Driver Lineups Confirmed in Final 39-Car Entry

The Asian Le Mans Series has released the full entry list including driver lineups ahead of its season-opening double header event at Sepang.

Published on Wednesday, the number of entries has remained unchanged from the updated 39 cars that was announced last month.

Ex-F1 racer Nikita Mazepin returns to the series for a second consecutive season, partnering up with Bronze-rated Omani driver Ahmad Al Harthy and Louis Deletraz at 99 Racing.

Former Vanwall and ByKolles FIA World Endurance Championship driver Tom Dillmann is set for his first prototype start since leaving the Colin Kolles-run team earlier this year, joining Alexander Mattschull and Laurents Hoerr behind the wheel of the No. 3 DKR Engineering Oreca 07 Gibson.

As previously reported by Sportscar365, PJ Hyett will join the LMP2 class to prepare for his full season IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship program aboard the No. 55 Proton Competition Oreca alongside Harry Tincknell and newly announced Alpine Hypercar driver Paul-Loup Chatin. 

Proton’s second entry will be piloted by Giorgio Roda, Julien Andlauer and Rene Binder.

Jonas Ried, son of Proton team owner Christian, will meanwhile race with ARC Bratislava alongside Miro Konopka and Mathias Beche.

European Le Mans Series LMP2 Pro-Am champions Francois Perrodo and Matthieu Vaxiviere will share the No. 83 AF Corse machine with Alessio Rovera, while Algarve Pro Racing’s recently added No. 25 machine is set to be driven by Chris McMurry, Freddie Tomlinson and Toby Sowery.

In the 23-car GT3 class, all but two driver lineups have been fully confirmed. Only Sainteloc Racing’s No. 43 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II and Team Project 1’s No. 56 BMW M4 GT3 still have TBA’s listed.

Dennis Marschall will share the French-entered Audi with Paul Evrard, while Team WRT LMP2 racer Sean Gelael and Dutch driver Maxime Oosten will pilot the BMW.

Sainteloc’s second car will see Christopher Haase and Gilles Magnus compete alongside Alban Varutti, while fellow Audi squad Attempto Racing has enlisted Dylan Pereira, Alex Aka, Andrey Mukovoz, Alexey Nesov, Sergey Titarenko and Ilya Gorbatsky to drive its pair of cars.

Intelligent Money British GT champions Darren Leung and Daniel Harper will reunited to drive Project 1’s No. 93 BMW alongside Christian Bogle.

D’station Racing, one of the first teams to confirm its entry earlier this year, has carried over its WEC GTE-Am lineup of Satoshi Hoshino, Tomonobu Fujii and Casper Stevenson.

The category’s other Aston Martin Vantage GT3, entered by TF Sport, will see last season’s ELMS trio of John Hartsthorne, Ben Tuck and Jonny Adam get behind the wheel of the No. 95 machine.

Mercedes-AMG factory driver Luca Stolz joins Prince Jefri Ibrahim and Broc Feeney behind the wheel of the No. 88 Triple Eight JMR Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo, while GetSpeed Performance completes its lineup by adding Bronze-rated Luxembourg racer Steve Jans to the No. 9 alongside Anthony Bartone and Aaron Walker.

Davide Rigon spearheads the No. 21 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 alongside Simon Mann and Francois Heriau, while Earl Bamber is set for driving duties in the No. 84 Porsche 911 GT3 R teaming with Adrian D’Silva and Kerong Li.

EBM’s second Porsche is manned by Johannes Setiawan Santoso, Tanart Sathienthirakul and Porsche Supercup champion Bastian Buus.

Notable names in the five-car LMP3 class include IndyNXT driver Danial Frost alongside James Winslow and Alexander Bukhantsov at Cool Racing and Anders Fjordbach and Seth Lucas teaming up aboard the No. 20 High Class Racing Ligier JS P320 Nissan.

Australian racer Josh Burdon, meanwhile, teams up with Douglas Khoo and Dominic Ann at Viper Niza Racing.

The opening round of the Asian LMS campaign, the 4 Hours of Sepang, takes place on Dec. 2.