The 2021 European Le Mans Series was the eighteenth season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) European Le Mans Series. The six-event season began at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 18 April and finished at Algarve International Circuit on 24 October. [1]
The series was open to Le Mans Prototypes, divided into the LMP2 and LMP3 classes, and grand tourer-style racing cars in the LMGTE class.
The calendar for the 2021 season was announced on 8 October 2020. The Red Bull Ring returned to the series after a two-year absence, while Silverstone was not featured on the calendar. [2]
Rnd | Race | Circuit | Location | Date |
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1 | 4 Hours of Barcelona | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya | Montmeló, Spain | 18 April |
2 | 4 Hours of the Red Bull Ring | Red Bull Ring | Spielberg, Austria | 16 May |
3 | 4 Hours of Le Castellet | Circuit Paul Ricard | Le Castellet, France | 6 June [lower-alpha 1] |
4 | 4 Hours of Monza | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | Monza, Italy | 11 July |
5 | 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Spa, Belgium | 19 September |
6 | 4 Hours of Portimão | Algarve International Circuit | Portimão, Portugal | 24 October |
All cars in the LMP2 class used the Gibson GK428 V8 engine and Goodyear tyres. [3] Entries in the LMP2 Pro-Am Cup, set aside for teams with a Bronze-rated driver in their line-up, are denoted with Icons.
Entrant/Team | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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La Filière Frédéric Sausset by SRT41 [36] [37] | Oreca 07 | 84 | Takuma Aoki [36] | 1, 3 |
Nigel Bailly [36] | 1, 3 | |||
Pierre Sancinéna [37] | 1, 3 |
All cars in the LMP3 class used the Nissan VK56DE 5.6L V8 engine and Michelin tyres.
Entrant/Team | Chassis | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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United Autosports [38] | Ligier JS P320 | 2 | Wayne Boyd [7] | All |
Edouard Cauhaupe [38] | All | |||
Rob Wheldon [7] | All | |||
3 | Andrew Bentley [39] | All | ||
Duncan Tappy [39] | All | |||
Jim McGuire [39] | All | |||
DKR Engineering [7] | Duqueine M30 - D08 | 4 | Laurents Hörr [7] | All |
Alain Berg [28] | 1 | |||
Leonard Weiss [27] | 2 | |||
Jean-Phillipe Dayrault [10] | 2–3 | |||
Mathieu de Barbuat [10] | 4–6 | |||
MV2S Racing [40] | Ligier JS P320 | 5 | Adrien Chila [40] | All |
Christophe Cresp [40] | All | |||
Fabien Lavergne [40] | All | |||
Nielsen Racing [41] | Ligier JS P320 | 6 | Nicholas Adcock [7] | All |
Max Koebolt [7] | All | |||
Austin McCusker [7] | All | |||
7 | Colin Noble [7] | All | ||
Anthony Wells [7] | All | |||
Graff Racing [42] | Ligier JS P320 | 8 | David Droux [42] | All |
Sébastien Page [42] | All | |||
Eric Trouillet [42] | All | |||
9 | Matthias Kaiser [42] | All | ||
Rory Penttinen [42] | All | |||
Eurointernational [7] | Ligier JS P320 | 11 | Andrea Dromedari [7] | 1–5 |
Mateusz Kaprzyk [28] | 1 | |||
Joey Alders [27] | 2–5 | |||
Cem Bölükbaşı | 2 | |||
Jacopo Baratto [10] | 3–5 | |||
Mattia Drudi [24] | 6 | |||
Antoine Doquin [24] | 6 | |||
Finn Gehrsitz [24] | 6 | |||
Racing Experience [7] | Duqueine M30 - D08 | 12 | Tom Cloet [7] | All |
Gary Hauser [7] | All | |||
