2021 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi

The layout of the Yas Marina Circuit

The 2021 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi was an endurance sportscar racing event held between 18 and 20 February 2021, as the final rounds of 2021 Asian Le Mans Series season.

Schedule

Date	Time (local: GST)	Event
Thursday, 18 February	14:30	Free Practice 1
	18:30	Free Practice 2
Friday, 19 February	9:40	Qualifying - Race 1
	10:00	Qualifying - Race 2
	16:00	Race 1
Saturday, 20 February	16:10	Race 2
Source: [1] [2]

Free practice

• Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Free Practice 1	Class	No.	Entrant	Time
	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	1:58.167
	LMP3	23	United Autosports	2:05.004
	GT	99	Precote Herberth Motorsport	2:09.759
Free Practice 2	Class	No.	Entrant	Time
	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	1:56.848
	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	2:04.438
	GT	7	Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport	2:08.746
Source: [3] [4]

Race 1

Qualifying

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold.

Pos.	Class	No.	Entry	Driver	Time	Grid
1	LMP2	25	G-Drive Racing	Franco Colapinto	1:55.287	1
2	LMP2	5	Phoenix Racing	Kelvin van der Linde	1:55.493	2
3	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	Ferdinand Habsburg	1:55.774	3
4	LMP2	64	Racing Team India	Arjun Maini	1:56.615	4
5	LMP2	28	Jota	Sean Gelael	1:56.765	5
6	LMP2	18	Era Motorsport	Kyle Tilley	1:58.120	6
7	LMP3	23	United Autosports	Wayne Boyd	2:03.694	7
8	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Malthe Jakobsen	2:03.776	8
9	LMP3	63	DKR Engineering	Laurents Hörr	2:03.953	9
10	LMP3	33	CD Sport	Adam Eteki	2:04.065	10
11	LMP3	3	United Autosports	Duncan Tappy	2:04.225	11
12	LMP3	8	Nielsen Racing	Matthew Bell	2:04.380	12
13	LMP3	9	Nielsen Racing	Colin Noble	2:04.424	13
14	LMP3	2	United Autosports	Andy Meyrick	2:04.583	14
15	LMP3	44	ARC Bratislava	Charlie Robertson	2:06.480	15
16	LMP3	4	Phoenix-IronForce Racing	Leo Weiss	2:07.333	16
17	GT	1	HubAuto Racing	Raffaele Marciello	2:07.586	17
18	GT	51	AF Corse	Alessandro Pier Guidi	2:07.689	18
19	GT	93	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Klaus Bachler	2:07.738	19
20	GT	88	Garage 59	Maxime Martin	2:07.795	20
21	GT	55	Rinaldi Racing	Davide Rigon	2:07.832	21
22	GT	40	GPX Racing	Julien Andlauer	2:07.894	22
23	GT	89	Garage 59	Marvin Kirchhöfer	2:07.911	23
24	GT	99	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Robert Renauer	2:07.981	24
25	GT	97	Oman Racing Team with TF Sport	Jonathan Adam	2:08.006	25
26	GT	34	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Nicky Catsburg	2:08.017	26
27	GT	57	Car Guy Racing	Côme Ledogar	2:08.097	27
28	GT	7	Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport	Ben Barnicoat	2:08.123	28
29	GT	77	D'station Racing	Tom Gamble	2:08.224	29
30	GT	60	Formula Racing	Nicklas Nielsen	2:08.355	30
31	GT	95	TF Sport	Ollie Hancock	2:08.417	31
32	GT	66	Rinaldi Racing	Patrick Kujala	2:08.447	32
33	GT	54	AF Corse	Giancarlo Fisichella	2:08.740	33
34	GT	35	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Sami-Matti Trogen	2:09.184	34
35	GT	27	Kessel Racing	Giorgio Roda	2:10.480	35
Source: [5] [6] [7]

