Silverstone 4-hour race 2019, 1st race

With his teammates Paul Lafargue & Paul-Loup Chatin, he achieved the overall victory: Memo Rojas

The overall winner vehicle, the Oreca 07 with the number 28

The 4-hour race of Silverstone 2019, 1st race took place on August 31st on the Silverstone Circuit and was the fourth round of the European Le Mans Series of this year. A day later, a 4-hour race also took place in Silverstone, the 4-hour race of Silverstone 2019, 2nd race , the first championship run of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship .

Before the race

39 vehicles were registered for the fourth race of the European Le Mans Series. In the qualifying session, Ben Hanley, with the Oreca 07 of the DragonSpeed ​​Team, was able to drive the best time. In the LMP3 class Yann Ehrlacher achieved the best starting position for M Racing and in the LMGTE class Thomas Preining for Proton Competition.

The race

Before the race, the Idec Sport Team announced that the French Erik Maris will be replaced by his compatriot William Cavailhas. A heavy rain shower set in just 5 minutes after the start of the race, which led to many early pit stops and the leading DragonSpeed ​​Oreca 07, driven by James Allen, spinning. Almost 100 minutes before the end of the race, Mike Guasch's Ligier crashed into the first safety car phase, when he hit the guardrail after touching another vehicle. A second safety car phase occurred after a collision between the two Orecas from Duqueine Engineering and Cool Racing. 5 minutes before the end of the race, the LMP3 prototype of the Inter Europol Competition Team with the number 13 was brought into the pits by the race management to fix a loose piece of bodywork. This loss of time by the Inter Europol team led the Eurointernational team to class victory. In the LMGTE class, Preining, Giraudi and Sanchez won in the Porsche 911 RSR. Overall victory was achieved by Lafargue, Chatin and Rojas in the Oreca 07 with the number 28 of the Idec Sport Team, which celebrated its first overall victory in the European Le Mans Series.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP2	28	Idec Sport	Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Memo Rojas	Oreca 07	118
2	LMP2	26th	G-Drive Racing	Roman Rusinov Jean-Éric Vergne Job van Uitert	Aurus 01	118
3	LMP2	39	Graff	Alexandre Cougnaud Tristan Gommendy Jonathan Hirschi	Oreca 07	118
4th	LMP2	21st	DragonSpeed	James Allen Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley	Oreca 07	118
5	LMP2	24	Panis Barthez Competition	Timothé Buret Konstantin Tereshchenko	Ligier JS P217	118
6th	LMP2	25th	Algarve Pro Racing	Olivier Pla Andrea Pizzitola John Falb	Oreca 07	118
7th	LMP2	23	Panis Barthez Competition	René Binder Julien Canal Will Stevens	Oreca 07	117
8th	LMP2	32	United Autosports	Alex Brundle Ryan Cullen Will Owen	Ligier JS P217	117
9	LMP2	31	Algarve Pro Racing	Tacksung Kim Henning Enqvist James French	Oreca 07	117
10	LMP2	35	BHK Motorsport	Francesco Dracone Sergio Campana Garry Findlay	Oreca 07	117
11	LMP2	20th	High class racing	Dennis Andersen Anders Fjordbach	Oreca 07	116
12	LMP2	34	Inter Europol Competition	Jakub Smiechowski Adrien Tambay Lukas Dunner	Ligier JS P217	116
13	LMP2	27	Idec Sport	Patrice Lafargue William Cavailhas Stéphane Adler	Ligier JS P217	114
14th	LMP3	11	Eurointernational	Mikkel Jensen Jens Petersen	Ligier JS P3	111
15th	LMP3	13	Inter Europol Competition	Martin Hippe Nigel Moore	Ligier JS P3	111
16	LMP3	2	United Autosports	Wayne Boyd Garett Grist Tommy Erdos	Ligier JS P3	110
17th	LMP3	6th	360 racing	Terrence Woodward James Dayson Ross Kaiser	Ligier JS P3	110
18th	LMP3	7th	Nielsen Racing	Anthony Wells Colin Noble	Norma M 30	110
19th	LMP3	5	360 racing	John Corbett Andreas Laskaratos James Winslow	Ligier JS P3	109
20th	LMGTE	88	Proton Competition	Thomas Preining Gianluca Giraudi Ricardo Sanchez	Porsche 911 RSR	109
21st	LMP3	17th	Ultimate	Mathieu Lahaye Jean-Baptiste Lahaye François Heriau	Norma M 30	109
22nd	LMGTE	83	Kessel Racing	Manuela Gostner Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting	Ferrari F488 GTE EVO	109
23	LMP3	19th	M Racing	Laurent Millara Lucas Légeret Yann Ehrlacher	Norma M 30	109
24	LMP3	8th	Nielsen Racing	Nobuya Yamanaka James Littlejohn	Ligier JS P3	109
25th	LMGTE	60	Kessel Racing	Sergio Pianezzola Nicola Cadei Andrea Piccini	Ferrari F488 GTE EVO	109
26th	LMP3	15th	RLR MSport	Martin Vedel Mortensen Christian Stubbe Olsen Martin Rich	Ligier JS P3	109
27	LMP3	9	Real team racing	Esteban Garcia David Droux	Norma M 30	109
28	LMGTE	51	Luzich Racing	Alessandro Pier Guidi Nicklas Nielsen Fabien Lavergne	Ferrari F488 GTE EVO	109
29	LMGTE	55	Spirit of Race	Duncan Cameron Matthew Griffin Aaron Scott	Ferrari F488 GTE EVO	108
30th	LMGTE	66	JMW Motorsport	Jeffrey Segal Matteo Cressoni Wei Lu	Ferrari F488 GTE EVO	106
31	LMGTE	77	Dempsey - Proton Racing	Christian Ried Riccardo Pera Matteo Cairoli	Porsche 911 RSR	93
Failed
32	LMP2	45	Carlin	Jack Manchester Harry Tincknell Ben Barnicoat	Dallara P217	79
33	LMP2	37	Cool racing	Nicolas Lapierre Antonin Borga Alexandre Coigny	Oreca 07	77
34	LMP2	30th	Duqueine engineering	Nicolas Jamin Pierre Ragues Richard Bradley	Oreca 07	77
35	LMP3	3	United Autosports	Ryan Cullen Alex Brundle Will Owen	Ligier JS P3	63
36	LMP2	43	RLR MSport	John Farano Arjun Maini Matthieu Vaxivière	Oreca 07	56
37	LMP3	43	Inter Europol Competition	Paul Scheuschner Sam Dejonghe	Ligier JS P3	52
38	LMP3	10	Oregon team	Damiano Fioravanti Gustas Grinbergas Lorenzo Bontempelli	Norma M 30	32
39	LMP3	22nd	United Autosports	Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque	Oreca 07	15th

