The 2021 4 Hours of Barcelona was an endurance sportscar racing event that was held on 18 April 2021, as the first round of the 2021 European Le Mans Series.
In LMP2, the race was won by the #41 Team WRT run Oreca 07-Gibson, driven by Robert Kubica, Ye Yifei, and Louis Delétraz.
In LMP3, the race was won by the #19 Cool Racing run Ligier JS P320, driven by Matthew Bell, Niklas Krütten and Nicolas Maulini.
In GTE, the race was won by the #80 Iron Lynx run Ferrari 488 GTE Evo, driven by Matteo Cressoni, Miguel Molina and Rino Mastronardi.
Pole position in each class are marked in bold. [1] [2]
Pos | Class | No. | Team | Lap Time | Grid |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | LMP2 | 26 | ![]() | 1:31.788 | |
2 | LMP2 | 41 | ![]() | 1:31.867 | |
3 | LMP2 | 65 | ![]() | 1:32.282 | |
4 | LMP2 | 21 | ![]() | 1:32.402 | |
5 | LMP2 | 32 | ![]() | 1:32.578 | |
6 | LMP2 | 22 | ![]() | 1:32.725 | |
7 | LMP2 | 28 | ![]() | 1:32.746 | |
8 | LMP2 | 34 | ![]() | 1:33.286 | |
9 | LMP2 | 25 | ![]() | 1:33.359 | |
10 | LMP2 | 37 | ![]() | 1:33.364 | |
11 | LMP2 | 29 | ![]() | 1:33.372 | |
12 | LMP2 | 30 | ![]() | 1:33.724 | |
13 | LMP2 | 17 | ![]() | 1:34.107 | |
14 | LMP2 | 24 | ![]() | 1:34.110 | |
15 | LMP2 | 35 | ![]() | 1:34.550 | |
16 | LMP2 | 39 | ![]() | 1:34.747 | |
17 | Innovat | 84 | ![]() | 1:37.616 | |
18 | LMP3 | 3 | ![]() | 1:39.162 | |
19 | LMP3 | 15 | ![]() | 1:39.183 | |
20 | LMP3 | 2 | ![]() | 1:39.224 | |
21 | LMP3 | 4 | ![]() | 1:39.341 | |
22 | LMP3 | 13 | ![]() | 1:39.385 | |
23 | LMP3 | 8 | ![]() | 1:39.691 | |
24 | LMP3 | 20 | ![]() | 1:39.743 | |
25 | LMP3 | 18 | ![]() | 1:39.915 | |
26 | LMP3 | 19 | ![]() | 1:40.036 | |
27 | LMP3 | 5 | ![]() | 1:40.119 | |
28 | LMP3 | 9 | ![]() | 1:40.236 | |
29 | LMP3 | 14 | ![]() | 1:40.249 | |
30 | LMP3 | 7 | ![]() | 1:40.261 | |
31 | LMP3 | 12 | ![]() | 1:40.424 | |
32 | LMP3 | 11 | ![]() | 1:40.437 | |
33 | LMP3 | 6 | ![]() | 1:40.643 | |
34 | GTE | 77 | ![]() | 1:41.892 | |
35 | GTE | 80 | ![]() | 1:42.041 | |
36 | GTE | 83 | ![]() | 1:42.266 | |
37 | GTE | 93 | ![]() | 1:42.566 | |
38 | GTE | 95 | ![]() | 1:42.769 | |
39 | GTE | 66 | ![]() | 1:42.842 | |
40 | GTE | 55 | ![]() | 1:42.977 | |
41 | GTE | 60 | ![]() | no time |
Class winners are marked in bold. - Cars failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).
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