2024 4 Hours of Mugello

The layout of the Mugello Circuit

The 2024 4 Hours of Mugello was an endurance sportscar racing event held between 27 and 29 September 2024, as the fifth round of the 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]

Patrick Pilet replaced Felipe Drugovich in the No. 10 Vector Sport.[3] After replacing Albert Costa at previous round Nick Yelloly became permanent driver of the No. 24 Nielsen Racing. [4] David Heinemeier Hansson missed this round and the No. 27 Nielsen Racing competed with two drivers – Benjamin Pedersen and Will Stevens.[2] Nico Pino joined Reshad de Gerus and Job van Uitert in the No. 28 IDEC Sport.[2] Niels Koolen came back to the No. 30 Duqueine Team after missing previous round.[1][2] Anthony Wells and Matt Bell were originally part of the No. 19 Team Virage lineup alongside Tristan Vautier, who joined the team at the previous race, but were later replaced by Georgios Kolovos and Raphaël Narac.[2][5] Oliver Jarvis came back to the No. 21 United Autosports after missing previous round.[2] Louis Stern joined Lahaye brothers in the No. 35 Ultimate.[1][2] Jason Hart and Scott Noble replaced John Hartshorne and Phil Keen in the No. 66 JMW Motorsport. John Hartshorne announced his retirement from racing after an accident at previous round.[2] Guilherme Oliveira joined Wyatt Brichacek and Alexander Mattschull in the No. 4 DKR Engineering.[6]

Schedule

Date	Time (local: CEST)	Event
Friday, 27 September	11:50	Free Practice 1
	16:20	Bronze Drivers Collective Test
Saturday, 28 September	9:40	Free Practice 2
	14:10	Qualifying - LMGT3
	14:35	Qualifying - LMP3
	15:00	Qualifying - LMP2 Pro-Am
	15:25	Qualifying - LMP2
Sunday, 29 September	11:30	Race
Source:[7]

Free practice

• Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Free Practice 1	Class	No.	Entrant	Time
	LMP2	65	Panis Racing	1:34.687
	LMP2 Pro/Am	20	Algarve Pro Racing	1:35.218
	LMP3	17	COOL Racing	1:42.337
	LMGT3	57	Kessel Racing	1:46.583
Free Practice 2	Class	No.	Entrant	Time
	LMP2	9	Iron Lynx – Proton	1:33.803
	LMP2 Pro/Am	24	Nielsen Racing	1:34.699
	LMP3	8	Team Virage	1:44.215
	LMGT3	55	Spirit of Race	1:46.903
Sources:[8][9]

Qualifying

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	LMP2	9	Iron Lynx – Proton	Matteo Cairoli	1:32.829	—	1
2	LMP2	65	Panis Racing	Charles Milesi	1:32.866	+0,037	2
3	LMP2	25	Algarve Pro Racing	Alexander Lynn	1:33.054	+0,225	3
4	LMP2	34	Inter Europol Competition	Oliver Gray	1:33.302	+0,473	4
5	LMP2	28	IDEC Sport	Reshad de Gerus	1:33.309	+0,480	5
6	LMP2	14	AO by TF	Louis Delétraz	1:33.312	+0,483	6
7	LMP2	37	COOL Racing	Malthe Jakobsen	1:33.497	+0,668	7
8	LMP2	22	United Autosports	Benjamin Hanley	1:33.674	+0,845	8
9	LMP2	43	Inter Europol Competition	Tom Dillmann	1:33.859	+1,030	9
10	LMP2	47	COOL Racing	Ferdinand Habsburg	1:33.889	+1,060	10
11	LMP2	27	Nielsen Racing	William Stevens	1:34.407	+1,578	11
12	LMP2	30	Duqueine Team	James Allen	1:35.466	+2,637	12
13	LMP2 Pro/Am	77	Proton Competition	Giorgio Roda	1:35.840	+3,011	15
14	LMP2 Pro/Am	29	Richard Mille by TDS	Rodrigo Sales	1:36.171	+3,342	16
15	LMP2 Pro/Am	24	Nielsen Racing	John Falb	1:36.861	+4,032	17
16	LMP2 Pro/Am	19	Team Virage	Georgios Kolovos	1:37.654	+4,825	20[Q 1]
17	LMP2 Pro/Am	21	United Autosports	Daniel Schneider	1:38.540	+5,711	18
18	LMP2 Pro/Am	83	AF Corse	François Perrodo	1:39.008	+6,179	19
19	LMP2 Pro/Am	20	Algarve Pro Racing	Kriton Lendoudis	1:40.519	+7,690	21
20	LMP3	17	COOL Racing	Manuel Espírito Santo	1:41.083	+8,254	23
21	LMP3	4	DKR Engineering	Wyatt Brichacek	1:41.545	+8,716	24
22	LMP3	88	Inter Europol Competition	Kai Askey	1:41.554	+8,725	25
23	LMP3	31	Racing Spirit of Léman	Antoine Doquin	1:41.731	+8,902	26
24	LMP3	35	Ultimate	Jean-Baptiste Lahaye	1:41.841	+9,012	27
25	LMP3	12	WTM by Rinaldi Racing	Óscar Tunjo	1:41.885	+9,056	28
26	LMP3	15	RLR M Sport	Gaël Julien	1:42.117	+9,288	29
27	LMP3	8	Team Virage	Gillian Henrion	1:42.220	+9,391	30
28	LMP3	11	Eurointernational	Adam Ali	1:42.795	+9,966	31
29	LMP2 Pro/Am	3	DKR Engineering	Andres Latorre Canon	1:42.992	+10,163	22
30	LMP3	5	RLR M Sport	Daniel Ali	1:43.485	+10,656	32
31	LMP2	23	United Autosports	Paul di Resta	1:45.874	+13,045	13
32	LMGT3	59	Racing Spirit of Léman	Derek DeBoer	1:47.891	+15,062	33
33	LMGT3	85	Iron Dames	Sarah Bovy	1:48.015	+15,186	34
34	LMGT3	97	Grid Motorsport by TF	Martin Berry	1:48.091	+15,262	35
35	LMGT3	50	Formula Racing	Johnny Laursen	1:48.190	+15,361	36
36	LMGT3	63	Iron Lynx	Hiroshi Hamaguchi	1:48.368	+15,539	37
37	LMGT3	66	JMW Motorsport	Scott Noble	1:49.058	+16,229	38
38	LMGT3	51	AF Corse	Charles-Henri Samani	1:49.231	+16,402	39
39	LMGT3	57	Kessel Racing	Takeshi Kimura	1:49.443	+16,614	40
40	LMGT3	86	GR Racing	Michael Wainwright	1:49.717	+16,888	41
41	LMGT3	55	Spirit of Race	Duncan Cameron	1:50.382	+17,553	42
42	LMGT3	60	Proton Competition	Claudio Schiavoni	1:51.498	+18,669	43
43	LMP2	10	Vector Sport	—[Q 2]			14
Sources:[12][13][14][15][16][17]

