A year on from Ferrari’s tenth overall victory in the centenary edition of the world’s oldest endurance race, the Maranello manufacturer returns to the La Sarthe circuit to confirm its position as a leading contender in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

For Ferrari AF Corse, the Prologue was essential to start gathering valuable information on this new track for the championship, but there is still much work to do during free practice.

Both BMW and Ferrari have been sanctioned for performance in excess during the Rolex 24 At Daytona, losing all their IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and Michelin Endurance Cup manufacturers points in the GTD PRO and GTD classes.

Risi Comptizione’s Ferrari 296 GT3 won overall combined GTD PRO and GTD classes and Winward Racing’s Mercedes AMG GT3 won GTD class finishing third of combined classes. Four Ferrari 296 GT3 among top 7 GT3 entries.

The Maranello manufacturer will field five Ferrari 296 GT3s and seven official drivers competing in the two GTD/GTD PRO classes. Two additional Ferrari official drivers will compete inLMP2 class.

Thursday practices were run in clear conditions with Toyota #8 dominating their rivals in the morning practice by more than 1.6 sec. and Ferrari managing to tie the game, even beating the time set by the #8 during the second session.

The 6 Hours of Portimão saw five different Hypercar manufacturers represented in the top 5: Toyota, Ferrari, Porsche, Cadillac and Porsche. Four cars had technical problems and one did not finish. We review each car race and share drivers comments after the race.

Toyota Gazoo Racing and United Autosport dominated their respective class. In LMGTE AM, the battle was fierce with several leaders; Corvette Racing clinch a second victory after Sebring.

Brendon Hartley did set the fastest lap of 6 Hours of Portimao qualifying to head another Toyota Gazoo Racing 1-2. Mirko Bortolotti in LMP2 and Ben Keating in LMGTE AM are the winners in their respective classes.

Kamui Kobayashi did set the fastest lap of today’s both sessions to head another Toyota Gazoo Racing 1-2.

Here are the Ferrari Hypercars drivers’ comments ahead of the 6 Hours that will kick off on Sunday 16 April, at 12 p.m. (local time) at the Portuguese track.

After a positive debut at Sebring, the two Ferrari 499P crews are ready to make a comeback in the top class of the FIA World Endurance Championship at the 6 Hours of Portimão. Miguel Molina interview by Ferrari.com

After the accident on Turn 1 on Sunday, having completed the analysis, AF Corse Ferrari decided to replace the chassis of number 51. Drivers quotes before the race weekend.

Ferrari officially announces its crews for taking on the 2023 season in the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance.

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Ferrari got the double by winning in both classes and clinching the PRO and AM titles. No discussion in GTE AM class where François Perrodo, Nicklas Nielsen and Alessio Rovera dominated the championship and the race. In GTE PRO class, Alessandro Pier Guidi took the win after taking Christensen out of track. Three days after, Ferrari was officially crowned 2021 FIA World Endurance GTE Manufacturer’s Champion and James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi have been named World Endurance GTE Driver’s Champions.

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.

United Autosport #2 wins the race and the second invitation to the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans.

G-Drive #25 as well as John Falb and Rui Andrade clinch the new Pro/AM championships.

DKR Engineering #4 cross checkered class first in LMP3 but got a 65” penalty still clinching the championship title as well as Laurent Horr.

Cool Racing in LMP2, United Autosports in LMP3 and TF Sport in LMGTE are the pole sitters in the 3 class for the 4 Hours of Portimao tomorrow.

The LMP2 Team title was wrapped up at Spa-Francorchamps last month by Orlen Team WRT and their drivers Louis Deletraz, Robert Kubica and Yiffei Ye took the Driver one. Still the second invitation at the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans granted to the second of the class will be in play.

It is a different story in the other classes. Let us review the situation class by class.

Francois Perrodo, Emmanuel Collard and Alessio Rovera with their #88 AF Corse took victory in the 4 Hours of Spa LM GTE class, 25 seconds ahead of the #80 Iron Lynx trio Miguel Molina, Rino Mastronardi and Matteo Cressoni.

Iron Lynx secured a double podium with Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting and Rahel Frey taking third.