Round three of the 2022 Asian Le Mans Series brings the drivers and groups to the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi, the not too long ago revamped and reconfigured Yas Marina circuit which can also be dwelling to the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix which noticed the large F1 championship decider right here, final December. This newly reconfigured speedway at Yas Marina is far faster. Within the thirties anything below 10 seconds to 60 was deemed as "too much to handle". Some drivers can handle it. But the drivers are additionally discovering the candy spot so they can deliver on monitor. This will likely be a side by side overtaking spot. That will probably be a candy spot for overtaking. Will probably be a short Full Course Yellow to remove debris in flip three.” So, flip three, that is that spot we talked about, right at the top of Eau Rouge. This monitor for all intents and purposes, is a street course but is laid out as a everlasting circuit. Watch observe limits. Turn 5 could be very extensive after which get an amazing run to turn six and via seven and eight and into the Parabolica at flip 9. These new Corvette C8.R's look nice.
Search for visibility, too. They also want to make use of algae of all issues for artificial gasoline. So, DKR wants to show issues around. DKR are doing. Dominate, and then, go to ashes. 88's pit stop. Alex Brundle is doing his greatest to get previous the McLaren. Comfort sensible, the Vantage is greatest for folk of middle stature who can have essentially the most headroom and the most visibility around the entrance roof pillar. The car's brake system will not be as effective, because the front brakes typically do the lion's share of the braking. Other upgrades included an enormous 4-piston Brembo-model disc brake at every corner. All of these upgrades lead to dropping 100kg. If this is all too tame in your liking a GTAm model is obtainable as well. Two Audi's lead two Ferrari's. Porsche and Mercedes are bettering, and the McLaren's and Ferrari's are additionally up there. No. He's held off by the Mercedes man. Testing is one thing whereas racing is another. Other automobiles are far more reactive while the entrance dives. He was on new Pirelli P Zero tires while everybody else was on scrubbed or used tires. Poor outdated Gustavo Menezes can have clag throughout his tires.
Jones will push the Bimmerworld car to the end. The rear end of the automobile steps out. New challenges arise. The surface change means the automobile stability is completely completely different. The automotive is designed to have a 50-50 weight distribution. We have fans within the stands here in the UAE. United have carried out testing, here at Yas Marina. In Pro-Am, we still have the David and Nicolai present to entertain us at present. Happy Birthday, Josh. He just turned sixteen and that is his present. For many who craved the V-Series' appears to be like however did not want its testosterone, a Wheel Sport Appearance bundle arrived through the '06 mannequin yr to costume up the mainstream 3.6 CTS, one of the few alterations that season. Now, back to the Dragonspeed entry, that left rear wheel will not be sitting on the hub. 23 United Autosport entry, has Josh Pierson, at age 16, because the youngest driver in the race.
48 entry, he is still proper in it. He's booking it proper now. Dylan Pereira is now difficult Francois Perrodo for place in GTE Am. Phil Hanson desires to play the lengthy game, but the crew says, "we must go them on the street." Now, the blowtorch is being utilized in GTE Pro! In the GTE Pro class, the championship fight is between Aston Martin and Ferrari. The crew is trying forward to next month and the 1,000 Miles of Sebring for the FIA World Endurance Championship. These two races can have the championship title, and Le Mans 24 Hours invitations, at stake. We welcome again, as soon as once more, our commentators for the Asian Le Mans Series, Graham Goodwin, alongside former Corvette manufacturing facility driver, Oliver Gavin, together with Nadia Nash reporting from the pit lane. Join us to search out out as we convey you flag-to-flag coverage of race one for Asian Le Mans in Abu Dhabi! 26, certainly one of the two Sainteloc Audi R8's.












2 Porsche has pitted for a driver change, with Romain Dumas taking over. Romain Dumas is constant to soldier on. Pippo Derani, Roberto Merhi, and Filipe Albuquerque have been scrapping for LMP2 honors. The LMP2 battle is enormous. Richie Stanaway battle in LM GTE Pro. The Pro class Aston Martin, had a 30 kilogram weight brake. Audi, G Drive, AF Corse, and Aston Martin, lead the lessons. Being an Aston Martin, the brand new Vantage additionally features a excessive level of craftsmanship, evidenced by flawless paintwork, luxurious Alcantara® and leather-based upholstery and the levels of finish optimised by way of the usage of tactile natural materials of the very best high quality. It is tough to get into the automotive due to the excessive bolstered race seats and the shape of the doorways, because the Aston Martin thunders through the Ardennes Forest. He can have tough times getting past Roberto Merhi. But, Merhi has been referred to as to the sin bin. Actually, Lamborghini constructed a luxury army-like SUV known as the LM002, however it's a bit of a rare hen; between 1986 and 1993, just a few hundred were made. A couple of other vehicles are having issues.
