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2023 4 Hours of Portimão

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The layout of the Algarve International Circuit

The 2023 4 Hours of Portimão was an endurance sportscar racing event held between 19 and 22 October 2023, as the sixth and the final round of the 2023 European Le Mans Series season.

Entry list

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The entry list was published on 11 October and cosisted of 41 entries in 4 categories – 7 in LMP2, 10 in LMP2 Pro/Am, 12 in LMP3 and 12 in LMGTE.[1]

The No. 10 Eurointernational withdrew from competing before the racing weekend.[2]

Schedule

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Date Time (local: WEST) Event
Thursday, 19 October 9:50 Free Practice 1
16:20 Bronze Drivers Collective Test
Saturday, 21 October 11:40 Free Practice 2
17:20 Qualifying - LMGTE
17:45 Qualifying - LMP3
18:10 Qualifying - LMP2 Pro/Am
18:35 Qualifying - LMP2
Sunday, 22 October 13:00 Race
Source:[3]

Free practice

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  • Only the fastest car in each class is shown.
Free Practice 1 Class No. Entrant Time
LMP2 25 Portugal Algarve Pro Racing 1:33.898
LMP2 Pro/Am 21 United States United Autosports USA 1:34.023
LMP3 13 Poland Inter Europol Competition 1:38.649
LMGTE 95 United Kingdom TF Sport 1:42.409
Free Practice 2 LMP2 25 Portugal Algarve Pro Racing 1:32.957
LMP2 Pro/Am 24 United Kingdom Nielsen Racing 1:33.152
LMP3 8 Poland Team Virage 1:38.047
LMGTE 44 Denmark GMB Motorsport 1:41.053
Source:[4][5]

Qualifying

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Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos Class No. Team Driver Time Gap Grid
1 LMP2 28 France IDEC Sport France Paul-Loup Chatin 1:36.153 1
2 LMP2 22 United States United Autosports USA United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis 1:36.726 +0.573 2
3 LMP2 65 France Panis Racing Netherlands Job van Uitert 1:37.009 +0.856 3
4 LMP2 25 Portugal Algarve Pro Racing Australia James Allen 1:37.274 +1.121 4
5 LMP2 43 Poland Inter Europol Competition United Kingdom Olli Caldwell 1:38.338 +2.185 5
6 LMP2 30 France Duqueine Team Switzerland Neel Jani 1:38.955 +2.802 6
7 LMP2 47 Switzerland Cool Racing Vladislav Lomko 1:42.087 +5.934 7
8 LMP2 Pro/Am 99 Germany Proton Competition Italy Giorgio Roda 1:47.179 +11.026 8
9 LMP2 Pro/Am 34 Turkey Racing Team Turkey Turkey Salih Yoluç 1:47.316 +11.163 9
10 LMP2 Pro/Am 3 Luxembourg DKR Engineering Belgium Tom van Rompuy 1:47.504 +11.351 10
11 LMP3 15 United Kingdom RLR M Sport France Gaël Julien 1:48.519 +12.366 18
12 LMP3 17 Switzerland Cool Racing Argentina Marcos Siebert 1:48.985 +12.832 19
13 LMP3 11 Italy Eurointernational Canada Adam Ali 1:48.992 +12.839 20
14 LMP3 35 France Ultimate France Jean-Baptiste Lahaye 1:49.294 +13.141 21
15 LMP3 31 Switzerland Racing Spirit of Leman France Antoine Doquin 1:49.421 +13.268 22
16 LMP2 Pro/Am 19 Poland Team Virage Germany Alexander Mattschull 1:50.256 +14.103 11
17 LMP2 Pro/Am 20 Portugal Algarve Pro Racing United States Fred Poordad 1:50.363 +14.210 12
18 LMP2 Pro/Am 81 United States DragonSpeed USA Sweden Henrik Hedman 1:50.918 +14.765 13
19 LMP3 13 Poland Inter Europol Competition United Kingdom Kai Askey 1:51.161 +15.008 23
20 LMP3 12 Germany WTM by Rinaldi Racing Colombia Óscar Tunjo 1:52.268 +16.115 24
21 LMP3 7 United Kingdom Nielsen Racing United Kingdom Ryan Harper-Ellam 1:52.389 +16.236 25
22 LMP3 8 Poland Team Virage Portugal Manuel Espírito Santo 1:52.430 +16.277 26
23 LMP3 4 Luxembourg DKR Engineering Portugal Pedro Perino 1:52.757 +16.604 27
24 LMP2 Pro/Am 83 Italy AF Corse France François Perrodo 1:53.272 +17.119 14
25 LMP2 Pro/Am 21 United States United Autosports USA Brazil Daniel Schneider 1:53.298 +17.145 15
26 LMP2 Pro/Am 24 United Kingdom Nielsen Racing United States Rodrigo Sales 1:53.409 +17.256 16
27 LMP3 5 United Kingdom RLR M Sport Denmark Valdemar Eriksen 1:54.367 +18.214 28
28 LMP2 Pro/Am 37 Switzerland Cool Racing Switzerland Alexandre Coigny 1:55.269 +19.116 17
29 LMGTE 16 Germany Proton Competition United States Ryan Hardwick 1:58.574 +22.421 29
30 LMGTE 57 Switzerland Kessel Racing Japan Takeshi Kimura 1:58.837 +22.684 30
31 LMGTE 77 Germany Proton Competition Germany Christian Ried 1:58.971 +22.818 31
32 LMGTE 55 Switzerland Spirit of Race United Kingdom Duncan Cameron 1:59.149 +22.996 32
33 LMGTE 44 Denmark GMB Motorsport Denmark Jens Møller 1:59.598 +23.445 33
34 LMGTE 66 United Kingdom JMW Motorsport Singapore Martin Berry 2:00.232 +24.079 34
35 LMGTE 93 Germany Proton Competition Republic of Ireland Michael Fassbender 2:00.460 +24.307 35
36 LMGTE 72 United Kingdom TF Sport France Arnold Robin 2:00.644 +24.491 36
37 LMGTE 50 Denmark Formula Racing Denmark Johnny Laursen 2:00.682 +24.529 37
38 LMGTE 95 United Kingdom TF Sport United Kingdom John Hartshorne 2:00.809 +24.656 38
39 LMGTE 51 Italy AF Corse Greece Kriton Lentoudis 2:02.247 +26.094 39
40 LMGTE 60 Italy Iron Lynx Italy Claudio Schiavoni 2:04.130 +27.977 40
Sources:[6][7][8][9][10][11]

