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2011 6 Hours of Castellet

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

The 2011 6 Hours of Castellet (6 Heures du Castellet) was the opening round of the 2011 Le Mans Series season. It took place at Circuit Paul Ricard on April 3, 2011. It was also the first Le Mans Series race with the two new GT classes, GTE Pro and GTE Am, contesting the event after the demise of the GT1 class.

Qualifying result

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	Team	Driver	Lap Time
LMP1	No.12 Rebellion Racing	Neel Jani	1:46.783	1
LMP1	No.16 Pescarolo Team	Emmanuel Collard	1:47.025	34
LMP1	No.20 Quifel-ASM Team	Olivier Pla	1:47.231	2
LMP1	No.13 Rebellion Racing	Jean-Christophe Boullion	1:48.491	3
LMP2	No.46 TDS Racing	Mathias Beche	1:48.928	4
LMP2	No.45 Boutsen Energy Racing	Dominik Kraihamer	1:49.692	5
LMP2	No.41 Greaves Motorsport	Tom Kimber-Smith	1:50.008	6
LMP2	No.40 Race Performance	Thor-Christian Ebbesvik	1:50.356	7
LMP2	No.39 PeCom Racing	Matías Russo	1:51.744	8
LMP2	No.44 Extrême Limite AM Paris	Fabien Rosier	1:52.158	9
LMP1	No.009 Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke	1:52.267	10
LMP2	No.43 RLR msport	Rob Garofall	1:53.414	11
LMP2	No.42 Strakka Racing	Danny Watts	1:53.582	12
FLM	No.91 Hope Polevision Racing	Nicolas Marroc	1:53.659	13
FLM	No.93 Genoa Racing	Elton Julian	1:54.044	14
FLM	No.92 Neil Garner Motorsport	Phil Keen	1:54.081	15
FLM	No.95 Pegasus Racing	Patrick Simon	1:55.829	16
FLM	No.99 JMB Racing	Nicolas Misslin	1:56.806	17
GTE-Pro	No.51 AF Corse	Gianmaria Bruni	1:58.522	18
GTE-Pro	No.86 Young Driver AMR	Tomáš Enge	1:58.773	19
GTE-Pro	No.66 JMW Motorsport	Rob Bell	1:59.119	20
GTE-Pro	No.71 AF Corse	Toni Vilander	1:59.144	21
GTE-Pro	No.89 Hankook Team Farnbacher	Allan Simonsen	1:59.244	22
GTE-Pro	No.75 Prospeed Competition	Marco Holzer	1:59.244	23
GTE-Am	No.67 IMSA Performance Matmut	Nicolas Armindo	1:59.370	24
GTE-Pro	No.77 Team Felbermayr-Proton	Richard Lietz	1:59.455	25
GTE-Pro	No.76 IMSA Performance Matmut	Patrick Pilet	1:59.457	26
GTE-Pro	No.79 JOTA	Sam Hancock	2:00.336	27
GTE-Am	No.88 Team Felbermayr-Proton	Horst Felbermayr Jr.	2:00.354	28
GTE-Am	No.61 AF Corse	Marco Cioci	2:00.470	29
GTE-Am	No.70 Kessel Racing	Philipp Peter	2:00.698	30
GTE-Am	No.82 CRS Racing	Adam Christodoulou	2:01.137	31
GTE-Am	No.72 AF Corse	Rui Águas	2:01.691	32
LMP2	No.36 RML	No Time	33

Note: the No. 16 Pescarolo Team was demoted to the back of the grid due to a ride height infringement in qualifying.

Race

The race got off to a controversial start when the pace car did not return to the pits when the green lights came on. The front running LMPs slowed down but some of the GT cars could not react fast enough, resulting in all three GTE Pro class Porsches getting heavily damaged and retired. The GTE Am class IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche and GTE Pro JOTA Aston Martin were also caught in the carnage. The race was won overall by Pescarolo Team after their first race since 2009 after their financial troubles in 2010. LMP2 was won by Greaves Motorsport, Pegasus Racing took the FLM victory. JMW Motorsport took GTE Pro victory after a hard fought battle with the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari towards the end. Team Felbermayr-Proton won in the GTE Am class.

