G-Drive Racing wins the 4 Hours of Portimão

The intervention of the safety car 1h28 from the goal changed nothing. Although dominated yesterday in qualifying, the Aurus 01 n°26 mastered the final of theELMS, on the Autodromo do Algarve. After a good start from Roman Rusinov, the car run by TDS Racing made the break thanks to an excellent Mikkel Jensen, who handed over the wheel for the final stint to Nyck de Vries.

Victory is finally theirs in 2020. @GDrive_Racing win the #4HPortimao! Well done to all the Russian crew. #ELMS @AurusRussia @Oreca @MikkelhJensen @nyckdevries @Roman_Rusinov pic.twitter.com/kvMjVI4qst

— European Le Mans Series (@EuropeanLMS) November 1, 2020

If the 2020 champions Phil Hanson and Filipe Albuquerque can boast of five podiums in as many ELMS races this year, the No. 07 Oreca 22 was also beaten by the No. 30 from the Duqueine Team, rewarded for its efforts by a first podium this season at the end of a race well led by the trio Konstantin Tereschenko-Jonathan Hirshi-Tristan Gommendy.

United Autosports will console itself with a victory and the LM P3 title for Wayne Boyd-Tom Gamble-Robert Wheldon (Ligier JS P320 n°2), who finished ahead of David Droux, who shared the wheel of the Ligier JS in Portugal P320 n°8 of Realtam with Julien Gerbi. The first city finished third in the championship behind Martin Hippe (Ligier JS P320 n°13 of Inter Europol), third today with Dino Lunardi.

@UnitedAutosport #2 claim victory in Portugal and clinch the 2020 LMP3 championship title!

Well done to all the British crew – @wayneboydracing, @TomGamble23, R. Wheldon #ELMS #4HPortimao @LigierAutomotiv pic.twitter.com/nr91nbAh9M

— European Le Mans Series (@EuropeanLMS) November 1, 2020

In GTE, Proton Competition also scored a double blow since, by winning, the trio Alessio Picariello-Christian Ried-Michele Beretta (Porsche 911 RSR n°77) wins the title to the detriment of Broniszewski-Perel-Cadei (Ferrari n°74 of Kessel Racing), yet second this afternoon in front of another 488 GTE Evo, the n°55 of Cameron-Griffon-Scott.