2024 4 Hours of Barcelona

The layout of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya

The 2024 4 Hours of Barcelona was an endurance sportscar racing event held between 12 and 14 April 2024, as the first round of 2024 European Le Mans Series season.

Entry list

Main article: 2024 European Le Mans Series § Entries

The pre-event entry list consisted of 43 entries between 4 categories - 14 in LMP2, 8 in LMP2 Pro-Am, 10 in LMP3 and 11 in LMGT3. ^{[1] [2]}

Ferdinand Habsburg was replaced by Paul-Loup Chatin in the No. 47 COOL Racing. Habsburg was forced to miss this round as the result of a crash during a test at MotorLand Aragón. ^[3]

Schedule

Date	Time (local: CEST)	Event
Friday, 12 April	11:50	Free Practice 1
	16:20	Bronze Drivers Collective Test
Saturday, 13 April	10:10	Free Practice 2
	14:40	Qualifying - LMGT3
	15:05	Qualifying - LMP3
	15:30	Qualifying - LMP2 Pro-Am
	15:55	Qualifying - LMP2
Sunday, 14 April	11:30	Race
Source: [4]

Free practice

• Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Free Practice 1	Class	No.	Entrant	Time
	LMP2	14	AO by TF	1:28.821
	LMP2 Pro/Am	21	United Autosports	1:30.026
	LMP3	17	COOL Racing	1:35.045
	LMGT3	66	JMW Motorsport	1:40.826
Free Practice 2	Class	No.	Entrant	Time
	LMP2	43	Inter Europol Competition	1:28.413
	LMP2 Pro/Am	24	Nielsen Racing	1:29.547
	LMP3	8	Team Virage	1:36.475
	LMGT3	86	GR Racing	1:40.831
Sources: [5] [6]

Qualifying

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	LMP2	22	United Autosports	Ben Hanley	1:28.071	—	1
2	LMP2	28	IDEC Sport	Reshad de Gerus	1:28.224	+0.153	2
3	LMP2	25	Algarve Pro Racing	Alexander Lynn	1:28.381	+0.310	3
4	LMP2	47	COOL Racing	Frederik Vesti	1:28.476	+0.405	4
5	LMP2	37	COOL Racing	Ritomo Miyata	1:28.489	+0.418	5
6	LMP2	43	Inter Europol Competition	Tom Dillmann	1:28.498	+0.427	6
7	LMP2	34	Inter Europol Competition	Luca Ghiotto	1:28.522	+0.451	7
8	LMP2	23	United Autosports	Paul di Resta	1:28.651	+0.580	8
9	LMP2	65	Panis Racing	Arthur Leclerc	1:28.683	+0.612	9
10	LMP2	14	AO by TF	Louis Delétraz	1:28.726	+0.655	10
11	LMP2	27	Nielsen Racing	William Stevens	1:28.732	+0.661	11
12	LMP2	9	Iron Lynx – Proton	Matteo Cairoli	1:28.897	+0.826	12
13	LMP2	30	Duqueine Team	James Allen	1:29.128	+1.057	13
14	LMP2	10	Vector Sport	Felipe Drugovich	1:29.153	+1.082	14
15	LMP2 Pro/Am	77	Proton Competition	Giorgio Roda	1:30.816	+2.745	15
16	LMP2 Pro/Am	19	Team Virage	Anthony Wells	1:31.349	+3.278	16
17	LMP2 Pro/Am	24	Nielsen Racing	John Falb	1:31.497	+3.426	17
18	LMP2 Pro/Am	29	Richard Mille by TDS	Rodrigo Sales	1:31.510	+3.439	18
19	LMP2 Pro/Am	83	AF Corse	François Perrodo	1:32.174	+4.103	19
20	LMP2 Pro/Am	21	United Autosports	Daniel Schneider	1:33.212	+5.141	20
21	LMP2 Pro/Am	20	Algarve Pro Racing	Kriton Lendoudis	1:33.267	+5.196	21
22	LMP3	17	COOL Racing	Manuel Espírito Santo	1:34.761	+6.690	23
23	LMP3	8	Team Virage	Gillian Henrion	1:35.014	+6.943	24
24	LMP3	15	RLR M Sport	Gaël Julien	1:35.249	+7.178	25
25	LMP3	4	DKR Engineering	Wyatt Brichacek	1:35.409	+7.338	26
26	LMP3	12	WTM by Rinaldi Racing	Óscar Tunjo	1:35.567	+7.496	27
27	LMP3	88	Inter Europol Competition	Kai Askey	1:36.016	+7.945	28
28	LMP3	31	Racing Spirit of Léman	Antoine Doquin	1:36.541	+8.470	29
29	LMP3	11	Eurointernational	Adam Ali	1:36.628	+8.557	30
30	LMP3	5	RLR M Sport	Bailey Voisin	1:36.679	+8.608	31
31	LMP2 Pro/Am	3	DKR Engineering	Andres Latorre Canon	1:37.086	+9.015	22
32	LMP3	35	Ultimate	Matthieu Lahaye	1:37.331	+9.260	32
33	LMGT3	85	Iron Dames	Sarah Bovy	1:41.850	+13.779	33
34	LMGT3	63	Iron Lynx	Hiroshi Hamaguchi	1:42.167	+14.096	34
35	LMGT3	50	Formula Racing	Johnny Laursen	1:42.337	+14.266	35
36	LMGT3	55	Spirit of Race	Duncan Cameron	1:42.759	+14.688	36
37	LMGT3	57	Kessel Racing	Takeshi Kimura	1:42.895	+14.824	37
38	LMGT3	97	Grid Motorsport by TF	Martin Berry	1:43.028	+14.957	38
39	LMGT3	86	GR Racing	Michael Wainwright	1:43.117	+15.046	39
40	LMGT3	51	AF Corse	Charles-Henri Samani	1:43.345	+15.274	40
41	LMGT3	59	Racing Spirit of Léman	Derek DeBoer	1:43.351	+15.280	41
42	LMGT3	60	Proton Competition	Claudio Schiavoni	1:44.148	+16.077	42
43	LMGT3	66	JMW Motorsport	John Hartshorne	1:46.230	+18.159	43
Sources: [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Race

