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2010 8 Hours of Castellet

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

The 2010 8 Hours of Le Castellet (8 Heures du Castellet) was the inaugural round of the 2010 Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France on 11 April 2010. It was the first Le Mans Series race that is longer than the standard 1,000-km distance the LMS use since the 2007 Mil Milhas Brasil. Audi Sport Team Joest won the race overall in their first use of the Audi R15 TDI in the Le Mans Series, with drivers Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello. Aston Martin Racing and Rebellion Racing completed the overall podium five laps behind the winning Audi. Strakka Racing also brought Honda Performance Development a win on their debut in the LMP2 category, leading the OAK Racing Pescarolo by 33 seconds. Applewood Seven won the Formula Le Mans category, the first event in which this class participated in the Le Mans Series. Team Felbermayr-Proton dominated the GT2 category by finishing in the top two positions, ahead of the first of the AF Corse Ferraris.

Qualifying

Qualifying saw Oreca take pole position in their first outing with their new Peugeot 908 HDi FAP, beating the factory Audi R15 TDI by 0.4 seconds. Strakka Racing had a similar story taking LMP2 pole in their first outing with their HPD ARX-01C. They qualified two seconds before the next nearest car, the Quifel Ginetta-Zytek. AF Corse took GT2 pole and DAMS took the first pole position in Le Mans Series history in the new Formula Le Mans class.

Qualifying result

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	Team	Driver	Lap Time
LMP1	No.4 Team Oreca Matmut	Nicolas Lapierre	1:41.195	1
LMP1	No.7 Audi Sport Team Joest	Rinaldo Capello	1:41.632	2
LMP1	No.009 Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke	1:42.345	3
LMP1	No.6 AIM Team Oreca Matmut	Loïc Duval	1:42.685	4
LMP1	No.13 Rebellion Racing	Jean-Christophe Boullion	1:43.435	5
LMP1	No.12 Rebellion Racing	Neel Jani	1:44.032	6
LMP1	No.5 Beechdean Mansell	Greg Mansell	1:44.475	7
LMP1	No.008 Signature-Plus	Pierre Ragues	1:44.914	8
LMP2	No.42 Strakka Racing	Danny Watts	1:44.989	9
LMP2	No.40 Quifel ASM Team	Olivier Pla	1:47.112	10
LMP2	No.24 OAK Racing	Mathieu Laheye	1:47.474	11
LMP2	No.25 RML	Thomas Erdos	1:47.491	12
LMP2	No.41 Team Bruichladdich	Thor-Christian Ebbesvik	1:48.439	13
LMP2	No.30 Racing Box	Andrea Piccini	1:48.635	14
LMP2	No.37 WR / Salini	Tristan Gommendy	1:49.567	15
LMP2	No.29 Racing Box	Marco Cioci	1:49.931	16
LMP2	No.39 KSM	Hideki Noda	1:50.913	17
LMP2	No.27 Race Performance	Tyler Dueck	1:52.612	18
FLM	No.44 DAMS	Edoardo Piscopo	1:52.936	19
FLM	No.48 Hope Polevision Racing	Mathias Beche	1:53.090	20
LMP2	No.38 Pegasus Racing	Julien Schell	1:53.148	21
FLM	No.49 Applewood Seven	David Zollinger	1:53.447	22
FLM	No.45 Boutsen Energy Racing	Dominik Kraihamer	1:53.850	23
FLM	No.43 DAMS	Alessandro Cicognani	1:54.187	24
FLM	No.47 Hope Polevision Racing	Steve Zacchia	1:54.305	25
GT1	No.50 Larbre Compétition	Gabriele Gardel	1:57.085	25
GT2	No.96 AF Corse	Gianmaria Bruni	1:57.850	27
GT2	No.77 Team Felbermayr-Proton	Richard Lietz	1:58.216	28
GT2	No.91 CRS Racing	Tim Mullen	1:58.475	29
GT2	No.95 AF Corse	Toni Vilander	1:58.545	30
GT2	No.92 JMW Motorsport	Rob Bell	1:58.549	31
GT2	No.94 AF Corse	Matías Russo	1:58.707	32
GT2	No.90 CRS Racing	Pierre Kaffer	1:59.021	33
GT2	No.76 IMSA Performance Matmut	Patrick Pilet	1:59.035	34
GT2	No.85 Spyker Squadron	Jeroen Bleekemolen	1:59.177	35
GT2	No.88 Team Felbermayr-Proton	Martin Ragginger	1:59.447	36
GT2	No.89 Hankook Team Farnbacher	Dominik Farnbacher	1:59.480	37
GT2	No.75 Prospeed Competition	Richard Westbrook	1:59.539	38
GT2	No.78 BMW Team Schnitzer	Jörg Müller	1:59.593	39
FLM	No.46 JMB Racing	Maurice Basso	2:00.775	40
LMP2	No.35 OAK Racing		No Time	41

