Racing System. He teamed up with Jan Charouz of the Czech Republic and Stefan Mucke of Germany. The team entered the most famous of endurance races, the 24 Heures du Mans and the Le Mans Series. In the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans, the team completed 338 laps and finished in eighth overall and fifth in LMP1 Class. GP2 Asia Series For the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season, Yoong signed to drive for the Qi-Meritus Mahara team. He was replaced by Marco Bonanomi for the third race weekend in Bahrain, due to a lack of sufficient time for racing. Lotus Young Driver Programme Lotus Racing announced on 9 December 2009 that Yoong would become the leader of their young driver development programme. Yoong currently focuses on the development of drivers in Asia. Intercontinental Le Mans Cup In November 2010, Alex Yoong partnered Marchy Lee and Matthew Marsh at the 1000km Zhuhai race, driving an Audi R8 LMS. The trio won the GTC class. 2011 SEA Games Alex Yoong has earlier competed for the water skiing event in the 1997 Jakarta Games where he won a silver medal. He returned to Water skiing at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games and he claimed one gold medal and one silver medal in the men's slalom and jump events on 17 November 2011. He was a representative for Malaysia in the 1992 Junior World Waterski Championships held in Colombia, before he concentrated on his motorsport career. Audi R8 LMS Cup Yoong is currently a driver in the Audi R8 LMS Cup with Audi TEDA. In the inaugural race in Shanghai, Yoong started second on the grid. At the start, he overtook rival Marchy Lee at the first corner and won the race. In the second race, Yoong finished 2nd behind Adderly Fong. The third round in Zhuhai, saw Yoong qualified on pole and during the race, he lost the lead as Lee overtook the Malaysian and Yoong was third at the end of lap one and in front a four-car battle that took place behind him. He eventually finished on the final podium position in third. During the fourth round, he finished third after an overtaking manoeuvre with Lee resulted in Yoong taking damage to his car. Racing record Complete British Formula 3 results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap) Complete International Formula 3000 results (key)