Race

Race result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 79 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Drivers	Car	Tyres	Laps	Time/Gap
1	LMP2	28	Jota	Sean Gelael Tom Blomqvist	Oreca 07	M	114	4:02:12.808
2	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	René Binder Ferdinand Habsburg Yifei Ye	Aurus 01	M	113	+1 Lap
3	LMP2	25	G-Drive Racing	Rui Andrade Franco Colapinto John Falb	Aurus 01	M	113	+1 Lap
4	LMP2	5	Phoenix Racing	Matthias Kaiser Simon Trummer Kelvin van der Linde	Oreca 07	M	112	+2 Laps
5	LMP2	64	Racing Team India	Narain Karthikeyan Arjun Maini Naveen Rao	Oreca 07	M	111	+3 Laps
6	LMP2	18	Era Motorsport	Andreas Laskaratos Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley	Oreca 07	M	109	+5 Laps
7	LMP3	9	Nielsen Racing	Colin Noble Anthony Wells	Ligier JS P320	M	106	+8 Laps
8	LMP3	8	Nielsen Racing	Matthew Bell Rodrigo Sales	Ligier JS P320	M	106	+8 Laps
9	LMP3	3	United Autosports	Andrew Bentley Jim McGuire Duncan Tappy	Ligier JS P320	M	106	+8 Laps
10	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Maxwell Hanratty Malthe Jakobsen Bashar Mardini	Ligier JS P320	M	105	+9 Laps
11	GT	40	GPX Racing	Julien Andlauer Alain Ferté Axcil Jefferies	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	105	+9 Laps
12	GT	99	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Ralf Bohn Alfred Renauer Robert Renauer	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	105	+9 Laps
13	LMP3	63	DKR Engineering	Jean Glorieux Laurents Hörr	Duqueine M30 – D08	M	105	+9 Laps
14	GT	60	Formula Racing	Johnny Laursen Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	105	+9 Laps
15	GT	55	Rinaldi Racing	Rino Mastronardi David Perel Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	105	+9 Laps
16	GT	1	HubAuto Racing	Marcos Gomes Raffaele Marciello Liam Talbot	Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	M	104	+10 Laps
17	GT	88	Garage 59	Valentin Hasse-Clot Maxime Martin Alexander West	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	104	+10 Laps
18	GT	77	D'station Racing	Tomonobu Fujii Tom Gamble Satoshi Hoshino	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	104	+10 Laps
19	GT	51	AF Corse	Alessandro Pier Guidi Oswaldo Negri Jr. Francesco Piovanetti	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	104	+10 Laps
20	GT	89	Garage 59	Mike Benham Marvin Kirchhöfer Yuki Nemoto	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	104	+10 Laps
21	GT	7	Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport	Ben Barnicoat Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy	McLaren 720S GT3	M	104	+10 Laps
22	GT	54	AF Corse	Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	104	+10 Laps
23	GT	93	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Antares Au Klaus Bachler Steffen Görig	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	104	+10 Laps
24	GT	57	Car Guy Racing	Mikkel Jensen Takeshi Kimura Côme Ledogar	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	104	+10 Laps
25	GT	34	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Nicky Catsburg Chandler Hull Jon Miller	BMW M6 GT3	M	103	+11 Laps
26	GT	66	Rinaldi Racing	Christian Hook Patrick Kujala Manuel Lauck	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	103	+11 Laps
27	LMP3	44	ARC Bratislava	Tom Cloet Miroslav Konôpka Charlie Robertson	Ginetta G61-LT-P3	M	103	+11 Laps
28	GT	95	TF Sport	Charlie Eastwood Ollie Hancock John Hartshorne	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	103	+11 Laps
29	GT	27	Kessel Racing	Tim Kohmann Giorgio Roda Francesco Zollo	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	101	+13 Laps
30	GT	35	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Jörg Breuer Sami-Matti Trogen Henry Walkenhorst	BMW M6 GT3	M	89	+25 Laps
Not Classified
DNF	LMP3	4	Phoenix-IronForce Racing	Jan-Erik Slooten Leo Weiss	Ligier JS P320	M	95
DNF	GT	97	Oman Racing Team with TF Sport	Jonathan Adam Ahmad Al Harthy Tom Canning	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	80
DNF	LMP3	33	CD Sport	Nick Adcock Adam Eteki Michael Jensen	Ligier JS P320	M	65
DNF	LMP3	23	United Autosports	Wayne Boyd Manuel Maldonado Rory Penttinen	Ligier JS P320	M	4
DNF	LMP3	2	United Autosports	Robert Wheldon Ian Loggie Andy Meyrick	Ligier JS P320	M	0
Source: [8]

Statistics

Fastest lap

Class	Driver	Team	Time	Lap
LMP2	Ferdinand Habsburg	#26 G-Drive Racing	1:56.889	61
LMP3	Malthe Jakobsen	#15 RLR MSport	2:05.165	12
GT	Marcos Gomes	#1 HubAuto Racing	2:09.249	45
Source: [8]

Race 2

Qualifying

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold.

