Asian Le Mans | Polestar Racing completes double-car race, Dubai Grand Prix second round steadily sprints towards season goal

On February 9, the fourth race of the 2024-2025 Asian Le Mans Series ended at the Dubai Circuit in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday. Climax Racing went all out in the 4-hour race! In the middle of the race, the No. 2 car has been in the top three positions, but due to the decline in tire performance in the latter part of the race, the No. 2 car finished 7th in the GT group and won points again, and the No. 14 car crossed the finish line in 13th place in the group.

In the first round of the race on Saturday, Climax Racing showed a strong competitive speed and regained a large number of places on the track, with both cars winning points.

Car No. 2 continued to be started by Zhou Bihuang. As the green light came on, Zhou Bihuang moved forward steadily at the beginning of the race, protecting the tires while avoiding driving out of the track limit. After completing two sections of driving for a total of 38 laps, he returned to the maintenance area on the second lap when the virtual safety car appeared on the track, and replaced the team's professional driver Ralf Aron to compete for a better track position.

Ralf Aron got into the car for the second stage of the race and made the fastest team race time of 2:00.099 after the green flag was restored. After that, the team took advantage of the subsequent virtual safety car opportunity and decisively replaced the silver driver Elias. In Elias' first driving stage, the team has always maintained the third position in the whole field. With 25 minutes left in the race, the team called Elias back to perform a pit stop to refuel and refresh the driving time. At this time, Elias continued to maintain the third place, but due to the serious decline in tire performance in the final stage, Elias finally crossed the checkered flag in the GT group in seventh place.

The team's No. 14 car continued to start with Lv Wei. Since there was only one pit stop window under the virtual safety car state, and due to the collision with Ferrari, the team decided to implement opposite strategies for the two cars to ensure that the No. 14 car stayed on the track and continued to drive and wait for a better pit stop window. When Lv Wei's driving time was about to end, the goddess of luck stood on the side of the team. A prototype car stopped at the side of the track, which was likely to trigger the virtual safety car. The team decisively let Lv Wei execute the penalty of passing the pit area and pit under the virtual safety car on the next lap to perform the task of substitution. At this time, the car was handed over to Ling Kang to drive.

Ling Kang took over the baton from Lv Wei. Due to the mistakes made by some teams in the leading camp on the field, Ling Kang perfectly completed the anti-lap task after the penalty. Then Ling Kang sprinted to complete his driving and handed the baton to Lucas, the platinum driver of the team.

After two races, Climax Racing's No. 2 car currently ranks 10th in the GT category annual standings with 23 points, and the No. 14 car ranks 17th in the standings.

The two rounds of the 2024-2025 Asian Le Mans Series in Dubai, UAE have come to an end, and the team will move to Abu Dhabi without stopping. The team members will continue to review the game, go all out to summarize the experience of the game, and look forward to achieving better results in the last two rounds.

Second round results