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4 Hours of Silverstone – Facts and Figures

ELMS - 11/04/2017

Since April 2013, and the relaunch of the European Le Mans Series by the ACO, Silverstone has been the venue for the first round of the series. With the ELMS racing on the same weekend as the FIA World Endurance Championship, the opening meeting of the season has become a festival of Le Mans style racing and one of the ‘must see’ events of the year for fans of endurance racing.

1. Track Length – 5.901km
2. Corners – 18  (7 left and 11 right turns)
3. Circuit Opened - 1948
4. 2016 Winners (no38 G Drive Racing Gibson-Nissan) completed 118 laps at an average of 192.3kph
5. ELMS LMP2 Lap Record – 1m50.405 – Harry Tincknell (no38 JOTA Sport Gibson-Nissan) – 11 April 2015
6. ELMS LMP3 Lap Record – 1m55.817 – Alex Brundle (no3 United Autosports Ligier-Nissan) – 16 April 2016
7. ELMS LMGTE Lap Record – 2m00.077 – Michele Rugulo (no55 AF Corse Ferarri F458 Italia) – 19 April 2014
8. In LMP2 a British driver has won three of the four race at Silverstone and British teams in 2013 and 2015.
2013 – Simon Dolan, Oliver Turvey - JOTA Sport
2015 – Jon Lancaster - Greaves Motorsport
2016 – Simon Dolan, Harry Tincknell
9. In LMP3 a British driver has won in each of the two years the class has been running 
2015 – Chris Hoy, Charlie Roberston - Team LNT
2016 – Alex Brundle, Christian England
10. In LMGTE a British driver has won at Silverstone every year since 2013 and a British Team in 2015 and 2016
2013 – Nick Tandy
2014 - Duncan Cameron
2015 – Mike Wainwright, Phil Keen and Adam Carroll - Gulf Racing
2016 – Andrew Howard, Darren Turner, Alex MacDowall - Aston Martin Racing
11. The first race at Silverstone for the Le Mans Series was held on the 16th September 2007 – the 1000km of Silverstone.  The race was won by Marc Gene and Nicolas Minassian in an LMP1 class Peugeot 908 HDi

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