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Dragonspeed on Fire in Free Practice 1

ELMS - 25/08/2017 - Jeff CARTER

The no21 Dragonspeed Oreca07-Gibson was the quickest of the 35 cars taking part in the first practice session of the 4 Hours of Le Castellet weekend at the Circuit Paul Ricard. With the top five cars covered by less than 0.9 seconds it was Nico Lapierre in the Dragonspeed Oreca who set a blistering 1m54.234 lap in the 30 degree weather on the longer 5.842km Le Castellet track thanks to the addition of the chicane on the Mistral Straight, 0.099s ahead of the no39 Graff Oreca-Gibson of Enzo Guibbert.

Nicolas Minassian made it a French 1-2-3 at the top of the LMP2 category setting the third fastest time of the session of 1m54.789 in the no22 G-Drive Racing Oreca.

The no15 RLR M Sport Ligier-Nissan was the pace setter in the LMP3 category with Alex Kapadia posting a 2m03.054 lap, 0.103s ahead of Ross Kaiser in the no6 360 Racing Ligier JS P3. The no19 M.Racing –YMR Norma M30 of Yann Ehrlacher was the fastest of the four Normas on the grid for this weekend’s 4 Hours of Le Castellet, with the French driver setting a 2m03.233 just 0.179s behind Kapadia.

Ferrari led the way in the LMGTE category with the no51 Spirit of Race F488 of Andrea Bertolini taking the top spot with a 2m05.961, 0.130s ahead of Nicki Thiim in the championship leading no90 TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage. The second Aston Martin was third quickest with Ross Gunn setting a 2m06.936 to keep the no99 Beechdean AMR Vantage in contention.

The second Free Practice session will take on Saturday 26 August at 09h25 (CET) and qualifying getting underway at 13h45 tomorrow afternoon.

CLICK HERE for the result from Free Practice 1 for the 4 Hours of Le Castellet, Round 4 of the 2017 European Le Mans Series

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Season 2021

Barcelona 18 April

Red Bull Ring 16 May

Monza 11 July

Le Castellet 29 August

Spa-Francorchamps 19 September

Portimão 24 October

Results 2020

LMP2 Teams

1 - United Autosports (109pts)

2 - United Autosports (70pts)

3 - G-Drive Racing (61pts)

4 - Panis Racing (47pts)

5 - Graff (43pts)

6 - Duqueine Team (38pts)

7 - Cool Racing (28.5pts)

8 - High Class Racing (24pts)

9 - IDEC Sport (21pts)

10 - Richard Mille Racing Team (20pts)

11 - Algarve Pro Racing (19.5pts)

12 - Inter Europol Competition (15.5pts)

13 - Algarve Pro Racing (13pts)

14 - DragonSpeed (5.5pts)

15 - BHK Motorsport (1.5pts)

All results

LMP2 Drivers

1 - Filipe ALBUQUERQUE (109pts)

1 - Philip HANSON (109pts)

2 - Alex BRUNDLE (70pts)

2 - Job VAN UITERT (70pts)

2 - William OWEN (70pts)

3 - Mikkel JENSEN (61pts)

3 - Roman RUSINOV (61pts)

4 - Julien CANAL (47pts)

4 - Nicolas JAMIN (47pts)

4 - William STEVENS (47pts)

5 - Nyck DE VRIES (43pts)

6 - Alexandre COUGNAUD (43pts)

6 - James ALLEN (43pts)

6 - Thomas LAURENT (43pts)

7 - Jonathan HIRSCHI (38pts)

7 - Konstantin TERESCHENKO (38pts)

7 - Tristan GOMMENDY (38pts)

8 - Alexandre COIGNY (28.5pts)

8 - Antonin BORGA (28.5pts)

8 - Nicolas LAPIERRE (28.5pts)

9 - Anders FJORDBACH (24pts)

9 - Dennis ANDERSEN (24pts)

10 - Paul LAFARGUE (21pts)

10 - Richard BRADLEY (21pts)

11 - Tatiana CALDERON (19.5pts)

12 - Gabriel AUBRY (19.5pts)

12 - John FALB (19.5pts)

13 - Jean-Eric VERGNE (18pts)

14 - André NEGRÃO (18pts)

15 - Simon TRUMMER (15.5pts)

16 - Jakub SMIECHOWSKI (15.5pts)

16 - Matevos ISAAKYAN (15.5pts)

16 - Rene BINDER (15.5pts)

17 - Henning ENQVIST (13pts)

17 - Jon LANCASTER (13pts)

18 - Paul Loup CHATIN (13pts)

19 - Beitske VISSER (10pts)

20 - Loïc DUVAL (9pts)

21 - Nicolas MINASSIAN (8pts)

