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.

Maldonado’s strike from another perspective.

Kyffin Simpson, Alex Lynn and James Allen with #25 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca won the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Double for Cool Racing winning LMP2 Pro/am and LMP3, Iron Lynx wins LMGTE class.

APR and Racing Team Turkey clinch the point pole in LMP2 and LMP2 PRO-AM increasing the gap with competitors in class and overall championships. Proton Competition tops LMGTE.

All competitors did participate to the morning Free Practice 1 for the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps which was dominated by Philip Hanson in LMP2, Antoine Doquin in LMP3 and Matteo Cairoli in LMGTE.

Nelson Piquet Jr was the fastest of 41 cars that took part to both sessions today at Spa-Francorchamps for the test-day of the fourth round of the 2023 European Le Mans Series season.

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.

42 cars will participate to the 2023 European Le Mans Series with the highest number of LMP2 (18 cars). The drivers lineups count several previous F1 drivers as well as former WEC or ELMS champions.