2020 Asian Le Mans Series LMP3 Champions and reigning Michelin Le Mans Cup) Champions Nielsen Racing have confirmed their driver line-ups for the 2022 Asian Le Mans Series.
The team will field entries in both the LMP2 and LMP3 classes.
The team’s newly delivered ORECA 07 Gibson LMP2 will see Bronze-ranked Rodrigo Sales combine with Brits Matt Bell and Ben Hanley.
In LMP3 the team will field the 2020 Asian series LMP3 Champions and reigning Michelin Le Mans Cup victors Tony Wells and Colin Noble, the pair about to begin their fourth season together with the team.
Noble and Wells have had regular race wins and podium finishes together in Europe and Asia and have high hopes of regaining the Asian Le Mans heroes title.
Sales moves up to LMP2 after contesting the ELMS for the last two years in the JMW Ferrari. He returns to the Asian Le Mans Series with Nielsen after a strong run with the team in LMP3 last season with a podium finish apiece at both Yas Marina and Dubai Autodrome.
He’s joined by Matt Bell, the British driver with race and Championship winning form in LMP3 (runner up in last season’s ELMS and 2020 IMSA Prototype Challenge Champion) and podium finishing form in LMP2 also – taking second place at the 2020 Petit Le Mans with Performance Tech/ Inter Europol.
Ben Hanley completes the line-up, after a tenure with DragonSpeed that featured LMP2 race wins in the ELMS, FIA EC and IMSA – including class wins at both the Rolex 24 Hours and as a winner in 2021 in the LMP2 Pro-Am class at the Le Mans 24 Hours.
The Asian Le Mans Series will take place in February with double-header four hour races at Dubai Autodrome and Yes Marina Circuit Abu Dhabi.
