Nelson Piquet Jr was the fastest of 41 cars that took part to both sessions today at Spa-Francorchamps for the test-day of the fourth round of the 2023 European Le Mans Series season.

The LMGTE race was animated, mostly dominated by Proton Competition with two of the four prepared Porsche 911 RSR-19s finishing first and second.

With four leader changes in the last 22 laps, It is finally the #25 Algarve Pro Racing with Alexander Lynn, James Allen and K. Simpson that crossed checkered flag first as leading #28 IDEC Sport had to pit due to a puncture with 14 laps to go and Louis Deletraz with #34 Racing Team Turkey had to give up the lead four laps before the end as he was struggling for grip.

Jose Maria Lopez with 11 seconds to go before the end of the session clinched pole beating Chatin for 0.266 seconds in 1:44.253. The #47 trio Vladislav Lomko, Reshad De GERUS and Jose Maria Lopez will start from pole the 4 Hours of Le Castellet tomorrow at 11:30 am.

Cool Racing strikes the double in FP1 at Paul Ricard this morning with Lopez in #47 fastest in LMP2 and Jakobsen driving #37 in LMP2/AM. Nick Thiim was fastest in LMGTE with #44 Aston Martin.

Third win in a row with three different teams at the 4 Hours of Barcelona for Louis Deletraz who won with Team WRT in 2021, Prema Racing last year and Racing Team Turkey today. The 2022 ELMS Champion wins the first round of the ELMS championship together with S. Yoluc and C. Eastwood.

Successfull weekend so far for Cool Racing who is getting two of the three cars on pole in LMP2 and LMP3 for the first round of the new European Le Mans Series season.

Ahead of the 4 Hours of Barcelona, the Circuit de Barcelona - Catalunia was the siege of the two days official tests Wednesday and Thursday. Here are the top 3 lap times per category for the combined sessions (4 day sessions and one night) during the two days official tests.

After scoring a P2 with Wayne Taylor Racing Acura GTP at Rolex 24 At Daytona, Louis Deletraz details us how he managed to be recruited by 4 different teams for 4 different prototype championships. This is the first part of the interview.

42 cars will participate to the 2023 European Le Mans Series with the highest number of LMP2 (18 cars). The drivers lineups count several previous F1 drivers as well as former WEC or ELMS champions.

Two first seasons for Louis Deletraz in ELMS with two different teams end with titles for both Championships.

First ELMS win for the Iron Dames. Ries, Ferrari and Bruni are Drivers Champions with Proton Competition Porsche being Team Champion.

#9 Prema Racing win and clinch Championships. Panis Racing end second. Both get an invitation to 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Two victories and two titles for Iron Lynx with #9 Prema Racing winning overall and LMP2 Drivers and Team Championships. The Iron Dames won LMGTE class.

Jack Aitken with #34 Racing Team Turkey, Malthe Jakobsen with #17 Cool Racing and Sarah Bovy with #83 Iron Dames Ferrari won pole in LMP2, LMP3 and LMGTE respectively.

8 titles at play for the last round of the ELMS Championship at Portimao. The LMP classes have a strong leader and LMGTE is still very open.

Despite a spin in the Raidillon by Conrad Grunewald - author of the pole position, Mikkel Jensen, Conrad Grunewald and Frederik Schandorff won for the first time this season.

Fourth victory of United Autosports #22 and Phil Hanson at the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Together with Tom Gamble and D. Tappy, they kept the lead during the second half of the race.

Double blow for Cool Racing with pole in LMP2 and LMP3 during the qualifying session of the 4 Hours of Francorchamps this afternoon. In LMGTE, Conrad GRUNEWALD with Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Evo was 1 sec. faster than competitors in class.

Philip Hanson, Malthe Jakobsen and Alessio Picariello were the fastest in their class today during Free Practice 1 at Spa-Francorchamps.