2021 4 Hours of Dubai

The Grand Prix layout of the Dubai Autodrome

The 2021 4 Hours of Dubai was an endurance sportscar racing event held between 11 and 14 February 2021, as the first and second round of 2021 Asian Le Mans Series season. ^{[1] [2]} This was the first running of the event as part of the Asian Le Mans Series. ^[3]

The weekend was dominated by the #26 G-Drive Racing Aurus 01 driven by René Binder, Ferdinand Habsburg and Yifei Ye, who won both rounds of the 4 Hours of Dubai. The LMP3 class was also swept by the #23 United Autosports entry driven by Wayne Boyd, Manuel Maldonado and Rory Penttinen. In GT, the #99 Precote Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Ralf Bohn, Alfred Renauer and Robert Renauer, converted a race 1 pole to a win and the #40 GPX Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Julien Andlauer, Alain Ferté andAxcil Jefferies took race 2 class honors. ^{[4] [5]}

Entry List

Main article: 2021 Asian Le Mans Series § Entry list

The initial entry list was published on 3 February and consisted of 36 entries across 3 categories – 7 in LMP2, 10 in LMP3, and 19 in GT. ^[6] On 7 February, a revised entry list was released with the remaining drivers of the #23 United Autosports Ligier JS P320 annouced. Joining Manuel Maldonado to fill the lineup was Wayne Boyd and Rory Penttinen. ^[7] Further changes were made on 9 February when the teams arrived at the track. In GT, Sami-Matti Trogen joined the #35 Walkenhorst BMW M6 GT3 entry and Alessio Rovera replaced Frederick Paulsen in the #60 Formula Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 due to COVID-19 quarantine problems for Paulsen. ^[8]

Schedule

Date	Time (local: GST)	Event
Thursday, 11 February	17:45	Free Practice
Friday, 12 February	9:55	Qualifying
Saturday, 13 February	14:15	Race 1
Sunday, 14 February	12:45	Race 2
Source: [9] [10]

Free practice

• Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Free Practice	Class	No.	Entrant	Time
	LMP2	5	Phoenix Racing	1:45.487
	LMP3	3	United Autosports	1:53.238
	GT	51	AF Corse	1:56.929
Source: [11]

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	1:43.616	1
2	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	Yifei Ye	1:43.885	2
3	LMP2	5	Phoenix Racing	Nicki Thiim	1:44.072	3
4	LMP2	28	Jota	Sean Gelael	1:44.386	4
5	LMP2	64	Racing Team India	Narain Karthikeyan	1:45.025	5
6	LMP2	18	Era Motorsport	Kyle Tilley	1:46.469	6
7	LMP2	11	EuroInternational – Ojets	John Corbett	1:48.863	7
8	LMP3	23	United Autosports	Wayne Boyd	1:51.418	8
9	LMP3	3	United Autosports	Duncan Tappy	1:51.425	9
10	LMP3	33	CD Sport	Adam Eteki	1:52.056	10
11	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Malthe Jakobsen	1:52.471	11
12	LMP3	63	DKR Engineering	Laurents Hörr	1:52.528	12
13	LMP3	9	Nielsen Racing	Colin Noble	1:52.572	13
14	LMP3	2	United Autosports	Andy Meyrick	1:52.743	14
15	LMP3	8	Nielsen Racing	Matthew Bell	1:53.043	15
16	LMP3	4	Phoenix-IronForce Racing	Leo Weiss	1:53.085	16
17	LMP3	44	ARC Bratislava	Charlie Robertson	1:53.329	17
18	GT	99	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Robert Renauer	1:55.552	18
19	GT	40	GPX Racing	Julien Andlauer	1:55.566	19
20	GT	93	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Klaus Bachler	1:55.866	20
21	GT	95	TF Sport	Charlie Eastwood	1:56.101	21
22	GT	1	HubAuto Racing	Raffaele Marciello	1:56.214	22
23	GT	88	Garage 59	Maxime Martin	1:56.284	23
24	GT	51	AF Corse	Alessandro Pier Guidi	1:56.349	24
25	GT	7	Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport	Ben Barnicoat	1:56.415	25
26	GT	89	Garage 59	Marvin Kirchhöfer	1:56.517	26
27	GT	97	Oman Racing Team with TF Sport	Jonathan Adam	1:56.603	27
28	GT	57	Car Guy Racing	Côme Ledogar	1:56.685	28
29	GT	60	Formula Racing	Nicklas Nielsen	1:56.859	29
30	GT	55	Rinaldi Racing	Davide Rigon	1:57.134	30
31	GT	54	AF Corse	Francesco Castellacci	1:57.237	31
32	GT	35	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Sami-Matti Trogen	1:57.274	32
33	GT	27	Kessel Racing	Giorgio Roda	1:57.502	33
34	GT	77	D'station Racing	Tomonobu Fujii	1:57.662	34
35	GT	34	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Chandler Hull	1:58.157	35
36	GT	66	Rinaldi Racing	—		36
Source: [12] [13] [14]

