The 2022 European Le Mans Series was the nineteenth season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) European Le Mans Series. The six-event season began at Circuit Paul Ricard on 17 April and finished at Algarve International Circuit on 16 October.
The series was open to Le Mans Prototypes, divided into the LMP2 and LMP3 classes, and grand tourer-style racing cars in the LMGTE class.
Calendar The provisional calendar for the 2022 season was announced on 17 September 2021. The Imola Circuit will return to the series after a 6-year absence, while the Red Bull Ring will not feature on the calendar. On 28 February 2022, it was announced that a round at the Hungaroring would be replaced by the Monza Circuit.
+RndRaceCircuitLocationDate 1 4 Hours of Le Castellet Circuit Paul Ricard Le Castellet, France 17 April 2 4 Hours of Imola Imola Circuit Imola, Italy 15 May 3 4 Hours of Monza Monza Circuit Monza, Italy 3 July 4 4 Hours of Barcelona Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Montmeló, Spain 28 August 5 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Stavelot, Belgium 25 September 6 4 Hours of Portimão Algarve International Circuit Portimão, Portugal 16 OctoberSource:
Entries LMP2 All cars in the LMP2 class used the Gibson GK428 V8 engine and Goodyear tyres. Entries in the LMP2 Pro-Am Cup, set aside for teams with a Bronze-rated driver in their line-up, are denoted with Icons.
Entrant/Team Chassis MISC Drivers Rounds Prema Racing Oreca 07 9 P2 Louis Delétraz All Ferdinand Habsburg All Lorenzo Colombo 1–4 Juan Manuel Correa 5–6 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca 07 19 P2 Bent Viscaal All Sophia Flörsch 1–4 Filip Ugran 5–6 47 PA James Allen All John Falb All Alex Peroni All Mühlner Motorsport Oreca 07 21 P2 Matthias Kaiser All Thomas Laurent All Ugo de Wilde All United Autosports Oreca 07 22 P2 Tom Gamble All Phil Hanson All Duncan Tappy All Nielsen Racing Oreca 07 24 PA Matt Bell All Ben Hanley All Rodrigo Sales All IDEC Sport Oreca 07 28 P2 Paul-Loup Chatin All Paul Lafargue All Patrick Pilet All Duqueine Team Oreca 07 30 P2 Richard Bradley All Memo Rojas All Reshad de Gerus 1–3 Anders Fjordbach 4 Mathieu de Barbuat 5 Rui Andrade 6 TDS Racing x Vaillante Oreca 07 31PA Mathias Beche All Philippe Cimadomo All Tijmen van der Helm All Racing Team TurkeyOreca 07 34 PA Charlie Eastwood All Salih Yoluç All Jack Aitken 1–4, 6 Will Stevens 5 BHK Motorsport Oreca 07 35 P2 Sergio Campana All Francesco Dracone All Markus Pommer All Cool Racing Oreca 07 37 P2 Niklas Krütten All Nicolas Lapierre All Yifei Ye All Graff Racing Oreca 07 40 PA David Droux 1–3 Sébastien Page 1–3 Eric Trouillet 1–3 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 43 P2 Pietro Fittipaldi All David Heinemeier Hansson All Fabio Scherer All Team Virage Oreca 07 51 PA Gabriel Aubry All Rob Hodes All Jazeman Jaafar 1–3 Ian Rodríguez 4–6 Panis Racing Oreca 07 65 P2 Julien Canal All Nico Jamin All Job van Uitert All AF Corse Oreca 07 88 PA Nicklas Nielsen All François Perrodo All Alessio Rovera All Icon MISC P2 LMP2 PA LMP2 Pro-Am Cup Augusto Farfus was scheduled to compete for BHK Motorsport, but did not appear at any rounds.
LMP3 All cars in the LMP3 class used the Nissan VK56DE 5.6L V8 engine and Michelin tyres.
