Third round of the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) championship with qualifying of the 4 hours of Imola today. Bovy in LMGT3 and Roda in LMP2 Pro-Am scored their third consecutive pole.

A safety car one hour from the end turned the 4 Hours of le Castellet endurance race into a sprint shuffling the rankings in each class where the strategy played an determining role. Inter Europol Competition first win in ELMS.

Bovy and Roda did clinch their second consecutive pole during qualifying today respectively in LMGT3 and LM2 Pro-Am. Julien in LMP3. van Uitert will start from pole since setting the fastest lap in LMP2.

Malthe Jakobsen with #37 COOL Racing did set the fastest lap in 1:41.186 during this morning Free Practice 1.

15 of the 16 LMP2 cars entered for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans will participate to the 4 Hours of Le Castellet this weekend.

Cool Racing, AF Corse, Team Virage and Formula Racing are the class winners of the first ELMS race at Barcelona.

The first ELMS qualifying practice of the new season saw Benjamin Hanley, Giorgio Roda, Manuel Espirito Santo and Sarah Bovy setting pole with their respective cars during the four class sessions this afternoon at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Inter Eurpol Competition claimed their first ever WEC victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as Jakub Śmiechowski, Fabio Scherer and Albert Costa crossed checkered flag first at 4pm Sunday.

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.

Third victory of the season for Miguel Molina, Matteo Cressoni and Rino Mastronardi who dominated the race with their #80 Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GTE Evo and secured the title as well as an invitation to the next 24 Hours of Le Mans. The battle with Proton Porsche #93 was intense during the last hour.