2018 European Le Mans Series

The 2018 European Le Mans Series was the fifteenth season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) European Le Mans Series. The six-event season began at Circuit Paul Ricard on 15 April and finished at Algarve International Circuit on 28 October. The series is open to Le Mans Prototypes, divided into the LMP2 and LMP3 classes, and grand tourer-style racing cars in the LMGTE class.

Calendar The provisional 2018 calendar was announced on 23 September 2017. The calendar comprises six events, featuring the same six circuits that hosted events in the 2017 season. The rounds at Silverstone and Paul Ricard swapped their places in the calendar, with the French circuit hosting the opening round and Silverstone moving to an August date, once again in conjunction with the FIA World Endurance Championship.

The official pre-season test also returned to Paul Ricard after a one-year absence, having taken place at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in 2017.

Rnd Race Circuit Location Date 1 4 Hours of Le Castellet Circuit Paul Ricard Le Castellet, France 15 April 2 4 Hours of Monza Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Monza, Italy 13 May 3 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring Red Bull Ring Spielberg, Austria 22 July 4 4 Hours of Silverstone Silverstone Circuit Silverstone, United Kingdom 18 August 5 4 Hours of Spa Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Spa, Belgium 23 September 6 4 Hours of Portimão Algarve International Circuit Portimão, Portugal 28 OctoberSource:

Entries

LMP2 In accordance with the 2017 LMP2 regulations, all cars in the LMP2 class used the Gibson GK428 V8 engine.

Entrant/Team Chassis Tyre Drivers Rounds DragonSpeed Oreca 07 21 Ben Hanley All Henrik Hedman All Nicolas Lapierre All United Autosports Ligier JS P217 22 Phil Hanson All Bruno Senna 1 Filipe Albuquerque 2–6 32 Wayne Boyd All William Owen All Hugo de Sadeleer All Panis Barthez Competition Ligier JS P217 23 Timothé Buret All Julien Canal All Will Stevens All Racing Engineering Oreca 07 24 Norman Nato All Paul Petit All Olivier Pla 1–3, 5–6 Matthieu Vaxivière 4 Algarve Pro Racing APR - Rebellion Racing Ligier JS P217 25 Tacksung Kim All Mark Patterson All Ate De Jong 1–4, 6 Matt McMurry 5 Oreca 07 31 Ryan Cullen All Gustavo Menezes All Harrison Newey All G-Drive Racing TDS Racing Oreca 07 26 Andrea Pizzitola All Roman Rusinov All Alexandre Imperatori 1 Jean-Éric Vergne 2–6 33 Loïc Duval 1–3 François Perrodo 1–3 Matthieu Vaxivière 1–3 IDEC Sport Ligier JS P217 27 Patrice Lafargue 1–3 Erik Maris 1–3, 5 William Cavailhes 1–2 Nicolas Minassian 3, 5 Aurélien Panis 5 Oreca 07 28 Paul-Loup Chatin All Paul Lafargue 1–4 Memo Rojas All Gabriel Aubry 5–6 Duqueine Engineering Oreca 07 29 Nico Jamin All Nelson Panciatici All Pierre Ragues All AVF by Adrián Vallés Dallara P217 30 Henrique Chaves All Konstantin Tereshchenko All SMP Racing Dallara P217 35 Matevos Isaakyan 1–4 Egor Orudzhev 1–3 Viktor Shaytar 1–4 Signatech Alpine Matmut Alpine A470 36 André Negrão 1 Pierre Thiriet 1 Graff G-Drive Racing Oreca 07 39 Alexandre Cougnaud All Tristan Gommendy All Jonathan Hirschi All 40 James Allen All José Gutiérrez 1–4 Enzo Guibbert 1–2 Garry Findlay 4 Henning Enqvist 5–6 Julien Falchero 5–6 Cetilar Villorba Corse Dallara P217 47 Roberto Lacorte All Giorgio Sernagiotto All Andrea Belicchi 1 Felipe Nasr 2–6 High Class Racing Dallara P217 49 Dennis Andersen All Anders Fjordbach All

