The 2023 Asian Le Mans Series was the eleventh 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 Dubai Autodrome in Dubai on 11 February 2023 and ended at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi on 19 February 2023.
For the first time, a bronze-rated driver is mandatory in each class and only the bronze drivers can participate in qualifying, hence the LMP2 Am and GT Am subclasses would officially be dropped for this season.
Calendar The calendar for the 2023 season was announced on the official website 25 May 2022. This Asian Le Mans Series season will once again run in its entirety in the Middle East, in the United Arab Emirates at the Dubai Autodrome in Dubai and Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi in February 2023, due to the significant freight issues.
The season will continue to comprise four four-hour length races, run on the two circuits.
Rnd Race Circuit Location Date 1 4 Hours of Dubai Dubai Autodrome Dubailand, Dubai, UAE 11 February 2023 2 12 February 2023 3 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Yas Marina Circuit Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE 18 February 2023 4 19 February 2023
Entry list
LMP2 All cars in the LMP2 class use the Gibson GK428 V8 engine and Michelin tyres.
Entrant/Team Car Drivers Rounds DKR Engineering Oreca 07 3 Charlie Eastwood All Ayhancan Güven All Salih Yoluç All United Autosports Oreca 07 22 Paul di Resta All Philip Hanson All James McGuire All 23 Oliver Jarvis All Garnet Patterson All Yasser Shahin All Nielsen Racing Oreca 07 24 Mathias Beche All Ben Hanley All Rodrigo Sales All Algarve Pro Racing Oreca 07 25 James Allen All John Falb All Kyffin Simpson All Cool Racing Oreca 07 37 Alexandre Coigny All Malthe Jakobsen All Nicolas Lapierre 1–2 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 43 Christian Bogle All Charles Crews All Nolan Siegel All ARC Bratislava Oreca 07 44 Miro Konôpka All Nico Pino All László Tóth All 99 Racing Oreca 07 98 Neel Jani All Nikita Mazepin All Gonçalo Gomes 1–2 Ahmad Al Harthy 3–4
Notes: Ben Barnicoat was scheduled to compete for 99 Racing, but withdrew prior to the start of the season. He was replaced by Neel Jani. The team's nominated bronze-rated driver, Félix Porteiro, also had to withdraw after he was retroactively reclassified as silver shortly before the event. Warren Hughes was initially called up to replace the Spaniard, but a documentation issue for the Briton resulted in Gonçalo Gomes eventually being drafted in. Gomes was later replaced with Ahmad Al Harthy for rounds 3 and 4.
LMP3 All cars in the LMP3 class use the Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8 engine and Michelin tyres.
Entrant/Team Car Drivers Rounds CD Sport Ligier JS P320 1 Nick Adcock All Valdemar Eriksen All Michael Jensen All 2 Vladislav Lomko All James Sweetnam All Fabien Michal 1–2 Jacques Wolff 3–4 Nielsen Racing Ligier JS P320 4 Matt Bell All Tony Wells All DKR Engineering Duqueine M30 - D08 5 Valentino Catalano All Tom Van Rompuy All Graff Racing Ligier JS P320 8 François Hériau All Xavier Lloveras All Fabrice Rossello All 9 Belén García All Sébastien Page All Eric Trouillet All WTM by Rinaldi Racing Duqueine M30 - D08 11 Torsten Kratz All Leonard Weiss All Nicolás Varrone All Rinaldi Racing 55 Lorcan Hanafin All Matthias Lüthen All Jonas Ried All RLR MSport Ligier JS P320 15 Amir Feyzulin All Bijoy Garg All Andres Latorre Canon All Cool Racing Ligier JS P320 17 Adrien Chila All Cédric Oltramare All Marcos Siebert All 360 Racing Ligier JS P320 18 Sebastián Álvarez All Frédéric Jousset All Ross Kaiser All MV2S Racing Ligier JS P320 29 Jérôme de Sadeleer All Vyacheslav Gutak All Fabien Lavergne All Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P320 53 Kai Askey All Wyatt Brichacek All Miguel Cristóvão All 63 Adam Ali All James Dayson All John Schauerman All 73 Alexander Bukhantsov All John Corbett All James Winslow All
