2023 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps explained

The 2023 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps was an endurance sportscar racing event held between 22 and 24 September 2023, as the fourth round of the 2023 European Le Mans Series season.

Entry list

The pre-event entry list consisted of 41 entries in 4 categories – 7 in LMP2, 10 in LMP2 Pro/Am, 12 in LMP3 and 12 in LMGTE. In comparison to the previous round one car was missing – the No. 23 United Autosports USA was withdrawn for the rest of the season due to Jim McGuire's injury.[1] [2]

Alessio Rovera stayed in the No. 83 AF Corse entry after replacing Ben Barnicoat at Aragón. Bent Viscaal was kept in crew of the No. 20 Algarve Pro Racing after replacing Jack Hawksworth in previous round. Nelson Piquet Jr. came back to the No. 21 United Autosports USA after missing previous race. Tom van Rompuy also missed previous round and came back to the car No. 3 of DKR Engineering. François Heriau joined Glenn van Berlo in the No. 10 Eurointernational. Daniel Serra joined the No. 57 Kessel Racing.

Schedule

DateTime (local: CEST)Event
Friday, 22 September11:00Free Practice 1
14:45Bronze Drivers Collective Test
Saturday, 23 September10:15Free Practice 2
14:05Qualifying - LMGTE
14:30Qualifying - LMP3
14:55Qualifying - LMP2 Pro/Am
15:20Qualifying - LMP2
Sunday, 24 September11:30Race
Source:[3]

Free practice

Free Practice 1ClassEntrantTime
LMP222 United Autosports USA2:05.030
LMP2 Pro/Am37 Cool Racing2:05.060
LMP331 Racing Spirit of Leman2:12.789
LMGTE60 Iron Lynx2:16.741
Free Practice 2LMP243 Inter Europol Competition2:04.530
LMP2 Pro/Am21 United Autosports USA2:05.630
LMP38 Team Virage2:12.212
LMGTE60 Iron Lynx2:17.096
Source:[4] [5]

Qualifying

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

ClassTeamDriverTimeGap
1LMP225 Algarve Pro Racing Alexander Lynn2:03.564—1
2LMP222 United Autosports USA Philip Hanson2:03.672+0.1082
3LMP228 IDEC Sport Laurents Hörr2:03.789+0.2253
4LMP230 Duqueine Team René Binder2:04.197+0.6334
5LMP243 Inter Europol Competition Jonathan Aberdein2:04.211+0.6475
6LMP265 Panis Racing Job van Uitert2:04.350+0.7866
7LMP247 Cool Racing Vladislav Lomko2:05.013+1.4497
8LMP2 Pro/Am34 Racing Team Turkey Salih Yoluç2:05.221+1.6578
9LMP2 Pro/Am99 Proton Competition Giorgio Roda2:05.874+2.3109
10LMP2 Pro/Am3 DKR Engineering Tom van Rompuy2:07.112+3.54810
11LMP2 Pro/Am37 Cool Racing Alexandre Coigny2:07.307+3.74311
12LMP2 Pro/Am24 Nielsen Racing Rodrigo Sales2:07.852+4.28812
13LMP2 Pro/Am19 Team Virage Alexander Mattschull2:07.977+4.41316
14LMP2 Pro/Am83 AF Corse François Perrodo2:08.104+4.54013
15LMP2 Pro/Am21 United Autosports USA Daniel Schneider2:08.483+4.91914
16LMP2 Pro/Am81 DragonSpeed USA Henrik Hedman2:09.700+6.13615
17LMP38 Team Virage Manuel Espírito Santo2:11.285+7.72117
18LMP2 Pro/Am20 Algarve Pro Racing Fred Poordad2:11.461+7.89718
19LMP37 Nielsen Racing Ryan Harper-Ellam2:11.630+8.06619
20LMP310 Eurointernational Glenn van Berlo2:11.943+8.37920
21LMP317 Cool Racing Marcos Siebert2:11.978+8.41421
22LMP331 Racing Spirit of Leman Antoine Doquin2:12.064+8.50022
23LMP311 Eurointernational Adam Ali2:12.124+8.56023
24LMP313 Inter Europol Competition Wyatt Brichacek2:12.520+8.95624
25LMP315 RLR M Sport Gaël Julien2:12.523+8.95925
26LMP34 DKR Engineering James Winslow2:12.574+9.01026
27LMP335 Ultimate Matthieu Lahaye2:12.856+9.29227
28LMP35 RLR M Sport Valdemar Eriksen2:13.328+9.76428
29LMGTE16 Proton Competition Ryan Hardwick2:17.385+13.82129
30LMGTE72 TF Sport Arnold Robin2:18.039+14.47530
31LMGTE66 JMW Motorsport Martin Berry2:18.362+14.79831
32LMGTE44 GMB Motorsport Jens Møller2:18.436+14.87232
33LMGTE93 Proton Competition Michael Fassbender2:18.568+15.00433
34LMGTE55 Spirit of Race Duncan Cameron2:18.817+15.25334
35LMGTE50 Formula Racing Johnny Laursen2:18.914+15.35035
36LMGTE57 Kessel Racing Takeshi Kimura2:18.919+15.35536
37LMGTE77 Proton Competition Christian Ried2:19.002+15.43837
38LMGTE51 AF Corse Kriton Lentoudis2:20.341+16.77738
39LMGTE60 Iron Lynx Claudio Schiavoni2:20.658+17.09439
40LMGTE95 TF Sport John Hartshorne2:20.811+17.24740
LMP312 WTM by Rinaldi Racing Óscar Tunjo2:10.554+6.990 -
Sources:[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Race