But, in the heat of battle, you just should do what you'll be able to to try to win the race even when which will result in a mistake. Let's try. Be optimistic about it. Shall be stuck behind the GT Le Mans field. Forty seven KCMG Porsche 911 GT3R, he has moved as much as seventh spot, two laps behind the chief, knocking on the door of the highest five. Kelvin van der Linde is 48 seconds behind the race leading Ferrari. Kelvin van der Linde has had a really clear lap. Sixth gear, as van der Linde is adjusting the air conditioning fan within the automobile. Let’s go for a lap around Spa with Kelvin van der Linde. Closer to the chicane at the top of the lap. It is right at the back of the shot we see now that another lap has began. Back up by means of the gearbox. After teetering on the financial brink, Ford not only roared again to profitability, it became the most worthwhile outfit in Detroit.
As soon as you stop, the heat soak on these vehicles with out air operating over the automotive, the car becomes like a sauna and the heat absolutely cooks you and the automobile. 83 Ferrari 458 Italia in LM GTE Am over to Rui Aguas. 26, it may very properly be recreation over with terminal bother. The pit lane is closed. 49 High Class Racing automobile hits the lane. Thank Heavens the driver is out of the automotive. The inside of the Urus options a number of carbon fiber, and the driver can use paddle shifters to enhance the driving experience. The teams can deliver batteries, followers, water etc. Race Control provides them directions on a closed, specific radio channel. Teams cannot contact the automobiles below the red flag circumstances. Some of the teams are operating low on spares on this condensed season. But basically, race cars are in parc ferme conditions.

One hour is finished and dusted now, and so, the highest two in GTE Pro are in the pit lane for service. The top two automobiles are being serviced. The automobiles are on the grid, starting in waves. Richard Lietz from Austria is next into the automobile, replacing beginning driver Gianmaria Bruni, the Italian. No driver adjustments but. That is the automotive of Antonio Felix Da Costa of Portugal (the former BMW manufacturing unit driver), Roberto Gonzalez of Mexico, and former Toyota manufacturing facility driver, Anthony Davidson from England. 91 manufacturing unit Porsche in GTE Pro. 71 Ferrari 488 GTE. Wow. As we have been reminiscing about LMP1, there has been a change for place in the GTE Am division. He's skating round on the market. 7 nonetheless leads the motor race overall, in the final ever race for LMP1 cars, trying to spherical out this period with a victory. The two of them play a spherical of dodge 'em cars.
Now we have Dave Burns, Calvin Fish, and Brian Till in the sales space for right this moment's race. But, we now have a full hour and somewhat bit more of the race nonetheless to go. No malice intended. Now, with an hour to go, the Lexus is forward of the Mercedes and we have the Bentley coming in as effectively. Will they have wrapped up the title after this occasion? Title not settled total but. They can not seal the deal on the title right now however could do it tomorrow. But, for Bill Auberlen, regardless of all his race wins he has racked up over his career, the man has not won a championship title in 17 years, since 2004. You know he's hungry. 88. Their race at Garage 59 is going pear shaped, and quick. It's going to be very shut. Tomorrow we might be going into the darkness to settle the championships. Curbing our demand for petroleum will assist cut back U.S.
But why would one of the world's foremost performance automobile corporations need to construct a hybrid? They had to have fastened the hybrid problem. The marshals might must remove the tire bundles to lift the automobile onto the flatbed. While some hardcore brand loyalists have ridiculed the thought of a Porsche SUV, the earnings say in any other case: The Cayenne is now the corporate's high-selling vehicle. 15 minutes now achieved and dusted as the Acura's are carving past the GT Daytona cars. The two Garage 59 Aston Martin's are pulling away from TF Sport. Porsche battle. Dwight Merriman is being monstered by Sean Gelael, and both of these vehicles are being run by Jota Sport. Sean Gelael is from Indonesia and he had issues in Dubai being a magnet to crashes, however he's enhancing properly in this race. Sixty three to being caboose on the sector in LMP3. Jim McGuire runs seventh in LMP3. Malthe Jakobsen is really pulling a lead out in LMP3.
