Alex Arkin Aka (born 7 August 2000) is a German racing driver currently competing in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. He is the son of Attempto Racing team boss Arkin Aka.[1]
Aka made his car racing debut for his father's team in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Benelux in 2018. The following year, he would make a sole appearance in the DMV Dunlop 60 series.
For the 2020 season, Aka switched to GT3 racing to compete in the Silver Cup class of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup.[2] Partnering Nicolas Schöll for the whole campaign and Finlay Hutchison for its majority, Aka finished the year 18th in class with a best individual race finish of 24th at the Nürburgring.[3]
Aka competed in the Dubai 24 Hours at the start of 2021, before embarking on a double-campaign in the Silver Cup categories of the GTWC Endurance and GTWC Sprint cups.[4][5][6] The former proved to be a vast improvement to the previous year, as he, Dennis Marschall, and Max Hofer finished on the class podium in Germany, helping them to third place in the Silver Cup standings.[7][8] In the latter, Aka and Marschall scored a lone win at Valencia, which was the German's first victory in a subclass.[9]
Beginning 2021, Aka once again took part in the Dubai 24 Hours, where he and his teammates finished seventh, as well as racing in a full campaign of the Asian Le Mans Series.[10][11] This was preparation for Aka's third season in GT3, which he would once again contest in the silver class of the Endurance and Sprint cups.[12][13] The German showed progress, helping take a pole position alongside Nicolas Schöll and Marius Zug and setting a fastest lap in-class at Imola on his way to second in the Endurance Cup opener.[14] Further class podiums came at the 24 Hours of Spa as well as the Hockenheimring round, which contributed to the trio taking second in the championship.[15][16]
In the Sprint Cup, Aka and Schöll combined to claim fourth in the class standings, scoring one win at Zandvoort where Aka was able to fend off eventual champion Ulysse de Pauw in the closing laps and taking four further category podiums.[17]
Going into his fourth year of the Silver Cup, Aka would be joined by Lorenzo Patrese in the Sprint Cup, with Pietro Delli Guanti joining the pair in Endurance.[18] The trio fared well despite a retirement at the season-opening Imola round, coming back with a class win in Le Castellet.[19][20] They scored another podium at the Nürburgring and finished third in points. Aka and Patrese were embroiled in a title battle in Sprint, where they took a season-high five class victories with a best overall result of fourth in Valencia.[21] However, they would miss out on the championship courtesy of a Patrese-caused collision at the final race in Zandvoort, though their efforts still saw the pair pocket the overall GTWC Europe Silver Cup title.[22]
† As Aka was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.
* Season still in progress.
(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pos. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | Silver | IMO 28 |
NÜR 24 |
SPA 6H 56 |
SPA 12H 56 |
SPA 24H Ret |
LEC Ret |
18th | 21 | |
| 2021 | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | Silver | MON 15 |
LEC 18 |
SPA 6H 28 |
SPA 12H 23 |
SPA 24H 15 |
NÜR 9 |
CAT 15 |
3rd | 73 |
| 2022 | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | Silver | IMO 16 |
LEC 39 |
SPA 6H 30 |
SPA 12H 13 |
SPA 24H 15 |
HOC 8 |
CAT 17 |
2nd | 76 |
| 2023 | Tresor Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | Silver | MNZ Ret |
LEC 15 |
SPA 6H 21 |
SPA 12H 23 |
SPA 24H 47† |
NÜR 18 |
CAT 28 |
3rd | 87 |
| 2024 | Tresor Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | Pro | LEC 6 |
SPA 6H 3 |
SPA 12H 1 |
SPA 24H 12 |
NÜR 4 |
MNZ 4 |
JED | 3rd* | 51* |
*Season still in progress.
| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Pos. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | Pro | MAG 1 19 |
MAG 2 18 |
24th | 7.5 | ||||||||
| Silver | ZAN 1 17 |
ZAN 2 12 |
MIS 1 13 |
MIS 2 Ret |
BRH 1 13 |
BRH 2 13 |
VAL 1 4 |
VAL 2 24† |
11th | 37.5 | |||||
| 2022 | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | Silver | BRH 1 10 |
BRH 2 9 |
MAG 1 14 |
MAG 2 9 |
ZAN 1 12 |
ZAN 2 8 |
MIS 1 Ret |
MIS 2 9 |
VAL 1 19 |
VAL 2 20 |
4th | 80.5 |
| 2023 | Tresor Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | Silver | BRH 1 10 |
BRH 2 21 |
MIS 1 18 |
MIS 2 12 |
HOC 1 33† |
HOC 2 13 |
VAL 1 10 |
VAL 2 4 |
ZAN 1 13 |
ZAN 2 25† |
2nd | 118 |
| 2024 | Tresor Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | Pro | BRH 1 4 |
BRH 2 4 |
MIS 1 Ret |
MIS 2 26 |
HOC 1 Ret |
HOC 2 Ret |
MAG 1 12 |
MAG 2 6 |
CAT 1 |
CAT 2 |
9th* | 19.5* |
