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.

Laurents Hoerr and Mathieu de Barbuat won the LMP3 class of the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps thereby clinching a third consecutive class win with the #4 DKR Engineering.

Team WRT drivers Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Louis Deletraz won the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps 2021. With G-Drive’s retirement WRT #41 team clinch the 2021 European Le Mans Series title ahead of Portimao’s season finale. A new success of the Belgian WRT squad in its first season with prototype cars, after its FIA World Endurance Championship #31 driven by Robin Frijns, Ferdinand Habsburg and Charles Milesi claimed the LMP2 class win at Le Mans.

Both LMP3 and LMP2 classes qualifications sessions were interrupted by an accident at Raidillon. David Hauser crashed his Racing Experience Duqueine LMP3 D08 Nissan and Nicolas Jamin went off in the same place with his #32 United Autosport. Milesi will start in pole with #37 Cool Racing Oreca 07.

Some changes in entry list for the last two rounds of the ELMS championship. Still the same drivers/teams as in previous races are on the forefront with P. Hanson (United Autosport #22) dominating the session in front of L. Deletraz (Team WRT #41).