2014 Asian Le Mans Series

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The 2014 Asian Le Mans Series was the third 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 Inje Speedium on 20 July 2014 and ended at Sepang International Circuit in Selangor on 7 December 2014. [1]

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In the main LMP2 class, defending champions OAK Racing Team Total won all four races during the season to win both championship titles on offer. David Cheng – who won the class title in 2013  – and Ho-Pin Tung won the drivers' championship title, and were joined by Keiko Ihara at Fuji and Yuan Bo at Sepang. Chang and Tung finished 53 points clear of John Hartshorne and Pu Jun Jin, who drove for Eurasia Motorsport. Similarly in the CN class, Craft-Bamboo Racing won all four races against class rivals Team Avelon Formula and ATL Wolf Asia. Kevin Tse was the only driver that was a part of the Craft-Bamboo Racing team at every meeting, and thus claimed the championship by 50 points ahead of Denis Lian, who took a trio of runner-up finishes with Team Avelon Formula. Tse was joined by Mathias Beche (Inje and Fuji), Frank Yu (Inje and Sepang), Samson Chan (Fuji and Shanghai), Naoki Yokomizo (Shanghai) and Jonathan Venter (Sepang) for his victories.

The GT class was the most competitive of the series, with three different entries sharing the four victories. Fuji winners Jun San Chen and Tatsuya Tanigawa, driving for the AAI-Rstrada team, were crowned champions by seven points ahead of teammates and Inje winners Hanchen Chen and Marco Seefried. Clearwater Racing won the final two races with Mok Weng Sun a part of both victories. He was joined by Keita Sawa and Matt Griffin in Shanghai, and Hiroshi Hamaguchi and Richard Wee in Sepang. Ryohei Sakaguchi (Inje) and Carlo van Dam (Fuji) were third drivers in the respective AAI-Rstrada winning cars. The GT-Am class saw just two entries, both at the Fuji event and both fielded by China's The Emperor Racing. One of the cars was withdrawn, and thus the sister car of Giorgio Sanna, Akihiko Nakaya  – who was moved from the withdrawn car to replace Jiang Xin – and Max Wiser won the class.

Regulation changes

The top class of the series continued to be LMP2. The LMGTE and GTC categories were combined, along with Super GT GT300 class vehicles, into a single performance balanced GT category. Silver and bronze level drivers were required in the amateur division. A new class, replacing the LMPC category which was not utilized in 2013, allowed a variety of Group CN cars to compete with standardized Honda engines. These cars are eligible for competition through 2017. At the end of the season, the first place team in LMP2 and the top two teams in GT received automatic invitations to the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans. The requirement for all competitors to have at least one driver from Asia was expanded to include any drivers from the Australasia region. To help reduce operational costs for the teams, only two crew members were allowed to be involved in a tyre change. [1]

Calendar

The 2014 calendar was revealed during the 2013 3 Hours of Sepang. The second round was to be held alongside the fifth round of the 2014 Super GT season at Fuji Speedway. [2] After being removed from the provisional 2013 calendar the 3 Hours of Shanghai returned, racing at the same event alongside the tenth round of the 2014 World Touring Car Championship season. [3] The season opening round at Inje Speedium was originally scheduled to be held on 6 July, but was later rescheduled to 20 July.

The schedule was revised again on 9 May with the round at Fuji being moved back three weeks and no longer on the same weekend as Super GT. As well as this, a round at the Buriram United International Circuit in Thailand was confirmed, replacing a round scheduled for the Zhuhai International Circuit. [4] On 12 October, the round at the Buriram United International Circuit was removed from the calendar with no replacement. [5]

RndRaceCircuitDate
13 Hours of Inje Flag of South Korea.svg Inje Speedium, Inje, South Korea 20 July
2 3 Hours of Fuji Flag of Japan.svg Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan 31 August
3 3 Hours of Shanghai Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Shanghai International Circuit, Jiading, China 11 October
4 3 Hours of Sepang Flag of Malaysia.svg Sepang International Circuit, Selangor, Malaysia 7 December
Sources: [4] [6]

Teams and Drivers

All entries use Michelin tyres.