Race result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 97 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Final Classification ^{[13] [14]}

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Car	Tyres	Laps	Time/Gap
1	LMP2	37	COOL Racing	Lorenzo Fluxá Malthe Jakobsen Ritomo Miyata	Oreca 07	G	139	4:01:06.862
2	LMP2	25	Algarve Pro Racing	Matthias Kaiser Olli Caldwell Alexander Lynn	Oreca 07	G	139	+16.161
3	LMP2	22	United Autosports	Filip Ugran Marino Sato Benjamin Hanley	Oreca 07	G	139	+16.905
4	LMP2	28	IDEC Sport	Paul Lafargue Reshad de Gerus Job van Uitert	Oreca 07	G	139	+1:14.182
5	LMP2	65	Panis Racing	Manuel Maldonado Charles Milesi Arthur Leclerc	Oreca 07	G	139	+1:20.643
6	LMP2 Pro/Am	83	AF Corse	François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxivière Alessio Rovera	Oreca 07	G	138	+1 Lap
7	LMP2 Pro/Am	29	Richard Mille by TDS	Rodrigo Sales Mathias Beche Grégoire Saucy	Oreca 07	G	138	+1 Lap
8	LMP2	43	Inter Europol Competition	Sebastián Álvarez Vladislav Lomko Tom Dillmann	Oreca 07	G	138	+1 Lap
9	LMP2	14	AO by TF	Jonny Edgar Louis Delétraz Robert Kubica	Oreca 07	G	138	+1 Lap
10	LMP2	34	Inter Europol Competition	Oliver Gray Clément Novalak Luca Ghiotto	Oreca 07	G	138	+1 Lap
11	LMP2	23	United Autosports	Bijoy Garg Fabio Scherer Paul di Resta	Oreca 07	G	138	+1 Lap
12	LMP2 Pro/Am	24	Nielsen Racing	John Falb Colin Noble Albert Costa Balboa	Oreca 07	G	137	+2 Laps
13	LMP2	10	Vector Sport	Ryan Cullen Stéphane Richelmi Felipe Drugovich	Oreca 07	G	137	+2 Laps
14	LMP2 Pro/Am	20	Algarve Pro Racing	Kriton Lendoudis Richard Bradley Alex Quinn	Oreca 07	G	137	+2 Laps
15	LMP2 Pro/Am	77	Proton Competition	Giorgio Roda Bent Viscaal René Binder	Oreca 07	G	137	+2 Laps
16	LMP2	30	Duqueine Team	Niels Koolen Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer James Allen	Oreca 07	G	136	+3 Laps
17	LMP2 Pro/Am	3	DKR Engineering	Andres Latorre Canon Cem Bölükbaşı Laurents Hörr	Oreca 07	G	136	+3 Laps [R 1]
18	LMP2	47	COOL Racing	Alejandro Garcia Paul-Loup Chatin Frederik Vesti	Oreca 07	G	136	+3 Laps [R 2]
19	LMP2	27	Nielsen Racing	David Heinemeier Hansson Nicolás Pino William Stevens	Oreca 07	G	131	+8 Laps
20	LMP3	8	Team Virage	Julien Gerbi Bernardo Pinheiro Gillian Henrion	Ligier JS P320	M	131	+8 Laps
21	LMP3	17	COOL Racing	Miguel Cristóvão Cédric Oltramare Manuel Espírito Santo	Ligier JS P320	M	131	+8 Laps
22	LMP3	11	Eurointernational	Matthew Bell Adam Ali	Ligier JS P320	M	130	+9 Laps
23	LMP3	15	RLR M Sport	Michael Jensen Nick Adcock Gaël Julien	Ligier JS P320	M	130	+9 Laps
24	LMP3	4	DKR Engineering	Alexander Mattschull Belén García Wyatt Brichacek	Duqueine M30 - D08	M	130	+9 Laps
25	LMP3	88	Inter Europol Competition	Alexander Bukhantsov Kai Askey Pedro Perino	Ligier JS P320	M	129	+10 Laps
26	LMP3	31	Racing Spirit of Léman	Jacques Wolff Jean-Ludovic Foubert Antoine Doquin	Ligier JS P320	M	129	+10 Laps
