2025 4 Hours of Le Castellet

The layout of Circuit Paul Ricard

The 2025 4 Hours of Le Castellet was an endurance sportscar racing event, held between 2 and 4 May 2025 at Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, France. It was the second of six rounds of the 2025 European Le Mans Series season, and the fourteenth consecutive running of the event as part of the championship.

Entry list

Main article: 2025 European Le Mans Series § Entries

The provisional entry list was published on 24 April 2025 and consisted of 44 entries across 4 categories – 13 in LMP2, 8 in LMP2 Pro-Am, 10 in LMP3, and 13 in LMGT3. ^{[1] [2]} In the LMP2 Pro-Am class, Nicklas Nielsen replaced Alessio Rovera in the No. 83 AF Corse Oreca. ^[1] Louis Stern replaced Louis Rossi in the No. 35 Ultimate Ligier in the LMP3 class. Furthermore, Sebastian Gravlund did not drive in the No. 11 EuroInternational Ligier; driving duties will be shared between Ian Aguilera and Fabien Michal. ^[2] Finally, James Calado replaced Daniel Serra in the No. 57 Kessel Racing Ferrari in the LMGT3 class. ^{[1] [2]}

After suffering back pain in testing on Friday, Claudio Schiavoni opted to sit out the event. Christian Ried replaced him in the No. 60 Proton Competition Porsche. ^[3]

Schedule

Date	Time (local: CEST)	Event
Friday, 2 May	11:00	Free Practice 1
	15:00	Bronze Driver Collective Test
Saturday, 3 May	10:10	Free Practice 2
	14:20	Qualifying – LMGT3
	14:45	Qualifying – LMP3
	15:10	Qualifying – LMP2 Pro-Am
	15:35	Qualifying – LMP2
Sunday, 4 May	12:00	Race
Source: [4]

Free practice

Two practice sessions were held before the event: one on Friday and one on Saturday. Both sessions ran for 90 minutes. ^[4]

Practice 1

The first practice session started at 11:00 CEST on Friday. Matteo Cairoli topped the session in the No. 9 Iron Lynx – Proton Oreca, with a lap time of 1:49.096. He was 0.887 seconds quicker than second-placed Pietro Fittipaldi in the No. 10 Vector Sport Oreca. ^[5] Laurents Hörr topped the LMP2 Pro-Am class in the No. 3 DKR Engineering Oreca, lapping the circuit in 1 minute, 50.437 seconds. Olli Caldwell was second-fastest, 0.652 seconds behind Hörr in the No. 20 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca. ^[6] Adrien Closmenil topped the charts in LMP3: his No. 17 CLX Motorsport Ligier lapped the circuit in 1:58.701, 0.116 seconds quicker than the No. 8 Team Virage Ligier of Rik Koen. ^[5] LMGT3 was topped by the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari, with Davide Rigon lapping the circuit in 2 minutes, 3.716 seconds. Rigon's team mate Riccardo Agostini was second-fastest in the No. 50 Ferrari, 0.028 seconds behind. The No. 86 GR Racing Ferrari of Riccardo Pera finished the session in third. ^[6] The session saw one red-flag stoppage after Kriton Lendoudis beached his car on the kerb. ^[6]

Class	No.	Entrant	Driver	Time
LMP2	9	Iron Lynx – Proton	Matteo Cairoli	1:49.096
LMP2 Pro-Am	3	DKR Engineering	Laurents Hörr	1:50.437
LMP3	17	CLX Motorsport	Adrien Closmenil	1:58.701
LMGT3	51	AF Corse	Davide Rigon	2:03.716
Source: [7] [8]

• Note: Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Practice 2

The second practice session started at 10:10 CEST on Saturday, with Cairoli once again topping the timing sheets in the No. 9 Oreca with a lap time of 1:49.736. He was 0.311 seconds quicker than Charles Milesi in the No. 48 VDS Panis Racing Oreca. Nick Yelloly was third-quickest in the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca, 0.358 seconds behind Cairoli. ^[9] The LMP2 Pro-Am class was topped by Louis Delétraz in the No. 99 AO by TF Oreca, with a 1-minute, 50.309-second lap time. James Allen was second-quickest in the No. 27 Nielsen Racing Oreca. ^[10] Closmenil kept the lead in the LMP3 class, with a lap time of 1:59.539. Griffin Peebles was second-quickest in the No. 12 WTM by Rinaldi Racing Duqueine, 0.173 seconds behind Closmenil. ^[10] The No. 50 Ferrari topped the LMGT3 class with Lilou Wadoux behind the wheel: her lap time of 2:03.621 was 0.006 seconds quicker than that of second-placed Tom Fleming in the No. 86 Ferrari. The No. 57 Kessel Racing Ferrari of Ben Tuck rounded out the top three. ^[9]