Race

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Race result

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The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 67 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Final Classification[12][13]
Pos Class No Team Drivers Car Tyres Laps Time/Gap
1 LMP2 22 United States United Autosports USA Japan Marino Sato
United Kingdom Philip Hanson
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
Oreca 07 G 97 4:01:25.355
2 LMP2 25 Portugal Algarve Pro Racing Barbados Kyffin Simpson
Australia James Allen
United Kingdom Alexander Lynn
Oreca 07 G 97 +5.785
3 LMP2 65 France Panis Racing Netherlands Job van Uitert
United Kingdom Manuel Maldonado
Netherlands Tijmen van der Helm
Oreca 07 G 97 +5.918
4 LMP2 Pro/Am 83 Italy AF Corse France François Perrodo
France Matthieu Vaxivière
United Kingdom Ben Barnicoat
Oreca 07 G 97 +6.970
5 LMP2 Pro/Am 37 Switzerland Cool Racing Switzerland Alexandre Coigny
Denmark Malthe Jakobsen
France Nicolas Lapierre
Oreca 07 G 97 +7.601
6 LMP2 Pro/Am 24 United Kingdom Nielsen Racing United States Rodrigo Sales
United Kingdom Ben Hanley
Switzerland Mathias Beche
Oreca 07 G 97 +24.308
7 LMP2 Pro/Am 34 Turkey Racing Team Turkey Turkey Salih Yoluç
Republic of Ireland Charlie Eastwood
Switzerland Louis Delétraz
Oreca 07 G 97 +25.121
8 LMP2 43 Poland Inter Europol Competition Angola Rui Andrade
United Kingdom Olli Caldwell
South Africa Jonathan Aberdein
Oreca 07 G 97 +36.269
9 LMP2 Pro/Am 81 United States DragonSpeed USA Sweden Henrik Hedman
Colombia Sebastián Montoya
Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya
Oreca 07 G 97 +37.183
10 LMP2 30 France Duqueine Team United Kingdom Nicolás Pino
Austria René Binder
Switzerland Neel Jani
Oreca 07 G 97 +37.881
11 LMP2 Pro/Am 3 Luxembourg DKR Engineering Belgium Tom van Rompuy
United Kingdom Sebastián Álvarez
France Nathanaël Berthon
Oreca 07 G 97 +38.498
12 LMP2 Pro/Am 99 Germany Proton Competition Italy Giorgio Roda
Germany Jonas Ried
Netherlands Bent Viscaal
Oreca 07 G 97 +1:06.800
13 LMP2 Pro/Am 20 Portugal Algarve Pro Racing United States Fred Poordad
France Tristan Vautier
United Kingdom Jack Hawksworth
Oreca 07 G 96 +1 Lap
14 LMP2 28 France IDEC Sport France Paul Lafargue
France Paul-Loup Chatin
Germany Laurents Hörr
Oreca 07 G 95 +2 Laps
15 LMP2 47 Switzerland Cool Racing Vladislav Lomko
France Reshad de Gerus
Argentina José María López
Oreca 07 G 95 +2 Laps
16 LMP3 11 Italy Eurointernational United Kingdom Matthew Richard Bell
Canada Adam Ali
Ligier JS P320 M 94 +3 Laps
17 LMP3 17 Switzerland Cool Racing France Adrien Chila
Argentina Marcos Siebert
Mexico Alejandro Garcia
Ligier JS P320 M 93 +4 Laps
18 LMP3 4 Luxembourg DKR Engineering United Arab Emirates Alexander Bukhantsov
United Kingdom James Winslow
Portugal Pedro Perino
Duqueine M30 – D08 M 93 +4 Laps
19 LMP3 13 Poland Inter Europol Competition Portugal Miguel Cristóvão
United Kingdom Kai Askey
United States Wyatt Brichacek
Ligier JS P320 M 93 +4 Laps
20 LMGTE 16 Germany Proton Competition United States Ryan Hardwick
Canada Zacharie Robichon
Belgium Alessio Picariello
Porsche 911 RSR-19 G 93 +4 Laps
21 LMP2 Pro/Am 21 United States United Autosports USA Brazil Daniel Schneider
United Kingdom Andrew Meyrick
Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr.
Oreca 07 G 93 +4 Laps
22 LMGTE 77 Germany Proton Competition Germany Christian Ried
Italy Giammarco Levorato
France Julien Andlauer
Porsche 911 RSR-19 G 93 +4 Laps
23 LMP3 8 Poland Team Virage South Africa Michael Jensen
United Kingdom Nick Adcock
Portugal Manuel Espírito Santo
Ligier JS P320 M 93 +4 Laps