LMP2

TeamCarEngineNo.DriversRounds
Flag of France.svg OAK Racing Team Total [7] Morgan LMP2 Judd HK 3.6 L V81 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg David Cheng All
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ho-Pin Tung All
Flag of Japan.svg Keiko Ihara [8] 2
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yuan Bo4
Flag of the Philippines.svg Eurasia Motorsport [9] Oreca 03 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V827 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg John HartshorneAll
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Richard Bradley 1–2
Flag of South Korea.svg Tacksung Kim1
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Pu Jun Jin 2–4
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg James Winslow 3–4
Source: [10]

CN

TeamCarEngineNo.DriversRounds
Flag of Italy.svg Team Avelon Formula Wolf GB08 Honda 2.0 L I421 Flag of Singapore.svg Denis Lian 2–4
Flag of Hong Kong.svg William Lok 2
Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Mitchell2
Flag of Italy.svg Guglielmo Belotti3
Flag of Singapore.svg Sean Hudspeth4
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg ATL Wolf Asia [11] Wolf GB08 Honda 2.0 L I445 Flag of Malaysia.svg Dominic Ang1
Flag of Malaysia.svg Gilbert Ang1
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Craft-Bamboo Racing [12] Ligier JS53 Honda 2.0 L I477 Flag of Macau.svg Kevin Tse All
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Mathias Beche 1–2
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Frank Yu 1, 4
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Samson Chan 2–3
Flag of Japan.svg Naoki Yokomizo 3
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jonathan Venter4
Source: [10]

GT

TeamCarEngineNo.DriversRounds
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Python [13] Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 Ferrari F142 4.5 L V87 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zou Si Rui1
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xu Wei1
Flag of Singapore.svg Clearwater Racing [14] Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 Ferrari F142 4.5 L V833 Flag of Singapore.svg Weng Sun Mok3–4
Flag of Ireland.svg Matt Griffin3
Flag of Japan.svg Keita Sawa 3
Flag of Japan.svg Hiroshi Hamaguchi 4
Flag of Singapore.svg Richard Wee4
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg AAI-Rstrada [15] [16] Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Mercedes-Benz 6.2 L V890 Flag of Japan.svg Takamitsu Matsui All
Flag of Japan.svg Takeshi Tsuchiya All
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lam YuAll
BMW Z4 GT3 BMW 4.4 L V891 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Jun-San ChenAll
Flag of Japan.svg Tatsuya Tanigawa All
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ollie Millroy1, 3–4
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Carlo van Dam 2
92 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Han-Chen Chen1, 3–4
Flag of Germany.svg Marco Seefried 1, 3–4
Flag of Japan.svg Ryohei Sakaguchi 1, 4
Flag of Germany.svg Jörg Müller 3
Nissan GT-R GT3 Nissan 3.8 L V6 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Han-Chen Chen2
Flag of Japan.svg Ryohei Sakaguchi 2
Flag of Germany.svg Marco Seefried 2
Source: [10]

GT Am

TeamCarEngineNo.DriversRounds
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg The Emperor Racing Lamborghini Gallardo Lamborghini 5.2L V1011 Flag of Japan.svg Akihiko Nakaya 2
Flag of Italy.svg Giorgio Sanna2
Flag of Italy.svg Max Wiser2
82 Flag of Japan.svg Hideshi Matsuda 2
Flag of Japan.svg Hironori Takeuchi 2
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Jiang Xin2
Source: [17]

