ELMS Official Test Concludes at Le Castellet

At the end of 17 hours of testing, undertaken in extreme weather conditions, Henrique Chaves topped the time sheets on his ELMS debut.  The 21-year-old Portuguese driver in the no30 AVF by Adrian Valles Dallara-Gibson set a 1m41.018 in the third session on Monday evening, 0.353s faster than Ben Hanley in the no21 Dragonspeed Oreca-Gibson.  The third fastest time was set by Hanley’s teammate Nicolas Lapierre and fourth fastest was Konstantin Tereschenko, teammate to Henrique Chaves.

Another 21-year-old driver topped the LMP3 time sheets with Alex Toril posting a 1m51.363 in the no8 DKR Engineering Norma-Nissan on Monday evening.  The Spaniards time was over 0.5 seconds faster than the second fastest driver, Mikkel Jensen in the no9 AT Racing Ligier-Nissan.  Matthieu Lahaye was third quickest in the no17 Ultimate Norma with a 1m52.058, just 0.13s ahead of Matt Bell in the no3 United Autosports Ligier.

Gianluca Roda topped the LMGTE times, the Italian setting a 1m54.628 on Monday afternoon in the no88 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR, just ahead of Miguel Molina, the Spanish drivers best time was 1m54.870 in the no66 JMW Ferrari F488 set in the same session.  Andrea Bertolini was third quickest with a 1m54.952 in the no83 Krohn Racing Ferrari.

The stage is now set for the first Free Practice session of the opening race weekend on Friday 13 April as the teams and drivers now get ready for the 4 Hours of Le Castellet.

CLICK HERE for the results from the five Test Sessions held at Le Castellet.