Matthieu Vaxiviere set the pace in a steamy Free Practice 2 on Friday afternoon at Sepang, the #83 AF Corse Oreca pilot set a 1:52.924, edging out the #3 DKR Engineering car of Laurents Hörr.
Nicky Catsburg (#24 Nielsen Racing), Tristan Vautier (#30 RD Limited), Alex Quinn (#20 Algarve Pro Racing), Vlad Lomko (#22 Proton Competition), Malthe Jakobsen (#25 Algarve Pro Racing), Jeremy Clark (#50 AF Corse and fastest Bronze in the session), Tom Dillmnn (#11 Proton Competition) and Louis Delétraz (#91 Pure Racing) completed the top 10 in the session.
In LMP3, Douwe Dedecker led the way in the #34 Inter Europol Competition Ligier with a 2:03.051, edging ut the best effort from RLR MSport’s Ian Aguilera.
Veteran racer Stephane Leveret was third fastest in the session and fastest of the Bonze-rated contingent in his #35 Ultimate Ligier.
It was a Bronze-ranked driver topping the times in GT in the afternoon session as Rinat Salikhov took the #81 Winward Racing AMG around in 2:05.285 ahead of Ben Tuck’s #74 Kessel Ferrari and double Asian LMS Champion Max Wiser’s #28 AF Corse 296.
Next up is Qualifying for both of the weekend’s races on Saturday Morning from 9:50 a.m. local time with the first race following on Saturday afternoon at 2 pm.
Coverage is available for both track sessions live and free on the Asian Le Mans Series YouTube channel with commentary from Graham Goodwin, Oliver Gavin and with David Addison on pit lane with Race 2 from Sepang on Sunday.
