Louis Deletraz demonstrated his driving art this morning at Barcelona by setting the pace with #14 AO by TF Oreca 07 Gibson in 1:28.821 and being the only driver under the 1:29’’ mark during the first free practice.

Both days of the ELMS Official Test saw eight drivers with 7 teams lapping under 1m29’’ with Arthur Leclerc setting the Benchmark of the 4.657km Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in 1m28.254 with the #65 Panis Racing Oreca 07 - Gibson.

The Iron Dames will be present on four endurance fronts in 2024 with a Lamborghini in IMSA, Michelin Le Mans Cup and WEC and a Porsche in ELMS.

Victory and titles for Alessio Picariello, Zacharie Robichon and Ryan Hardwick with the Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR-19.

Same results as for the penultimate race of the ELMS Championship with #22 United Autosports USA clinching a second win in a row and P2 for #25 Algarve Pro Racing who clinch LMP2 Drivers and Teams’ titles.

Paul Loup Chatin, Giorgio Roda, Gaël Julien and Ryan Hardwick were the pole man of the different class for the last qualifying sessions of the 2023 ELMS championship.

Hat trick for Proton Competition who got three Porsche 911 RSR-19 squatting the podium.

The penultimate race of the ELMS Championship was a tense battle between #22 Unitied Autosports USA and #25 Algarve Pro Racing with #22 winning the race and Algarve Pro Racing clinching the overall Championship.

James Allen with the #25 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca was the fastest of 4 Hours of Algarve‘s qualifying sessions.

Since 2011, Ferrari won 45 times, Porsche 23 times, Aston Martin 4 times. This season, Porsche dominates with 3 cars in the top 4 of Teams and Drivers Championships. Let’s review the standings before the two last races of the LMGTE era in ELMS.

Maldonado’s strike from another perspective.

Kyffin Simpson, Alex Lynn and James Allen with #25 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca won the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Double for Cool Racing winning LMP2 Pro/am and LMP3, Iron Lynx wins LMGTE class.

APR and Racing Team Turkey clinch the point pole in LMP2 and LMP2 PRO-AM increasing the gap with competitors in class and overall championships. Proton Competition tops LMGTE.

All competitors did participate to the morning Free Practice 1 for the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps which was dominated by Philip Hanson in LMP2, Antoine Doquin in LMP3 and Matteo Cairoli in LMGTE.

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.