Entrant/TeamChassisNo.DriversRounds United Autosports Ligier JS P320 2 Josh Caygill All Finn Gehrsitz All Bailey Voisin All 3 Andrew Bentley All Kay van Berlo All James McGuire 1, 3–6 DKR Engineering Duqueine M30 - D08 4 Sebastián Álvarez All Alexander Bukhantsov All Tom Van Rompuy 1–2, 4–6 James Winslow 3 RLR MSport Ligier JS P320 5 Nick Adcock All Michael Jensen All Alex Kapadia All 15 Valentino Catalano All Horst Felbermayr Jr. All Austin McCusker All 360 Racing Ligier JS P320 6 Ross Kaiser All Terrence Woodward All Mark Richards 1–5 Santiago Concepción Serrano6 Nielsen Racing Ligier JS P320 7 James Littlejohn 1–3, 5–6 Anthony Wells 1–3, 5–6 Eurointernational Ligier JS P320 10 Xavier Lloveras All Glenn van Berlo 1–4 Tom Cloet 1 Adrien Chila 2–3 Freddie Hunt 4 Miguel Cristóvão 5–6 11 Max Koebolt All Marcos Siebert 1–2 Adrien Chila 1 Jérôme de Sadeleer 2–6 Louis Rousset 4 Santiago Concepción Serrano 5 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P320 13 Charles Crews All Guilherme Oliveira All Nico Pino All 14 Noam Abramczyk All James Dayson All Mateusz Kaprzyk All Cool Racing Ligier JS P320 17 Mike Benham All Malthe Jakobsen All Maurice Smith All 27 Antoine Doquin All Jean-Ludovic Foubert All Nicolas Maulini All
LMGTE All cars in the LMGTE class used Goodyear tyres. Entrant/TeamChassisEngineNo.DriversRounds Absolute Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19 Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6 18 Andrew Haryanto All Alessio Picariello All Martin Rump All Rinaldi Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Ferrari F154CB 4.0 L Turbo V8 32 Nicolás Varrone All Pierre Ehret 1–5 Memo Gidley 1 Gabriele Lancieri 2–3 Diego Alessi 4–6 33 Fabrizio Crestani 1–3, 5–6 Christian Hook 1–3, 5–6 Óscar Tunjo 1–2 Jeroen Bleekemolen 3, 5–6 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Ferrari F154CB 4.0 L Turbo V8 55 Duncan Cameron All Matt Griffin All David Perel All Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Ferrari F154CB 4.0 L Turbo V8 57 Mikkel Jensen All Frederik Schandorff All Takeshi Kimura 1–4, 6 Conrad Grunewald 5 Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Ferrari F154CB 4.0 L Turbo V8 60 Matteo Cressoni All Davide Rigon All Claudio Schiavoni All 83 Sarah Bovy All Michelle Gatting All Rahel Frey 1–3 Doriane Pin 4–6 JMW Motorsport Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Ferrari F154CB 4.0 L Turbo V8 66 Sean Hudspeth All Giacomo Petrobelli All Matthew Payne 1–3, 5–6 Miguel Molina 4 Oman Racing with TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage AMR Aston Martin M177 4.0 L Turbo V8 69 Ahmad Al Harthy All Sam De Haan All Marco Sørensen All 95 Jonathan Adam All Henrique Chaves All John Hartshorne All Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR-19 Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6 77 Gianmaria Bruni All Lorenzo Ferrari All Christian Ried All 93 Michael Fassbender All Richard Lietz All Zacharie Robichon All Kessel Racing was scheduled to enter a second Ferrari 488 GTE Evo for Michał Broniszewski and two unconfirmed drivers, but withdrew in late March. They were replaced by the #6 LMP3 Ligier of 360 Racing, originally a reserve entry.
