Le Castellet 6 Hours – 1st hour

The first hour of the first round of the 2011 Le Mans Series has been an incident-packed one. After the first start was aborted the no. 12 Rebellion Racing Lola Toyota hit the front, but soon ran into reliability glitches with a loss of pressure in the gearbox. At the same time its sister car, no. 13, had a problem with the door fixation that has now been solved. The Quifel-ASM Team's Zytek 09SC lost precious minutes due to a puncture after which it was immobilized at its pit for a long time. All these incidents helped the no. 16 Pescarolo-Judd that had started from the back of the gird to go into first place. After one hour's racing, Christophe Tinseau leads Jean-Christophe Boullion by one minute.

In LM P2, the Boutsen Energy Racing Oreca 03-Nissan leads TDS Racing's similar car and both are running second and third overall behind the LM P1 Pescarolo. In LM GTE Pro, the no. 51 AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia holds first place, and the same team's Ferrari F430GT dominates the GTE Am category. In Formula Le Mans, the Neil Garner FLM-Oreca 09 is in front.