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2012 6 Hours of Castellet

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

The 2012 6 Hours of Castellet (6 Heures du Castellet) was the opening round of the 2012 European Le Mans Series season. It took place at Circuit Paul Ricard on 1 April 2012. Previously known as the Le Mans Series, it was the first race in the series' history where LMP1 was not contested in as LMP2 has taken over as the top prototype class. The Formula Le Mans (FLM) spec class has been renamed to Le Mans Prototype Challenge (LMPC), the same name used in the American Le Mans Series. A new Grand Touring class was meant to participate in the opening round which was Grand Touring Challenge (GTC), but lack of entrants meant it did not participate.

Qualifying

Qualifying result

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	Team	Driver	Lap Time
LMP2	No.46 Thiriet by TDS Racing	Mathias Beche	1:48.171	1
LMP2	No.17 Status GP	Yelmer Buurman	1:48.482	2
LMP2	No.1 Greaves Motorsport	Tom Kimber-Smith	1:48.882	3
LMP2	No.24 OAK Racing	Guillaume Moreau	1:48.977	4
LMP2	No.10 Pecom Racing	Pierre Kaffer	1:49.068	5
LMP2	No.18 Murphy Prototypes	Warren Hughes	1:49.122	6
LMP2	No.19 Sébastien Loeb Racing	Stéphane Sarrazin	1:49.157	7
LMP2	No.38 JOTA	Sam Hancock	1:49.687	8
LMP2	No.11 Race Performance	Michel Frey	1:50.193	9
LMPC	No.40 Boutsen Ginion Racing	Massimo Vignali	1:55.338	10
LMPC	No.42 CURTIS Racing Technologies	Phil Keen	1:55.410	11
GTE-Pro	No.83 JMB Racing	Jaime Melo	1:57.630	12
GTE-Am	No.75 Prospeed Competition	Marc Goossens	1:58.388	13
GTE-Am	No.67 IMSA Performance Matmut	Nicolas Armindo	1:58.428	14
GTE-Pro	No.66 JMW Motorsport	James Walker	1:58.517	15
GTE-Am	No.69 Gulf Racing	Stuart Hall	1:58.532	16
GTE-Am	No.60 AF Corse	Marco Cioci	1:58.803	17
GTE-Pro	No.61 Kessel Racing	Philipp Peter	1:59.082	18
GTE-Am	No.99 JMB Racing	Alain Ferté	2:00.182	19
LMP2	No.44 Extrême Limite ARIC	No Time	20
LMP2	No.45 Boutsen Ginion Racing	No Time	21

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
LMP2	46	FRA Thiriet by TDS Racing	FRA Pierre Thiriet
SUI Mathias Beche	Oreca 03		189
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
LMP2	19	FRA Sébastien Loeb Racing	FRA Nicolas Marroc
FRA Stéphane Sarrazin
FRA Nicolas Minassian	Oreca 03		188
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
LMP2	17	IRL Status GP	GBR Alexander Sims
GBR Dean Sterling
NED Yelmer Buurman	Lola B12/80		188
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
LMP2	1	GBR Greaves Motorsport	GBR Alex Brundle
GBR Tom Kimber-Smith
ESP Lucas Ordoñez	Zytek Z11SN		188
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
LMP2	11	SUI Race Performance	SUI Michel Frey
SUI Jonathan Hirschi
SUI Ralph Meichtry	Oreca 03		186
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
LMP2	24	FRA OAK Racing	FRA Jacques Nicolet
FRA Guillaume Moreau
AUT Dominik Kraihamer	Morgan LMP2		185
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
LMP2	10	ARG Pecom Racing	ARG Luís Pérez Companc
DEU Pierre Kaffer
ITA Gianmaria Bruni	Oreca 03		183
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
LMPC	42	GBR CURTIS Racing Technologies	GBR Phil Keen
GBR John Hartshorne
GBR Alex Kapadia	Oreca FLM09		177
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
LMGTE
Pro	66	GBR JMW Motorsport	GBR Jonny Cocker
GBR James Walker	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		176
Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8
LMGTE
Pro	83	MCO JMB Racing	BRA Jaime Melo
ITA Marco Frezza	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		176
Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8
LMGTE
Am	75	BEL Prospeed Competition	BEL Marc Goossens
BEL Maxime Soulet	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		175
Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6
LMP2	44	FRA Extrême Limite ARIC	FRA Fabien Rosier
FRA Philippe Thirion	Norma M200P		175
Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
LMP2	38	GBR JOTA	GBR Sam Hancock
GBR Simon Dolan	Zytek Z11SN		174
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
LMGTE
Am	67	FRA IMSA Performance Matmut	FRA Anthony Pons
FRA Nicolas Armindo
FRA Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		174
Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6
LMGTE
Pro	61	SUI Kessel Racing	POL Michał Broniszewski
AUT Philipp Peter	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		174
Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8
LMGTE
Am	99	MON JMB Racing	FRA Alain Ferté
FRA Philippe Illiano	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		172
Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8
LMGTE
Am	69	GBR Gulf Racing	DEU Roald Goethe
GBR Stuart Hall	Aston Martin Vantage GT2		160
Aston Martin AJ37 4.5 L V8
LMGTE
Am	60	ITA AF Corse	ITA Piergiuseppe Perazzini
ITA Marco Cioci
IRL Matt Griffin	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		144
Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8
LMPC	40	BEL Boutsen Ginion Racing	FRA Thomas Dagoneau
FRA Jean-Marc Merlin
ITA Massimo Vignali	Oreca FLM09		111
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
LMP2	18	IRL Murphy Prototypes	GBR Warren Hughes
GBR Jody Firth
ITA Luca Moro	MG-Oreca 03		64
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
LMP2	45	BEL Boutsen Ginion Racing	FRA Bastien Brière
GBR Jack Clarke
SUI Sébastien Buemi	Oreca 03		27
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8

References

(1 April 2012). "ELMS 6 Heures du Castellet Race Final Classification". [[Automobile Club de l'Ouest]].

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