Class	No.	Entrant	Driver	Time
LMP2	9	Iron Lynx – Proton	Matteo Cairoli	1:49.736
LMP2 Pro-Am	99	AO by TF	Louis Delétraz	1:50.309
LMP3	17	CLX Motorsport	Adrien Closmenil	1:59.539
LMGT3	50	Richard Mille AF Corse	Lilou Wadoux	2:03.621
Source: [11] [12]

• Note: Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Qualifying

Qualifying started at 14:20 CEST on Saturday, with four sessions of fifteen minutes each, one session for each class. ^[4] Nick Yelloly claimed pole position in the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca. ^[13]

Qualifying results

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	LMP2	43	Inter Europol Competition	Nick Yelloly	1:48.741	—	1
2	LMP2	48	VDS Panis Racing	Charles Milesi	1:48.976	+0.235	2
3	LMP2	9	Iron Lynx – Proton	Matteo Cairoli	1:49.009	+0.268	3
4	LMP2	18	IDEC Sport	Mathys Jaubert	1:49.206	+0.465	4
5	LMP2	34	Inter Europol Competition	Luca Ghiotto	1:49.436	+0.695	5
6	LMP2	37	CLX – Pure Rxcing	Tom Blomqvist	1:49.502	+0.761	6
7	LMP2	28	IDEC Sport	Paul-Loup Chatin	1:49.503	+0.762	7
8	LMP2	30	Duqueine Team	Reshad de Gerus	1:49.583	+0.842	8
9	LMP2	25	Algarve Pro Racing	Théo Pourchaire	1:49.778	+1.037	9
10	LMP2	47	CLX Motorsport	Enzo Fittipaldi	1:49.817	+1.076	10
11	LMP2	10	Vector Sport	Pietro Fittipaldi	1:49.894	+1.153	11
12	LMP2	24	Nielsen Racing	Ferdinand Habsburg	1:49.906	+1.165	12
13	LMP2	22	United Autosports	Ben Hanley	1:50.029	+1.288	13
14	LMP2 Pro-Am	99	AO by TF	P. J. Hyett	1:51.442	+2.701	14
15	LMP2 Pro-Am	77	Proton Competition	Giorgio Roda	1:51.586	+2.845	15
16	LMP2 Pro-Am	29	TDS Racing	Rodrigo Sales	1:52.353	+3.612	16
17	LMP2 Pro-Am	3	DKR Engineering	Georgios Kolovos	1:53.053	+4.312	17
18	LMP2 Pro-Am	21	United Autosports	Daniel Schneider	1:53.495	+4.754	18
19	LMP2 Pro-Am	27	Nielsen Racing	Anthony Wells	1:53.864	+5.123	19
20	LMP2 Pro-Am	20	Algarve Pro Racing	Kriton Lendoudis	1:56.533	+7.792	20
21	LMP3	17	CLX Motorsport	Adrien Closmenil	1:57.194	+8.453	22
22	LMP3	8	Team Virage	Rik Koen	1:58.119	+9.378	23
23	LMP3	12	WTM by Rinaldi Racing	Griffin Peebles	1:58.186	+9.445	24
24	LMP3	11	EuroInternational	Ian Aguilera	1:58.267	+9.526	25
25	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Gillian Henrion	1:58.321	+9.580	26
26	LMP3	68	M Racing	Quentin Antonel	1:58.412	+9.671	27
27	LMP3	88	Inter Europol Competition	Reece Gold	1:58.579	+9.838	28
28	LMP3	4	DKR Engineering	Wyatt Brichacek	1:58.871	+10.130	29
29	LMP3	31	Racing Spirit of Léman	Marius Fossard	1:58.940	+10.199	30
30	LMP3	35	Ultimate	Jean-Baptiste Lahaye	1:59.112	+10.371	31
31	LMGT3	59	Racing Spirit of Léman	Clément Mateu	2:04.641	+15.900	32
32	LMGT3	55	Spirit of Race	Duncan Cameron	2:05.364	+16.623	33
33	LMGT3	63	Iron Lynx	Martin Berry	2:05.417	+16.676	34
34	LMGT3	50	Richard Mille AF Corse	Custodio Toledo	2:05.500	+16.759	35
35	LMGT3	74	Kessel Racing	Andrew Gilbert	2:05.673	+16.932	36
36	LMGT3	85	Iron Dames	Célia Martin	2:05.712	+16.971	37
37	LMGT3	82	TF Sport	Hiroshi Koizumi	2:06.136	+17.395	38
38	LMGT3	60	Proton Competition	Christian Ried	2:06.441	+17.700	39
39	LMGT3	51	AF Corse	Charles-Henri Samani	2:06.683	+17.942	40
40	LMGT3	66	JMW Motorsport	Scott Noble	2:06.741	+18.000	41
41	LMGT3	57	Kessel Racing	Takeshi Kimura	2:06.806	+18.065	42
42	LMGT3	86	GR Racing	Michael Wainwright	2:07.261	+18.520	43
43	LMGT3	23	United Autosports	Michael Birch	2:08.501	+19.760	44
44	LMP2 Pro-Am	83	AF Corse	François Perrodo	No time set [Q 1]		21
Source: [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

