The 2013 6 Hours of Silverstone was an auto racing event held at the Silverstone Circuit, near Silverstone, England on 12–14 April 2013. The event was the opening round of the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship season, and served as the annual award for the Royal Automobile Club's Tourist Trophy. Briton Allan McNish, Dane Tom Kristensen, and Frenchman Loïc Duval won the race for Audi, just over three seconds ahead of their teammates. The British Delta-ADR team were victorious in the LMP2 category, while Aston Martin Racing secured both the LMGTE Pro and LMGTE Am classes.

The event weekend was shared with the European Le Mans Series, which ran the 3 Hours of Silverstone, and the FIA European Formula 3 Championship.

Qualifying

The 6 Hours of Silverstone was the first instance in which the WEC utilized a new qualifying procedure in which two drivers were required to set laps during the qualifying session. The grid would then be determined by averaging the total of the two best laps set by each of the drivers. Following the Silverstone qualifying session, several drivers felt the new format was too risky as all teams only had enough time to set four laps during the wet session.^[1] The FIA later announced that qualifying would be extended by ten minutes for the next round at Spa to allow teams more leeway.

Qualifying result

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.^[2]

Race

Race result

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).^[3]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps
					Engine
1	LMP1	2	Audi Sport Team Joest	Allan McNish Tom Kristensen Loïc Duval	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	M	197
					Audi TDI 3.7 L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)
2	LMP1	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Marcel Fässler Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	M	197
					Audi TDI 3.7 L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)
3	LMP1	8	Toyota Racing	Anthony Davidson Stéphane Sarrazin Sébastien Buemi	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	M	196
					Toyota 3.4 L V8 (Hybrid)
4	LMP1	7	Toyota Racing	Alexander Wurz Nicolas Lapierre	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	M	196
					Toyota 3.4 L V8 (Hybrid)
5	LMP1	12	Rebellion Racing	Nicolas Prost Neel Jani Nick Heidfeld	Lola B12/60	M	193
					Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8
6	LMP1	13	Rebellion Racing	Andrea Belicchi Mathias Beche Congfu Cheng	Lola B12/60	M	190
					Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8
7	LMP2	25	Delta-ADR	Tor Graves Antônio Pizzonia James Walker	Oreca 03	D	184
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
8	LMP2	24	OAK Racing	Olivier Pla Alex Brundle David Heinemeier Hansson	Morgan LMP2	D	183
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
9	LMP2	49	Pecom Racing	Luís Pérez Companc Pierre Kaffer Nicolas Minassian	Oreca 03	M	179
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
10	LMP2	35	OAK Racing	Bertrand Baguette Martin Plowman Ricardo González	Morgan LMP2	D	179
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
11	LMP2	41	Greaves Motorsport	Tom Kimber-Smith Chris Dyson Michael Marsal	Zytek Z11SN	D	179
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
12	LMP2	47	KCMG	Alexandre Imperatori Matthew Howson Jim Ka To	Morgan LMP2	M	179
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
13	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	Roman Rusinov John Martin Mike Conway	Oreca 03	D	176
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
14	LMGTE Pro	97	Aston Martin Racing	Darren Turner Stefan Mücke Bruno Senna	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	171
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
15	LMGTE Pro	71	AF Corse	Kamui Kobayashi Toni Vilander	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	170
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
16	LMGTE Pro	99	Aston Martin Racing	Frédéric Makowiecki Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	170
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
17	LMGTE Pro	92	Porsche Team Manthey	Marc Lieb Richard Lietz Romain Dumas	Porsche 911 RSR	M	170
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
18	LMGTE Pro	51	AF Corse	Gianmaria Bruni Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	170
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
19	LMGTE Am	95	Aston Martin Racing	Allan Simonsen Kristian Poulsen Christoffer Nygaard	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	169
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
20	LMGTE Pro	91	Porsche Team Manthey	Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Pilet Timo Bernhard	Porsche 911 RSR	M	168
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
21	LMGTE Am	50	Larbre Compétition	Julien Canal Patrick Bornhauser Fernando Rees	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	166
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
22	LMGTE Am	81	8 Star Motorsports	Enzo Potolicchio Rui Águas Philipp Peter	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	165
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
23	LMGTE Am	96	Aston Martin Racing	Roald Goethe Jamie Campbell-Walter Stuart Hall	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	165
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
24	LMGTE Am	88	Proton Competition	Christian Ried Gianluca Roda Paolo Ruberti	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	165
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
25	LMGTE Am	57	Krohn Racing	Tracy Krohn Niclas Jönsson Maurizio Mediani	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	164
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
26	LMGTE Am	76	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Christophe Bourret Jean-Karl Vernay	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	163
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
27	LMP2	45	OAK Racing	Jacques Nicolet Jean-Marc Merlin	Morgan LMP2	D	154
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
28	LMGTE Am	61	AF Corse	Jack Gerber Matt Griffin Marco Cioci	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	139
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
NC	LMP2	32	Lotus	Thomas Holzer Dominik Kraihamer Jan Charouz	Lotus T128	D	113
					Praga 3.6 L V8
DNF	LMP1	21	Strakka Racing	Nick Leventis Jonny Kane Danny Watts	HPD ARX-03c	M	55
					Honda LM-V8 3.4 L V8
DNF	LMP2	31	Lotus	Kevin Weeda Christophe Bouchut Vitantonio Liuzzi	Lotus T128	D	44
					Praga 3.6 L V8