GT Entrant/Team Car Engine Drivers Rounds Haupt Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 6 Frank Bird All Michael Blanchemain All Arjun Maini All 7 Al Faisal Al Zubair All Martin Konrad All Luca Stolz All GetSpeed Performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 10 Raffaele Marciello All Fabian Schiller All Florian Scholze All 16 Zhou Bihuang All Alexandre Imperatori All Wang Zhongwei All Leipert Motorsport Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 19 Brendon Leitch All Marco Mapelli All Gabriel Rindone All Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 20 Matteo Cairoli All Nicolas Leutwiler All Mikkel O. Pedersen All 33 Antares Au All Klaus Bachler All Alfred Renauer All 91 Harry King All Alex Malykhin All Joel Sturm All 99 Ralf Bohn All Axcil Jefferies All Robert Renauer All AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 21 Stefano Costantini All Simon Mann All Miguel Molina All Formula Racing 60 Conrad Laursen All Johnny Laursen All Nicklas Nielsen All Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Turbo I6 34 Nicky Catsburg All Chandler Hull All Thomas Merrill All Dinamic GT Porsche 911 GT3 R Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 54 Ben Barker 1–2 Philipp Sager 1–2 Christopher Zöchling 1–2 Car Guy Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 57 Mikkel Jensen All Takeshi Kimura All Frederik Schandorff All Kessel Racing 74 Michał Broniszewski All David Fumanelli All Felipe Fraga 1–2 Ben Barker 2–4 Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8 59 Rob Bell All Nick Halstead All Louis Prette All 88 Benjamin Goethe All Alexander West All Tom Gamble 1–2 Marvin Kirchhöfer 3–4 TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 61 Adrian Henry D'Silva 1–2 Ross Gunn 1–2 David Pun 1–2 95 Jonathan Adam All Henrique Chaves All John Hartshorne All D'station Racing 77 Charlie Fagg All Tomonobu Fujii All Satoshi Hoshino All Viper Niza Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 65 Dominic Ang 1–2 Douglas Khoo 1–2 Bullitt Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 66 Martin Berry All Valentin Hasse-Clot All Jacob Riegel All Orange Racing powered by JMH McLaren 720S GT3 McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8 67 Marcus Clutton All Michael O'Brien All Simon Orange All HubAuto Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 72 Jules Gounon All Ollie Millroy All Liam Talbot All
Notes: Richard Heistand was scheduled to compete for Walkenhorst Motorsport, but withdrew prior to the start of the season. He was replaced by Thomas Merrill.
Results Bold indicates overall winner. Round Circuit LMP2 Winning Team LMP3 Winning Team GT Winning Team LMP2 Winning Drivers LMP3 Winning Drivers GT Winning Drivers 1 Dubai #25 Algarve Pro Racing #29 MV2S Racing #34 Walkenhorst Motorsport Report James Allen John Falb Kyffin Simpson Jérôme de Sadeleer Vyacheslav Gutak Fabien Lavergne Nicky Catsburg Chandler Hull Thomas Merrill 2 #43 Inter Europol Competition #5 DKR Engineering #34 Walkenhorst Motorsport Christian Bogle Charles Crews Nolan Siegel Valentino Catalano Tom Van Rompuy Nicky Catsburg Chandler Hull Thomas Merrill 3 Abu Dhabi #37 Cool Racing #4 Nielsen Racing #7 Haupt Racing Team Report Alexandre Coigny Malthe Jakobsen Tony Wells Matthew Bell Al Faisal Al Zubair Luca Stolz Martin Konrad 4 #3 DKR Engineering #8 Graff Racing #7 Haupt Racing Team Salih Yoluç Charlie Eastwood Ayhancan Güven Fabrice Rossello Xavier Lloveras François Hériau Al Faisal Al Zubair Luca Stolz Martin Konrad
Teams' Championships Points are awarded according to the following structure: Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Pole Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 1
LMP2 Teams Championship Team Car DUB ABU Points 1 #3 DKR Engineering Oreca 07 2 2 3 1 76 2 #37 Cool Racing Oreca 07 8 5 1 3 54 3 #25 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca 07 1 4 9 4 51 4 #98 99 Racing Oreca 07 3 6 7 2 49 5 #43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 Ret 1 4 NC 39 6 #24 Nielsen Racing Oreca 07 4 3 6 8 39 7 #23 United Autosports Oreca 07 6 8 2 6 38 8 #22 United Autosports Oreca 07 5 7 5 5 36 9 #44 ARC Bratislava Oreca 07 7 9 8 7 18Bold – Pole
