2016 European Le Mans Series
The 2016 European Le Mans Series was the thirteenth season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) European Le Mans Series. The six-event season began at Silverstone Circuit, in conjunction with the FIA World Endurance Championship, on 16 April and finished at Autódromo do Estoril on 23 October.[1]
Regulations
The GTC class for GT3 was dropped due to a lack of entries during 2015 and the creation of the GT3 Le Mans Cup.[2]
Calendar
The provisional 2016 calendar was announced at 5 September 2015. The calendar comprises six events, featuring the same five circuits that hosted events in 2015 and for the first time since 2011 it will include event at Spa. For the fourth consecutive season, Silverstone hosted the opening rounds of both the European Le Mans Series and the FIA World Endurance Championship. Meanwhile, the other rounds were collaboration with World Series by Renault.[1]
Rnd | Race | Circuit | Location | Date |
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1 | 4 Hours of Silverstone | Silverstone Circuit | Silverstone, United Kingdom | 16 April |
2 | 4 Hours of Imola | Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari | Imola, Italy | 15 May |
3 | 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring | Red Bull Ring | Spielberg, Austria | 17 July |
4 | 4 Hours of Le Castellet | Circuit Paul Ricard | Le Castellet, France | 28 August |
5 | 4 Hours of Spa | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Spa, Belgium | 25 September |
6 | 4 Hours of Estoril | Autódromo do Estoril | Estoril, Portugal | 23 October |
Entry list
The entry list was announced on 5 February 2016.[3]
LMP2
LMP3
Entrant/Team | Car | Engine | Tyre | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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United Autosports | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 2 | Alex Brundle[3] | All |
Christian England[4] | All | |||||
Mike Guasch[4] | All | |||||
3 | Matthew Bell[4] | All | ||||
Wayne Boyd[4] | All | |||||
Mark Patterson[3] | All | |||||
OAK Racing | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 4 | Erik Maris[16] | All |
Jean-Marc Merlin[3] | 1–4, 6 | |||||
Carlos Tavares[11] | 5 | |||||
24 | Jacques Nicolet[3] | All | ||||
Pierre Nicolet[16] | All | |||||
By Speed Factory | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 5 | Tom Jackson[17] | 1–4 |
Álvaro Fontes[17] | 1–2 | |||||
Jesús Fuster[4] | 1–2 | |||||
Alain Costa[7] | 3–4 | |||||
John Hartshorne[8] | 4 | |||||
Kevin O'Hara[11] | 5 | |||||
Daniel Polley[11] | 5 | |||||
Kim Rødkjær[11] | 5 | |||||
360 Racing | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 6 | Ross Kaiser[18] | All |
James Swift[18] | All | |||||
Terrence Woodward[3] | All | |||||
Villorba Corse | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 7 | Roberto Lacorte[3] | All |
Giorgio Sernagiotto[4] | All | |||||
Niccolò Schirò[4] | 1–3 | |||||
Race Performance | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 8 | Bert Longin[4] | All |
Giorgio Maggi[4] | All | |||||
Marcello Marateotto[4] | 1–5 | |||||
Nicolas Leutwiler[9] | 6 | |||||
Graff | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 9 | Paul Petit[19] | All |
Eric Trouillet[3] | All | |||||
Enzo Guibbert[19] | 1–2, 4–6 | |||||
James Winslow[7] | 3 | |||||
10 | John Falb[3] | All | ||||
Enzo Potolicchio[4] | All | |||||
Sean Rayhall[4] | All | |||||
Eurointernational | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 11 | Giorgio Mondini[4] | 1–4, 6 |
Marco Jacoboni[4] | 1–4 | |||||
Andrea Roda[4] | 1–2 | |||||
Jay Palmer[9] | 6 | |||||
12 | Andrea Dromedari[13] | 2–4, 6 | ||||
Fabio Mancini[13] | 2–3 | |||||
Roman Rusinov[13] | 2–3 | |||||
Rik Breukers[8] | 4, 6 | |||||
Miguel Faisca[9] | 6 | |||||
Inter Europol Competition | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 13 | Jens Petersen[4] | All |
Jakub Śmiechowski[3] | All | |||||
MurphyP3-3Dimensional.com | Ginetta-Juno LMP3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 14 | Tony Ave[3] | 1 |
Michael Cullen[4] | 1 | |||||
Doug Peterson[4] | 1 | |||||
