The 2018 European Le Mans Series was the fifteenth season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) European Le Mans Series. The six-event season began at Circuit Paul Ricard on 15 April and finished at Algarve International Circuit on 28 October.[1] The series is open to Le Mans Prototypes, divided into the LMP2 and LMP3 classes, and grand tourer-style racing cars in the LMGTE class.[2]
The provisional 2018 calendar was announced on 23 September 2017. The calendar comprises six events, featuring the same six circuits that hosted events in the 2017 season. The rounds at Silverstone and Paul Ricard swapped their places in the calendar, with the French circuit hosting the opening round and Silverstone moving to an August date, once again in conjunction with the FIA World Endurance Championship.
The official pre-season test also returned to Paul Ricard after a one-year absence, having taken place at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in 2017.[1]
Rnd | Race | Circuit | Location | Date |
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1 | 4 Hours of Le Castellet | Circuit Paul Ricard | Le Castellet, France | 15 April |
2 | 4 Hours of Monza | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | Monza, Italy | 13 May |
3 | 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring | Red Bull Ring | Spielberg, Austria | 22 July |
4 | 4 Hours of Silverstone | Silverstone Circuit | Silverstone, United Kingdom | 18 August |
5 | 4 Hours of Spa | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Spa, Belgium | 23 September |
6 | 4 Hours of Portimão | Algarve International Circuit | Portimão, Portugal | 28 October |
In accordance with the 2017 LMP2 regulations, all cars in the LMP2 class used the Gibson GK428 V8 engine.[3]
All cars in the LMP3 class used the Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 engine and Michelin tyres.[12]
Entrant/Team | Chassis | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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United Autosports[36] | Ligier JS P3 | 2 | John Falb[36] | All |
Sean Rayhall[36] | 1–4 | |||
Scott Andrews[19] | 5–6 | |||
3 | Matthew Bell[12] | All | ||
Garett Grist[37] | All | |||
Anthony Wells[12] | All | |||
Cool Racing[12] | Ligier JS P3 | 4 | Iradj Alexander[12] | 1–4, 6 |
Antonin Borga[23] | 1–3, 5–6 | |||
Alexandre Coigny[12] | 1–3, 5–6 | |||
Lucas Borga[15] | 4 | |||
Christian Vaglio[15] | 4 | |||
NEFIS By Speed Factory[12] | Ligier JS P3 | 5 | Timur Boguslavskiy[12] | All |
Aleksey Chuklin[12] | All | |||
Daniil Pronenko[12] | All | |||
360 Racing[12] | Ligier JS P3 | 6 | Ross Kaiser[12] | All |
Terrence Woodward[12] | All | |||
James Swift[12] | 1–2, 4 | |||
Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen[38] | Ligier JS P3 | 7 | Alex Kapadia[38] | All |
Colin Noble[38] | All | |||
Christian Stubbe Olsen[38] | All | |||
DKR Engineering[12] | Norma M30 | 8 | Jean Glorieux[12] | 1–2 |
Alexander Toril[12] | 1–2 | |||
Miguel Toril[7] | 1–2 | |||
Henning Enqvist[39] | 3 | |||
Fabien Lavergne[39] | 3 | |||
Ricardo Sanchez[39] | 3 | |||
Marvin Klein[6] | 5–6 | |||
Christian Vaglio[6] | 5–6 | |||
Nicolas Maulini | 6 | |||
AT Racing[12] | Ligier JS P3 | 9 | Alexander Talkanitsa Jr.[12] | All |
Alexander Talkanitsa Sr.[12] | All | |||
Yann Clairay[23] | 1, 4–5 | |||
Mikkel Jensen[8] | 2–3, 6 | |||
Oregon Team[12] | Norma M30 | 10 | Clément Mateu[40] | All |
Andrés Méndez[12] | All | |||
Riccardo Ponzio[40] | All | |||
Eurointernational[12] | Ligier JS P3 | 11 | Giorgio Mondini[7] | All |
Kay Van Berlo[12] | All | |||
Mattia Drudi[6] | 5 | |||
12 | Andrea Dromedari[12] | 1–5 | ||
Max Hanratty[12] | 1–3 | |||
James Dayson[7] | 1, 3, 5–6 | |||
Mark Kvamme[8] | 2 | |||
Mattia Drudi[15] | 4 | |||
Vadim Meshcheriakov | 6 | |||
Luca Demarchi | 6 | |||
Inter Europol Competition[12] | Ligier JS P3 | 13 | Martin Hippe[12] | All |
Jakub Śmiechowski[12] | All | |||
14 | Luca Demarchi[7] | 1–5 | ||
Paul Scheuschner[12] | All | |||
Henning Enqvist[23] | 1 | |||
Hendrik Still[8] | 2, 4 | |||
Guglielmo Belotti[39] | 3 | |||
Moritz Müller-Crepon[6] | 5–6 | |||
RLR MSport[41] | Ligier JS P3 | 15 | John Farano[41] | All |
Rob Garofall[41] | All | |||
Job van Uitert[41] | All | |||
BHK Motorsport[12] | Ligier JS P3 | 16 | Jacopo Baratto[12] | All |
Francesco Dracone[12] | All | |||
Ultimate[12] | Norma M30 | 17 | François Hériau[12] | All |
Jean-Baptiste Lahaye[12] | All | |||
Matthieu Lahaye[12] | All | |||