Race

The race started at 12:00 CEST on Sunday, and ran for 4 hours. ^[4]

Race results

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 74 laps. Class winners are in bold and ‡.

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps	Time/Retired
					Engine
1	LMP2	18	IDEC Sport	Jamie Chadwick Mathys Jaubert Daniel Juncadella	Oreca 07	G	107	4:01:44.201‡
					Gibson GK428 V8
2	LMP2 Pro-Am	27	Nielsen Racing	James Allen Sérgio Sette Câmara Anthony Wells	Oreca 07	G	107	+1.885‡
					Gibson GK428 V8
3	LMP2 Pro-Am	99	AO by TF	Dane Cameron Louis Delétraz P. J. Hyett	Oreca 07	G	107	+6.165
					Gibson GK428 V8
4	LMP2	43	Inter Europol Competition	Tom Dillmann Jakub Śmiechowski Nick Yelloly	Oreca 07	G	107	+10.293
					Gibson GK428 V8
5	LMP2 Pro-Am	29	TDS Racing	Mathias Beche Clément Novalak Rodrigo Sales	Oreca 07	G	107	+14.038
					Gibson GK428 V8
6	LMP2 Pro-Am	77	Proton Competition	René Binder Giorgio Roda Bent Viscaal	Oreca 07	G	107	+15.071
					Gibson GK428 V8
7	LMP2 Pro-Am	21	United Autosports	Oliver Jarvis Marino Sato Daniel Schneider	Oreca 07	G	107	+51.556
					Gibson GK428 V8
8	LMP2	47	CLX Motorsport	Pipo Derani Manuel Espírito Santo Enzo Fittipaldi	Oreca 07	G	107	+59.971
					Gibson GK428 V8
9	LMP2	10	Vector Sport	Ryan Cullen Pietro Fittipaldi Vladislav Lomko	Oreca 07	G	107	+1:09.141
					Gibson GK428 V8
10	LMP2 Pro-Am	20	Algarve Pro Racing	Olli Caldwell Kriton Lendoudis Alex Quinn	Oreca 07	G	107	+1:25.309
					Gibson GK428 V8
11	LMP2	24	Nielsen Racing	Filipe Albuquerque Cem Bölükbaşı Ferdinand Habsburg	Oreca 07	G	107	+1:28.243
					Gibson GK428 V8
12	LMP2	48	VDS Panis Racing	Oliver Gray Esteban Masson Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	G	107	+1:28.376
					Gibson GK428 V8
13	LMP2	30	Duqueine Team	Reshad de Gerus Roy Nissany Francesco Simonazzi	Oreca 07	G	107	+1:34.199
					Gibson GK428 V8
14	LMP2	25	Algarve Pro Racing	Lorenzo Fluxá Matthias Kaiser Théo Pourchaire	Oreca 07	G	107	+1:34.582
					Gibson GK428 V8
15	LMP2	22	United Autosports	Ben Hanley Manuel Maldonado Grégoire Saucy	Oreca 07	G	106	+1 Lap
					Gibson GK428 V8
16	LMP2 Pro-Am	3	DKR Engineering	Laurents Hörr Georgios Kolovos Thomas Laurent	Oreca 07	G	106	+1 Lap
					Gibson GK428 V8
17	LMP2	34	Inter Europol Competition	Luca Ghiotto Pedro Perino Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer	Oreca 07	G	103	+4 Laps
					Gibson GK428 V8
18	LMP2	28	IDEC Sport	Paul-Loup Chatin Paul Lafargue Job van Uitert	Oreca 07	G	102	+5 Laps
					Gibson GK428 V8
19	LMP3	17	CLX Motorsport	Adrien Closmenil Theodor Jensen Paul Lanchère	Ligier JS P325	M	101	+6 Laps‡
					Toyota V35A 3.5 L V6
20	LMP3	68	M Racing	Quentin Antonel Stéphane Tribaudini	Ligier JS P325	M	101	+6 Laps
					Toyota V35A 3.5 L V6
21	LMP3	11	EuroInternational	Ian Aguilera Fabien Michal	Ligier JS P325	M	101	+6 Laps
					Toyota V35A 3.5 L V6
22	LMP3	88	Inter Europol Competition	Tim Creswick Douwe Dedecker Reece Gold	Ligier JS P325	M	100	+7 Laps
					Toyota V35A 3.5 L V6
23	LMP3	4	DKR Engineering	Wyatt Brichacek Mikkel Gaarde Pedersen Antti Rammo	Ginetta G61-LT-P3 Evo	M	100	+7 Laps
					Toyota V35A 3.5 L V6
24	LMP3	35	Ultimate	Jean-Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye Louis Stern	Ligier JS P325	M	100	+7 Laps
					Toyota V35A 3.5 L V6
25	LMP3	31	Racing Spirit of Léman	Marius Fossard Jean-Ludovic Foubert Jacques Wolff	Ligier JS P325	M	100	+7 Laps
					Toyota V35A 3.5 L V6