LMP3 Teams Championship Team Car DUB ABU Points 1 #8 Graff Racing Ligier JS P320 2 2 4 1 73 2 #29 MV2S Racing Ligier JS P320 1 3 2 3 73 3 #4 Nielsen Racing Ligier JS P320 13 6 1 4 45 4 #5 DKR Engineering Duqueine M30 - D08 6 1 5 Ret 43 5 #11 WTM by Rinaldi Racing Duqueine M30 - D08 Ret 4 3 Ret 31 6 #1 CD Sport Ligier JS P320 3 9 8 7 27 7 #73 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P320 5 7 10 5 27 8 #17 Cool Racing Ligier JS P320 14 Ret 6 2 26 9 #2 CD Sport Ligier JS P320 7 5 Ret 9 18 10 #9 Graff Racing Ligier JS P320 8 8 7 Ret 14 11 #55 Rinaldi Racing Duqueine M30 - D08 4 Ret Ret Ret 12 12 #53 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P320 9 12 9 6 12 13 #18 360 Racing Ligier JS P320 12 13 Ret 8 4 14 #15 RLR MSport Ligier JS P320 10 10 11 Ret 2 15 #63 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P320 11 11 12 Ret 0Bold – Pole
GT Teams Championship Team Car DUB ABU Points 1 #34 Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 1 1 4 2 822 #7 Haupt Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo 3 7 1 1 713 #10 GetSpeed Performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo 2 2 7 5 524 #91 Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R 4 10 2 15 315 #19 Leipert Motorsport Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 10 12 3 3 316 #20 Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R 5 16 9 4 247 #21 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 9 3 Ret 7 238 #88 Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 15 4 Ret 8 169 #77 D'station Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 13 6 6 Ret 1610 #99 Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R 6 8 Ret 9 1411 #72 HubAuto Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Ret 9 14 6 2812 #59 Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 12 5 11 10 1113 #95 TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 11 14 5 11 1014 #6 Haupt Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo 7 15 13 Ret 615 #60 Formula Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 8 Ret Ret WD 416 #33 Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R Ret 11 8 12 417 #57 Car Guy Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 14 Ret 10 14 118 #16 GetSpeed Performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo 17 19 12 16 019 #66 Bullitt Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Ret 17 Ret 13 020 #74 Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 NC 13 DNS WD 021 #67 Orange Racing powered by JMH McLaren 720S GT3 16 18 DNS WD 022 #65 Viper Niza Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 NC Ret 0 - #54 Dinamic GT Porsche 911 GT3 R DNS WD - #61 TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 DNS WDBold – Pole
Drivers' championships Points are awarded according to the following structure: Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Pole Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 1
LMP2 Drivers Championship
Drivers Team DUB ABU Points1 Charlie Eastwood DKR Engineering 2 2 3 176 Ayhancan Güven DKR Engineering 2 2 3 1 Salih Yoluç DKR Engineering 2 2 3 12 Alexandre Coigny Cool Racing 8 5 1 354 Malthe Jakobsen Cool Racing 8 5 1 33 James Allen Algarve Pro Racing 1 4 9 451 John Falb Algarve Pro Racing 1 4 9 4 Kyffin Simpson Algarve Pro Racing 1 4 9 44 Neel Jani 99 Racing 3 6 7 249 Nikita Mazepin 99 Racing 3 6 7 25 Christian Bogle Inter Europol Competition Ret 1 4 NC39 Charles Crews Inter Europol Competition Ret 1 4 NC Nolan Siegel Inter Europol Competition Ret 1 4 NC6 Mathias Beche Nielsen Racing 4 3 6 839 Ben Hanley Nielsen Racing 4 3 6 8 Rodrigo Sales Nielsen Racing 4 3 6 87 Oliver Jarvis United Autosports 6 8 2 638 Garnet Patterson United Autosports 6 8 2 6 Yasser Shahin United Autosports 6 8 2 68 Paul di Resta United Autosports 5 7 5 536 Philip Hanson United Autosports 5 7 5 5 James McGuire United Autosports 5 7 5 59 Ahmad Al Harthy 99 Racing 7 22610 Gonçalo Gomes 99 Racing 3 62311 Miro Konôpka ARC Bratislava 7 9 8 718 Nico Pino ARC Bratislava 7 9 8 7 László Tóth ARC Bratislava 7 9 8 712 Nicolas Lapierre Cool Racing 8 514Bold – Pole
LMP3 Drivers Championship