4 Hours of Le Castellet – Prema takes his first victory in Endurance

The suspense was total until the end at the 4 Hours of Le Castellet, with battles at almost every level in the last hour of the race. For the general classification, Louis Delétraz seemed to be taking Prema to success, but a final passage in the pits turned things upside down. The Swiss in fact came out more than 25 seconds behind Bent Viscaal on the No. 19 Algarve Pro Racing car, which he shares with Sophia Floersch. Using an offbeat strategy, the only two-man crew in the LM P2 category nevertheless had to carry out a sixth and final refueling to finish the race.

Delétraz took the opportunity to race towards victory by setting the fastest lap in the race, thus offering Prema (with his teammates Lorenzo Colombo and Ferdinand Habsburg) his first victory in Endurance from his second outing in the discipline. The first ended with a fourth place in the 1000 Miles of Sebring, riding a WEC. Bent Viscaal and Sophia Floersch were finally content with second place, ahead of Panis Racing (Julien Canal, Nicolas Jamin, Job van Uitert). Sixth, Racing Team Turkey (Jack Aitken, Charlie Eastwood, Salih Yoluc) is the first LM P2 Pro-Am crew.

Ferrari dominates Porsche in GT

In LMGTE, while the Iron Dames shone by leading at the end of the first hour thanks to Sarah Bovy, it's another Ferrari, the No. 32 of Rinaldi Racing, started from pole position, which won with Pierre Ehret, Nicolas Varrone and Memo Gidley. The podium is completed by the Porsche of Proton Competition, with the #77 (Gianmaria Bruni, Lorenzo Ferrari, Christian Ried) ahead of the #93 (Michael Fassbender, Zacharie Robichon, Richard Lietz).

The LM P3 category offered a spectacle with numerous battles, often several abreast. The victory went to the No. 17 of COOL Racing (Maurice Smith, Michael Benham, Malthe Jakobsen). The trio was ahead of the Inter Europol Competition trio at the end of the race in the #320 Ligier JS P13 of Charles Crews, Nicolas Pino and Guilherme Oliveira, and the #2 United Autosports (Bailey Voisin, Joshua Caygill, Finn Gehrsitz). ). Ligier therefore signs a hat-trick in this category.

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