2012 6 Hours of Castellet

Circuit Paul Ricard 1A-V2 (pit road was different before 2019

The 2012 6 Hours of Castellet (6 Heures du Castellet) was the opening round of the 2012 European Le Mans Series season. It took place at Circuit Paul Ricard on 1 April 2012. Previously known as the Le Mans Series, it was the first race in the series' history where LMP1 was not contested in as LMP2 has taken over as the top prototype class. The Formula Le Mans (FLM) spec class has been renamed to Le Mans Prototype Challenge (LMPC), the same name used in the American Le Mans Series. A new Grand Touring class was meant to participate in the opening round which was Grand Touring Challenge (GTC), but lack of entrants meant it did not participate.

Qualifying

Qualifying result

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos Class Team Driver Lap Time Grid
1 LMP2 No.46 Thiriet by TDS Racing Mathias Beche 1:48.171 1
2 LMP2 No.17 Status GP Yelmer Buurman 1:48.482 2
3 LMP2 No.1 Greaves Motorsport Tom Kimber-Smith 1:48.882 3
4 LMP2 No.24 OAK Racing Guillaume Moreau 1:48.977 4
5 LMP2 No.10 Pecom Racing Pierre Kaffer 1:49.068 5
6 LMP2 No.18 Murphy Prototypes Warren Hughes 1:49.122 6
7 LMP2 No.19 Sébastien Loeb Racing Stéphane Sarrazin 1:49.157 7
8 LMP2 No.38 JOTA Sam Hancock 1:49.687 8
9 LMP2 No.11 Race Performance Michel Frey 1:50.193 9
10 LMPC No.40 Boutsen Ginion Racing Massimo Vignali 1:55.338 10
11 LMPC No.42 CURTIS Racing Technologies Phil Keen 1:55.410 11
12 GTE-Pro No.83 JMB Racing Jaime Melo 1:57.630 12
13 GTE-Am No.75 Prospeed Competition Marc Goossens 1:58.388 13
14 GTE-Am No.67 IMSA Performance Matmut Nicolas Armindo 1:58.428 14
15 GTE-Pro No.66 JMW Motorsport James Walker 1:58.517 15
16 GTE-Am No.69 Gulf Racing Stuart Hall 1:58.532 16
17 GTE-Am No.60 AF Corse Marco Cioci 1:58.803 17
18 GTE-Pro No.61 Kessel Racing Philipp Peter 1:59.082 18
19 GTE-Am No.99 JMB Racing Alain Ferté 2:00.182 19
20 LMP2 No.44 Extrême Limite ARIC No Time 20
21 LMP2 No.45 Boutsen Ginion Racing No Time 21

Race

Race result

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).[1]

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps
Engine
1 LMP2 46 France Thiriet by TDS Racing France Pierre Thiriet
Switzerland Mathias Beche
Oreca 03 D 189
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
2 LMP2 19 France Sébastien Loeb Racing France Nicolas Marroc
France Stéphane Sarrazin
France Nicolas Minassian
Oreca 03 D 188
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
3 LMP2 17 Republic of Ireland Status GP United Kingdom Alexander Sims
United Kingdom Dean Sterling
Netherlands Yelmer Buurman
Lola B12/80 D 188
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
4 LMP2 1 United Kingdom Greaves Motorsport United Kingdom Alex Brundle
United Kingdom Tom Kimber-Smith
Spain Lucas Ordoñez
Zytek Z11SN D 188
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
5 LMP2 11 Switzerland Race Performance Switzerland Michel Frey
Switzerland Jonathan Hirschi
Switzerland Ralph Meichtry
Oreca 03 D 186
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
6 LMP2 24 France OAK Racing France Jacques Nicolet
France Guillaume Moreau
Austria Dominik Kraihamer
Morgan LMP2 D 185
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
7 LMP2 10 Argentina Pecom Racing Argentina Luís Pérez Companc
Germany Pierre Kaffer
Italy Gianmaria Bruni
Oreca 03 D 183
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
8 LMPC 42 United Kingdom CURTIS Racing Technologies United Kingdom Phil Keen
United Kingdom John Hartshorne
United Kingdom Alex Kapadia
Oreca FLM09 M 177
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
9 LMGTE
Pro
66 United Kingdom JMW Motorsport United Kingdom Jonny Cocker
United Kingdom James Walker
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 D 176
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
10 LMGTE
Pro
83 Monaco JMB Racing Brazil Jaime Melo
Italy Marco Frezza
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 176
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
11 LMGTE
Am
75 Belgium Prospeed Competition Belgium Marc Goossens
Belgium Maxime Soulet
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 175
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
12 LMP2 44 France Extrême Limite ARIC France Fabien Rosier
France Philippe Thirion
Norma M200P D 175
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
13 LMP2 38 United Kingdom JOTA United Kingdom Sam Hancock
United Kingdom Simon Dolan
Zytek Z11SN D 174
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
14 LMGTE
Am
67 France IMSA Performance Matmut France Anthony Pons
France Nicolas Armindo
France Raymond Narac
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 174
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
15 LMGTE
Pro
61 Switzerland Kessel Racing Poland Michał Broniszewski
Austria Philipp Peter
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 D 174
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
16 LMGTE
Am
99 Monaco JMB Racing France Alain Ferté
France Philippe Illiano
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 172
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
17 LMGTE
Am
69 United Kingdom Gulf Racing Germany Roald Goethe
United Kingdom Stuart Hall
Aston Martin Vantage GT2 D 160
Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
18 LMGTE
Am
60 Italy AF Corse Italy Piergiuseppe Perazzini
Italy Marco Cioci
Republic of Ireland Matt Griffin
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 144
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
DNF LMPC 40 Belgium Boutsen Ginion Racing France Thomas Dagoneau
France Jean-Marc Merlin
Italy Massimo Vignali
Oreca FLM09 M 111
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
DNF LMP2 18 Republic of Ireland Murphy Prototypes United Kingdom Warren Hughes
United Kingdom Jody Firth
Italy Luca Moro
MG-Oreca 03 D 64
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
DNF LMP2 45 Belgium Boutsen Ginion Racing France Bastien Brière
United Kingdom Jack Clarke
Switzerland Sébastien Buemi
Oreca 03 D 27
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8

References

  1. ^ "ELMS 6 Heures du Castellet Race Final Classification". europeanlemansseries.com. Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 1 April 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2013.

External links

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