David Hauser [7] | 1–5 | |||
Guilherme Oliveira [24] | 6 | |||
Inter Europol Competition [7] | Ligier JS P320 | 13 | Martin Hippe [7] | All |
Ugo de Wilde [43] | All | |||
Julien Falchero [44] | 1 | |||
Ulysse de Pauw [45] | 2–3 | |||
Mattia Pasini [46] | 4 | |||
Aidan Read | 5 | |||
Adam Eteki [24] | 6 | |||
14 | Julius Adomavičius [44] | 1, 3 | ||
Mattia Pasini [44] | 1–3, 5 | |||
Alessandro Bracalente [44] | 1 | |||
Mateusz Kaprzyk [45] | 2–6 | |||
Gustas Grinbergas [19] | 2 | |||
Erwin Creed [46] | 4 | |||
Marius Zug [47] | 4 | |||
Nico Pino | 5–6 | |||
Patryk Krupiński [24] | 6 | |||
RLR MSport [7] | Ligier JS P320 | 15 | Mike Benham [7] | All |
Malthe Jakobsen [28] | All | |||
Alex Kapadia [7] | All | |||
1 AIM Villorba Corse [7] | Ligier JS P320 | 18 | Alessandro Bressan [7] | All |
Damiano Fioravanti [28] | All | |||
Andreas Laskaratos [28] | All | |||
Cool Racing [48] | Ligier JS P320 | 19 | Matthew Bell [28] | All |
Niklas Krütten [28] | All | |||
Nicolas Maulini [48] | All | |||
Team Virage [7] | Ligier JS P320 | 20 | Rob Hodes [7] | All |
Charles Crews [7] | 1–5 | |||
Garett Grist [7] | 1–5 | |||
Alex Fontana [24] | 6 | |||
Julien Gerbi | 6 | |||
Saintéloc Junior Team [24] | Ligier JS P320 | 42 | Fabien Michal [24] | 6 |
Lucas Légeret [24] | 6 |
All cars in the LMGTE class use Goodyear tyres.
Entrant/Team | Chassis | Engine | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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Spirit of Race [49] | Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | Ferrari F154CB 3.9L Turbo V8 | 55 | Duncan Cameron [49] | All |
David Perel [49] | All | ||||
Matt Griffin [49] | 1–3, 5–6 | ||||
Alessandro Pier Guidi [49] | 4 | ||||
Iron Lynx [50] | Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | Ferrari F154CB 3.9L Turbo V8 | 60 | Paolo Ruberti [50] | All |
Claudio Schiavoni [50] | All | ||||
Giorgio Sernagiotto [50] | All | ||||
80 | Matteo Cressoni [50] | All | |||
Rino Mastronardi [50] | All | ||||
Miguel Molina [50] | All | ||||
83 | Rahel Frey [50] | All | |||
Michelle Gatting [50] | All | ||||
Manuela Gostner [50] | 1–4 | ||||
Sarah Bovy | 5–6 | ||||
AF Corse [51] | Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | Ferrari F154CB 3.9L Turbo V8 | 61 | Franck Dezoteux [24] | 6 |
Pierre Ragues [24] | 6 | ||||
Côme Ledogar [24] | 6 | ||||
88 | Emmanuel Collard [51] | 2–6 | |||
François Perrodo [51] | 2–6 | ||||
Alessio Rovera [51] | 2–6 | ||||
JMW Motorsport [7] | Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | Ferrari F154CB 3.9L Turbo V8 | 66 | Jody Fannin [7] | All |
Rodrigo Sales [28] | All | ||||
Andrea Fontana [28] | 1–5 | ||||
Shaun Thong [24] | 6 | ||||
WeatherTech Racing [52] | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6 | 77 | Christian Ried [52] | All |
Gianmaria Bruni [52] | 1, 3–4, 6 | ||||
Jaxon Evans [52] | 1 | ||||
Cooper MacNeil [53] | 2–6 | ||||
Matt Campbell [27] | 2, 5 | ||||
Proton Competition [52] | 93 | Michael Fassbender [52] | All | ||
Richard Lietz [52] | All | ||||
Felipe Fernández Laser [52] | 1–2, 4–6 | ||||
Jaxon Evans [6] | 3 | ||||
TF Sport [54] | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 | 95 | Ollie Hancock [54] | All |
John Hartshorne [54] | All | ||||
Ross Gunn [54] | 1, 3–6 | ||||
Jonathan Adam [27] | 2 |
Bold indicates overall winner.