Race result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 61 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Final Classification[12] [13] ! ! Class! ! Team! Drivers! Car! Tyres! Laps! Time/Gap
1LMP225 Algarve Pro Racing Kyffin Simpson
James Allen
Alexander Lynn		Oreca 07884:00:13.458
2LMP2 Pro/Am37 Cool Racing Alexandre Coigny
Malthe Jakobsen
Nicolas Lapierre		Oreca 0788+1.811
3LMP2 Pro/Am34 Racing Team Turkey Salih Yoluç
Charlie Eastwood
Louis Delétraz		Oreca 0788+5.674
4LMP2 Pro/Am21 United Autosports USA Daniel Schneider
Andrew Meyrick
Nelson Piquet Jr.		Oreca 0788+6.431
5LMP2 Pro/Am83 AF Corse François Perrodo
Matthieu Vaxivière
Alessio Rovera		Oreca 0788+7.033
6LMP2 Pro/Am19 Team Virage Alexander Mattschull
Ian Rodríguez
Tatiana Calderón		Oreca 0788+9.238
7LMP2 Pro/Am20 Algarve Pro Racing Fred Poordad
Tristan Vautier
Bent Viscaal		Oreca 0788+11.178
8LMP265 Panis Racing Job van Uitert
Manuel Maldonado
Tijmen van der Helm		Oreca 0788+31.808
9LMP247 Cool Racing Vladislav Lomko
Reshad de Gerus
José María López		Oreca 0788+48.302
10LMP2 Pro/Am81 DragonSpeed USA Henrik Hedman
Sebastián Montoya
Juan Pablo Montoya		Oreca 0788+49.343
11LMP2 Pro/Am3 DKR Engineering Tom van Rompuy
Sebastián Álvarez
Nathanaël Berthon		Oreca 0788+1:07.298
12LMP228 IDEC Sport Paul Lafargue
Paul-Loup Chatin
Laurents Hörr		Oreca 0787+1 Lap
13LMP222 United Autosports USA Marino Sato
Philip Hanson
Oliver Jarvis		Oreca 0786+2 Laps
14LMP317 Cool Racing Adrien Chila
Marcos Siebert
Alejandro Garcia		Ligier JS P32086+2 Laps
15LMP313 Inter Europol Competition Miguel Cristóvão
Kai Askey
Wyatt Brichacek		Ligier JS P32086+2 Laps
16LMP311 Eurointernational Matthew Richard Bell
Adam Ali		Ligier JS P32086+2 Laps
17LMP35 RLR M Sport James Dayson
Valdemar Eriksen
Jack Manchester		Ligier JS P32086+2 Laps
18LMGTE60 Iron Lynx Claudio Schiavoni
Matteo Cressoni
Matteo Cairoli		Porsche 911 RSR-1986+2 Laps
19LMP38 Team Virage Michael Jensen
Nick Adcock
Manuel Espírito Santo		Ligier JS P32086+2 Laps
20LMP315 RLR M Sport Horst Felbermayr Jr
Gaël Julien
Mateusz Kaprzyk		Ligier JS P32086+2 Laps
21LMGTE50 Formula Racing Johnny Laursen