LMP3 All cars in the LMP3 class used the Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 engine and Michelin tyres. Entrant/Team Chassis Drivers Rounds United Autosports Ligier JS P3 2 John Falb All Sean Rayhall 1–4 Scott Andrews 5–6 3 Matthew Bell All Garett Grist All Anthony Wells All Cool Racing Ligier JS P3 4 Iradj Alexander 1–4, 6 Antonin Borga 1–3, 5–6 Alexandre Coigny 1–3, 5–6 Lucas Borga 4 Christian Vaglio 4 NEFIS By Speed Factory Ligier JS P3 5 Timur Boguslavskiy All Aleksey Chuklin All Daniil Pronenko All 360 Racing Ligier JS P3 6 Ross Kaiser All Terrence Woodward All James Swift 1–2, 4 Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen Ligier JS P3 7 Alex Kapadia All Colin Noble All Christian Stubbe Olsen All DKR Engineering Norma M30 8 Jean Glorieux 1–2 Alexander Toril 1–2 Miguel Toril 1–2 Henning Enqvist 3 Fabien Lavergne 3 Ricardo Sanchez 3 Marvin Klein 5–6 Christian Vaglio 5–6 Nicolas Maulini 6 AT Racing Ligier JS P3 9 Alexander Talkanitsa Jr. All Alexander Talkanitsa Sr. All Yann Clairay 1, 4–5 Mikkel Jensen 2–3, 6 Oregon Team Norma M30 10 Clément Mateu All Andrés Méndez All Riccardo Ponzio All Eurointernational Ligier JS P3 11 Giorgio Mondini All Kay van Berlo All Mattia Drudi 5 12 Andrea Dromedari 1–5 Max Hanratty 1–3 James Dayson 1, 3, 5–6 Mark Kvamme 2 Mattia Drudi 4 Vadim Meshcheriakov 6 Luca Demarchi 6 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P3 13 Martin Hippe All Jakub Śmiechowski All 14 Luca Demarchi 1–5 Paul Scheuschner All Henning Enqvist 1 Hendrik Still 2, 4 Guglielmo Belotti 3 Moritz Müller-Crepon 5–6 RLR MSport Ligier JS P3 15 John Farano All Rob Garofall All Job van Uitert All BHK Motorsport Ligier JS P3 16 Jacopo Baratto All Francesco Dracone All Ultimate Norma M30 17 François Hériau All Jean-Baptiste Lahaye All Matthieu Lahaye All M.Racing - YMR Ligier JS P3 18 Natan Bihel All Laurent Millara All Norma M30 19 David Droux All Lucas Légeret All Nicolas Ferrer 1–2 Alain Ferté 3 Romano Ricci 4–5 Michael Benham 6 Racing For Poland Ligier JS P3 20 Tomasz Blicharski 2 Henning Enqvist 2 Alex Fontana 2 Team Virage Ligier JS P3 34 Henning Enqvist 4 JM Littman 4 Jacob Rattenbury 4

LMGTE All cars in the LMGTE class used Dunlop tyres. Entrant/Team Chassis Engine Drivers Rounds Spirit of Race Krohn Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Ferrari F154CB 4.0 L Turbo V8 54 Francesco Castellacci 1 Thomas Flohr 1 55 Duncan Cameron All Matt Griffin All Aaron Scott All 83 Andrea Bertolini All Niclas Jönsson All Tracy Krohn All JMW Motorsport Ferrari 488 GTE Ferrari F154CB 4.0 L Turbo V8 66 Liam Griffin All Alex MacDowall All Miguel Molina All Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR Porsche M97/80 4.0 L Flat-6 77 Marvin Dienst All Christian Ried All Dennis Olsen 1, 3–6 Marc Lieb 2 88 Gianluca Roda All Giorgio Roda All Matteo Cairoli 1, 3–6 Gianmaria Bruni 2 EbiMotors Porsche 911 RSR Porsche M97/80 4.0 L Flat-6 80 Fabio Babini All Riccardo Pera All Raymond Narac 1–2 Bret Curtis 3–5 Gianluca Giraudi 6 Gulf Racing UK Porsche 911 RSR Porsche M97/80 4.0 L Flat-6 86 Ben Barker 1, 4 Alex Davison 1, 4 Michael Wainwright 1, 4

Results and standings Bold indicates overall winner. Circuit LMP2 Winning Team LMP3 Winning Team LMGTE Winning Team Results LMP2 Winning Drivers LMP3 Winning Drivers LMGTE Winning Drivers 1 Le Castellet No. 24 Racing Engineering No. 15 RLR MSport No. 66 JMW Motorsport Report Norman Nato Paul Petit Olivier Pla John Farano Rob Garofall Job van Uitert Liam Griffin Alex MacDowall Miguel Molina 2 Monza No. 26 G-Drive Racing No. 11 EuroInternational No. 55 Spirit of Race Report Andrea Pizzitola Roman Rusinov Jean-Éric Vergne Giorgio Mondini Kay van Berlo Duncan Cameron Matt Griffin Aaron Scott 3 Red Bull Ring No. 26 G-Drive Racing No. 15 RLR MSport No. 88 Proton Competition Report Andrea Pizzitola Roman Rusinov Jean-Éric Vergne John Farano Rob Garofall Job van Uitert Matteo Cairoli Gianluca Roda Giorgio Roda 4 Silverstone No. 26 G-Drive Racing No. 3 United Autosports No. 66 JMW Motorsport Report Andrea Pizzitola Roman Rusinov Jean-Éric Vergne Matthew Bell Garett Grist Anthony Wells Liam Griffin Alex MacDowall Miguel Molina 5 Spa-Francorchamps No. 22 United Autosports No. 2 United Autosports No. 80 EbiMotors Report Filipe Albuquerque Phil Hanson Scott Andrews John Falb Fabio Babini Bret Curtis Riccardo Pera 6 Portimão No. 22 United Autosports No. 13 Inter Europol Competition No. 77 Proton Competition Report Filipe Albuquerque Phil Hanson Martin Hippe Jakub Śmiechowski Marvin Dienst Dennis Olsen Christian RiedSource:

