2018 Le Mans Cup

The 2018 Le Mans Cup, known as the 2018 Michelin Le Mans Cup under sponsorship, was the third season of the Le Mans Cup. It began on 12 May at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and finished on 27 October at the Algarve International Circuit. The series was open to Le Mans Prototypes in the LMP3 class, and grand tourer sports cars in the GT3 class.

Calendar

All races supported the 2018 European Le Mans Series except the Le Mans round, which was part of the 24 Hours of Le Mans weekend.

Round	Circuit	Location	Race length	Date
1	Circuit Paul Ricard	Le Castellet, France	2 hours	14 April
2	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Monza, Italy	2 hours	12 May
3	Circuit de la Sarthe	Le Mans, France	55 minutes	14 June
3	Circuit de la Sarthe	Le Mans, France	55 minutes	16 June
4	Red Bull Ring	Spielberg, Austria	2 hours	22 July
5	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Spa, Belgium	2 hours	22 September
6	Algarve International Circuit	Portimão, Portugal	2 hours	27 October

Entry list

LMP3

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
DKR Engineering^[1]	Norma M30^[1]	1	Dan Polley^[2]	3
		1	James Winslow^[2]	3
		3	Leonard Hoogenboom^[1]	All
		3	Jens Petersen^[1]	All
Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen^[1]	Ligier JS P3^[1]	2	James Littlejohn^[1]	All
		2	Anthony Wells^[1]	All
		74	Patrick McClughan^[2]	3
		74	Gerhard Watzinger^[2]	3
		75	Ivor Dunbar^[2]	3
		75	Bonamy Grimes^[2]	3
		76	Alex Kapadia^[2]	3
		76	Christian Olsen^[2]	3
		79	Alasdair McCaig^[1]	All
		79	Colin Noble^[1]	All
Brookspeed International^[1]	Ligier JS P3^[1]	4	Nicolas Rondet^[3]	All
Brookspeed International^[1]	Ligier JS P3^[1]	4	John Schauerman^[1]	All
NEFIS By Speed Factory^[2]	Ligier JS P3^[2]	5	Timur Boguslavskiy^[2]	3
NEFIS By Speed Factory^[2]	Ligier JS P3^[2]	5	Marcello Marateotto^[2]	3
Cool Racing^[1]	Norma M30^[2]	9	Scott Andrews^[2]	3–4
	Norma M30^[2]		Gerald Kraut^[2]	3–4
	Ligier JS P3^[1]		Scott Andrews^[4]	2
			Gerald Kraut^[1]	2
		24	Antonin Borga^[1]	All
		24	Alexandre Coigny^[1]	All
		27	Marvin Klein^[2]	3
		27	Christian Vaglio^[2]	3
Eurointernational^[2]	Ligier JS P3^[2]	11	Mikkel Jensen^[2]	3
		11	Kay van Berlo^[2]	3
		12	James Dayson^[2]	3
		12	Mark Kvamme^[2]	3
RLR MSport^[1]	Ligier JS P3^[1]	14	John Farano^[1]	All
		14	Job Van Uitert^[1]	All
		59	Josh Burdon^[2]	3
			Neric Wei^[2]	3
			Alex Kapadia	4–6
			Ross Warburton	4–6
M.Racing - YMR^[2]	Ligier JS P3^[2]	15	Jon Bennett^[2]	3
	Ligier JS P3^[2]	15	Niclas Jönsson^[2]	3
