2019 Agile Lohas World 4 Hours of Shanghai

The 2019 4 Hours of Shanghai was an endurance sportscar racing event held on November 24, 2019, at Shanghai International Circuit in Shanghai, China. It served as the first round of the 2019-20 Asian Le Mans Series season.^[1]

Track map of the Shanghai International Circuit

Schedule

Date	Time (local: CST)	Event
Friday, 22 November	13:50	Free Practice 1
Saturday, 23 November	11:30	Free Practice 2
	16:00	Qualifying
Sunday, 24 November	9:45	Race
Source:[2]

Free practice

• Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Free Practice 1	Class	No.	Entrant	Time
	LMP2	45	Thunderhead Carlin Racing	1:53.232
	LMP2 Am	59	RLR MSport	1:57.244
	LMP3	9	Graff Racing	2:01.537
	GT	90	FIST-Team AAI	2:04.045
	GT Am	—
Free Practice 2	Class	No.	Entrant	Time
	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing with Algarve	1:54.003
	LMP2 Am	59	RLR MSport	1:57.553
	LMP3	3	Nielsen Racing	2:02.142
	GT	27	HubAuto Corsa	2:04.028
	GT Am	16	Astro Veloce Motorsport	2:14.217
Source:[3][4]

Qualifying

Qualifying results

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold.

Pos.	Class	No.	Entry	Car	Time
1	LMP2	36	Eurasia Motorsport	Ligier JS P217	1:53.191
2	LMP2	45	Thunderhead Carlin Racing	Dallara P217	1:53.242
3	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing with Algarve	Aurus 01	1:53.410
4	LMP2	34	Inter Europol Endurance	Ligier JS P217	1:53.457
5	LMP2	96	K2 Uchino Racing	Oreca 07	1:53.580
6	LMP2	1	Eurasia Motorsport	Ligier JS P217	1:54.556
7	LMP2 Am	4	ARC Bratislava	Ligier JS P2	1:56.893
8	LMP2 Am	59	RLR MSport	Oreca 05	1:57.841
9	LMP2	33	Inter Europol Endurance	Ligier JS P217	1:58.608
10	LMP3	3	Nielsen Racing	Norma M30	2:00.112
11	LMP3	13	Inter Europol Competition	Ligier JS P3	2:00.515
12	LMP3	2	Nielsen Racing	Norma M30	2:01.179
13	LMP3	9	Graff Racing	Norma M30	2:01.215
14	LMP3	12	ACE1 Villorba Corse	Ligier JS P3	2:01.719
15	GT	27	HubAuto Corsa	Ferrari 488 GT3	2:03.760
16	GT	51	Spirit of Race	Ferrari 488 GT3	2:04.041
17	GT	77	D'station Racing AMR	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	2:04.042
18	LMP3	65	Viper Niza Racing	Ligier JS P3	2:04.080
19	GT	7	Car Guy Racing	Ferrari 488 GT3	2:04.106
20	GT	90	FIST-Team AAI	BMW M6 GT3	2:04.750
21	GT	75	T2 Motorsports	Ferrari 488 GT3	2:05.005
22	GT	88	Team JLOC	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo	2:05.050
23	GT	17	Astro Veloce Motorsport	BMW M6 GT3	2:05.194
24	GT Am	16	Astro Veloce Motorsport	BMW M6 GT3	2:10.793
DNS	LMP2 Am	25	Rick Ware Racing	Ligier JS P2	—
DNS	LMP2 Am	52	Rick Ware Racing	Ligier JS P2	—
Source:[5]

Race

Race results

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 77 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Pos.	Class	No.	Entry	Drivers	Car	Laps	Time/Gap
					Engine
1	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing with Algarve	James French Leonard Hoogenboom Roman Rusinov	Aurus 01	111	4:02:04.411
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
2	LMP2	36	Eurasia Motorsport	Nick Foster Roberto Merhi Aidan Read	Ligier JS P217	111	+41.729
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
3[a]	LMP2	45	Thunderhead Carlin Racing	Ben Barnicoat Jack Manchester Harry Tincknell	Dallara P217	108	+3 Laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
4	LMP2	34	Inter Europol Endurance	Mathias Beche Jakub Śmiechowski James Winslow	Ligier JS P217	108	+3 Laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
5	LMP3	13	Inter Europol Competition	Martin Hippe Nigel Moore	Ligier JS P3	107	+4 Laps
					Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8
6	LMP2 Am	59	RLR MSport	John Farano Andrew Higgins Arjun Maini	Oreca 05	106	+5 Laps
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
7	LMP3	2	Nielsen Racing	Colin Noble Tony Wells	Norma M30	106	+5 Laps
					Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8
8	LMP2	33	Inter Europol Endurance	John Corbett Nathan Kumar Mitchell Neilson	Ligier JS P217	105	+6 Laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
9	LMP3	9	Graff Racing	David Droux Eric Trouillet Sébastien Page	Norma M30	105	+6 Laps
					Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8
10	GT	77	D'station Racing AMR	Tomonobu Fujii Ross Gunn Satoshi Hoshino	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	105	+6 Laps
					Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8
11	LMP3	12	ACE1 Villorba Corse	Alessandro Bressan Gabriele Lancieri Yuki Harata	Ligier JS P3	104	+7 Laps
					Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8
12	GT	88	Team JLOC	André Couto Yuya Motojima Yusaku Shibata	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo	104	+7 Laps
					Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
13	GT	17	Astro Veloce Motorsport	Jens Klingmann Aven Qi Max Wiser	BMW M6 GT3	104	+7 Laps
					BMW 4.4 L V8
14	LMP2 Am	52	Rick Ware Racing	Mark Kvamme Cody Ware	Ligier JS P2	104	+7 Laps
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
15	GT	51	Spirit of Race	Oswaldo Negri Jr. Alessandro Pier Guidi Francesco Piovanetti	Ferrari 488 GT3	104	+7 Laps
					Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
16	GT	7	Car Guy Racing	Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari 488 GT3	104	+7 Laps
					Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
17	GT	27	HubAuto Corsa	Morris Chen Marcos Gomes Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GT3	104	+7 Laps
					Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
18	GT	75	T2 Motorsports	Christian Colombo Rio Haryanto David Tjiptobiantoro	Ferrari 488 GT3	104	+7 Laps
					Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
19	LMP3	65	Viper Niza Racing	Dominc Ang Douglas Khoo	Ligier JS P3	103	+8 Laps
					Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8
20	LMP3	3	Nielsen Racing	Charles Crews Garett Grist Rob Hodes	Norma M30	103	+8 Laps
					Nissan VK50 5.0 L V8
Not Classified
DNF	LMP2	96	K2 Uchino Racing	Haruki Kurosawa Shaun Thong	Oreca 07	107
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
DNF	LMP2 Am	4	ARC Bratislava	Miro Konopka Andreas Laskaratos Kang Ling	Ligier JS P2	77
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMP2	1	Eurasia Motorsport	Daniel Gaunt Nobuya Yamanaka Masataka Yanagida	Ligier JS P217	27
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
DNF	GT	90	FIST-Team AAI	Jun-San Chen Joel Eriksson Ye Hongli	BMW M6 GT3	17
					BMW 4.4 L V8
Source:[7]

1. The No. 45 Thunderhead Carlin Racing was given a post-race penalty of three laps and 51 seconds for a driving time infringement for Ben Barnicoat.^[6]