24 LMGTE 55 Switzerland Spirit of Race United Kingdom Duncan Cameron
South Africa David Perel
Republic of Ireland Matthew Griffin
Ferrari 488 GTE Evo G 93 +4 Laps
25 LMP3 15 United Kingdom RLR M Sport Austria Horst Felbermayr Jr
France Gaël Julien
Poland Mateusz Kaprzyk
Ligier JS P320 M 93 +4 Laps
26 LMP3 31 Switzerland Racing Spirit of Léman France Jacques Wolff
France Jean-Ludovic Foubert
France Antoine Doquin
Ligier JS P320 M 93 +4 Laps[R 1]
27 LMGTE 66 United Kingdom JMW Motorsport Singapore Martin Berry
United Kingdom Lorcan Hanafin
United Kingdom Jon Lancaster
Ferrari 488 GTE Evo G 93 +4 Laps
28 LMGTE 44 Denmark GMB Motorsport Denmark Jens Møller
Denmark Gustav Birch
Denmark Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMR G 93 +4 Laps[R 2]
29 LMGTE 95 United Kingdom TF Sport United Kingdom John Hartshorne
United Kingdom Ben Tuck
United Kingdom Jonathan Adam
Aston Martin Vantage AMR G 92 +5 Laps
30 LMGTE 51 Italy AF Corse Greece Kriton Lentoudis
Portugal Rui Águas
Belgium Ulysse de Pauw
Ferrari 488 GTE Evo G 92 +5 Laps[R 3]
31 LMGTE 60 Italy Iron Lynx Italy Claudio Schiavoni
Italy Matteo Cressoni
Italy Matteo Cairoli
Porsche 911 RSR-19 G 92 +5 Laps
32 LMGTE 50 Denmark Formula Racing Denmark Johnny Laursen
Denmark Conrad Laursen
Denmark Nicklas Nielsen
Ferrari 488 GTE Evo G 92 +5 Laps[R 4]
33 LMGTE 72 United Kingdom TF Sport France Arnold Robin
France Maxime Robin
France Valentin Hasse-Clot
Aston Martin Vantage AMR G 91 +6 Laps
34 LMGTE 93 Germany Proton Competition Republic of Ireland Michael Fassbender
Estonia Martin Rump
Austria Richard Lietz
Porsche 911 RSR-19 G 91 +6 Laps
35 LMP3 12 Germany WTM by Rinaldi Racing Germany Torsten Kratz
Germany Leonard Weiss
Colombia Óscar Tunjo
Duqueine M30 – D08 M 90 +7 Laps[R 5]
36 LMGTE 57 Switzerland Kessel Racing Japan Takeshi Kimura
United States Scott Huffaker
Brazil Daniel Serra
Ferrari 488 GTE Evo G 87 +10 Laps
37 LMP2 Pro/Am 19 Poland Team Virage Germany Alexander Mattschull
Guatemala Ian Rodríguez
Colombia Tatiana Calderón
Oreca 07 G 82 +15 Laps
Not classified
LMP3 5 United Kingdom RLR M Sport Canada James Dayson
Denmark Valdemar Eriksen
United Kingdom Jack Manchester
Ligier JS P320 M 81
LMP3 35 France Ultimate France Eric Trouillet
France Matthieu Lahaye
France Jean-Baptiste Lahaye
Ligier JS P320 M 66
LMP3 7 United Kingdom Nielsen Racing United Kingdom Anthony Wells
United Kingdom Ryan Harper-Ellam
Ligier JS P320 M 49
  1. ^ The No. 31 Racing Spirit of Léman was penalised for not serving 10 seconds time penalty during a pit stop. The penalty was a drive through converted to 30 seconds added to crew's total race time.[14][13]
  2. ^ The No. 44 GMB Motorsport was penalised for not meeting the minimum driving time of Nicki Thiim. Thiim missed 16.743 seconds to meet stipulated time. The penalty was 17 seconds Stop & Go converted to 52 seconds added to crew's total race time.[15][13]
  3. ^ The No. 51 AF Corse was penalised for not meeting the minimum driving time of Ulysse de Pauw. De Pauw missed 1 minute and 32.251 seconds to meet stipulated time. The penalty was 1 minute 32.251 seconds converted to subtraction of 1 lap and adding 24.148 seconds added to crew's total race time.[16]
  4. ^ The No. 50 Formula Racing was penalised for not meeting the minimum driving time of Nicklas Nielsen. Nielsen missed 1 minute and 56.028 seconds to meet stipulated time. The penalty was subtracting 1 lap and adding 47.925 seconds added to crew's total race time.[17]
  5. ^ The No. 12 WTM by Rinaldi Racing was penalised for a pit stop infringement. The penalty was 10 seconds added to crew's total race time.[13]

