4 Hours of Portimão – Victory and title for VDS Panis Racing

VDS Panis Racing concludes the 2025 season in style. By winning the Portimão finale, Charles Milesi, Esteban Masson and Oliver Gray clinch the LMP2 title in the European Le Mans Series and an invitation to the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2026.

The French team's trio dominated the race after taking the lead in the 25th minute thanks to an excellent start from Oliver Gray. Masson and Milesi then maintained their lead until the checkered flag, winning by a margin of 5,5 seconds.

The other two title contenders completed the podium: the No. 43 Oreca of Inter Europol Competition with the trio of Tom Dillmann, Jakub Smiechowski and Nick Yelloly finished second for the fifth consecutive year ahead of the No. 18 Oreca of IDEC Sport – Genesis Magma Racing (Daniel Juncadella, Mathys Jaubert and Jamie Chadwick), third in the race and in the championship despite three wins this season.

Two titles for TF Sport

In LMP2 Pro/Am, TDS Racing won on track with Rodrigo Sales, Clément Novalak and Mathias Beche, but the title went to the AO by TF team led by PJ Hyett, Dane Cameron and Louis Delétraz.

TF Sport also shone in LMGT3, where the No. 82 Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R of Hiroshi Koizumi, Rui Andrade and Charlie Eastwood won from pole position to give the American brand its first title in ELMS. Under pressure from the McLaren United Autosports No. 23 (Birch, Patterson, Boyd) in the closing laps, Eastwood held on to give the British team a historic victory hailed by Corvette Racing.

Finally, CLX Motorsport (Closmenil, Jensen, Lanchere), already crowned, concluded a perfect season in LMP3 with a fifth success in six races, ahead of Team Virage and DKR Engineering.

ELMS – 4 Hours of Portimão
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