Asian Le Mans Series Sprint Cup at Sepang sees a couple of firsts

The first overall win an an ACO organised Series for an LMP3 car (the Summer series is for LMP3, CN and GT Cup cars) and the first time that a podium has been filled by three different LMP3 chassis manufacturers.

The #94 WinEurasia Ligier of Aidan Read and Matthew Solomon took the win ahead of the #91 Team AAI Adess of Ollie Millroy and Jun San Chen with Charlie Robertso and Ate de Jong completing the podium in the #67 PRT Racing Ginetta.

The #28 Lotus of Anthony Chan and Dominic Ang won a four car GT Cup class from the Team NZ Porsche of Graeme Dowsett and John Curran.

Nine of a promised 12 cars were listed in the final race result. The Asian Le Mans Series reigning Champions DC Racing withdraw their Ligier pre-race after gearbox issues.

Race Result

1 #94 LMP3 WINEURASIA Motorsport Ligier JSP3 Aidan Read/ Matthew Solomon 29 laps
2 #91 LMP3 Team AAI ADESS 03 Ollie Millroy/ Jun San Chen +1:27.421
3 #67 LMP3 PRT Racing Ginetta LMP3 Charlie Robertson/ Ate de Jong 28 laps
4 #27 LMP3 Nexus Infinity ADESS 03 Garnett Patterson +8.795
5 #68 CN PS Racing Ligier JS 53 Neric Wei/ Sebastien Mailleux 27 Laps
6 #28 GT Cup Team Lotus HK Lotus Evora GTC Anthony Chan/ Dominic Ang 26 laps
7 #77 GT Cup Team NZ Porsche GT3 Cup Graeme Dowsett/ John Curran 25 Laps
8 #11 GT Cup Team Lotus HK Lotus Evora GTC Robert Webb +1:52.597
9 #98 GT Cup Team Lotus HK Lotus Exige Cup R Eric Wong 23 Laps