2016 European Le Mans Series

The 2016 European Le Mans Series was the thirteenth season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) European Le Mans Series. The six-event season began at Silverstone Circuit, in conjunction with the FIA World Endurance Championship, on 16 April and finished at Autódromo do Estoril on 23 October.

Regulations The GTC class for GT3 was dropped due to a lack of entries during 2015 and the creation of the GT3 Le Mans Cup.

Calendar The provisional 2016 calendar was announced at 5 September 2015. The calendar comprises six events, featuring the same five circuits that hosted events in 2015 and for the first time since 2011 it will include event at Spa. For the fourth consecutive season, Silverstone hosted the opening rounds of both the European Le Mans Series and the FIA World Endurance Championship. Meanwhile, the other rounds were collaboration with World Series by Renault.

Rnd Race Circuit Location Date 1 4 Hours of Silverstone Silverstone Circuit Silverstone, United Kingdom 16 April 2 4 Hours of Imola Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari Imola, Italy 15 May 3 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring Red Bull Ring Spielberg, Austria 17 July 4 4 Hours of Le Castellet Circuit Paul Ricard Le Castellet, France 28 August 5 4 Hours of Spa Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Spa, Belgium 25 September 6 4 Hours of Estoril Autódromo do Estoril Estoril, Portugal 23 OctoberSource:

Entry list The entry list was announced on 5 February 2016.

LMP2 Entrant/Team Car Engine Tyre Drivers Rounds DragonSpeed Oreca 05 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 21 Ben Hanley All Henrik Hedman All Nicolas Lapierre All SO24! By Lombard Racing Ligier JS P2 Judd HK 3.6 L V8 22 Vincent Capillaire 1–2 Jonathan Coleman 1–2 Olivier Lombard 1–2 Panis Barthez Competition Ligier JS P2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 23 Fabien Barthez All Timothé Buret All Paul-Loup Chatin All Algarve Pro Racing Ligier JS P2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 25 Michael Munemann 1–3, 5 Parth Ghorpade 1–2 Chris Hoy 1–2 Jonathan Hirschi 3–5 Andrea Pizzitola 3–5 Andrea Roda 4 IDEC Sport Racing Ligier JS P2 Judd HK 3.6 L V8 28 Dimitri Enjalbert 1–2, 4–6 Patrice Lafargue 1–2, 4–6 Paul Lafargue 1–2, 4–6 Pegasus Racing Morgan LMP2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 29 Léo Roussel All Inès Taittinger All Rémy Striebig 1–5 Julien Schell 6 SMP Racing BR Engineering BR01 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 32 Stefano Coletti All Andreas Wirth All Julián Leal 1–4 Vitaly Petrov 5–6 44 Mitch Evans 1 Sean Gelael 1 Antonio Giovinazzi 1 Eurasia Motorsport Oreca 05 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 33 Tristan Gommendy All Nick de Bruijn 1–5 Pu Jun Jin 1–5 Michael Lyons 6 Frédéric Vervisch 6 Race Performance Oreca 03R Judd HK 3.6 L V8 34 Nicolas Leutwiler 1–2 James Winslow 1–2 Franck Mailleux 1 Shinji Nakano 2 G-Drive Racing Gibson 015S Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 38 Simon Dolan All Giedo van der Garde All Harry Tincknell All Krohn Racing Ligier JS P2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 40 Niclas Jönsson All Björn Wirdheim 1–2 Tracy Krohn 1, 3–5 Olivier Pla 2–6 Greaves Motorsport Ligier JS P2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 41 Julien Canal All Memo Rojas All Kuba Giermaziak 1–2 Nathanaël Berthon 3–6 Thiriet by TDS Racing Oreca 05 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 46 Mathias Beche All Pierre Thiriet All Ryō Hirakawa 1–3, 5–6 Mike Conway 4 Team WRT Ligier JS P2 Judd HK 3.6 L V8 47 Will Stevens 5 Dries Vanthoor 5 Laurens Vanthoor 5 Murphy Prototypes Oreca 03R Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 48 Sean Doyle 1–5 Shaun Balfe 1 Damien Faulkner 1 Gary Findlay 2, 5 Patrick McClughan 2 Gugliemo Belotti 3 Karun Chandhok 3 Kevin Ceccon 4 Jonathan Coleman 4 Bruno Bonifacio 5