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 LEC MNZ RBR SIL SPA POR Total 1 #26 G-Drive Racing Oreca 07 4 1 1 1 12 4 100.25 2 #24 Racing Engineering Oreca 07 1 5 2 Ret 7 5 66 3 #28 IDEC Sport Oreca 07 7 3 4 3 4 6 64 4 #22 United Autosports Ligier JS P217 12 10 3 Ret 1 1 54 5 #21 DragonSpeed Oreca 07 Ret 4 5 2 2 13 50.5 6 #23 Panis Barthez Competition Ligier JS P217 8 7 10 6 3 2 45.5 7 #33 TDS Racing Oreca 07 2 2 9 38 8 #29 Duqueine Engineering Oreca 07 3 6DSQ 7 5 Ret 35 9 #31 APR - Rebellion Racing Oreca 07 15 8 6 5 15 12 23.25 10 #32 United Autosports Ligier JS P217 9 11 15 10 6 3 23 11 #39 Graff Oreca 07 10 Ret 8 4 8 8 23 12 #40 G-Drive Racing Oreca 07 6 Ret 13 12 11 7 15.25 13 #36 Signatech Alpine Matmut Alpine A470 5 10 14 #35 SMP Racing Dallara P217 NC Ret 7 Ret 6 15 #30 AVF by Adrián Vallés Dallara P217 11 Ret 14 8 9 Ret 6 16 #49 High Class Racing Dallara P217 13 14 12 9 Ret 9 5.5 17 #47 Cetilar Villorba Corse Dallara P217 14 9 11 13 10 11 4.5 18 #25 Algarve Pro Racing Ligier JS P217 16 13 17 11 13 10 3.25 19 #27 IDEC Sport Ligier JS P217 Ret 12 16 14 1.25DriverTeamLECMNZRBRSILSPAPORPointsSources:Bold – PoleItalics – Fastest Lap

LMP3 Teams Championship Team Car LEC MNZ RBR SIL SPA POR Total 1 #15 RLR MSport Ligier JS P3 1 11 1 6 2 5 77.5 2 #13 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P3 6 4 3 5 12 1 70.25 3 #3 United Autosports Ligier JS P3 7 3 12 1 4 7 58.5 4 #7 Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen Ligier JS P3 9 10 2 2 9 2 58 5 #6 360 Racing Ligier JS P3 4 2 8 4 3 16 54 6 #2 United Autosports Ligier JS P3 5 5 Ret 7 1 3 53.5 7 #11 EuroInternational Ligier JS P3 3 1 7 16 13 Ret 46.75 8 #17 Ultimate Norma M30 Ret 7 4 3 Ret 12 36.5 9 #5 NEFIS By Speed Factory Ligier JS P3 16 6 6 Ret 10 4 29 10 #19 M.Racing - YMR Norma M30 2 13 Ret 8 8 10 27.5 11 #9 AT Racing Ligier JS P3 8 Ret 5 9 Ret 6 24 12 #10 Oregon Team Norma M30 11 8 16 14 7 15 9 13 #4 Cool Racing Ligier JS P3 10 9 10 11 6 13 9 14 #18 M.Racing - YMR Ligier JS P3 13 Ret 9 Ret 5 17 8 15 #14 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P3 12 15 11 13 15 8 6.25 16 #12 EuroInternational Ligier JS P3 14 DNS 13 10 14 14 3.75 17 #8 DKR Engineering Norma M30 Ret Ret 14 11 9 2.75 18 #16 BHK Motorsport Ligier JS P3 15 12 15 12 Ret 11 2.5 19 #20 Racing For Poland Ligier JS P3 14 0.5 20 #34 Team Virage Ligier JS P3 150.5DriverTeamLECMNZRBRSILSPAPORPointsSources:Bold – PoleItalics – Fastest Lap

LMGTE Teams Championship Team Car LEC MNZ RBR SIL SPA POR Total 1 #88 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR 2 5 1 2 3 3 95.5 2 #66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari 488 GTE 1 4 Ret 1 4 2 88 3 #77 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR 5 2 4 4 5 1 83 4 #55 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GTE Ret 1 2 3 2 4 79 5 #80 EbiMotors Porsche 911 RSR 3 3 3 Ret 1 Ret 58.5 6 #83 Krohn Racing Ferrari 488 GTE 4 6 5 6 Ret 4 48 7 #86 Gulf Racing Porsche 911 RSR Ret 5 10 8 #54 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GTE 6 8DriverTeamLECMNZRBRSILSPAPORPointsSources:Bold – PoleItalics – Fastest Lap

Drivers 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 Drivers Championship