Just over a month after the 2014 Le Mans 24 Hours, the Asian Le Mans Series and European Le Mans Series Championships will be back on track this coming weekend (19-20 July).

The aim of LM P3, which will compete in the continental championships, the Asian Le Mans Series and the European Le Mans Series in 2015, is to become the entry-level formula for Le Mans-type endurance racing.
A joint presentation of this new category will take place at the Red Bull Ring (Austria) and at Inje Speedium (South Korea), where the third round of the European Le Mans Series and the first round of the Asian Le Mans Series are taking place.

The purpose of these championships is to enable teams, drivers and constructors to hone their skills in the specific aspects of endurance racing before moving up to the top level, the FIA World Endurance Championship of which the Automobile Club de l’Ouest is the promoter and organiser. At the summit of this pyramid is the Le Mans 24 Hours, the blue riband event in the FIA World Endurance Championship, in which all the participants in the different endurance series hope to take part and dream of winning!

However, before achieving this aim they have to learn what endurance racing is all about. This is the aim of the new LM P3 prototype, which replaces the FLMs (Formula Le Mans).

In Austria this presentation will take place on Saturday 19th July at 12h30 with Pierre Fillon, the President of the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, and Gérard Neveu, the LMEM General Manager (the ACO branch in charge of the ELMS and FIA WEC Championships), and Vincent Beaumesnil, the ACO Sports Manager. Frédéric Henry-Biabaud, ACO steering committee member, and Mark Thomas, Managing Director of the Asian Le Mans Series, will do the same in South Korea on 20th July at 10h00 local time (03h00 in France).