G-Drive Racing shines in the Catalan night in Barcelona

Jean-Eric Vergne will have had an idyllic week in motorsport. Titled last Sunday in Formula E, the Frenchman pocketed the 4 Hours of Barcelona, third round of theELMS 2019.

Associate on the Aurus 01 n°26 – G-Drive Racing with Roman Rusinov and Job van Uitert, Vergne and his teammates took control of the race after the first stops to never let go and win with a lap ahead of the competition.

Absent from the first two events of the season at Paul Ricard and Monza, Vergne remembered the good memories of the ELMS peloton, accumulating fast laps with van Uitert and Rusinov to irremediably widen the gap on his pursuers.

Van Uitert and Rusinov took the opportunity to increase their lead in the Drivers' championship, with Vergne taking his first points of the year.

Tristan Gommendy offers second place to Graff Racing, having taken the advantage in the last ten minutes over the #07 Oreca 30 – Duqueine Engineering of Bradley – Ragues – Jamin.

This is the first podium in 2019 in LM P2 for Graff Racing, with the No. 07 Oreca 39 of Gommendy, supported by Alexandre Gougnaud and Jonathan Hirschi.

Disillusionment for Duqueine Engineering which lost the third step of the podium in the final moments, Antonin Borga snatching third place for Cool Racing against Richard Bradley.

Teammate of Nicolas lapierre and Alexandre Coigny on the No. 07 Oreca 37, Borga allows the Swiss-flagged team to secure its first podium in LM P2 in 2019.

The Swiss had already dominated the start of the race, after taking the advantage from the start over Paul Lafargue (Oreca 07 n°28 – IDEC Sport). Duqueine Engineering and IDEC Sport, with the No. 07 Oreca 28 from Lafargue – Chatin – Rojas, enter the top 5.

Several incidents in the category punctuated the event, including the #07 Oreca 43 – RLR Msport going off the track and the #217 Ligier JS P24 – Panis-Barthez Compétition, with Timothé Buret coming out without injury from a off-trajectory excursion and contact with the wall.

Pitched fight in LM P3, Ferrari crushes the GTE

The category only saw its outcome take shape in the last half hour, since the No. 3 Ligier JS P13 – InterEuropol Competition of Moore – Hippe thought he had the situation in hand before a drive-through for contact with the car from the Oregon Team.

Starting third, Nigel Moore maintained his pace to finally recover his property and win in the end ahead of Mathieu and Jean-Baptiste Lahaye, supported by François Hériau on the Norma M30 n°17 ​​– Ultimate. Erdos – Boyd – Grist (Ligier JS P3 n°2 – United Autosports)

The Jensen – Petersen duo (Ligier JS P3 n°11 – Eurointernational) dominated the start of the race, but an exit from the track for the championship leaders marks a halt for the crew which had finished 2nd at Paul Ricard and won at Monza.

In GTE, Ferrari won with the 488 GTE n°51 – Luzich Racing of Alessandro Pier Guidi, a major reinforcement this year within the team with Frenchman Fabien Lavergne and Nicklas Jensen. The Italian cars monopolize the podium with the 488 n°66 – JMW Motorsport of Cressoni – Lu – Segal and n°55 – Spirit of Race of Griffin – Cameron – Scott.

Discover the full report of the Barcelona ELMS event, produced by our special correspondent in Catalonia, in issue 2226 of AUTOhebdo, available from Monday evening in digital version and from this Wednesday on newsstands.