1. The No. 19 Team Virage was penalised for making an usafe rejoin during Qualifying session. Stewards moved the car back by two places on the starting grid.[10]
2. The No. 10 Vector Sport lost all its lap times for causing a red flag during Qualifying session. Stewards allowed the crew to participate in the race, but the fastest driver of that car was obliged to start from the back of the LMP2 grid.[11]

Race

Race result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 79 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Final Classification[18]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Car	Tyres	Laps	Time/Gap
1	LMP2	9	Iron Lynx – Proton	Jonas Ried Macéo Capietto Matteo Cairoli	Oreca 07	G	114	4:20:02.008
2	LMP2	25	Algarve Pro Racing	Matthias Kaiser Olli Caldwell Alexander Lynn	Oreca 07	G	114	+6.580
3	LMP2	34	Inter Europol Competition	Oliver Gray Clément Novalak Luca Ghiotto	Oreca 07	G	114	+28.308
4	LMP2	65	Panis Racing	Manuel Maldonado Charles Milesi Arthur Leclerc	Oreca 07	G	114	+40.703
5	LMP2	14	AO by TF	Jonny Edgar Louis Delétraz Robert Kubica	Oreca 07	G	114	+43.196
6	LMP2	23	United Autosports	Bijoy Garg Fabio Scherer Paul di Resta	Oreca 07	G	114	+47.218
7	LMP2	43	Inter Europol Competition	Sebastián Álvarez Vladislav Lomko Tom Dillmann	Oreca 07	G	114	+50.048
8	LMP2 Pro/Am	29	Richard Mille by TDS	Rodrigo Sales Mathias Beche Grégoire Saucy	Oreca 07	G	114	+51.579
9	LMP2	30	Duqueine Team	Niels Koolen Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer James Allen	Oreca 07	G	114	+1:01.259
10	LMP2 Pro/Am	20	Algarve Pro Racing	Kriton Lendoudis Richard Bradley Alex Quinn	Oreca 07	G	114	+1:02.888
11	LMP2 Pro/Am	77	Proton Competition	Giorgio Roda René Binder Bent Viscaal	Oreca 07	G	114	+1:16.347
12	LMP2 Pro/Am	21	United Autosports	Daniel Schneider Andrew Meyrick Oliver Jarvis	Oreca 07	G	114	+1:18.825
13	LMP2	37	COOL Racing	Lorenzo Fluxá Malthe Jakobsen Ritomo Miyata	Oreca 07	G	114	+1:18.943
14	LMP2 Pro/Am	24	Nielsen Racing	John Falb Colin Noble Nicholas Yelloly	Oreca 07	G	114	+1:20.450
15	LMP2 Pro/Am	19	Team Virage	Georgios Kolovos Raphaël Narac Tristan Vautier	Oreca 07	G	114	+1:24.806
16	LMP2	27	Nielsen Racing	Benjamin Pedersen William Stevens	Oreca 07	G	114	+1:25.477
17	LMP2	22	United Autosports	Filip Ugran Marino Sato Benjamin Hanley	Oreca 07	G	114	+1:27.070
18	LMP2 Pro/Am	83	AF Corse	François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxivière Alessio Rovera	Oreca 07	G	113	+1 Lap
19	LMP2	10	Vector Sport	Ryan Cullen Stéphane Richelmi Patrick Pilet	Oreca 07	G	110	+4 Laps
20	LMP3	8	Team Virage	Julien Gerbi Bernardo Pinheiro Gillian Henrion	Ligier JS P320	M	110	+4 Laps
21	LMP3	15	RLR M Sport	Michael Jensen Nick Adcock Gaël Julien	Ligier JS P320	M	110	+4 Laps
22	LMP3	88	Inter Europol Competition	Alexander Bukhantsov Kai Askey Pedro Perino[R 1]	Ligier JS P320	M	109	+5 Laps
23	LMP3	31	Racing Spirit of Léman	Jacques Wolff Jean-Ludovic Foubert Antoine Doquin	Ligier JS P320	M	109	+5 Laps
24	LMP3	35	Ultimate	Louis Stern Jean-Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye[R 2]	Ligier JS P320	M	109	+5 Laps
25	LMP3	12	WTM by Rinaldi Racing	Torsten Kratz Leonard Weiss Óscar Tunjo	Duqueine M30 - D08	M	109	+5 Laps
