First part of Filipe Albuquerque‘s interview about his ups and downs in WEC and ELMS before the 6 Hours of Monza 2022.

The LMP3 victory went to the #13 Inter Europol Competition Ligier driven by Guilherme Oliveira, Charles Crews and Nico Pino after a dramatic last 45’ which saw 5 different leaders.

From lap 41 onwards, Gianmaria Bruni, at the wheel of #77 Porsche 911 RSR-19, took the lead of the class until Lap 108 (of a total of 121 laps run by the overall leaders) when Davide Rigon took over the lead but was later disqualified. #77 Proton Competition is thereby the winner of the 4 Hours of Monza 2022 LMGTE class.

Patrick Pilet, Paul Loup Chatin and Paul Lafargue with #28 2019 Champion IDEC Sport Oreca won the 4 Hours of Monza making an end to #9 PREMA successive wins.

Mathias Beche with #31 TDS Racing x Vaillante was the fastest and will start from pole tomorrow. The team confirm the strong result they had at the recent 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Same results in LMP’s with #34 and #4 dominating. Davide Rigon did set the fastest time in LMGTE. Both #18 Absolute Racing drivers, Alessio Picariello and Martin Rump are 2nd and 3rd. 

Alessio Picariello was the fastest in class with #18 Absolute Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19, 0.271 sec. ahead of Lorenzo Ferrari with #77 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR-19. Four Porsche 911 RSR-19 are in the top 5 of the class.

Rahel Frey tells us how she came to car racing, became a professional driver and the changes for the younger generations to reach professional level.

Oman Racing with TF Sport offers the double to Aston Martin Racing with two Vantage in front: #69 of Ahmad Al Harthy, Marco Sorensen, Samuel de Haan in front of the #95 of John Hartshorne, Henrique Chaves, Jonathan Adam.

Second victory in a row for #9 Prema with Louis Deletraz, Lorenzo Colombo and Ferdinand Habsburg after a dramatic race. Andrew Bentley and Kay van Berlo take victory in LMP3 with #3 United Autosport.

Alessio Rivera with #88 AF Corse Oreca 07 will start from pole in tomorrow’s 4 Hours of Imola, Malthe Jakobsen with #17 Cool Racing Ligier will lead the LMP3 and Ahmad Al Harty with #69 Oman Racing with TF Sport dominated the GTE qualification session this afternoon.

Alexander Peroni with #47 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca 07, Malthe Jakobsen with #17 Cool Racing Ligier and Alessio Picariello with Absolute racing Porsche 911 RSR were the fastest in LMP2, LMP3 and GTE today during practice 1 of the 4 Hours of Imola, second race of the ELMS Championship.

We spoke with Alessio Picariellong to discuss about his start in the ELMS season with Absolute Racing Porsche 911 RSR. Here is the full interview:

Alessio Picariello is a Belgian racing driver who won the LMGTE European Le Mans Championship in 2020. In 2022, he’ll drive Porsche 911 RSR for Absolute Racing in the LMGTE European Le Mans Championship and Falken Motorsport for Nürburgring Langstrecken Serie as well as 24 Hours of Nurburgring.

Third victory of the season for Miguel Molina, Matteo Cressoni and Rino Mastronardi who dominated the race with their #80 Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GTE Evo and secured the title as well as an invitation to the next 24 Hours of Le Mans. The battle with Proton Porsche #93 was intense during the last hour.

United Autosport #2 wins the race and the second invitation to the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans.

G-Drive #25 as well as John Falb and Rui Andrade clinch the new Pro/AM championships.

DKR Engineering #4 cross checkered class first in LMP3 but got a 65” penalty still clinching the championship title as well as Laurent Horr.

Cool Racing in LMP2, United Autosports in LMP3 and TF Sport in LMGTE are the pole sitters in the 3 class for the 4 Hours of Portimao tomorrow.

The LMP2 Team title was wrapped up at Spa-Francorchamps last month by Orlen Team WRT and their drivers Louis Deletraz, Robert Kubica and Yiffei Ye took the Driver one. Still the second invitation at the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans granted to the second of the class will be in play.

It is a different story in the other classes. Let us review the situation class by class.

Francois Perrodo, Emmanuel Collard and Alessio Rovera with their #88 AF Corse took victory in the 4 Hours of Spa LM GTE class, 25 seconds ahead of the #80 Iron Lynx trio Miguel Molina, Rino Mastronardi and Matteo Cressoni.

Iron Lynx secured a double podium with Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting and Rahel Frey taking third. 

Laurents Hoerr and Mathieu de Barbuat won the LMP3 class of the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps thereby clinching a third consecutive class win with the #4 DKR Engineering.