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Duqueine Engineering Quickest in First Practice in Portugal

ELMS - 26/10/2018 - Jeff CARTER

Under grey skies but on a dry track the no29 Duqueine Engineering Oreca-Gibson was the fastest of the 39 cars in Free Practice 1 ahead of this weekend’s 4 Hours of Portimão, the season finale of the 2018 European Le Mans Series.

Pierre Ragues posted a 1m32.846 for the all French team, just seven hundredths ahead of the no22 United Autosports Ligier of local hero Filipe Albuquerque and his British teammate Phil Hanson, with the no32 United Autosports Ligier third quickest two tenths further behind.

LMP2 champions elect, G-Drive Racing could only manage to post the tenth fastest time in the 90-minute session with Jean-Eric Vergne setting a 1m33.977, 1.131s behind the lead car.

The LMP3 category was headed by the no17 Ultimate Norma of Mathieu Lahaye, the French team finishing the session on 1m40.097, nearly three tenths ahead of the no8 DKR Engineering Norma of Nicolas Maulini. The championship leading no15 RLR MSport Ligier was third fastest with Job Van Uitert setting a 1m40.427 lap.

The LMGTE class was a Porsche 1-2 with the no77 Proton Competition 911 of Marvin Dienst leading the way with a 1m43.301, 0.4 seconds ahead of the championship leading no88 Proton Competition Porsche of Giorgio Roda. The no66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari was third quickest with Miguel Molina posting a 1m43.834 lap.

Free Practice 2 will take place tomorrow, Saturday 27 October, at 09h25 local time.

CLICK HERE for the result from Free Practice 1

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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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