	Norma M30^[2]	16	Natan Bihel^[2]	3
	Norma M30^[2]	16	Laurent Millara^[2]	3
RGP Motorsport^[3]	Ligier JS P3^[3]	17	Marco Cencetti^[3]	1, 3
RGP Motorsport^[3]	Ligier JS P3^[3]	17	Ioannis Inglessis^[3]	1, 3
Ultimate^[2]	Norma M30^[2]	19	François Hériau^[2]	3
Ultimate^[2]	Norma M30^[2]	19	Jean-Baptiste Lahaye^[2]	3
DB Autosport^[1]	Norma M30^[1]	20	Jean-Ludovic Foubert^[1]	All
		20	Nicolas Maulini^[1]	All
		21	Nicolas Schatz^[1]	All
		21	Jacques Wolff^[1]	All
United Autosports^[1]	Ligier JS P3^[1]	22	Matthew Bell^[1]	All
		22	Jim McGuire^[1]	All
		23	Richard Meins^[1]	All
			Christian England^[3]	1–2, 4–6
			Shaun Lynn^[2]	3
		32	Najaf Husain^[1]	All
			Mahaveer Raghunathan^[3]	1
			Colin Braun^[1]	2–6
		33	John Falb^[2]	3
		33	Sean Rayhall^[2]	3
Lanan Racing^[1]	Norma M30^[1]	25	Michael Benham^[1]	All
Lanan Racing^[1]	Norma M30^[1]	25	Duncan Tappy^[1]	All
CD Sport^[1]	Norma M30^[1]	30	Laurents Hörr^[1]	All
			Anthony Pons^[1]	1, 3, 5
			Eric Debard^[4]	2
			Fabien Lavergne	4, 6
		60	Nicolas Mélin^[2]	3
		60	Julien Piguet^[2]	3
Graff^[1]	Norma M30^[1]	39	Adrien Trouillet^[1]	All
		39	Eric Trouillet^[1]	All
		40	Adrien Chila^[2]	3–6
		40	Marc-Antoine Dannielou^[2]	3-6
		65	Damien Delafosse^[2]	3–6
			Sergio Pasian^[2]	3-4
			François Hériau^[1]	5
			Alexander West	6
	Ligier JS P3^[1]	40	Adrien Chila^[1]	1–2
		40	Marc-Antoine Dannielou^[1]	1–2
		65	Damien Delafosse^[3]	1–2
		65	Sergio Pasian^[1]	1–2
Keo Racing	Ligier JS P3	43	Johan Jokinen	6
Keo Racing	Ligier JS P3	43	Paul Scheuschner	6
SPV Racing^[1]	Ligier JS P3^[1]	44	Ricardo Sanchez^[3]	1–3
			Álvaro Fontes^[1]	1, 3
			Andy Cummings^[1]^[2]	2
		45	Andy Cummings^[1]^[2]	3
		45	Bradley Ellis^[2]	3
Win Motorsport^[2]	Ligier JS P3^[2]	49	William Lok^[2]	3
Win Motorsport^[2]	Ligier JS P3^[2]	49	Jim Michaelian^[2]	3
Spirit of Race^[1]	Ligier JS P3^[1]	55	Chris Buncombe^[2]	3
Spirit of Race^[1]	Ligier JS P3^[1]	55	Patrick Byrne^[2]	3
TFT - SO24^[2]	Norma M30^[2]	72	Arnold Robin^[2]	3
		72	Maxime Robin^[2]	3
		73	Xavier Michel^[2]	3
		73	Antoine Weil^[2]	3
AT Racing^[2]	Ligier JS P3^[2]	90	Alexander Talkanitsa, Jr.^[2]	3
AT Racing^[2]	Ligier JS P3^[2]	90	Alexander Talkanitsa, Sr.^[2]	3
TKS^[1]	Ginetta-Juno LMP3^[1]	96	Shinyo Sano^[1]	1–3
			Luca Magnoni^[3]	1
			Teruaki Kato^[4]	2
			Takuya Shirasaka^[2]	3
Motorsport 98^[1]	Ligier JS P3^[1]	98	Eric de Doncker^[1]	All
			Andy Meyrick^[1]	1
			Dino Lunardi^[4]	2–6
N'Race^[1]	Ligier JS P3^[1]	99	Thomas Accary^[1]	1–3
			Alain Costa^[1]	1–5
			Johan-Boris Scheier	4–5

GT3

Team

Car

No.

