Three-way pass for G-Drive Racing at Silverstone

We don't stop the G Drive Racing. The Russian entity, engaged in European Le Mans Series (ELMS) in partnership with TDS Racing won his third victory in a row after Monza (Italy) and the Red Bull Ring (Austria) Saturday near Silverstone (Great Britain) thanks to the trio composed of Roman Rusinov, Andrea Pizzitola and Jean-Éric Vergne.

Third win in a row for @GDrive_Racing! @JMWmotorsport takes the honor in LMGTE as @UnitedAutosport in LMP3! What an amazing race! Congratulations to all the racers. Huge thanks to all UK Motorsport fans for the warm welcome! #ELMS | #4hSilverstone pic.twitter.com/WFC63Ic10X

— ELMSeries_Official (@EuropeanLMS) August 18, 2018

The Oreca 07 dominated the proceedings during the four-hour event andhe lap lead imposed on the rest of the peloton is proof of this ease. The Franco-Russian crew thus takes a good lead in the general classification with only two rounds remaining this season (at Spa-Francorchamps and Portimao).

The battle for second place was more uncertain. Indeed, the DragonSpeed ​​Oreca 07, piloted by Nicolas lapierre, Ben Hanley and Henrik Hedman stole this position from the other Oreca prototype of Idec Sport Racing (Paul Lafargue-Paul-Loup Chatin-Memo Rojas) thanks to better fuel management.

The pole-holding car, the Panis Barthez Compétition Ligier fell to sixth place in particular due to a pit stop penalty for failure to comply with a Full Course Yellow (FCY). The LM P3 category was won by the United Autosports team with the Grist-Bell-Wells crew.

Both #31 @APRacingTeam and #23 @PBCompetition went off track and almost caused a contact with the #2 @UnitedAutosport because!#ELMS | #4HSILVERSTONE pic.twitter.com/YiWGtmazJs

— ELMSeries_Official (@EuropeanLMS) August 18, 2018

In GTE, the Porsche of the Proton Competition, particularly fast during testing, fell into line in terms of race pace. There Ferrari 488 GTE of the stage premises, the JMW Motorsport, took the opportunity to climb to the top of the class with Liam Griffin, Alex MacDowall and the official pilot of the Prancing Horse Miguel Molina. Roda-Roda-Cairoli (Porsche) settle for a place of honor (second), ahead of another Ferrari, that of the Spirit of Race (Cameron-Griffin-Scott).

Find the analysis of the ELMS at Silverstone by our special correspondent in the next AUTOhebdo, on sale Monday evening in digital version and Wednesday on newsstands.