Le Mans Cup, European Le Mans Series, & Asian Le Mans Series

I am currently working as much as I can on covering races for Le Mans Cup, the European Le Mans Series and the Asian Le Mans Series to cover what were the races for their 2023 seasons, and in the case of the Asian Le Mans Series, the 2023-2024 season since their races take place over what are the winter months in the northern hemisphere and the summer months in the southern hemisphere.  You can trust that I shall begin posting in sequence, a lot of this coverage, very soon.  So, be on the lookout for it and remember, in all three of these championships, the class structure varies from what we see in IMSA and FIA WEC for example.

By that I mean, Le Mans Cup is structured in a similar fashion to the VP Sports Car Challenge in IMSA, where LMP3 is the main class, and then, the secondary class is for production cars.  In VP Challenge in IMSA here, stateside, it is GT4 cars while in the Le Mans Cup in Europe, GT3 is the platform they use, much like how it will be in 2024 in the FIA WEC.  In the European Le Mans Series, the class tiers extend to LMP2 being the top category alongside LMP3 and GT3 and this is the exact same format utilized within the Asian Le Mans Series.  Le Mans Cup, European Le Mans Series, and Asian Le Mans Series, are all run by the ACO, the French governing body that handles the FIA WEC and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Meanwhile, the Asian Le Mans Series is also sanctioned fully by the ACO and if I am right, they have also gotten some sanctioning assistance from the SRO, the Stephane Ratel Organization who runs their major championships for GT3 cars globally in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia.  So, in due time, within the next few weeks, you will hear about the 2023 action from Le Mans Cup and the European Le Mans Series pretty much in succession while we shall then move on, to everything that happened in Asian Le Mans Series competiton, which started last weekend at the Sepang Circuit in Malaysia.  

From Malaysia, the Asian Le Mans Series will move to race in the Middle East in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in early February.  There is a gap for the Christmas holiday, the New Year, and then, in January because of the opening IMSA race of the year at the Rolex 24 at Daytona and all those associated races on the IMSA docket for the beginning of the 2024 season.  So, this is partly a clarification, and party a preview of what is to come on the blog in due course along with a number of other scheduled posts, news and assorted plans.  Stay tuned.