ELMS - 4 Hours of Barcelona: Race results
Third win in a row with three different teams at the ELMS 4 Hours of Barcelona for Louis Deletraz who won with Team WRT in 2021, Prema Racing last year and Racing Team Turkey today.
LMP2 and LMP2 Pro/Am
Vladislav Lomko, with the pole sitting #47 Cool Racing Oreca, took the lead of the 4 Hours of Barcelona during 18 laps thanks to the chao (involving 5 cars) in T3 generating a safety car during the initial 20’.
When the cars were released, Kyffin Simpson in the #25 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca took the lead. Together with James Allen who took over the wheel of the #25, they led during the next 50 laps until James Allen was hit by the #28 IDEC Sport Oreca of Laurents Hörr, spun round, put the rear wheels into the gravel and was unable to get back on track unaided.
Halfway through the race, the #30 Duqueine Team Oreca of Nico Pino was 23.910 sec. ahead of two Pro/Am: the AF Corse #83 was second and C. Eastwood (#34 Racing Team Turkey) in third after taking over the wheel from S. Yoluc making up 4 places from 7th to 3rd just a little second behind the #83..
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Barcelona. C. Eastwood with #34 Racing Team Turkey in third at mid-race.
At the third hour, the Racing Team Turkey #34 was in the lead 8.749 sec. ahead of #30 Duqueine Team Oreca and 30.879 sec. ahead of #47 Cool Racing Oreca.
The last half hour was very thrilling as the then leader, Louis Deletraz (#34 Racing Team Turkey), had to come in to repair the rear of the car that had been damaged following a collision with a United Autosports Oreca. The TF Sport team did replace the rear of the car in less than 10 seconds, enabling Deletraz to get back on track five second behind Jani (#30 Duqueine Team) with 25 minutes of racing left to run.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Barcelona. Louis Deletraz with #34 Racing Team Turkey took the lead back after a 10 seconds rear repair with 25’ left. Together with S. Yoluc and C. Eastwood, they win overall and LMP2 Pro/Am class.
Deletraz eventually took over Jani to cross the chequered flag 2.3 sec. ahead of the #30 Duqueine Team Oreca (Pino, Binder and jani).
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Barcelona. #30 Duqueine Team Oreca with Pino, Binder and Jani ended second overall and 1st LMP2 class.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Barcelona.
Top left: Ben Barnicoat, Mathieu Vaxivière and François Perrodo claimed the final step of the overall podium in the #83 AF Corse and the second step of the LMP2 Pro/Am.
Top right: Malthe Jakobsen with the #37 Cool Racing Oreca ended third in LMP2 Pro/Am and 4th overall.
Bottom left: The #65 Panis Racing Oreca was fifth overall and second in LMP2, 19.2 seconds ahead of
Bottom right: the #28 IDEC Sport Oreca.
LMP3
At mid race, A. CHILA / M. SIEBERT / A. GARCIA with Cool Racing Ligier #17 lead the 11 LMP3, 9.193 sec. ahead of the #4 DKR Engineering Duqueine (A. BUKHANTSOV / J. WINSLOW / P. PERINO) followed by (2.429 sec.) M. BELL / A. ALI with #11 Eurointernational Ligier.
After three hours, two cars were still in the same lap fighting for the class victory : Cool Racing Ligier #17, 4.106 sec. ahead of #31 Racing Spirit of Leman.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Barcelona. The #31 Racing Spirit of Leman took the lead from #17 Cool Racing Ligiers to cross the chequered flag 0.4 seconds ahead of
#17 Cool Racing Ligiers crossing the chequered flag second.
#13 Inter Europol Competition Ligier took the final step of the podium.
LMGTE
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Barcelona. Alessio Picariello in the #16 Proton Competition Porsche win the LMGTE class.
Alessio Picariello in the #16 Proton Competition Porsche crossed the line just 1.408 seconds ahead of Conrad Laursen in the #50 Formula Racing Ferrari and a lap ahead of the third placed car, the #66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari.
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