Pos.	Class	No.	Entry	Driver	Time	Grid
1	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	Ferdinand Habsburg	1:56.073	1
2	LMP2	25	G-Drive Racing	Franco Colapinto	1:56.136	2
3	LMP2	28	Jota	Sean Gelael	1:56.302	6
4	LMP2	5	Phoenix Racing	Kelvin van der Linde	1:56.466	3
5	LMP2	64	Racing Team India	Arjun Maini	1:56.650	4
6	LMP2	18	Era Motorsport	Kyle Tilley	1:58.480	5
7	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Malthe Jakobsen	2:03.781	7
8	LMP3	23	United Autosports	Wayne Boyd	2:03.792	8
9	LMP3	33	CD Sport	Adam Eteki	2:04.483	9
10	LMP3	2	United Autosports	Andy Meyrick	2:04.491	10
11	LMP3	8	Nielsen Racing	Matthew Bell	2:04.547	11
12	LMP3	3	United Autosports	Duncan Tappy	2:04.548	12
13	LMP3	9	Nielsen Racing	Colin Noble	2:04.904	13
14	LMP3	44	ARC Bratislava	Charlie Robertson	2:06.490	14
15	LMP3	4	Phoenix-IronForce Racing	Leo Weiss	2:07.010	15
16	GT	1	HubAuto Racing	Raffaele Marciello	2:07.688	16
17	GT	40	GPX Racing	Julien Andlauer	2:07.824	17
18	GT	89	Garage 59	Marvin Kirchhöfer	2:07.844	18
19	GT	55	Rinaldi Racing	Davide Rigon	2:07.895	19
20	GT	93	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Klaus Bachler	2:07.902	20
21	GT	51	AF Corse	Alessandro Pier Guidi	2:07.905	21
22	GT	7	Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport	Ben Barnicoat	2:08.090	22
23	GT	97	Oman Racing Team with TF Sport	Jonathan Adam	2:08.097	23
24	GT	66	Rinaldi Racing	Patrick Kujala	2:08.118	24
25	GT	88	Garage 59	Maxime Martin	2:08.206	25
26	GT	99	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Robert Renauer	2:08.255	26
27	GT	77	D'station Racing	Tom Gamble	2:08.307	27
28	GT	34	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Nicky Catsburg	2:08.572	28
29	LMP3	63	DKR Engineering	Laurents Hörr	2:08.587	29
30	GT	60	Formula Racing	Nicklas Nielsen	2:08.603	30
31	GT	95	TF Sport	Ollie Hancock	2:08.672	31
32	GT	54	AF Corse	Giancarlo Fisichella	2:08.989	32
33	GT	35	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Sami-Matti Trogen	2:09.309	33
34	GT	27	Kessel Racing	Giorgio Roda	2:10.094	34
35	GT	57	Car Guy Racing	—		35
Source: [9] [10] [11]

