GET READY FOR ACTION IN DUBAI

Friday, 16 January 2026

The 2026 4 Hours of Dubai will see a huge grid of 47 cars taking part in the two races on Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1st February, which will be Rounds 3 and 4 of the 2025/26 Asian Le Mans Series.

The 16 car LMP2 field features last year’s double 4 Hours of Dubai winners Algarve Pro Racing and winning drivers Michael Jensen, Malthe Jakobsen, Kriton Lentoudis and Alex Quinn.

After scoring two wins in Malaysia, the LMP2 field is headed by the no47 Cetilar Racing crew of Roberto Lacorte, Charles Milesi and Antonio Fuoco, with the Italian team looking to extend their 14-points championship lead but also knowing they face some stiff opposition in the UAE.

The no25 Algarve Pro Racing crew of Michael Jensen, Enzo Trulli and Tom Dillmann scored two second place finishes in the opening races of the season and with the team’s experience of winning in Dubai, they will be looking to take the fight to Cetilar Racing in both races.

2025 4 Hours of Dubai winner Malthe Jakobsen will be back in action with George Kurtz and Louis Deletraz in the no4 Crowdstrike Racing by APR Oreca after the team took two podiums in Malaysia.

Last year’s LMP3 winners Theodor Jensen and Jens Reno Moller have move up to LMP2 this season and will be joined by Gustavo Menezes in the no49 High Class Racing. Their 2025 teammate Griffin Peebles is also competing in LMP2 this season, the Australian racing alongside Mathias Beche and Alexander Mattschull for DKR Engineering.

There is one driver change in the LMP2 field, with Stefan Aust returning to the grid after injury to race alongside his Proton Competition teammates Jonas Ried and Felipe Laser.

The rest of the LMP2 driver lineups are unchanged from the first two races in Sepang last month, with entries from United Autosports, RD Limited, Inter Europol Competition, ARC Bratislava, Ponos Racing, Nielsen Racing and Vector Sport RLR.

10 CARS FOR LMP3

After two drama filled races in Sepang, the ten car LMP3 field will once again provide plenty of action in Dubai.

CLX Motorsport scored two podium finishes, both from pole position, to lead the championship standings. Paul Lanchere, Kevin Rabin and Alexander Jacoby will be looking to increase their slim 5-point advantage over the rest of the field led by Round 1 winners Alex Bukhantsov, Chun Ting Chou and Henry Cubides for Inter Europol Competition.

Reigning LMP3 champions Bretton Racing won the opening race in Dubai in 2025 and Jacek Zielonka, Lenny Ried and Lucas Fluxa will be hoping the Czech team will be able to use that experience to push them further up the championship standings.

2025 4 Hours of Dubai LMP3 winner Nick Adcock will join his Forestier Racing by VPS teammates Lucas Fecury and Luciano Morano. The trio travel to Dubai in third place in the championship after taking a hard-fought podium in race 2 in Malaysia.

R-ace GP will be fielding a new driver lineup in the no85 Duqueine-Toyota, with Daniel Frost and Shahan Sarkissian racing in Dubai for the French team.

Team Virage will once again be fielding two cars, with Indian actor Ajith Kumar, his compatriot and former F1 racer teammate Narain Karthikeyan and former MLMC LMP3 champion Julien Gerbi driving the no1 Ligier-Toyota.

23Events Racing and High Class Racing both scored a second-place finish in Sepang and complete the impressive ten car LMP3 grid in Dubai.

21 ENTRIES FOR GT

After the first two races in Sepang, the top two cars are split by just two points after the no74 Kessel Racing Ferrari and the no9 Getspeed Mercedes-AMG both took one win each. The Kessel Racing trio of Dustin Scott Blattner, Chris Lulham and Dennis Marschall left Malaysia on 35 points, with their Getspeed rivals, Anthony Bartone and Fabian Schiller on 33-points. Steve Jens will replace Shigekazu Wakisaka in the Mercedes-AMG in the UAE.

Chinese team Origine Motorsport was right in the mix in the two Malaysian races, with bronze driver Bo Yuan pushing hard during his early stints. The no87 Porsche 911 is currently third in the standings, 12-points behind the leaders with an unchanged driver lineup of Bo Yuan, Hongli Ye and Laurin Heinrich.

Reigning GT Champions Manthey will once again field two Porsche 911s, with the no10 Porsche of Antares Au, Klaus Bachler and Loek Hartog taking a second-place finish in Round 1. They are toed on 18-points with the no69 Team WRT BMW M4 after Daniel Harper, Parker Thompson and Anthony McIntosh finished second in Round 2.

Middle Eastern interest will be focused on the second Getspeed run Mercedes-AMG, with Qatari drivers Abdulla Ali Al-Khelaifi and Ghanim Salah Al-Maadheed being joined by their teammate Lucas Auer in the no37 QMMF by Getspeed Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO.

The no59 United Autosports McLaren will see two of three drivers changed in Dubai, with Andrey Mukovoz and Alexay Nesov join Wayne Boyd for the races in the UAE.

Four Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs will be part of the GT grid in Dubai with JMR and TF Sport both entering two cars in Dubai, with one of the TF run cars running under the Racing Team Turkey colours.

As well as the championship leading no74 Kessel Racing, there are five further Ferrari 296 GT3s. Kessel Racing will run a second car, while AF Corse will run three – no21 AF Corse, no50 Amerasian Fragrance by AF Racing and the no54 Vista AF Corse.

Two Aston Martin Vantage will be competing in Dubai with an unchanged driver lineups. The no56 Ecurie Ecosse Blackthorn is currently in 7th place in the championship standings after taking a podium finish in Round 1, with the second Aston Martin run by New Zealand outfit EBM.

The GT3 grid is completed by the no28 UNX Racing by Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 and the no77 Proton Competition Porsche 911 GT3 R.

Round 3 of the 2025/26 Asian Le Mans Series will take place on Saturday 31 January in Dubai and will be followed by Round 4 on Sunday 1 February, with both races starting at 14h10 (local).

2025/26 Asian Le Mans Series Provisional Calendar

Rd 1 / Rd 2

12-14 Dec 2025

Sepang International Circuit

Malaysia

Rd 3 / Rd 4 3

0 Jan-1 Feb 2026

Dubai Autodrome

UAE

Rd 5 / Rd 6

6-8 Feb 2026

Yas Marina Circuit

UAE

Information and photo source : The Asian Le Mans Series