Statistics

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Fastest lap

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Class Driver Team Time Lap
LMP2 Netherlands Job van Uitert France #65 Panis Racing 1:35.475 77
LMP2 Pro/Am Guatemala Ian Rodríguez Poland #19 Team Virage 1:35.854 77
LMP3 Argentina Marcos Siebert Switzerland #17 Cool Racing 1:41.421 90
LMGTE Brazil Daniel Serra Switzerland #57 Kessel Racing 1:43,103 87
Source:[18]

References

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  2. ^ Goodwin, Graham; Graça, João; Kilbey, Stephen (19 October 2023). "ELMS Grand Finale: Thursday Paddock Notes". DailySportscar. Archived from the original on 19 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  3. ^ "TIMETABLE V6 - GRAND SEASON FINALE - 4 HOURS OF ALGARVE & 4 HOURS OF PORTIMÃO" (PDF). FIA WEC Press. 11 October 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  4. ^ "European Le Mans Series 2023 4 Hours of Algarve Classification". MotorsportStats. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  5. ^ "European Le Mans Series 2023 4 Hours of Portimao Classification". MotorsportStats. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  6. ^ "European Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Portimao Qualifying Final Classification" (PDF). ELMS Alkamel. 21 October 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  7. ^ "European Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Portimao Qualifying Practice - LMP2 Final Classification by Driver Fastest Lap" (PDF). ELMS Alkamel. 21 October 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  8. ^ "European Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Portimao Qualifying Practice - LMP2 Pro/Am Final Classification by Driver Fastest Lap" (PDF). ELMS Alkamel. 21 October 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  9. ^ "European Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Portimao Qualifying Practice - LMP3 Final Classification by Driver Fastest Lap" (PDF). ELMS Alkamel. 21 October 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
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  12. ^ "European Le Mans Series 2023 4 Hours of Portimão Classification". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
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  14. ^ "Decision No. 69" (PDF). ELMS Alkamel. 22 October 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  15. ^ "Decision No. 71" (PDF). ELMS Alkamel. 22 October 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  16. ^ "Decision No. 72" (PDF). ELMS Alkamel. 22 October 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  17. ^ "Decision No. 73" (PDF). ELMS Alkamel. 22 October 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  18. ^ "European Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Portimao Race Final Classification by Category" (PDF). ELMS Alkamel. 22 October 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.