LMGTE farewell to ELMS at Portimao
The end of an era
The final two races of the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) Championship marks the end for the Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance (LMGTE) category after thirteen seasons. There is still one more race in the FIA World Endurance Championship in Bahrain, before the category is replaced with LMGT3 in 2024.
Since 2011, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Porsche have been battling during 67 Le Mans Series and European Le Mans Series races with Ferrari winning 45 times, Porsche 23 times, Aston Martin 4 times. BMW won one race when they joined the European Le Mans Series for one season in 2015. We saw a Corvette C7-Z06 for one race at Monza.
Porsche 911 RSR dominating this season
📷 Luc Warnotte at Portimao. #16 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR.
Porsche is dominating this season with Proton Competition having 3 cars in the top 4 of the Championship. Each of those 3 cars have won a race each (#16 at Barcelona, #77 at Le Castellet and #60 at Spa-Francorchamps).
📷 Luc Warnotte at Portimao. #60 Iron Lynch Porsche 911 RSR.
#16 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR driven by Alessio Picariello, Ryan Hardwick and Zacharie Robichon are currently first (3 podiums) with the same number of points (61) than Iron Lynx #60 (prepared by Proton Competition) Porsche driven by Claudio Schiavoni, Matteo Cressoni and Matteo Cairoli (2 podiums).
📷 Luc Warnotte at Portimao. Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GTE #57.
Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GTE #57 with Gregory Huffaker II and Takeshi Kimura won the night race at Aragon and are currently third of the Championships with 53 points.
📷 Luc Warnotte at Portimao. Proton Competition Porsche #77.
Proton Competition team owner Christian Ried driving Porsche #77 he shares with Giammarco Levorato and Julien Andlauer are currently fourth with 42 points. Christian Ried has been part of the victorious driver line up 10 times (almost every year except 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2021) and ELMS Champion twice.
Three Ferraris still in the run
📷 Luc Warnotte at Portimao.
#50 Formula Racing is currently fifth in the Teams Championship with 40 pts as their drivers Conrad and Johnny Laursen in the Drivers Championship.
#66 JMW Motorsport is currently sixth in the Teams Championship with 35 pts as their drivers Jon Lancaster, Lorcan Hanafin and Martin Berry in the Drivers Championship.
#55 Spirit of Race is currently seventh in the Teams Championship with 34 pts as their drivers David Perrel, Duncan Cameron (8 victories since 2013) and Matthew Griffin who has accumulated the most wins (11 times) winning at least one race four years in a row between 2017 and 2021.
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