ELMS Set To Rock The Styrian Alps

After the long high-speed straights and fast flowing corners of Le Castellet and Monza, the 4.218km track near Spielberg will provide a very different challenge for the drivers and teams from 26 different nations taking part in the 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring.

Once again LMP2 will feature a large grid of 18 cars, with Monza race winners G-Drive Racing, currently on 37 points, just one point ahead of double podium finishers TDS Racing and two points ahead of Le Castellet race winners Racing Engineering. 

G-Drive’s Andrea Pizzitola and Roman Rusinov lead the drivers’ championship also on 37 points, with their teammate Jean-Eric Vergne on 25 points, due to the fact the French driver missed the opening race of the season.

2017 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring race winners Filipe Albuquerque, Will Owen and Hugo de Sadeleer return to race for American team United Autosports.  Albuquerque will be this year in the no22 Ligier alongside Phil Hanson, and Owen and de Sadeleer team up with Wayne Boyd in the Gibson powered no32 JSP217.

Reigning ELMS Champion Memo Rojas is teamed with Paul Lafarge and 2015 LMP2 Champion Paul Loup Chatin in the no28 IDEC Sport Oreca-Gibson.

Another large LMP3 grid will start the 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring, underlining the incredible popularity of the young prototype category.

Monza race winners Giorgio Mondini and Kay Van Berlo have a ten-point lead in the no11 Eurointernational Ligier JS P3-Nissan over the no6 360 Racing Ligier of Terrance Woodward and Ross Kaiser.

The Austrian flag will be flying above the garage of the no9 AT Racing Ligier-Nissan with father and son duo Alexander Talkanitsa senior and junior, who will race alongside Dane Mikkel Jensen.

Reigning LMP3 champions Sean Rayhall and John Falb will be looking for their first podium of the ELMS season to get their title defense back on track after two fifth place finishes in the races at Le Castellet and Monza in the no2 United Autosports Ligier-Nissan.

Reigning LMGTE Champions JMW Motorsport got their 2018 campaign off to a good start with a win in France and lead the championship on 37 points, 6 points ahead of the no80 Ebimotors Porsche after the Italian team returned two podium finishes from the first two races. 

Monza race winners, Duncan Cameron, Matt Griffin and Aaron Scott will be looking for another win in the no55 Spirit of Race Ferrari F488. The Anglo-Irish trio secured their second win of the 2017 season at the Red Bull Ring.

The scene is now set for the 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring that promises once again to be a weekend of action and drama with track action beginning on Friday 20 July and concluding on Sunday 22 July with the third race of the 2018 season.

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