid[10] 4 Nexus Infinity[11] Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 Ferrari 4.5 L V8 GT3 27 Dominic Ang[11] All Joshua Hunt[11] All Adrian D'Silva[10] 4 Spirit of Race[5] Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 Ferrari 4.5 L V8 GT3 38 Nasrat Muzayyin[5] All Rui Águas[5] 1–2 Aaron Scott[5] 3–4 Marco Cioci[10] 4 KCMG[5] Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 GT3 Am 51 Paul Ip[5] All Christian Ried[5] 1–2 James Munro[5] 1 Dan Wells[8] 2 Yuan Bo[6] 3–4 Martin Rump[6] 3 Akash Nandy[10] 4 Team Starspeed Racing[10] Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 GT3 Am 77 Chong Yau Wong[10] 4 Rick Yoon[10] 4 Team AAI[5][N 2] Team AAI - HubAuto[5][N 2] Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Mercedes-Benz 6.2 L V8 GT3 90 Tatsuya Tanigawa[8] 2 Lam Yu[8] 2 BMW Z4 GT3 BMW 4.4 L V8 GT3 91 Jun-San Chen[5] All Ollie Millroy[5] All Nobuteru Taniguchi[5] 1, 3–4 Dirk Müller[8] 2 BMW Z4 GT3 1–2 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 3–4 BMW 4.4 L V8 1–2 Mercedes-Benz 6.2 L V8 3–4 GT3 92 Han-Chen Chen[5] All Shinya Hosokawa[5] All Hiroki Yoshimoto[5] All McLaren MP4-12C GT3 McLaren 3.8 L twin-turbo V8 GT3 93 Shunsuke Kohno[10] 4 Tatsuya Tanigawa[10] 4

Icon Class GT3 GT3 GT3 Am GT3 Am

Results

Bold indicates overall winner.

Rnd.	Circuit	LMP2 Winning Team	LMP3 Winning Team	CN Winning Team	GT Winning Team	GT Am Winning Team
		LMP2 Winning Drivers	LMP3 Winning Drivers	CN Winning Drivers	GT Winning Drivers	GT Am Winning Drivers
1	Fuji	#8 Race Performance	#1 DC Racing	No entries	#3 Clearwater Racing	#51 KCMG
		Nicolas Leutwiler Shinji Nakano	David Cheng Ho-Pin Tung		Rob Bell Keita Sawa Weng Sun Mok	Paul Ip James Munro Christian Ried
2	Sepang I	#8 Race Performance	#1 DC Racing	#21 Avelon Formula	#3 Clearwater Racing	#51 KCMG
		Nicolas Leutwiler Shinji Nakano	David Cheng Thomas Laurent Ho-Pin Tung	Denis Lian Giorgio Maggi	Rob Bell Keita Sawa Weng Sun Mok	Paul Ip Christian Ried Dan Wells
3	Buriram	#9 Jagonya Ayam with Eurasia	#1 DC Racing	No finishers	#27 Nexus Infinity	#51 KCMG
		Sean Gelael Antonio Giovinazzi	David Cheng Thomas Laurent Ho-Pin Tung		Dominic Ang Joshua Hunt	Yuan Bo Paul Ip Martin Rump
4	Sepang II	#9 Jagonya Ayam with Eurasia	#1 DC Racing	#21 Avelon Formula	#5 Absolute Racing	#51 KCMG
		Sean Gelael Antonio Giovinazzi	David Cheng Thomas Laurent Ho-Pin Tung	Denis Lian Giorgio Maggi	Jeffrey Lee Christopher Mies Alessio Picariello	Yuan Bo Paul Ip Akash Nandy

Championship Standings

Championship Race points

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

Teams Championships

LMP2 Teams Championship

Pos. Team Car FUJ SEP I BUR SEP II Total 1 #8 Race Performance Oreca 03R 1 1 3 2 84 2 #25 Algarve Pro Racing Ligier JS P2 2 2 3 53 3 #9 Jagonya Ayam with Eurasia Oreca 03R 1 1 51 4 #99 Eurasia Motorsport Oreca 03R 2 3 4 Ret 45

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

LMP3 Teams Championship

Pos. Team Car FUJ SEP I BUR SEP II Total 1 #1 DC Racing Ligier JS P3 1 1 1 1 104 2 #89 Team AAI ADESS-03 Ret 2 2 Ret 36 3 #88 Team AAI ADESS-03 Ret DNS 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

CN Teams Championship

Pos. Team Car FUJ SEP I BUR SEP II Total 1 #21 Avelon Formula Wolf GB08 1 Ret 1 51 2 #69 Atlantic Racing Team Wolf GB08 2 Ret DNS 20

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

GT Teams Championship

Pos. Team Car FUJ SEP I BUR SEP II Total 1 #3 Clearwater Racing Mclaren 650S GT3 1 1 5 3 77 2 #5 Absolute Racing Audi R8 GT3 Audi R8 LMS 5 7 2 1 60 3 #27 Nexus Infinity Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 6 5 1 4 56 4 #91 Team AAI BMW Z4 GT3 Ret 2 3 2 51 5 #38 Spirit of Race Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 2 4 7 5 46 6 #92 Team AAI - HubAuto BMW Z4 GT3 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 3 6 4 6 43 7 #7 ARC Bratislava Audi R8 LMS Ultra 4 8 6 8 28 8 #90 Team AAI Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 3 15 9 Bentley Team Absolute #66 Bentley Continental GT3 7 6 10 #93 Team AAI Mclaren MP4-12C GT3 9 2 11 #6 Bentley Team Absolute Bentley Continental GT3 10 1