Conrad Laursen
Nicklas Nielsen		Ferrari 488 GTE Evo86+2 Laps
22LMGTE16 Proton Competition Ryan Hardwick
Zacharie Robichon
Alessio Picariello		Porsche 911 RSR-1986+2 Laps
23LMGTE51 AF Corse Kriton Lentoudis
Rui Águas
Ulysse de Pauw		Ferrari 488 GTE Evo86+2 Laps
24LMGTE57 Kessel Racing Takeshi Kimura
Scott Huffaker
Daniel Serra		Ferrari 488 GTE Evo86+2 Laps
25LMGTE72 TF Sport Arnold Robin
Maxime Robin
Valentin Hasse-Clot		Aston Martin Vantage AMR86+2 Laps
26LMGTE55 Spirit of Race Duncan Cameron
David Perel
Matthew Griffin		Ferrari 488 GTE Evo86+2 Laps
27LMGTE77 Proton Competition Christian Ried
Giammarco Levorato
Julien Andlauer		Porsche 911 RSR-1986+2 Laps
28LMP230 Duqueine Team Nicolás Pino
René Binder
Neel Jani		Oreca 0785+3 Laps
29LMGTE95 TF Sport John Hartshorne
Ben Tuck
Jonathan Adam		Aston Martin Vantage AMR85+3 Laps
30LMP34 DKR Engineering Alexander Bukhantsov
James Winslow
Pedro Perino		Duqueine M30 – D0879+9 Laps
31LMP331 Racing Spirit of Leman Jacques Wolff
Jean-Ludovic Foubert
Antoine Doquin		Ligier JS P32076+12 Laps
Not classified
LMP335 Ultimate Eric Trouillet
Matthieu Lahaye
Jean-Baptiste Lahaye		Ligier JS P32083
LMP243 Inter Europol Competition Rui Andrade
Olli Caldwell
Jonathan Aberdein		Oreca 0781
LMP2 Pro/Am24 Nielsen Racing Rodrigo Sales
Ben Hanley
Mathias Beche		Oreca 0775
LMGTE44 GMB Motorsport Jens Møller
Gustav Birch
Nicki Thiim		Aston Martin Vantage AMR64
LMP310 Eurointernational François Heriau
Glenn van Berlo		Ligier JS P32055
LMGTE66 JMW Motorsport Martin Berry
Lorcan Hanafin
Jon Lancaster		Ferrari 488 GTE Evo35
LMGTE93 Proton Competition Michael Fassbender
Martin Rump
Richard Lietz		Porsche 911 RSR-1934
LMP37 Nielsen Racing Anthony Wells
Ryan Harper-Ellam		Ligier JS P32031
LMP2 Pro/Am99 Proton Competition Giorgio Roda
Jonas Ried
Gianmaria Bruni		Oreca 0730

Statistics

Fastest lap

ClassDriverTeamTime
LMP2 Kyffin Simpson #25 Algarve Pro Racing2:06.1508
LMP2 Pro/Am Malthe Jakobsen #37 Cool Racing2:06.04270
LMP3 Matthew Richard Bell #11 Eurointernational2:13.99016
LMGTE Julien Andlauer #77 Proton Competition2:17.68646
Source:[14]

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