A second Asian Le Mans Series event, scheduled for the Shanghai International Circuit, China, on 7 and 8 November was cancelled by the ACO due to economic circumstances.

However, the European Le Mans Series suffered from a lack of entrants during its debut season and was eventually canceled.

In 2009, a reborn Asian Le Mans Series held an inaugural event in Okayama, Japan with two 500 km races.

[3] The format will be run very similarly to the European Le Mans Series, with the ACO expecting around 16-18 cars for the first relaunched season.

A primary issue that supported the takeover included low car counts for the season which prompted the cancellation of a scheduled round in Thailand and limited the series to grow while only in its second year.

Plans for 2015 include a three-race calendar to begin later in the year around September then expand to five rounds in 2016 with the first race in the spring.

It includes a new Michelin Asia GT Challenge, which is a combined classification for GT3 teams, where the winner will get an invitation to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The GTC class is opened to GT3 category cars in addition to Super GT series GT300 teams.

The season champions of LMP2 and GTC receive an invitation to the following year's 24 Hours of Le Mans.

ACO's Generation II 2020 Regulation Built LMP3 Cars from manufacturers such as Ligier, ADESS, Ginetta & Duqueine Engineering were now eligible in the series starting in the 2021 season.

In the 2023 season of the Asian Le Mans Series, a bronze pro-am rated driver would be mandatory in each class for the first time.

The 2023-24 Asian Le Mans Series season began with a double header at the Sepang International Circuit.

It would also hold races in the category as well for the first time venturing in the Middle East starting in the 2021 Asian Le Mans Series season with the 4 Hours of Dubai at Dubai Autodrome and 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi at Yas Marina Circuit.