Race

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	31
DNF	32
DNF	33
DNF	34
DNF	35
DNF	36
DNF	37
DNF	38
DNF	39
DNF	40
DNF	41
DNF
LMP1	7	DEU Audi Sport Team Joest	GBR Allan McNish
ITA Rinaldo Capello	Audi R15 TDI plus		266
Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V10
(Diesel)
LMP1	009	GBR Aston Martin Racing	MEX Adrian Fernández
CHE Harold Primat
DEU Stefan Mücke	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60		261
Aston Martin AM04 6.0 L V12
LMP1	13	CHE Rebellion Racing	ITA Andrea Belicchi
FRA Jean-Christophe Boullion
GBR Guy Smith	Lola B10/60		261
Rebellion (Judd) 5.5 L V10
LMP1	4	FRA Team Oreca Matmut	FRA Olivier Panis
FRA Nicolas Lapierre
FRA Stéphane Sarrazin	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP		258
Peugeot HDi 5.5 L Turbo V12
(Diesel)
LMP1	6	FRA AIM Team Oreca Matmut	FRA Soheil Ayari
FRA Loïc Duval
FRA Didier André	Oreca 01		258
AIM YS5.5 5.5 L V10
LMP1	008	FRA Signature-Plus	FRA Pierre Ragues
FRA Franck Mailleux
BEL Vanina Ickx	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60		256
Aston Martin AM04 6.0 L V12
LMP2	42	GBR Strakka Racing	GBR Danny Watts
GBR Nick Leventis
GBR Jonny Kane	HPD ARX-01C		250
HPD AL7R 3.4 L V8
LMP2	35	FRA OAK Racing	FRA Guillaume Moreau
MCO Richard Hein	Pescarolo 01		250
Judd DB 3.4 L V8
LMP2	25	GBR RML	GBR Mike Newton
BRA Thomas Erdos
GBR Andy Wallace	Lola B08/80		249
HPD AL7R 3.4 V8
LMP2	24	FRA OAK Racing	FRA Jacques Nicolet
FRA Matthieu Lahaye	Pescarolo 01		249
Judd DB 3.4 L V8
LMP1	12	CHE Rebellion Racing	CHE Neel Jani
FRA Nicolas Prost	Lola B10/60		248
Rebellion (Judd) 5.5 L V10
LMP2	41	GBR Team Bruichladdich	NOR Thor-Christian Ebbesvik
GBR Tim Greaves
SAU Karim Ojjeh	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09SB/2		248
Zytek ZG348 3.4 L V8
LMP2	30	ITA Racing Box	ITA Andrea Piccini
ITA Giacomo Piccini
ITA Ferdinando Geri	Lola B09/80		246
Judd DB 3.4 L V8
LMP1	5	GBR Beechdean Mansell	GBR Nigel Mansell
GBR Greg Mansell
GBR Leo Mansell	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09SB		243
Zytek ZJ458 4.5 L V8
FLM	49	FRA Applewood Seven	FRA Damien Toulemonde
FRA David Zollinger
AUS Ross Zampatti	Oreca FLM09		237
Corvette 6.2 L V8
FLM	48	CHE Hope Polevision Racing	CHE Mathias Beche
CHE Christophe Pillon
FRA Vincent Capillaire	Oreca FLM09		237
Corvette 6.2 L V8
FLM	43	FRA DAMS	ITA Alessandro Cicognani
ITA Andrea Barlesi
FRA Gary Chalandon	Oreca FLM09		235
Corvette 6.2 L V8
GT2	77	DEU Team Felbermayr-Proton	DEU Marc Lieb
AUT Richard Lietz	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		233
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
FLM	47	CHE Hope Polevision Racing	CHE Steve Zacchia
DEU Wolfgang Kaufmann
ITA Luca Moro	Oreca FLM09		231
Corvette 6.2 L V8
GT2	88	DEU Team Felbermayr-Proton	DEU Christian Ried
AUT Martin Ragginger
USA Patrick Long	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		231
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GT2	95	ITA AF Corse	ITA Giancarlo Fisichella
FIN Toni Vilander