Race

Race result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 78 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Drivers	Car	Tyres	Laps	Time/Gap
1	LMP2	28	Jota	Sean Gelael Tom Blomqvist	Oreca 07	M	112	4:03:34.502
2	LMP2	25	G-Drive Racing	Rui Andrade Franco Colapinto John Falb	Aurus 01	M	112	+0.422
3	LMP2	5	Phoenix Racing	Matthias Kaiser Simon Trummer Kelvin van der Linde	Oreca 07	M	112	+23.656
4	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	René Binder Ferdinand Habsburg Yifei Ye	Aurus 01	M	112	+37.897
5	LMP2	64	Racing Team India	Narain Karthikeyan Arjun Maini Naveen Rao	Oreca 07	M	111	+1 Lap
6	LMP3	23	United Autosports	Wayne Boyd Manuel Maldonado Rory Penttinen	Ligier JS P320	M	106	+6 Laps
7	LMP3	3	United Autosports	Andrew Bentley Jim McGuire Duncan Tappy	Ligier JS P320	M	106	+6 Laps
8	LMP3	2	United Autosports	Robert Wheldon Ian Loggie Andy Meyrick	Ligier JS P320	M	106	+6 Laps
9	LMP3	33	CD Sport	Nick Adcock Adam Eteki Michael Jensen	Ligier JS P320	M	106	+6 Laps
10	LMP3	63	DKR Engineering	Jean Glorieux Laurents Hörr	Duqueine M30 – D08	M	106	+6 Laps
11	LMP3	9	Nielsen Racing	Colin Noble Anthony Wells	Ligier JS P320	M	106	+6 Laps
12	LMP3	8	Nielsen Racing	Matthew Bell Rodrigo Sales	Ligier JS P320	M	106	+6 Laps
13	GT	57	Car Guy Racing	Mikkel Jensen Takeshi Kimura Côme Ledogar	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	105	+7 Laps
14	GT	7	Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport	Ben Barnicoat Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy	McLaren 720S GT3	M	104	+8 Laps
15	GT	55	Rinaldi Racing	Rino Mastronardi David Perel Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	104	+8 Laps
16	GT	97	Oman Racing Team with TF Sport	Jonathan Adam Ahmad Al Harthy Tom Canning	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	104	+8 Laps
17	GT	99	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Ralf Bohn Alfred Renauer Robert Renauer	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	104	+8 Laps
18	GT	95	TF Sport	Charlie Eastwood Ollie Hancock John Hartshorne	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	104	+8 Laps
19	LMP3	4	Phoenix-IronForce Racing	Jan-Erik Slooten Leo Weiss	Ligier JS P320	M	104	+8 Laps
20	GT	77	D'station Racing	Tomonobu Fujii Tom Gamble Satoshi Hoshino	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	104	+8 Laps
21	GT	1	HubAuto Racing	Marcos Gomes Raffaele Marciello Liam Talbot	Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	M	104	+8 Laps
22	GT	88	Garage 59	Valentin Hasse-Clot Maxime Martin Alexander West	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	104	+8 Laps
23	GT	89	Garage 59	Mike Benham Marvin Kirchhöfer Yuki Nemoto	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	104	+8 Laps
24	GT	34	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Nicky Catsburg Chandler Hull Jon Miller	BMW M6 GT3	M	104	+8 Laps
25	GT	35	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Jörg Breuer Sami-Matti Trogen Henry Walkenhorst	BMW M6 GT3	M	103	+9 Laps
26	GT	93	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Antares Au Klaus Bachler Steffen Görig	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	103	+9 Laps
27	LMP2	18	Era Motorsport	Andreas Laskaratos Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley	Oreca 07	M	103	+9 Laps
28	GT	40	GPX Racing	Julien Andlauer Alain Ferté Axcil Jefferies	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	102	+10 Laps
29	LMP3	44	ARC Bratislava	Tom Cloet Miroslav Konôpka Charlie Robertson	Ginetta G61-LT-P3	M	99	+13 Laps
30	GT	27	Kessel Racing	Tim Kohmann Giorgio Roda Francesco Zollo	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	97	+15 Laps
Not Classified
DNF	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Maxwell Hanratty Malthe Jakobsen Bashar Mardini	Ligier JS P320	M	59
DNF	GT	51	AF Corse	Alessandro Pier Guidi Oswaldo Negri Jr. Francesco Piovanetti	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	12
DNF	GT	54	AF Corse	Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	12
DNF	GT	66	Rinaldi Racing	Christian Hook Patrick Kujala Manuel Lauck	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	5
DNF	GT	60	Formula Racing	Johnny Laursen Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	3
Source: [12]

Statistics

Fastest lap

Class	Driver	Team	Time	Lap
LMP2	Franco Colapinto	#25 G-Drive Racing	1:56.560	88
LMP3	Adam Eteki	#33 CD Sport	2:05.275	60
GT	Ben Barnicoat	#7 Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport	2:08.791	88
Source: [12]

References

1. "Race 3: 4H of Abu Dhabi | Asian Le Mans Series". www.asianlemansseries.com. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
2. "Race 4: 4H of Abu Dhabi | Asian Le Mans Series". www.asianlemansseries.com. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
3. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Free Practice 1 Classification by Category" (PDF). Retrieved October 31, 2024.
4. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Free Practice 2 Classification by Category" (PDF). Retrieved October 31, 2024.
5. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Race 1 Qualifying Final Classification" (PDF). Retrieved October 31, 2024.
6. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Race 1 Qualifying Final Classification by Driver Fastest Lap" (PDF). Retrieved October 31, 2024.
7. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Race 1 Starting Grid" (PDF). Retrieved October 31, 2024.
8. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Race 1 Final Classification" (PDF). Retrieved October 31, 2024.
9. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Race 2 Qualifying Final Classification" (PDF). Retrieved October 31, 2024.
10. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Race 2 Qualifying Final Classification by Driver Fastest Lap" (PDF). Retrieved October 31, 2024.
11. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Race 2 Starting Grid" (PDF). Retrieved October 31, 2024.
12. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Abu Dhabi Race 2 Final Classification" (PDF). Retrieved October 31, 2024.

External links

• Official website