Race

Race result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 88 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Drivers	Car	Tyres	Laps	Time/Gap
1	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	René Binder Ferdinand Habsburg Yifei Ye	Aurus 01	M	127	4:02:26.692
2	LMP2	28	Jota	Sean Gelael Stoffel Vandoorne	Oreca 07	M	126	+1 Lap
3	LMP2	5	Phoenix Racing	Matthias Kaiser Simon Trummer Nicki Thiim	Oreca 07	M	126	+1 Lap
4	LMP2	25	G-Drive Racing	Rui Andrade Franco Colapinto John Falb	Aurus 01	M	125	+2 Laps
5	LMP2	64	Racing Team India	Narain Karthikeyan Arjun Maini Naveen Rao	Oreca 07	M	124	+3 Laps
6	LMP2	18	Era Motorsport	Andreas Laskaratos Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley	Oreca 07	M	123	+4 Laps
7	LMP2	11	EuroInternational – Ojets	John Corbett Neale Muston	Ligier JS P217	M	120	+7 Laps
8	LMP3	23	United Autosports	Wayne Boyd Manuel Maldonado Rory Penttinen	Ligier JS P320	M	119	+8 Laps
9	LMP3	9	Nielsen Racing	Colin Noble Anthony Wells	Ligier JS P320	M	118	+9 Laps
10	LMP3	3	United Autosports	Andrew Bentley Jim McGuire Duncan Tappy	Ligier JS P320	M	118	+9 Laps
11	LMP3	2	United Autosports	Robert Wheldon Ian Loggie Andy Meyrick	Ligier JS P320	M	118	+9 Laps
12	LMP3	4	Phoenix-IronForce Racing	Jan-Erik Slooten Leo Weiss	Ligier JS P320	M	117	+10 Laps
13	GT	99	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Ralf Bohn Alfred Renauer Robert Renauer	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	117	+10 Laps
14	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Maxwell Hanratty Malthe Jakobsen Bashar Mardini	Ligier JS P320	M	117	+10 Laps
15	GT	7	Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport	Ben Barnicoat Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy	McLaren 720S GT3	M	116	+11 Laps
16	GT	34	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Nicky Catsburg Chandler Hull Jon Miller	BMW M6 GT3	M	116	+11 Laps
17	GT	40	GPX Racing	Julien Andlauer Alain Ferté Axcil Jefferies	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	116	+11 Laps
18	GT	88	Garage 59	Valentin Hasse-Clot Maxime Martin Alexander West	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	116	+11 Laps
19	GT	60	Formula Racing	Johnny Laursen Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	116	+11 Laps
20	GT	97	Oman Racing Team with TF Sport	Jonathan Adam Ahmad Al Harthy Tom Canning	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	116	+11 Laps
21	GT	55	Rinaldi Racing	Rino Mastronardi David Perel Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	116	+11 Laps
22	GT	57	Car Guy Racing	Mikkel Jensen Takeshi Kimura Côme Ledogar	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	116	+11 Laps
23	GT	95	TF Sport	Charlie Eastwood Ollie Hancock John Hartshorne	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	115	+12 Laps
24	GT	54	AF Corse	Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	115	+12 Laps
25	GT	66	Rinaldi Racing	Christian Hook Patrick Kujala Manuel Lauck	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	115	+12 Laps
26	GT	77	D'station Racing	Tomonobu Fujii Tom Gamble Satoshi Hoshino	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	115	+12 Laps
27	GT	51	AF Corse	Alessandro Pier Guidi Oswaldo Negri Jr. Francesco Piovanetti	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	115	+12 Laps
28	GT	93	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Antares Au Klaus Bachler Steffen Görig	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	115	+12 Laps
29	GT	35	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Jörg Breuer Sami-Matti Trogen Henry Walkenhorst	BMW M6 GT3	M	114	+13 Laps
30	GT	89	Garage 59	Mike Benham Marvin Kirchhöfer Yuki Nemoto	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	114	+13 Laps
31	GT	27	Kessel Racing	Tim Kohmann Giorgio Roda Francesco Zollo	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	114	+13 Laps
32	LMP3	33	CD Sport	Nick Adcock Adam Eteki Michael Jensen	Ligier JS P320	M	109	+18 Laps
Not Classified
DNF	GT	1	HubAuto Racing	Marcos Gomes Raffaele Marciello Liam Talbot	Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	M	102
DNF	LMP3	44	ARC Bratislava	Tom Cloet Miroslav Konôpka Charlie Robertson	Ginetta G61-LT-P3	M	95
DNF	LMP3	8	Nielsen Racing	Matthew Bell Rodrigo Sales	Ligier JS P320	M	43
DNF	LMP3	63	DKR Engineering	Jean Glorieux Laurents Hörr	Duqueine M30 – D08	M	39
Source: [15]

