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
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. In the LMP2 Pro-Am class, Nicklas Nielsen replaced Alessio Rovera in the No. 83 AF Corse Oreca. 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. Finally, James Calado replaced Daniel Serra in the No. 57 Kessel Racing Ferrari in the LMGT3 class.
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.
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:
Free practice Two practice sessions were held before the event: one on Friday and one on Saturday. Both sessions ran for 90 minutes.
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. 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. 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. 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. The session saw one red-flag stoppage after Kriton Lendoudis beached his car on the kerb.
Class 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: 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. 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. 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. 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.
Class 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: 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. Nick Yelloly claimed pole position in the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca.
Qualifying results Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold. Class Team Driver Time Gap 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 21 Source:
Race The race started at 12:00 CEST on Sunday, and ran for 4 hours.
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 .