FRA Jean Alesi	Ferrari F430 GT2		231
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	90	GBR CRS Racing	GBR Phil Quaife
DEU Pierre Ehret
DEU Pierre Kaffer	Ferrari F430 GT2		231
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	94	ITA AF Corse	ARG Luís Pérez Companc
ARG Matías Russo	Ferrari F430 GT2		231
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT1	50	FRA Larbre Compétition	CHE Gabriele Gardel
FRA Patrice Goueslard
FRA Julien Canal	Saleen S7-R		229
Ford 7.0 L V8
GT2	78	DEU BMW Team Schnitzer	DEU Jörg Müller
DEU Dirk Werner	BMW M3 GT2		225
BMW 4.0 L V8
LMP2	36	FRA Pegasus Racing	FRA Julien Schell
FRA Frédéric Da Rocha
CHE Jean-Christophe Metz	Courage LC75		219
AER P07 2.0 L Turbo I4
GT2	76	FRA IMSA Performance Matmut	FRA Patrick Pilet
FRA Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		219
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GT2	85	NLD Spyker Squadron	NLD Tom Coronel
NLD Jeroen Bleekemolen
GBR Peter Dumbreck	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R		215
Audi 4.0 L V8
LMP2	39	DEU KSM	FRA Jean de Pourtales
JPN Hideki Noda
GBR Jonathan Kennard	Lola B08/47		188
Judd DB 3.4 L V8
GT2	89	DEU Hankook Team Farnbacher	DEU Dominik Farnbacher
DNK Allan Simonsen	Ferrari F430 GT2		204
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
FLM	44	FRA DAMS	GBR Dean Stirling
GBR Luke Hines
ITA Edoardo Piscopo	Oreca FLM09		203
Corvette 6.2 L V8
FLM	46	MCO JMB Racing	NLD Peter Kutemann
CHE Maurice Basso
GBR John Hartshorne	Oreca FLM09		203
Corvette 6.2 L V8
LMP2	40	PRT Quifel ASM Team	PRT Miguel Amaral
FRA Olivier Pla
GBR Warren Hughes	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09SB/2		200
Zytek ZG348 3.4 L V8
FLM	45	BEL Boutsen Energy Racing	BEL Nicolas De Crem
AUT Dominik Kraihamer
BEL Bernard Delhez	Oreca FLM09		195
Corvette 6.2 L V8
LMP2	37	FRA WR / Salini	FRA Philippe Salini
FRA Stéphane Salini
FRA Tristan Gommendy	WR LMP2008		168
Zytek ZG348 3.4 L V8
GT2	96	ITA AF Corse	ITA Gianmaria Bruni
BRA Jaime Melo	Ferrari F430 GT2		152
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	91	GBR CRS Racing	GBR Andrew Kirkaldy
GBR Tim Mullen	Ferrari F430 GT2		123
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
LMP2	29	ITA Racing Box	ITA Luca Pirri
ITA Marco Cioci
ITA Piergiuseppe Perazzini	Lola B09/80		116
Judd DB 3.4 L V8
LMP2	27	CHE Race Performance	CHE Michel Frey
CHE Ralph Meichtry
CAN Tyler Dueck	Radical SR9		66
Judd DB 3.4 L V8
GT2	92	GBR JMW Motorsport	GBR Rob Bell
GBR Darren Turner	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2		65
Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
GT2	75	BEL Prospeed Competition	DEU Marco Holzer
GBR Richard Westbrook	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		54
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6

References

(September 2018). "LMS Paul Ricard Qualifying". [[Le Mans Series]].
(September 2018). "Race". [[Automobile Club de l'Ouest]].

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