Only in the entry list

No further reports are known for this race.

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP2	Paul Lafargue	Paul-Loup Chatin	Memo Rojas	Oreca 07	Overall victory
LMP3	Mikkel Jensen	Jens Petersen		Ligier JS P3	Rank 14
LMGTE	Thomas Preining	Gianluca Giraudi	Ricardo Sanchez	Porsche 911 RSR	Rank 20

Racing data

• Registered: 39
• Started: 39
• Rated: 31
• Race classes: 3
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: changeable, rainy
• Route length: 5.891 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 4:00: 27.086 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 118
• Total distance of the winning team: 695.138 kilometers
• Winner's average: unknown
• Pole position: Ben Hanley - Oreca 07 (# 21) - 1: 41.798
• Fastest race lap: James Allen - Oreca 07 (# 21) - 1: 43.954
• Racing series: 4th round of the European Le Mans Series 2019

Web links

Commons : 2019 4 Hours of Silverstone (European Le Mans Series)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry list for the 4-hour race of Silverstone 2019. elms.alkamelsystems.com, accessed on August 30, 2019 (English). 
2. ↑ 4 Hours of Silverstone Qualifying Practice - LMP3 - Final Classification. Retrieved November 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 4 Hours of Silverstone Qualifying Practice - LMGTE Final Classification. Retrieved November 16, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ELMS Silverstone 2019: Idec Sport takes first overall victory. motorsport-total.com, accessed on November 16, 2019 . 
5. ↑ European Le Mans Series - 4 Hours of Silverstone - Race - Final Classification. elms.alkamelsystems.com, accessed November 7, 2019 . 
6. ↑ European Le Mans Series - 4 Hours of Silverstone - Qualifying - Final Classification. elms.alkamelsystems.com, accessed November 7, 2019 . 
7. ↑ European Le Mans Series - 4 Hours of Silverstone - Race - Final Classification by Driver Fastest Lap. elms.alkamelsystems.com, accessed November 7, 2019 . 

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