Race result

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

Pos	Class	No	Team
DNF	27	28
NC	29
NC	30
DNF	31
DNF	32
DNF	33
DNF	34
DNF
LMP1	16	FRA Pescarolo Team	FRA Emmanuel Collard
FRA Christophe Tinseau
FRA Julien Jousse	Pescarolo 01 Evo		185
Judd GV5 S2 5.0 L V10
LMP1	13	SUI Rebellion Racing	FRA Jean-Christophe Boullion
ITA Andrea Belicchi	Lola B10/60		184
Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8
LMP2	41	GBR Greaves Motorsport	FRA Gary Chalandon
KSA Karim Ojjeh
GBR Tom Kimber-Smith	Zytek Z11SN		179
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
LMP2	39	ARG Pecom Racing	ARG Matías Russo
ARG Luís Pérez Companc
DEU Pierre Kaffer	Lola B11/40		179
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
LMP2	42	GBR Strakka Racing	GBR Danny Watts
GBR Jonny Kane
GBR Nick Leventis	HPD ARX-01d		177
HPD HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
LMP2	45	BEL Boutsen Energy Racing	AUT Dominik Kraihamer
BEL Nicolas de Crem	Oreca 03		175
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
LMP1	12	SUI Rebellion Racing	SUI Neel Jani
FRA Nicolas Prost	Lola B10/60		175
Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8
LMP1	20	POR Quifel ASM Team	POR Miguel Amaral
FRA Olivier Pla	Zytek 09SC		174
Zytek ZG348 3.4 L V8
LMP2	43	GBR RLR msport	GBR Barry Gates
GBR Rob Garofall
GBR Simon Phillips	MG-Lola EX265		174
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
LMP2	40	SUI Race Performance	SUI Michel Frey
SUI Ralph Meichtry
NOR Thor-Christian Ebbesvik	Oreca 03		174
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
LMP2	36	GBR RML	GBR Mike Newton
BRA Thomas Erdos
GBR Ben Collins	HPD ARX-01d		173
HPD HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
FLM	95	FRA Pegasus Racing	DEU Mirco Schultis
DEU Patrick Simon
FRA Julien Schell	Oreca FLM09		170
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
FLM	93	USA Genoa Racing	DEU Jens Petersen
ECU Elton Julian
DEU Christian Zugel	Oreca FLM09		170
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
GTE
Pro	66	GBR JMW Motorsport	GBR Rob Bell
GBR James Walker	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		170
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
GTE
Pro	51	ITA AF Corse	ITA Giancarlo Fisichella
ITA Gianmaria Bruni	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		169
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
LMP2	44	FRA Extrême Limite AM Paris	FRA Fabien Rosier
SUI Maurice Basso
SUI Jean-Marc Luco	Norma M200P		169
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
GTE
Am	88	DEU Team Felbermayr-Proton	AUT Horst Felbermayr Sr.
AUT Horst Felbermayr Jr.
DEU Christian Ried	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		167
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GTE
Am	61	ITA AF Corse	ITA Piergiuseppe Perazzini
ITA Marco Cioci
BEL Stéphane Lémeret	Ferrari F430 GTE		167
Ferrari 4.0 V8
GTE
Am	70	SUI Kessel Racing	POL Michał Broniszewski
AUT Philipp Peter	Ferrari F430 GTE		167
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GTE
Am	82	GBR CRS Racing	GBR Phil Quaife
GBR Adam Christodoulou
NED Klaas Hummel	Ferrari F430 GTE		166
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GTE
Pro	89	DEU Hankook Team Farnbacher	DEU Dominik Farnbacher
DEN Allan Simonsen	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		163
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
GTE
Am	72	ITA AF Corse	USA Robert Kuaffman
PRT Rui Águas
ITA Giuseppe Cirò	Ferrari F430 GTE		163
Ferrari 4.0 V8
GTE
Pro	71	ITA AF Corse	BRA Jaime Melo
FIN Toni Vilander	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		161
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
FLM	92	GBR Neil Garner Motorsport	GBR John Hartshorne
GBR Steve Keating
GBR Phil Keen	Oreca FLM09		157
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
FLM	99	MON JMB Racing	FRA Manuel Rodrigues
FRA Jean-Marc Menahem
FRA Nicolas Misslin	Oreca FLM09		142
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
GTE
Pro	86	DEU Young Driver AMR	CZE Tomáš Enge
DEU Alex Müller
DEN Christoffer Nygaard	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2		140
Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
GTE
Am	67	FRA IMSA Performance Matmut	FRA Raymond Narac
FRA Nicolas Armindo	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		137
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GTE
Pro	79	GBR JOTA	GBR Simon Dolan
GBR Sam Hancock	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2		105
Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
LMP1	009	GBR Aston Martin Racing	DEU Stefan Mücke
GBR Darren Turner
SUI Harold Primat	Aston Martin AMR-One		96
Aston Martin 2.0 L Turbo I6
FLM	91	SUI Hope Polevision Racing	FRA Nicolas Marroc
ITA Luca Moro
CHN Zhang Shan Qi	Oreca FLM09		93
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
LMP2	46	ESP TDS Racing	SUI Mathias Beche
FRA Pierre Thiriet
GBR Jody Firth	Oreca 03		91
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
GTE
Pro	76	FRA IMSA Performance Matmut	FRA Patrick Pilet
DEU Wolf Henzler	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		2
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GTE
Pro	75	BEL Prospeed Competition	DEU Marco Holzer
BEL Marc Goossens	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		0
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GTE
Pro	77	DEU Team Felbermayr-Proton	DEU Marc Lieb
AUT Richard Lietz	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		0
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6

References

(2011-04-02). "LMS Paul Ricard Qualifying". [[Le Mans Series]].
(2011-04-03). "Start Chaos 2011 Le Mans Series at Le Castellet". MT89Motorsport2.
(2011-04-03). "LMS Paul Ricard Race". [[Le Mans Series]].

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