27	LMP3	12	WTM by Rinaldi Racing	Torsten Kratz Leonard Weiss Óscar Tunjo	Duqueine M30 - D08	M	127	+12 Laps
28	LMGT3	50	Formula Racing	Johnny Laursen Conrad Laursen Nicklas Nielsen	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	127	+12 Laps
29	LMGT3	86	GR Racing	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Davide Rigon	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	127	+12 Laps
30	LMGT3	63	Iron Lynx	Hiroshi Hamaguchi Axcil Jefferies Andrea Caldarelli	Lamborghini Huracan LMGT3 Evo2	G	127	+12 Laps
31	LMGT3	60	Proton Competition	Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Julien Andlauer	Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3	G	127	+12 Laps
32	LMGT3	55	Spirit of Race	Duncan Cameron David Perel Matthew Griffin	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	127	+12 Laps
33	LMGT3	59	Racing Spirit of Léman	Derek DeBoer Casper Stevenson Valentin Hasse-Clot	Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3	G	126	+13 Laps
34	LMGT3	97	Grid Motorsport by TF	Martin Berry Lorcan Hanafin Jonathan Adam	Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3	G	126	+13 Laps
35	LMGT3	51	AF Corse	Charles-Henri Samani Emmanuel Collard Ulysse de Pauw	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	126	+13 Laps
36	LMGT3	57	Kessel Racing	Takeshi Kimura Esteban Masson Daniel Serra	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	126	+13 Laps
37	LMP3	35	Ultimate	Alexandre Yvon Jean-Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye	Ligier JS P320	M	123	+16 Laps
38	LMP2 Pro/Am	21	United Autosports	Daniel Schneider Andrew Meyrick Oliver Jarvis	Oreca 07	G	121	+18 Laps
Not classified
	LMP2 Pro/Am	19	Team Virage	Anthony Wells Matthew Bell Nelson Piquet Jr.	Oreca 07	G	128
	LMP2	9	Iron Lynx – Proton	Jonas Ried Macéo Capietto Matteo Cairoli	Oreca 07	G	121
	LMGT3	85	Iron Dames	Sarah Bovy Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting	Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3	G	103
	LMGT3	66	JMW Motorsport	John Hartshorne Ben Tuck Philip Keen	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	83
	LMP3	5	RLR M Sport	James Dayson Daniel Ali Bailey Voisin	Ligier JS P320	M	6

1. The No. 3 DKR Engineering was penalised for causing a collision with the No. 19 Team Virage. The penalty was a drive through converted to 30 seconds time penalty. ^[15]
2. The No. 47 COOL Racing was penalised for not respecting driving time of Paul-Loup Chatin who did not meet his driving time by 37 seconds. The penalty was 37 seconds stop & go converted to 72 seconds time penalty. ^{[16] [14]}

Statistics

Fastest lap

Class	Driver	Team	Time	Lap
LMP2	Filip Ugran	#22 United Autosports	1:30.589	3
LMP2 Pro/Am	Alessio Rovera	#83 AF Corse	1:30.174	45
LMP3	Wyatt Brichacek	#4 DKR Engineering	1:38.387	101
LMGT3	Esteban Masson	#57 Kessel Racing	1:41.766	59
Source: [17]

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