4 Hours of Imola – Prema wins ahead of United Autosports

While victory seemed promised to Panis Ranis or COOL Racing, neck and neck as they entered the final hour, the two teams were surprised by a Full Course Yellow triggered by an off-track Thomas Laurent (Muehlner Motorsport). Delaying Louis Delétraz's stop as long as possible, Prema took the opportunity to emerge from the pits in first position with a good lead over the duo. The Italian team thus achieved a second victory in a row in ELMS, after that obtained at the 4 Hours of Le Castellet. However, this success at home seemed to have eluded him after paying three penalties during relays by Lorenzo Colombo and Ferdinand Habsburg, including two drive throughs. Taking advantage of the same strategy, the United Autosports No. 22 of Phil Hanson, Tom Gamble and Duncan Tappy found itself in second place at the finish. Yifei Ye, in the lead before the FCY, held off van Uitert at the race restart to maintain a place on the podium.

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United Autosports won in LM P3 with the No. 3 of Kay van Berlo and Andrew Bentley. The duo beat the No. 27 of COOL Racing (Nicolas Maulini, Jean-Ludovic Foubert and Antoine Doquin) and the No. 17 of the Swiss team (Maurice Smith, Michael Benham, Malthe Jakobsen).

Domination was total for Oman Racing with TF Sport in LMGTE. Part of pole position, theAston Martin Vantage AMR No. 69 of Ahmad al Harthy, Marco Sørensen and Samuel de Haan won ahead of the sister car, the No. 95 of John Hartshorne, Henrique Chaves and Jonathan Adam. The Iron Ladies were heading for a podium, but were unlucky once again this season during Rahel Frey's relay. It's another Ferrari who took the opportunity to take third place with the #57 Kessel Racing of Takeshi Kimura, Frederik Schandorff and Mikkel Jensen.

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