ELMS @ 4 Hours of Portimao 2022: 8 Titles at play
LMP2: Prema Racing strong leader
With three wins at Le Castellet, Imola and Barcelona, Prema Racing are 24 points ahead of the only challengers in the teams title. 2021 ELMS Champion Louis Deletraz and Ferdinand Habsburg are also 24 points ahead in the drivers’ championship.
The Panis Racing trio Nico Jamin, Job Van Uitert and Julien Canal need to get the pole Saturday AND win the 4 Hours of Portimão Sunday AND the Prema Racing finishing behind P8 to get the drivers and teams titles. Their chances are slim but mathematically still possible!
LMP2 PRO-AM: Racing Turkey with two contenders
Racing Team Turkey Oreca #34 holds a 22-point lead in the LMP2 Pro-Am championship, with the #88 AF Corse and is 23 points ahead of #24 Nielsen Racing Oreca.
Racing Team Turkey Oreca just needs to be classified at the end of the race to secure the 2022 title.
📷 © Luc Warnotte @ 4 Hours of Portimao 2022.
If the Racing Team Turkey Oreca fails to finish, #88 AF Corse or the #24 Nielsen Racing still need to win the Pro-Am class to move ahead of the Turkish team in the standings.
LMP3: Two teams for the titles
After three wins in a row, the #13 Inter Europol Competition Ligier-Nissan as well as their drivers Guilherme Oliveira, Nico Pino and Charles Crews have a 19-point lead in the drivers and teams championships.
Their only challengers are Malthe Jakobsen, Michael Benham and Maurice Smith with the #17 Cool Racing.
The #13 trio need a P5 or better to clinch the championships.
LMGTE: still very open.
📷 © Luc Warnotte @ 4 Hours of Portimao 2022.
Three teams are still battling for the championship titles in LMGTE with #77 Proton Competition Porsche with Christian Ried, Lorenzo Ferrari and Gianmaria Bruni 9-points ahead of #57 Kessel Racing Ferrari driven by Mikkel Jensen and Frederik Schandorff and 21 points ahead of reigning champion Matteo Cressoni with #50 Iron Lynx Ferrari (this year with co-drivers Davide Rigon and Claudio Shiavoni).