M.Racing - YMR[12] | Ligier JS P3 | 18 | Natan Bihel[12] | All |
Laurent Millara[12] | All | |||
Norma M30 | 19 | David Droux[42] | All | |
Lucas Légeret[42] | All | |||
Nicolas Ferrer[12] | 1–2 | |||
Alain Ferté[39] | 3 | |||
Romano Ricci[15] | 4–5 | |||
Michael Benham | 6 | |||
Racing For Poland[8] | Ligier JS P3 | 20 | Tomasz Blicharski[8] | 2 |
Henning Enqvist[8] | 2 | |||
Alex Fontana[8] | 2 | |||
Team Virage[15] | Ligier JS P3 | 34 | Henning Enqvist[15] | 4 |
JM Littman[43] | 4 | |||
Jacob Rattenbury[15] | 4 |
All cars in the LMGTE class used Dunlop tyres.[12]
Entrant/Team | Chassis | Engine | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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Spirit of Race[44][N 5] Krohn Racing[44][N 5] |
Ferrari 488 GTE | Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 | 54 | Francesco Castellacci[7] | 1 |
Thomas Flohr[7] | 1 | ||||
55 | Duncan Cameron[44] | All | |||
Matt Griffin[44] | All | ||||
Aaron Scott[44] | All | ||||
83 | Andrea Bertolini[44] | All | |||
Niclas Jönsson[44] | All | ||||
Tracy Krohn[44] | All | ||||
JMW Motorsport[12] | Ferrari 488 GTE | Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 | 66 | Liam Griffin[12] | All |
Alex MacDowall[7] | All | ||||
Miguel Molina[7] | All | ||||
Proton Competition[7] | Porsche 911 RSR | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 77 | Marvin Dienst[23] | All |
Christian Ried[7] | All | ||||
Dennis Olsen[7] | 1, 3–6 | ||||
Marc Lieb[8] | 2 | ||||
88 | Gianluca Roda[7] | All | |||
Giorgio Roda[7] | All | ||||
Matteo Cairoli[7] | 1, 3–6 | ||||
Gianmaria Bruni[8] | 2 | ||||
EbiMotors[45] | Porsche 911 RSR | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 80 | Fabio Babini[45] | All |
Riccardo Pera[46] | All | ||||
Raymond Narac[7] | 1–2 | ||||
Bret Curtis[39] | 3–5 | ||||
Gianluca Giraudi | 6 | ||||
Gulf Racing UK[7] | Porsche 911 RSR | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 86 | Ben Barker[7] | 1, 4 |
Alex Davison[7] | 1, 4 | ||||
Michael Wainwright[7] | 1, 4 |
Bold indicates overall winner.
Rnd. | Circuit | LMP2 Winning Team | LMP3 Winning Team | LMGTE Winning Team | Results |
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LMP2 Winning Drivers | LMP3 Winning Drivers | LMGTE Winning Drivers | |||
1 | Le Castellet | No. 24 Racing Engineering | No. 15 RLR MSport | No. 66 JMW Motorsport | Report |
Norman Nato Paul Petit Olivier Pla |
John Farano Rob Garofall Job van Uitert |
Liam Griffin Alex MacDowall Miguel Molina | |||
2 | Monza | No. 26 G-Drive Racing | No. 11 EuroInternational | No. 55 Spirit of Race | Report |
Andrea Pizzitola Roman Rusinov Jean-Éric Vergne |
Giorgio Mondini Kay van Berlo |
Duncan Cameron Matt Griffin Aaron Scott | |||
3 | Red Bull Ring | No. 26 G-Drive Racing | No. 15 RLR MSport | No. 88 Proton Competition | Report |
Andrea Pizzitola Roman Rusinov Jean-Éric Vergne |
John Farano Rob Garofall Job van Uitert |
Matteo Cairoli Gianluca Roda Giorgio Roda | |||
4 | Silverstone | No. 26 G-Drive Racing | No. 3 United Autosports | No. 66 JMW Motorsport | Report |
Andrea Pizzitola Roman Rusinov Jean-Éric Vergne |
Matthew Bell Garett Grist Anthony Wells |
Liam Griffin Alex MacDowall Miguel Molina | |||
5 | Spa-Francorchamps | No. 22 United Autosports | No. 2 United Autosports | No. 80 EbiMotors | Report |
Filipe Albuquerque Phil Hanson |
Scott Andrews John Falb |
Fabio Babini Bret Curtis Riccardo Pera | |||
6 | Portimão | No. 22 United Autosports | No. 13 Inter Europol Competition | No. 77 Proton Competition | Report |
Filipe Albuquerque Phil Hanson |
Martin Hippe Jakub Śmiechowski |
Marvin Dienst Dennis Olsen Christian Ried |
To be classified a car will have to cross the finish line on the race track when the chequered flag is shown, except in a case of force majeure at the Stewards’ discretion and have covered at least 70% (the official number of laps will be rounded down to the nearest whole number) of the distance covered by the car classified in first place in the overall classification.[47]
Points are awarded according to the following structure:
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Other | Pole |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
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Points are awarded according to the following structure:
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Other | Pole |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
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