26	LMP3	11	Eurointernational	Matthew Richard Bell Adam Ali	Ligier JS P320	M	109	+5 Laps
27	LMP3	5	RLR M Sport	James Dayson Daniel Ali Bailey Voisin	Ligier JS P320	M	108	+6 Laps
28	LMGT3	57	Kessel Racing	Takeshi Kimura Esteban Masson Daniel Serra	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	107	+7 Laps
29	LMGT3	97	Grid Motorsport by TF	Martin Berry Lorcan Hanafin Jonathan Adam	Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3	G	107	+7 Laps
30	LMGT3	50	Formula Racing	Johnny Laursen Conrad Laursen Nicklas Nielsen	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	107	+7 Laps
31	LMGT3	51	AF Corse	Charles-Henri Samani Emmanuel Collard Nicolás Varrone	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	107	+7 Laps
32	LMGT3	59	Racing Spirit of Léman	Derek DeBoer Casper Stevenson Valentin Hasse-Clot	Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3	G	107	+7 Laps
33	LMGT3	66	JMW Motorsport	Scott Noble Jason Hart Ben Tuck	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	107	+7 Laps
34	LMGT3	85	Iron Dames	Sarah Bovy Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting	Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3	G	107	+7 Laps[R 3]
35	LMGT3	86	GR Racing	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Davide Rigon	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	106	+8 Laps
36	LMGT3	63	Iron Lynx	Hiroshi Hamaguchi Axcil Jefferies Andrea Caldarelli	Lamborghini Huracan LMGT3 Evo2	G	105	+9 Laps
37	LMP2	47	COOL Racing	Carl Bennett Ferdinand Habsburg Frederik Vesti	Oreca 07	G	85	+29 Laps[R 4]
Not classified
	LMP3	4	DKR Engineering	Alexander Mattschull Wyatt Brichacek Guilherme Oliveira	Duqueine M30 - D08	M	69
	LMP3	17	COOL Racing	Miguel Cristóvão Cédric Oltramare Manuel Espírito Santo	Ligier JS P320	M	68
	LMGT3	60	Proton Competition	Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Julien Andlauer	Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3	G	60
	LMP2	28	IDEC Sport	Nicolás Pino Reshad de Gerus Job van Uitert	Oreca 07	G	50
	LMGT3	55	Spirit of Race	Duncan Cameron David Perel Matthew Griffin	Ferrari 296 LMGT3	G	46
	LMP2 Pro/Am	3	DKR Engineering	Andres Latorre Canon Cem Bölükbaşı Laurents Hörr	Oreca 07	G	6

1. Pedro Perino failed to meet the minimum driving time to score points.[19]
2. Matthieu Lahaye failed to meet the minimum driving time to score points.[20]
3. The No. 85 Iron Dames was penalised for causing a collision with the No. 60 Proton Competition. The penalty was a drive through converted into 30 seconds time penalty.[21]
4. The No. 47 COOL Racing was penalised for not meeting the minimum driving time by Ferdinand Habsburg. As the penalty 21 laps were deducted from the number of completed by the crew and 1 minute and 31 seconds were added to crew's total race time.[22]

Statistics

Fastest lap

Class	Driver	Team	Time	Lap
LMP2	Matteo Cairoli	#9 Iron Lynx – Proton	1:34.882	79
LMP2 Pro/Am	Matthieu Vaxivière	#83 AF Corse	1:35.814	82
LMP3	Óscar Tunjo	#12 WTM by Rinaldi Racing	1:44.670	77
LMGT3	Nicolás Varrone	#51 AF Corse	1:47.609	87
Source:[23]

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