26	LMGT3	50	Richard Mille AF Corse	Riccardo Agostini Custodio Toledo Lilou Wadoux	Ferrari 296 GT3	G	100	+7 Laps‡
					Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
27	LMGT3	63	Iron Lynx	Martin Berry Lorcan Hanafin Fabian Schiller	Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	G	100	+7 Laps
					Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8
28	LMGT3	86	GR Racing	Tom Fleming Riccardo Pera Michael Wainwright	Ferrari 296 GT3	G	100	+7 Laps
					Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
29	LMGT3	55	Spirit of Race	Duncan Cameron Matt Griffin David Perel	Ferrari 296 GT3	G	100	+7 Laps
					Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
30	LMGT3	51	AF Corse	Conrad Laursen Davide Rigon Charles-Henri Samani	Ferrari 296 GT3	G	100	+7 Laps
					Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
31	LMGT3	59	Racing Spirit of Léman	Erwan Bastard Valentin Hasse-Clot Clément Mateu	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo	G	100	+7 Laps
					Aston Martin M177 4.0 L Turbo V8
32	LMGT3	85	Iron Dames	Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Célia Martin	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	G	100	+7 Laps
					Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6
33	LMGT3	60	Proton Competition	Matteo Cressoni Alessio Picariello Christian Ried	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	G	99	+8 Laps
					Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6
34	LMGT3	57	Kessel Racing	James Calado Takeshi Kimura Ben Tuck	Ferrari 296 GT3	G	99	+8 Laps
					Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
35	LMGT3	66	JMW Motorsport	Gianmaria Bruni Jason Hart Scott Noble	Ferrari 296 GT3	G	99	+8 Laps
					Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
36	LMGT3	23	United Autosports	Michael Birch Wayne Boyd Garnet Patterson	McLaren 720S GT3 Evo	G	99	+8 Laps
					McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8
37	LMP2 Pro-Am	83	AF Corse	Nicklas Nielsen François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxivière	Oreca 07	G	98	+9 Laps
					Gibson GK428 V8
Not classified
	LMGT3	82	TF Sport	Rui Andrade Charlie Eastwood Hiroshi Koizumi	Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R	G	95	Did not finish
					Chevrolet LT6.R 5.5 L V8
	LMP3	12	WTM by Rinaldi Racing	Torsten Kratz Griffin Peebles Leonard Weiss	Duqueine D09	M	80	Did not finish
					Toyota V35A 3.5 L V6
	LMP2	9	Iron Lynx – Proton	Matteo Cairoli Macéo Capietto Jonas Ried	Oreca 07	G	78	Did not finish
					Gibson GK428 V8
	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Nick Adcock Gillian Henrion Michael Jensen	Ligier JS P325	M	69	Did not finish
					Toyota V35A 3.5 L V6
	LMGT3	74	Kessel Racing	Andrew Gilbert Miguel Molina Fran Rueda	Ferrari 296 GT3	G	48	Did not finish
					Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
	LMP2	37	CLX – Pure Rxcing	Tom Blomqvist Alex Malykhin Tristan Vautier	Oreca 07	G	20	Did not finish
					Gibson GK428 V8
	LMP3	8	Team Virage	Rik Koen Daniel Nogales Jacek Zielonka	Ligier JS P325	M	1	Did not finish
					Toyota V35A 3.5 L V6
Source: [22]

Notes

Qualifying

1. The No. 83 AF Corse Oreca did not set a lap time as François Perrodo had to leave the circuit to attend business matters. ^[14] Per ELMS regulations, the car started from the back of the LMP2 Pro-Am class. ^[15]

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