Statistics

Fastest lap

Class	Driver	Team	Time	Lap
LMP2	Franco Colapinto	#25 G-Drive Racing	1:46.723	85
LMP3	Colin Noble	#9 Nielsen Racing	1:54.938	63
GT	Julien Andlauer	#40 GPX Racing	1:57.479	3
Source: [16]

Race 2

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	1:43.885	1
2	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	Yifei Ye	1:43.949	2
3	LMP2	28	Jota	Sean Gelael	1:44.442	3
4	LMP2	5	Phoenix Racing	Nicki Thiim	1:44.543	4
5	LMP2	64	Racing Team India	Narain Karthikeyan	1:45.684	5
6	LMP2	18	Era Motorsport	Kyle Tilley	1:46.543	6
7	LMP2	11	EuroInternational – Ojets	John Corbett	1:49.372	7
8	LMP3	23	United Autosports	Wayne Boyd	1:51.503	8
9	LMP3	3	United Autosports	Duncan Tappy	1:51.614	9
10	LMP3	33	CD Sport	Adam Eteki	1:52.145	10
11	LMP3	63	DKR Engineering	Laurents Hörr	1:52.700	11
12	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Malthe Jakobsen	1:52.824	12
13	LMP3	9	Nielsen Racing	Colin Noble	1:52.838	13
14	LMP3	2	United Autosports	Andy Meyrick	1:52.978	14
15	LMP3	4	Phoenix-IronForce Racing	Leo Weiss	1:53.138	15
16	LMP3	8	Nielsen Racing	Matthew Bell	1:53.232	16
17	LMP3	44	ARC Bratislava	Miroslav Konôpka	1:53.618	17
18	GT	93	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Klaus Bachler	1:55.918	18
19	GT	40	GPX Racing	Julien Andlauer	1:55.965	19
20	GT	99	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Robert Renauer	1:56.015	20
21	GT	88	Garage 59	Maxime Martin	1:56.355	21
22	GT	51	AF Corse	Alessandro Pier Guidi	1:56.357	22
23	GT	1	HubAuto Racing	Raffaele Marciello	1:56.434	23
24	GT	95	TF Sport	Charlie Eastwood	1:56.474	24
25	GT	97	Oman Racing Team with TF Sport	Jonathan Adam	1:56.835	25
26	GT	60	Formula Racing	Nicklas Nielsen	1:56.869	26
27	GT	89	Garage 59	Marvin Kirchhöfer	1:56.960	27
28	GT	57	Car Guy Racing	Côme Ledogar	1:56.965	28
29	GT	54	AF Corse	Francesco Castellacci	1:57.287	29
30	GT	35	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Sami-Matti Trogen	1:57.311	30
31	GT	77	D'station Racing	Tomonobu Fujii	1:57.720	31
32	GT	27	Kessel Racing	Giorgio Roda	1:58.015	32
33	GT	34	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Chandler Hull	1:58.515	33
34	GT	7	Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport	—		34
35	GT	55	Rinaldi Racing	—		35
36	GT	66	Rinaldi Racing	—		36
Source: [12] [13] [17]