Season results

Rnd.CircuitLMP2 Winning TeamCN Winning TeamGT Winning TeamResults
LMP2 Winning DriversCN Winning DriversGT Winning Drivers
1 Inje Flag of France.svg No. 1 OAK Racing Team Total Flag of Hong Kong.svg No. 77 Craft-Bamboo Racing Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg No. 92 AAI-Rstrada Report
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg David Cheng
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ho-Pin Tung
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Mathias Beche
Flag of Macau.svg Kevin Tse
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Frank Yu
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Han-Chen Chen
Flag of Japan.svg Ryohei Sakaguchi
Flag of Germany.svg Marco Seefried
2 Fuji Flag of France.svg No. 1 OAK Racing Team Total Flag of Hong Kong.svg No. 77 Craft-Bamboo Racing Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg No. 91 AAI-Rstrada Report
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg David Cheng
Flag of Japan.svg Keiko Ihara
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ho-Pin Tung
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Mathias Beche
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Samson Chan
Flag of Macau.svg Kevin Tse
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Jun-San Chen
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Carlo van Dam
Flag of Japan.svg Tatsuya Tanigawa
3 Shanghai Flag of France.svg No. 1 OAK Racing Team Total Flag of Hong Kong.svg No. 77 Craft-Bamboo Racing Flag of Singapore.svg No. 33 Clearwater Racing Report
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg David Cheng
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ho-Pin Tung
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Samson Chan
Flag of Macau.svg Kevin Tse
Flag of Japan.svg Naoki Yokomizo
Flag of Japan.svg Keita Sawa
Flag of Ireland.svg Matt Griffin
Flag of Singapore.svg Weng Sun Mok
4 Sepang Flag of France.svg No. 1 OAK Racing Team Total Flag of Hong Kong.svg No. 77 Craft-Bamboo Racing Flag of Singapore.svg No. 33 Clearwater Racing Report
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yuan Bo
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg David Cheng
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ho-Pin Tung
Flag of Macau.svg Kevin Tse
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jonathan Venter
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Frank Yu
Flag of Japan.svg Hiroshi Hamaguchi
Flag of Singapore.svg Weng Sun Mok
Flag of Singapore.svg Richard Wee
Source: [10]

Championship Standings

Scoring system
Points System
PositionPole Position
1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
2518151210864211
Source: [10]


Teams Championships

LMP2 Standings

Pos.TeamCar INJ
Flag of South Korea.svg
FUJ
Flag of Japan.svg
SHA
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
SEP
Flag of Malaysia.svg
Total
1 Flag of France.svg #1 OAK Racing Team Total Morgan LMP2 1111103
2 Flag of the Philippines.svg #27 Eurasia Motorsport Oreca 03 Ret22255
Key
ColourResult
GoldRace winner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleDid not finish (Ret)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
Excluded (EX)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Withdrew (WD)
BlankDid not participate

Bold – Pole



CN Standings

Pos.TeamCar INJ
Flag of South Korea.svg
FUJ
Flag of Japan.svg
SHA
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
SEP
Flag of Malaysia.svg
Total
1 Flag of Hong Kong.svg #77 Craft-Bamboo Racing Ligier JS53 1111104
2 Flag of Italy.svg #21 Team Avelon Formula Wolf GB08 22254
3 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg #45 ATL Wolf Asia Wolf GB08 DNS
Key
ColourResult
GoldRace winner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleDid not finish (Ret)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
Excluded (EX)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Withdrew (WD)
BlankDid not participate

Bold – Pole



GT Standings

Pos.TeamCar INJ
Flag of South Korea.svg
FUJ
Flag of Japan.svg
SHA
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
SEP
Flag of Malaysia.svg
Total
1 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg #91 AAI-Rstrada BMW Z4 GT3 312276
2 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg #92 AAI-Rstrada BMW Z4 GT3
Nissan GT-R GT3
124370
3 Flag of Singapore.svg #33 Clearwater Racing Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 1150
4 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg #90 AAI-Rstrada Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 2Ret3448
5 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg #7 Python Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 DNS
Key
ColourResult
GoldRace winner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleDid not finish (Ret)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
Excluded (EX)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Withdrew (WD)
BlankDid not participate

Bold – Pole



GT Am Standings

Pos.TeamCar INJ
Flag of South Korea.svg
FUJ
Flag of Japan.svg
SHA
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
SEP
Flag of Malaysia.svg
Total
1 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg #11 The Emperor Racing Lamborghini Gallardo 126
2 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg #82 The Emperor Racing Lamborghini Gallardo WD
Key
ColourResult
GoldRace winner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleDid not finish (Ret)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
Excluded (EX)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Withdrew (WD)
BlankDid not participate

Bold – Pole



Driver's Championships


LMP2 Standings



CN Standings



GT Standings



GT Am Standings



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