We will communicate of their quest to race an adaptive race automobile, as this race goes on. Looking not not like a 911 with an additional set of doorways, the sedan goes on sale later this year and can compete with other premium four-door fashions like the Maserati Quattroporte and the Mercedes-Benz S Class. This idea truck has a "suicide doors" configuration: the two rear doorways open in the other path of the two front doorways, and each sets of doors are big and open actually broad, with no pillar separating them so that when the doors are open there is totally nothing in your method. Proton has their own automobile, and there is the WeatherTech backed entry as properly which we have also seen in the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship this yr. From dealing with in a different way relying on the type of automotive you're driving to constructing your own storage by earning in-sport forex from races, there's so much that goes into this sport that can make it price playing over different racing games. The BoP was adjusted in GT and it did have an effect on the Porsche however they should run strongly in each races, with the GPX Porsche 911 GT3R. This is the first of half a dozen races set to be run this year.
A kind of special editions, the Vantage 59, celebrates Aston Martin's 1959 win of the well-known 24 Hours of Le Mans race. From the skin, the Vantage is appropriately snarly. 21 November 2017, Gaydon: Vantage. 28 for Jota Sport. Jota will win round three of Asian Le Mans 2021! Antonio Garcia has GT Le Mans pole. All these drivers did race for United in the Asian Le Mans Series. Today's race shall be no different. We are going to speak about them. Former Formula 1 driver Will Stevens from England. Nyck De Vries is a former Formula 2 champion. Romain Rusinov, Nyck de Vries, and Franco Colapinto are on the pole place. Wow. As we have been reminiscing about LMP1, there has been a change for position within the GTE Am division. 17 LMP2 vehicles together with the innovative car of Pierre Sancinena, sixteen LMP3 automobiles, and eight GTE automobiles. He is joined by French LMP2 racer Gabriel Aubry. These guys are ready for competitors especially in LMP2 as now we have a brave new period in sports automobile racing that has started and can proceed through the approaching years. We've got a safety automotive on the course. Ah yes. Safety car.
Eight car has simply hit the pit lane. 21 Konrad Motorsports LMP3 automobile has lost a wheel! James Dayson has lost a couple spots. Oh pricey. Within the traffic, Pierson has lost time to Eric Trouiller. Rodrigo Sales has passed Eric Trouiller. But Trouiller is right on his six. Then you definately launch the clutch pedal and rev the engine to the "proper speed." The proper speed is the rpm value at which the engine needs to be running in the next gear. Under the hood is a supercharged, 3.4-liter, V6 engine with 250 horsepower. The Forty-Nine Concept car has many retro styling elements, including a trendy, 3.9-liter, DOHC, 32-valve, V-eight engine that is completed with brushed stainless steel, chrome and satin-black paint. The engine is a 2-liter V4 mounted within the center. You may see a plume of black smoke. We see the championship turned round a bit. 38 points is the championship hole in LMP2. Matthieu De Barbuat leads LMP2 for DKR Engineering proper now.
Hardy har har. As we know, lots of the mechanics signal their drivers to pit by saying "field, field, box". The Audi will pit pretty soon it appears to be like like. That's the signature of this observe just just like the high banks, the banking is the signature at Daytona International Speedway. Jordan Taylor takes the Corvette C8.R right down to Arnage, the slowest activate this legendary monitor. 63 automobile, the predominantly yellow automotive with Jordan Taylor at the controls. This can be a game changer and poor James Calado is not going to win a championship in 2020. This is a brief yellow and we're again to green flag racing now that the debris from the Ferrari shunt is cleaned up. Now, the yellow remains out. We'll simply have to attend till we get an opportunity to strive them both out. Strangely, we still have a slow zone on the road. The slow zone continues, and we're still glued to this fascinating scuffle in GTE Pro for the time being and yes indeed the Corvette boys are very involved. The battle for second in GTE Pro is heating up, simmering along properly, thank you, between the 2 AF Corse Ferrari's.
Fifty four is in the storage and the staff is engaged on the alternator belt. He might do media and Tv work, and is still working with Red Bull. They're working to their plan. David Cheng and Ho Pin Tung are Chatin's co-drivers. David Cheng in one of the Signatech Alpines runs off the road. One lane. Watch out for The Carousel. D'station have to watch on the observe limits. But, we've two hours left to go. Salih Yoluc has already pushed two hours of the race. Details when that race occurs. Greater than two hours, still remain, in this race. 85 "Banana Boat" Cadillac for JDC-Miller Motorsports is still within the hunt as well in seventh place. 34 Walkenhorst Motorsports BMW M4 GT3 has pitted nevertheless it has pressured them down out of the highest ten in GT. 35 Walkenhorst Motorsports BMW M4 GT3. 22 automobile. The only Acura NSX GT3 here. 35 is twenty first in GT out of the 23 automotive discipline.