Drivers

Rounds

Kessel Racing^[1]

Ferrari 488 GT3^[1]

Sergio Pianezzola^[1]

All

Giacomo Piccini^[1]

All

Ollie Hancock^[1]

1–3, 6

John Hartshorne^[1]

1–3, 6

Murod Sultanov

Matteo Cressoni

Andrea Piccini^[1]

All

Claudio Schiavoni^[1]

All

Manuela Gostner

Giorgio Sernagiotto

Krypton Motorsport

Mercedes-AMG GT3

Stefano Pezzucchi

Marco Zanuttini

	Spirit of Race^[1]^{["N" 1]}
	AF Corse^[1]^{["N" 1]}

Ferrari 488 GT3^[1]

Maurizio Mediani^[1]

All

Christoph Ulrich^[1]

All

Louis Soenen^[2]

Frédéric Vervisch^[2]

Marco Cioci^[1]

All

Piergiuseppe Perazzini^[1]

All

StileF Squadra Corse^[3]

Ferrari 458 Italia GT3^[3]

Martin Grab^[3]

1, 3

Yoshiki Ohmura^[3]

Gino Forgione^[2]

Ebimotors^[1]

Porsche 911 GT3 R^[1]

Alessandro Baccani^[1]

All

Paolo Venerosi^[1]

All

Notes

^ Car Nos. 51 and 54 entered as Spirit of Race and Car No. 71 entered as AF Corse.

Race results

Bold indicates overall winner.

Rnd.		Circuit	LMP3 Winning Team	GT3 Winning Team
Rnd.		Circuit	LMP3 Winning Drivers	GT3 Winning Drivers
1		Paul Ricard	No. 3 DKR Engineering	No. 8 Kessel Racing
1		Paul Ricard	Leonard Hoogenboom Jens Petersen	Sergio Pianezzola Giacomo Piccini
2		Monza	No. 3 DKR Engineering	No. 8 Kessel Racing
2		Monza	Leonard Hoogenboom Jens Petersen	Sergio Pianezzola Giacomo Piccini
3	R1	Le Mans (report)	No. 11 Eurointernational	No. 71 AF Corse
	R1		Mikkel Jensen Kay van Berlo	Marco Cioci Piergiuseppe Perazzini
	R2		No. 25 Lanan Racing	No. 51 Spirit of Race
	R2		Michael Benham Duncan Tappy	Maurizio Mediani Christoph Ulrich
4		Red Bull Ring	No. 3 DKR Engineering	No. 8. Kessel Racing
4		Red Bull Ring	Leonard Hoogenboom Jens Petersen	Sergio Pianezzola Giacomo Piccini
5		Spa	No. 79 Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen	No. 8 Kessel Racing
5		Spa	Alasdair McCaig Colin Noble	Sergio Pianezzola Giacomo Piccini
6		Portimão	No. 79 Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen	No. 8 Kessel Racing
6		Portimão	Alasdair McCaig Colin Noble	Sergio Pianezzola Giacomo Piccini

Standings

Points are awarded according to the following structure (except Le Mans):

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Other	Pole
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1	0.5	1

For Le Mans:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Other	Pole
Points	15	9	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0.5	0.5	1

LMP3 Teams Championship

Pos.	Team	Car	LEC	MNZ	LMS		RBR	SPA	POR	Points
1	3 DKR Engineering	Norma M30	1	1	3	4	1	3	Ret	103
2	79 Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen	Ligier JS P3	2	?	5	?	2	1	1	91.5
3	2 Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen	Ligier JS P3	3	2	?	?	10	2	3	68.5
4	40 Graff	Norma M30	8	5	7	5	3	7	?	43.5
5	98 Motorsport 98	Ligier JS P3	10	8	?	10	7	4	4	36.5

Bold – Pole

References

^ "29 Cars for Le Mans Cup Season". sportscar365.com. Sportscar365. 5 March 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
^ "ROAD TO LE MANS 16 JUNE 2018 PROVISIONAL LIST OF COMPETITORS AND CARS INVITED TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE CHECKINGS & SCRUTINEERING". lemanscup.alkamelsystems.com. Al Kamel Systems. 11 June 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
^ Fernandez, Mat (9 April 2018). "29-Car Field Set For Le Mans Cup Season Opener". dailysportscar.com. Dailysportscar. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^ "2018 MICHELIN LE MANS CUP - MONZA ROUND - ENTRY LIST". lemanscup.alkamelsystems.com. Al Kamel Systems. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2018.

External links

Official website