22 - Arjun MAINI (8pts)

23 - Mémo ROJAS (5.5pts)

24 - Ryan CULLEN (4.5pts)

25 - Sophia FLÖRSCH (2pts)

26 - Francesco DRACONE (1.5pts)

26 - Sergio CAMPANA (1.5pts)

27 - Timothé BURET (1pts)

All results

LMP3 Teams

1 - United Autosports (94pts)

2 - Inter Europol Competition (73pts)

3 - Realteam Racing (68pts)

4 - Eurointernational (55pts)

5 - United Autosports (46.5pts)

6 - Graff (42pts)

7 - RLR MSport (35pts)

8 - Nielsen Racing (32pts)

9 - DKR Engineering (24pts)

10 - Nielsen Racing (22.5pts)

11 - BHK Motorsport (10pts)

12 - Graff (9pts)

All results

LMP3 Drivers

1 - Robert WHELDON (94pts)

1 - Tom GAMBLE (94pts)

1 - Wayne BOYD (94pts)

2 - Martin HIPPE (73pts)

3 - David DROUX (68pts)

4 - Niko KARI (55pts)

5 - Esteban GARCIA (50pts)

6 - Andrew BENTLEY (46.5pts)

6 - Duncan TAPPY (46.5pts)

7 - Arnold ROBIN (42pts)

7 - Maxime ROBIN (42pts)

7 - Vincent CAPILLAIRE (42pts)

8 - Dino LUNARDI (40pts)

9 - Jacopo BARATTO (36pts)

10 - James DAYSON (35pts)

10 - Malthe JAKOBSEN (35pts)

11 - Nigel MOORE (33pts)

12 - Nicolas MAULINI (32pts)

13 - Charles CREWS (32pts)

13 - Garett GRIST (32pts)

13 - Rob HODES (32pts)

14 - James McGUIRE (28.5pts)

15 - François KIRMANN (24pts)

15 - Laurents HÖRR (24pts)

16 - Thomas ERDOS (23pts)

17 - Anthony WELLS (22.5pts)

17 - Colin NOBLE (22.5pts)

18 - Julien GERBI (18pts)

19 - Robert MEGENNIS (18pts)

20 - Wolfgang TRILLER (16pts)

21 - Ryan HARPER-ELLAM (15pts)

22 - Andreas LASKARATOS (15pts)

23 - Eric TROUILLET (9pts)

23 - Sébastien PAGE (9pts)

24 - Jean GLORIEUX (8pts)

25 - Luis SANJUAN (7pts)

26 - Lorenzo VEGLIA (6pts)

27 - Tom CLOET (5pts)

28 - Alex FONTANA (4pts)

28 - Julius ADOMAVICIUS (4pts)

29 - Andrea FONTANA (4pts)

30 - Gustas GRINBERGAS (3pts)

31 - Nicholas ADCOCK (1pts)

32 - Philippe PAILLOT (1pts)

All results

LMGTE Teams

1 - Proton Competition (99pts)

2 - Kessel Racing (99pts)

3 - Spirit of Race (62pts)

4 - Iron Lynx (61pts)

5 - Proton Competition (47pts)

6 - JMW Motorsport (38pts)

7 - Iron Lynx (35pts)

8 - AF Corse (28pts)

All results

LMGTE Drivers

1 - Alessio PICARIELLO (99pts)

1 - Christian RIED (99pts)

1 - Michele BERETTA (99pts)

2 - David PEREL (99pts)

2 - Michael BRONISZEWSKI (99pts)

3 - Aaron SCOTT (62pts)

3 - Duncan CAMERON (62pts)

3 - Matthew GRIFFIN (62pts)

4 - Nicola CADEI (62pts)

5 - Manuela GOSTNER (61pts)

5 - Michelle GATTING (61pts)

5 - Rahel FREY (61pts)

6 - Felipe LASER (47pts)

6 - Michael FASSBENDER (47pts)

6 - Richard LIETZ (47pts)

7 - Finlay HUTCHISON (38pts)

8 - Marcos GOMES (37pts)

9 - Christoph ULRICH (28pts)

9 - Steffen GÖRIG (28pts)

10 - Rino MASTRONARDI (26pts)

11 - Gunnar JEANNETTE (26pts)

11 - Rodrigo SALES (26pts)

12 - Andrea PICCINI (25pts)

12 - Sergio PIANEZZOLA (25pts)

13 - Alexander WEST (20pts)

14 - Claudio SCHIAVONI (19pts)

15 - Hunter ABBOTT (12pts)

15 - Jody FANNIN (12pts)

16 - Nicklas NIELSEN (10pts)

17 - Daniel SERRA (8pts)

All results

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