Rnd. | Circuit | Pole | LMP2 Winning Team | LMP2 Pro-Am Winning Team | LMP3 Winning Team | LMGTE Winning Team | Results |
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LMP2 Winning Drivers | LMP2 Pro-Am Winning Drivers | LMP3 Winning Drivers | LMGTE Winning Drivers | ||||
1 | Catalunya | No. 26 G-Drive Racing | No. 41 Team WRT | No. 29 Ultimate | No. 19 Cool Racing | No. 80 Iron Lynx | Race results |
Franco Colapinto Roman Rusinov Nyck de Vries | Louis Delétraz Robert Kubica Yifei Ye | François Heriau Jean-Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye | Matthew Bell Niklas Krütten Nicolas Maulini | Matteo Cressoni Rino Mastronardi Miguel Molina | |||
2 | Red Bull Ring | No. 34 Racing Team Turkey | No. 41 Team WRT | No. 25 G-Drive Racing | No. 19 Cool Racing | No. 88 AF Corse | Race results |
Charlie Eastwood Logan Sargeant Salih Yoluç | Louis Delétraz Robert Kubica Yifei Ye | Rui Andrade John Falb Roberto Merhi | Matthew Bell Niklas Krütten Nicolas Maulini | Emmanuel Collard François Perrodo Alessio Rovera | |||
3 | Le Castellet | No. 26 G-Drive Racing | No. 26 G-Drive Racing | No. 34 Racing Team Turkey | No. 4 DKR Engineering | No. 80 Iron Lynx | |
Franco Colapinto Roman Rusinov Nyck de Vries | Franco Colapinto Roman Rusinov Nyck de Vries | Charlie Eastwood Harry Tincknell Salih Yoluç | Mathieu de Barbuat Laurents Hörr | Matteo Cressoni Rino Mastronardi Miguel Molina | |||
4 | Monza | No. 26 G-Drive Racing | No. 65 Panis Racing | No. 25 G-Drive Racing | No. 4 DKR Engineering | No. 55 Spirit of Race | Race results |
Franco Colapinto Roman Rusinov Mikkel Jensen | James Allen Julien Canal Will Stevens | Rui Andrade John Falb Roberto Merhi | Mathieu de Barbuat Laurents Hörr | Duncan Cameron Alessandro Pier Guidi David Perel | |||
5 | Spa-Francorchamps | No. 37 Cool Racing | No. 41 Team WRT | No. 37 Cool Racing | No. 4 DKR Engineering | No. 88 AF Corse | Race results |
Alexandre Coigny Nicolas Lapierre Charles Milesi | Louis Delétraz Robert Kubica Yifei Ye | Alexandre Coigny Nicolas Lapierre Charles Milesi | Mathieu de Barbuat Laurents Hörr | Emmanuel Collard François Perrodo Alessio Rovera | |||
6 | Portimão | No. 37 Cool Racing | No. 22 United Autosports | No. 37 Cool Racing | No. 13 Inter Europol Competition | No. 80 Iron Lynx | Race results |
Alexandre Coigny Nicolas Lapierre Charles Milesi | Jonathan Aberdein Tom Gamble Phil Hanson | Alexandre Coigny Nicolas Lapierre Charles Milesi | Adam Eteki Martin Hippe Ugo de Wilde | Matteo Cressoni Rino Mastronardi Miguel Molina |
Points are awarded according to the following structure:
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Other | Pole |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap |
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Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap |
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Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap |
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Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap |
Points are awarded according to the following structure:
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Other | Pole |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap |
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Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap |
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Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap |
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Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap |
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