LMP3 Entrant/Team Car Engine Tyre Drivers Rounds United Autosports Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 2 Alex Brundle All Christian England All Mike Guasch All 3 Matthew Bell All Wayne Boyd All Mark Patterson All OAK Racing Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 4 Erik Maris All Jean-Marc Merlin 1–4, 6 Carlos Tavares 5 24 Jacques Nicolet All Pierre Nicolet All By Speed Factory Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 5 Tom Jackson 1–4 Álvaro Fontes 1–2 Jesús Fuster 1–2 Alain Costa 3–4 John Hartshorne 4 Kevin O'Hara 5 Daniel Polley 5 Kim Rødkjær 5 360 Racing Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 6 Ross Kaiser All James Swift All Terrence Woodward All Villorba Corse Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 7 Roberto Lacorte All Giorgio Sernagiotto All Niccolò Schirò 1–3 Race Performance Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 8 Bert Longin All Giorgio Maggi All Marcello Marateotto 1–5 Nicolas Leutwiler 6 Graff Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 9 Paul Petit All Eric Trouillet All Enzo Guibbert 1–2, 4–6 James Winslow 3 10 John Falb All Enzo Potolicchio All Sean Rayhall All Eurointernational Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 11 Giorgio Mondini 1–4, 6 Marco Jacoboni 1–4 Andrea Roda 1–2 Jay Palmer 6 12 Andrea Dromedari 2–4, 6 Fabio Mancini 2–3 Roman Rusinov 2–3 Rik Breukers 4, 6 Miguel Faisca 6 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 13 Jens Petersen All Jakub Śmiechowski All MurphyP3-3Dimensional.com Ginetta-Juno LMP3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 14 Tony Ave 1 Michael Cullen 1 Doug Peterson 1Ligier JS P3 Barrie Baxter 2 Rob Garofall 2 Alex Kapadia 2 RLR MSport Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 15 Morten Dons All Ossy Yusuf 1–2 Ross Warburton 3–4 John Hartshorne 3 Anthony Wells 4–6 Alasdair McCaig 5–6 Panis Barthez Competition Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 16 Eric Debard All Simon Gachet All Valentin Moineault All Ultimate Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 17 François Hériau All Jean-Baptiste Lahaye All Matthieu Lahaye All M.Racing - YMR Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 18 Alexandre Cougnaud All Yann Ehrlacher All Thomas Laurent All Duqueine Engineering Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 19 David Hallyday All Dino Lunardi All David Droux 2–6 20 Eric Clement All Maxime Pialat All Romain Iannetta 1–2 Antonin Borga 3–6 Tockwith Motorsports Ligier JS P3 Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 26 Phil Hanson 4–5 Nigel Moore 4–5

GTE Entrant/Team Car Engine Tyre Drivers Rounds AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8 51 Rui Águas All Marco Cioci All Piergiuseppe Perazzini All 55 Duncan Cameron All Matt Griffin All Aaron Scott All AT Racing Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8 56 Alexander Talkanitsa, Jr. All Alexander Talkanitsa, Sr. All Alessandro Pier Guidi 1, 3–6 Davide Rigon 2 Formula Racing Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8 60 Johnny Laursen All Mikkel Mac All Christina Nielsen 1–3, 5–6 Mikkel Jensen 4 JMW Motorsport Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8 66 Andrea Bertolini All Rory Butcher All Robert Smith All Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 77 Mike Hedlund All Wolf Henzler All Marco Seefried 1, 3–6 Robert Renauer 2 88 Christian Ried All Gianluca Roda All Richard Lietz 1 Klaus Bachler 2 Matteo Cairoli 3, 5 David Jahn 4 Ben Barker 6 Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage GTE Aston Martin AM05 4.5 L V8 96 Roald Goethe 1 Stuart Hall 1 Richie Stanaway 1 99 Andrew Howard All Alex MacDowall All Darren Turner All

Innovative car Entrant/Team Car Engine Tyre Drivers Rounds SRT41 by OAK Racing Morgan LMP2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 84 Jean-Bernard Bouvet 1 Frédéric Sausset 1 Christophe Tinseau 1

Results and standings Race results Bold indicates overall winner. Circuit LMP2 Winning Team LMP3 Winning Team GTE Winning Team Results LMP2 Winning Drivers LMP3 Winning Drivers GTE Winning Drivers 1 Silverstone No. 38 G-Drive Racing No. 2 United Autosports No. 99 Aston Martin Racing Report Simon Dolan Giedo van der Garde Harry Tincknell Alex Brundle Christian England Mike Guasch Andrew Howard Alex MacDowall Darren Turner 2 Imola No. 46 Thiriet by TDS Racing No. 2 United Autosports No. 77 Proton Competition Report Mathias Beche Ryō Hirakawa Pierre Thiriet Alex Brundle Christian England Mike Guasch Mike Hedlund Wolf Henzler Robert Renauer 3 Red Bull Ring No. 46 Thiriet by TDS Racing No. 2 United Autosports No. 66 JMW Motorsport Report Mathias Beche Ryō Hirakawa Pierre Thiriet Alex Brundle Christian England Mike Guasch Andrea Bertolini Rory Butcher Robert Smith 4 Paul Ricard No. 46 Thiriet by TDS Racing No. 9 Graff No. 66 JMW Motorsport Report Mathias Beche Mike Conway Pierre Thiriet Enzo Guibbert Paul Petit Eric Trouillet Andrea Bertolini Rory Butcher Robert Smith 5 Spa No. 21 DragonSpeed No. 9 Graff No. 66 JMW Motorsport Report Ben Hanley Henrik Hedman Nicolas Lapierre Enzo Guibbert Paul Petit Eric Trouillet Andrea Bertolini Rory Butcher Robert Smith 6 Estoril No. 38 G-Drive Racing No. 18 M.Racing - YMR No. 99 Aston Martin Racing Report Simon Dolan Giedo van der Garde Harry Tincknell Alexandre Cougnaud Yann Ehrlacher Thomas Laurent Andrew Howard Alex MacDowall Darren TurnerSource:

To be classified a car will have to cross the finish line on the race track when the chequered flag is shown, except in a case of force majeure at the Stewards’ discretion and have covered at least 70% (the official number of laps will be rounded down to the nearest whole number) of the distance covered by the car classified in first place in the overall classification.

Teams Championships Points are awarded according to the following structure: Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   Pole  Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 0.5 1

LMP2 Teams Championship Team Car SIL IMO RBR LEC SPA EST Total 1 No. 38 G-Drive Racing Gibson 015S 1 2 3 5 5 1 103 2 No. 46 Thiriet by TDS Racing Oreca 05 Ret 1 1 1 3 8 96 3 No. 32 SMP Racing BR Engineering BR01 2 4 4 2 6 3 83 4 No. 21 DragonSpeed Oreca 05 Ret 3Ret 3 1 2 76 5 No. 33 Eurasia Motorsport Oreca 05 Ret 5 2 4 Ret 5 50 6 No. 40 Krohn Racing Ligier JS P2 4 6 9 8 10 4 39 7 No. 41 Greaves Motorsport Ligier JS P2 8 8 6 6 4 Ret 36 8 No. 23 Panis Barthez Competition Ligier JS P2 9 7 7 11 7 7 27.5 9 No. 25 Algarve Pro Racing Ligier JS P2 10 Ret 5 7 9 19 10 No. 28 IDEC Sport Racing Ligier JS P2 7 Ret 10 8 6 19 11 No. 47 Team WRT Ligier JS P2 2 18 12 No. 22 SO24! By Lombard Racing Ligier JS P2 311 15.5 13 No. 44 SMP Racing BR Engineering BR01 5 10 14 No. 34 Race Performance Oreca 03R 6 9 10 15 No. 48 Murphy Prototypes Oreca 03R 11 10 8 9 Ret 7.5 16 No. 29 Pegasus Racing Morgan LMP2 Ret12 Ret 12 Ret EX1Sources:Bold – Pole

LMP3 Teams Championship Team Car SIL IMO RBR LEC SPA EST Total 1 No. 2 United Autosports Ligier JS P3 1 1 1 3 211109.5 2 No. 9 Graff Ligier JS P3 3 EX 4 1 1 393 3 No. 19 Duqueine Engineering Ligier JS P3 4 4 2 2 Ret 962 4 No. 3 United Autosports Ligier JS P3 2 7 14 11 3 259 5 No. 6 360 Racing Ligier JS P3 5 9 3 5 5 Ret48 6 No. 18 M.Racing - YMR Ligier JS P3 Ret 5 10 Ret Ret 136 7 No. 16 Panis Barthez Competition Ligier JS P3 7 3 8 8 11 Ret 30.5 8 No. 17 Ultimate Ligier JS P3 11 10 Ret 4 4 14 26 9 No. 10 Graff Ligier JS P3 13 Ret 7 Ret 7 4 24.5 10 No. 13 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P3 Ret 15 Ret 7 6 5 24.5 11 No. 8 Race Performance Ligier JS P3 6 13 6 Ret Ret 722,5 12 No. 11 Eurointernational Ligier JS P3 Ret 2 Ret Ret Ret 18 13 No. 15 RLR MSport Ligier JS P3 8 6 15 Ret 8 1017.5 14 No. 12 Eurointernational Ligier JS P38 9 9 6 16 15 No. 24 OAK Racing Ligier JS P3 9 17 5 15 13 13 14 16 No. 26 Tockwith Motorsports Ligier JS P3 6 129.5 17 No. 7 Villorba Corse Ligier JS P3 Ret 16 12 10 9 8 8 18 No. 20 Duqueine Engineering Ligier JS P3 10 11 11 13 10 Ret 3.5 19 No. 4 OAK Racing Ligier JS P3 12 14 16 12 14 12 3 20 No. 5 By Speed Factory Ligier JS P3 Ret Ret 13 14 Ret 1 21 No. 14 MurphyP3-3Dimensional.com Ginetta-Juno LMP3 Ret 0.5 Ligier JS P3 12Sources:Bold – Pole

GTE Teams Championship