Race

Race result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 87 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Drivers	Car	Tyres	Laps	Time/Gap
1	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	René Binder Ferdinand Habsburg Yifei Ye	Aurus 01	M	125	4:03:13.632
2	LMP2	25	G-Drive Racing	Rui Andrade Franco Colapinto John Falb	Aurus 01	M	125	+45.459
3	LMP2	5	Phoenix Racing	Matthias Kaiser Simon Trummer Nicki Thiim	Oreca 07	M	125	+59.745
4	LMP2	64	Racing Team India	Narain Karthikeyan Arjun Maini Naveen Rao	Oreca 07	M	124	+1 Lap
5	LMP2	18	Era Motorsport	Andreas Laskaratos Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley	Oreca 07	M	120	+5 Laps
6	LMP2	28	Jota	Sean Gelael Stoffel Vandoorne	Oreca 07	M	118	+7 Laps
7	LMP3	23	United Autosports	Wayne Boyd Manuel Maldonado Rory Penttinen	Ligier JS P320	M	117	+8 Laps
8	LMP3	2	United Autosports	Robert Wheldon Ian Loggie Andy Meyrick	Ligier JS P320	M	117	+8 Laps
9	LMP3	8	Nielsen Racing	Matthew Bell Rodrigo Sales	Ligier JS P320	M	117	+8 Laps
10	LMP3	63	DKR Engineering	Jean Glorieux Laurents Hörr	Duqueine M30 – D08	M	117	+8 Laps
11	LMP3	3	United Autosports	Andrew Bentley Jim McGuire Duncan Tappy	Ligier JS P320	M	116	+9 Laps
12	LMP3	33	CD Sport	Nick Adcock Adam Eteki Michael Jensen	Ligier JS P320	M	116	+9 Laps
13	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Maxwell Hanratty Malthe Jakobsen Bashar Mardini	Ligier JS P320	M	115	+10 Laps
14	GT	40	GPX Racing	Julien Andlauer Alain Ferté Axcil Jefferies	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	115	+10 Laps
15	GT	55	Rinaldi Racing	Rino Mastronardi David Perel Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	114	+11 Laps
16	GT	88	Garage 59	Valentin Hasse-Clot Maxime Martin Alexander West	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	114	+11 Laps
17	GT	1	HubAuto Racing	Marcos Gomes Raffaele Marciello Liam Talbot	Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	M	114	+11 Laps
18	GT	99	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Ralf Bohn Alfred Renauer Robert Renauer	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	114	+11 Laps
19	GT	7	Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport	Ben Barnicoat Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy	McLaren 720S GT3	M	114	+11 Laps
20	GT	97	Oman Racing Team with TF Sport	Jonathan Adam Ahmad Al Harthy Tom Canning	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	114	+11 Laps
21	GT	57	Car Guy Racing	Mikkel Jensen Takeshi Kimura Côme Ledogar	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	114	+11 Laps
22	GT	93	Precote Herberth Motorsport	Antares Au Klaus Bachler Steffen Görig	Porsche 911 GT3 R	M	114	+11 Laps
23	GT	89	Garage 59	Mike Benham Marvin Kirchhöfer Yuki Nemoto	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	114	+11 Laps
24	GT	95	TF Sport	Charlie Eastwood Ollie Hancock John Hartshorne	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	113	+12 Laps
25	GT	54	AF Corse	Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	113	+12 Laps
26	GT	77	D'station Racing	Tomonobu Fujii Tom Gamble Satoshi Hoshino	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	M	113	+12 Laps
27	GT	51	AF Corse	Alessandro Pier Guidi Oswaldo Negri Jr. Francesco Piovanetti	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	112	+13 Laps
28	GT	66	Rinaldi Racing	Christian Hook Patrick Kujala Manuel Lauck	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	112	+13 Laps
29	GT	60	Formula Racing	Johnny Laursen Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	112	+13 Laps
30	GT	27	Kessel Racing	Tim Kohmann Giorgio Roda Francesco Zollo	Ferrari 488 GT3	M	112	+13 Laps
31	GT	35	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Jörg Breuer Sami-Matti Trogen Henry Walkenhorst	BMW M6 GT3	M	112	+13 Laps
32	LMP3	44	ARC Bratislava	Tom Cloet Miroslav Konôpka Charlie Robertson	Ginetta G61-LT-P3	M	111	+14 Laps
Not Classified
DNF	LMP3	9	Nielsen Racing	Colin Noble Anthony Wells	Ligier JS P320	M	96
DNF	LMP2	11	EuroInternational – Ojets	John Corbett Neale Muston	Ligier JS P217	M	19
DNF	LMP3	4	Phoenix-IronForce Racing	Jan-Erik Slooten Leo Weiss	Ligier JS P320	M	13
DNF	GT	34	Walkenhorst Motorsport	Nicky Catsburg Chandler Hull Jon Miller	BMW M6 GT3	M	5
Source: [18]