Ligier JS P3 | Barrie Baxter[13] | 2 | ||||
Rob Garofall[13] | 2 | |||||
Alex Kapadia[13] | 2 | |||||
RLR Msport | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 15 | Morten Dons[4] | All |
Ossy Yusuf[3] | 1–2 | |||||
Ross Warburton[7] | 3–4 | |||||
John Hartshorne[7] | 3 | |||||
Anthony Wells[8] | 4–6 | |||||
Alasdair McCaig[11] | 5–6 | |||||
Panis Barthez Competition | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 16 | Eric Debard[3] | All |
Simon Gachet[20] | All | |||||
Valentin Moineault[20] | All | |||||
Ultimate | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 17 | François Hériau[21] | All |
Jean-Baptiste Lahaye[3] | All | |||||
Matthieu Lahaye[21] | All | |||||
M.Racing - YMR | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 18 | Alexandre Cougnaud[4] | All |
Yann Ehrlacher[4] | All | |||||
Thomas Laurent[3] | All | |||||
Duqueine Engineering | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 19 | David Hallyday[3] | All |
Dino Lunardi[4] | All | |||||
David Droux[13] | 2–6 | |||||
20 | Eric Clement[22] | All | ||||
Maxime Pialat[22] | All | |||||
Romain Iannetta[22] | 1–2 | |||||
Antonin Borga[7] | 3–6 | |||||
Tockwith Motorsports | Ligier JS P3 | Nissan VK50VE 5.0 L V8 | M | 26 | Philip Hanson[8] | 4–5 |
Nigel Moore[8] | 4–5 |
GTE
Innovative car
Entrant/Team | Car | Engine | Tyre | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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SRT41 by OAK Racing | Morgan LMP2 | Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 | M | 84 | Jean-Bernard Bouvet[4] | 1 |
Frédéric Sausset[4] | 1 | |||||
Christophe Tinseau[4] | 1 |
Results and standings
Race results
Bold indicates overall winner.
Rnd. | Circuit | LMP2 Winning Team | LMP3 Winning Team | GTE Winning Team | Results |
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LMP2 Winning Drivers | LMP3 Winning Drivers | GTE Winning Drivers | |||
1 | Silverstone | No. 38 G-Drive Racing | No. 2 United Autosports | No. 99 Aston Martin Racing | Report |
Simon Dolan Giedo van der Garde Harry Tincknell |
Alex Brundle Christian England Mike Guasch |
Andrew Howard Alex MacDowall Darren Turner | |||
2 | Imola | No. 46 Thiriet by TDS Racing | No. 2 United Autosports | No. 77 Proton Competition | Report |
Mathias Beche Ryō Hirakawa Pierre Thiriet |
Alex Brundle Christian England Mike Guasch |
Mike Hedlund Wolf Henzler Robert Renauer | |||
3 | Red Bull | No. 46 Thiriet by TDS Racing | No. 2 United Autosports | No. 66 JMW Motorsport | Report |
Mathias Beche Ryō Hirakawa Pierre Thiriet |
Alex Brundle Christian England Mike Guasch |
Andrea Bertolini Rory Butcher Robert Smith | |||
4 | Paul Ricard | No. 46 Thiriet by TDS Racing | No. 9 Graff | No. 66 JMW Motorsport | Report |
Mathias Beche Mike Conway Pierre Thiriet |
Enzo Guibbert Paul Petit Eric Trouillet |
Andrea Bertolini Rory Butcher Robert Smith | |||
5 | Spa | No. 21 DragonSpeed | No. 9 Graff | No. 66 JMW Motorsport | Report |
Ben Hanley Henrik Hedman Nicolas Lapierre |
Enzo Guibbert Paul Petit Eric Trouillet |
Andrea Bertolini Rory Butcher Robert Smith | |||
6 | Estoril | No. 38 G-Drive Racing | No. 18 M.Racing - YMR | No. 99 Aston Martin Racing | Report |
Simon Dolan Giedo van der Garde Harry Tincknell |
Alexandre Cougnaud Yann Ehrlacher Thomas Laurent |
Andrew Howard Alex MacDowall Darren Turner |
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.[23]
Teams Championships
Points are awarded according to the following structure:
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Other | Pole |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
LMP2 Teams Championship
|
Bold – Pole |
LMP3 Teams Championship
|
Bold – Pole |
GTE Teams Championship
|
Bold – Pole |
Drivers Championships
Points are awarded according to the following structure:
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Other | Pole |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
LMP2 Drivers Championship
|
Bold – Pole |
LMP3 Drivers Championship
|
Bold – Pole |
GTE Drivers Championship
|
Bold – Pole |
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