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

GT Am Teams Championship

Pos. Team Car FUJ SEP I BUR SEP II Total 1 #51 KCMG Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 1 1 1 1 104 2 #77 Team Starspeed Racing Lamborghini Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo 2 18

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

Drivers Championships

LMP2 Drivers Championship

Pos. Team Driver FUJ SEP I BUR SEP II Total points 1 Race Performance Nicolas Leutwiler 1 1 3 2 84 2 Algarve Pro Racing Michael Munemann 2 2 3 53 2 Algarve Pro Racing Dean Koutsoumidis 2 2 3 53 2 Algarve Pro Racing James Winslow 2 2 3 53 3 Race Performance Shinji Nakano 1 1 52 4 Jagonya Ayam with Eurasia Sean Gelael 1 1 51 4 Jagonya Ayam with Eurasia Antonio Giovinazzi 1 1 51 5 Eurasia Motorsport William Lok 2 3 4 Ret 45 6 Race Performance Oliver Webb 3 2 33 6 Eurasia Motorsport Tacksung Kim 2 3 Ret 33 7 Eurasia Motorsport Richard Bradley 3 4 Ret 27 8 Eurasia Motorsport Tristan Gommendy 2 18 9 Eurasia Motorsport Nick de Bruijn 4 12

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

LMP3 Drivers Championship

Pos. Team Driver FUJ SEP I BUR SEP II Total points 1 DC Racing David Cheng 1 1 1 1 103 1 DC Racing Ho-Pin Tung 1 1 1 1 103 2 DC Racing Thomas Laurent 1 1 1 77 3 Team AAI Masataka Yanagida Ret 2 2 Ret 37 4 Team AAI Alex Kapadia 2 18 4 Team AAI Ollie Hancock 2 18 4 Team AAI Ryohei Sakaguchi Ret 2 18 4 Team AAI Tanart Sathienthirakul 2 18 5 Team AAI Chen Siyu DNS Ret 1 5 Team AAI Lam Yu Ret 1 6 Team AAI Tatsuya Tanigawa Ret DNS 0 6 Team AAI Zhi Cong Li Ret 0 6 Team AAI Terry Fang Ret 0 6 Team AAI Takamitsu Matsui Ret 0 6 Team AAI Chen Junrong DNS 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

CN Drivers Championship

Pos. Team Driver FUJ SEP I BUR SEP II Total points 1 Avelon Formula Denis Lian 1 Ret 1 51 1 Avelon Formula Giorgio Maggi 1 Ret 1 51 2 Atlantic Racing Team Zen Low 2 Ret DNS 20 3 Atlantic Racing Team John Bryant-Meisner 2 19 3 Atlantic Racing Team Toshiyuki Ochiai 2 19 4 Atlantic Racing Team Shinyo Sano Ret DNS 1

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

GT Drivers Championship

Pos. Team Driver FUJ SEP I BUR SEP II Total points 1 Clearwater Racing Weng Sun Mok 1 1 5 3 78 1 Clearwater Racing Keita Sawa 1 1 5 3 78 1 Clearwater Racing Rob Bell 1 1 5 3 78 2 Absolute Racing Jeffery Lee 5 7 2 1 60 3 Nexus Infinity Dominic Ang 6 5 1 4 55 3 Nexus Infinity Joshua Hunt 6 5 1 4 55 4 Team AAI Jun-San Chen Ret 2 3 2 51 4 Team AAI Ollie Millroy Ret 2 3 2 51 5 Absolute Racing Alessio Picariello 7 2 1 50 6 Spirit of Race Nasrat Muzayyin 2 4 7 5 46 7 Team AAI - HubAuto Han-Chen Chen 3 6 4 6 43 7 Team AAI - HubAuto Shinya Hosokawa 3 6 4 6 43 7 Team AAI - HubAuto Hiroki Yoshimoto 3 6 4 6 43 8 Team AAI Nobuteru Taniguchi Ret 3 2 33 9 Spirit of Race Rui Águas 2 4 30 10 ARC Bratislava Miroslav Konopka 4 8 6 8 28 11 Absolute Racing Christopher Mies 1 26 12 Team AAI Dirk Müller 2 18 12 Absolute Racing Adderly Fong 2 18 13 Spirit of Race Aaron Scott 7 5 16 14 Team AAI Lam Yu 3 15 14 Team AAI Tatsuya Tanigawa 3 15 15 ARC Bratislava Pierre Kaffer 4 12 15 ARC Bratislava Fairuz Fauzy 8 6 12 16 Absolute Racing Alex Yoong 5 10 16 Absolute Racing Shaun Thong 5 10 17 Absolute Racing Andrew Kim 7 6

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

GT Am Drivers Championship

Pos. Team Driver FUJ SEP I BUR SEP II Total points 1 KCMG Paul Ip 1 1 1 1 104 2 KCMG Christian Ried 1 1 52 2 KCMG Yuan Bo 1 1 52 3 KCMG James Munro 1 26 3 KCMG Dan Wells 1 26 3 KCMG Martin Rump 1 26 3 KCMG Akash Nandy 1 26 4 Team Starspeed Racing Rick Yoon 2 18 4 Team Starspeed Racing Chong Yau Wong 2 18

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

Notes

1. 1. 5 entered as Absolute Racing and #6 and #66 entered as Bentley Team Absolute.
2. 1. 90, #91, #93 entered as Team AAI and #92 entered as Team AAI - HubAuto.

References

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External links

• Official website