Statistics

Fastest lap

Class	Driver	Team	Time	Lap
LMP2	Franco Colapinto	#25 G-Drive Racing	1:46.306	107
LMP3	Malthe Jakobsen	#15 RLR MSport	1:54.497	6
GT	Klaus Bachler	#93 Precote Herberth Motorsport	1:58.190	26
Source: [19]

References

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8. Goodwin, Graham (10 February 2021). "Asian Le Mans Series Dubai: Wednesday Paddock Notes". www.dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
9. "Race 1: 4H of Dubai | Asian Le Mans Series". www.asianlemansseries.com. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
10. "Race 2: 4H of Dubai | Asian Le Mans Series". www.asianlemansseries.com. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
11. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Dubai Free Practice Classification by Category" (PDF). Retrieved 29 October 2024.
12. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Dubai Final Results Qualifying" (PDF). Retrieved 29 October 2024.
13. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Dubai Best Laptimes Per Driver - Qualifying" (PDF). Retrieved 29 October 2024.
14. "4 Hours of Dubai Starting Grid - Asian Le Mans Series - Race 1" (PDF). Retrieved 29 October 2024.
15. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Dubai Final Results Race 1" (PDF). Retrieved 29 October 2024.
16. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Dubai Best Laptimes Per Driver - Race 1" (PDF). Retrieved 29 October 2024.
17. "4 Hours of Dubai Starting Grid - Asian Le Mans Series - Race 2" (PDF). Retrieved 30 October 2024.
18. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Dubai Final Results Race 2" (PDF). Retrieved 30 October 2024.
19. "Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Dubai Best Laptimes Per Driver - Race 2" (PDF). Retrieved 30 October 2024.

External links

• Official website