Results and standings
Race results Bold indicates overall winner. Circuit Pole LMP2 Winning Team LMP2 Pro-Am Winning Team LMP3 Winning Team LMGTE Winning Team Results LMP2 Winning Drivers LMP2 Pro-Am Winning Drivers LMP3 Winning Drivers LMGTE Winning Drivers 1 Le Castellet No. 31 TDS Racing x Vaillante No. 9 Prema Racing No. 34 Racing Team Turkey No. 17 Cool Racing No. 32 Rinaldi Racing Race ReportRace Results Mathias Beche Philippe Cimadomo Tijmen van der Helm Lorenzo Colombo Louis Delétraz Ferdinand Habsburg Jack Aitken Charlie Eastwood Salih Yoluç Mike Benham Malthe Jakobsen Maurice Smith Pierre Ehret Memo Gidley Nicolás Varrone 2 Imola No. 88 AF Corse No. 9 Prema Racing No. 34 Racing Team Turkey No. 3 United Autosports No. 69 Oman Racing with TF Sport Race ReportRace Results Nicklas Nielsen François Perrodo Alessio Rovera Lorenzo Colombo Louis Delétraz Ferdinand Habsburg Jack Aitken Charlie Eastwood Salih Yoluç Andrew Bentley Kay van Berlo Ahmad Al Harthy Sam De Haan Marco Sørensen 3 Monza No. 31 TDS Racing x Vaillante No. 28 IDEC Sport No. 24 Nielsen Racing No. 13 Inter Europol Competition No. 60 Iron Lynx Race ReportRace Results Mathias Beche Philippe Cimadomo Tijmen van der Helm Paul-Loup Chatin Paul Lafargue Patrick Pilet Matt Bell Ben Hanley Rodrigo Sales Charles Crews Guilherme Oliveira Nico Pino Davide Rigon Matteo Cressoni Claudio Schiavoni 4 Catalunya No. 65 Panis Racing No. 9 Prema Racing No. 88 AF Corse No. 13 Inter Europol Competition No. 77 Proton Competition Race ReportRace Results Julien Canal Nico Jamin Job van Uitert Lorenzo Colombo Louis Delétraz Ferdinand Habsburg Nicklas Nielsen François Perrodo Alessio Rovera Charles Crews Guilherme Oliveira Nico Pino Gianmaria Bruni Lorenzo Ferrari Christian Ried 5 Spa-Francorchamps No. 37 Cool Racing No. 22 United Autosports No. 34 Racing Team Turkey No. 13 Inter Europol Competition No. 57 Kessel Racing Race ReportRace Results Niklas Krütten Nicolas Lapierre Yifei Ye Tom Gamble Phil Hanson Duncan Tappy Will Stevens Charlie Eastwood Salih Yoluç Charles Crews Guilherme Oliveira Nico Pino Conrad Grunewald Mikkel Jensen Frederik Schandorff 6 Algarve No. 34 Racing Team Turkey No. 9 Prema Racing No. 34 Racing Team Turkey No. 17 Cool Racing No. 83 Iron Lynx Race ReportRace Results Jack Aitken Charlie Eastwood Salih Yoluç Juan Manuel Correa Louis Delétraz Ferdinand Habsburg Jack Aitken Charlie Eastwood Salih Yoluç Mike Benham Malthe Jakobsen Maurice Smith Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Doriane PinSource:
Drivers' Championships Points are awarded according to the following structure: Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Pole Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 1
LMP2 Drivers Championship DriverTeamLECIMOMNZCATSPAPORPoints1 Louis Delétraz Prema Racing1151 31125 Ferdinand Habsburg Prema Racing1151312 Julien Canal Panis Racing34224294 Nico Jamin Panis Racing342242 Job van Uitert Panis Racing3422423 Lorenzo Colombo Prema Racing1151854 Tom Gamble United Autosports72441Ret73 Phil Hanson United Autosports72441Ret Duncan Tappy United Autosports72441Ret5 Niklas Krütten Cool Racing53835370 Nicolas Lapierre Cool Racing538353 Yifei Ye Cool Racing5383536 Paul-Loup Chatin IDEC Sport45113Ret753 Paul Lafargue IDEC Sport45113Ret7 Patrick Pilet IDEC Sport45113Ret77 Juan Manuel Correa Prema Racing31408 Charlie Eastwood Racing Team Turkey677106638 Salih Yoluç Racing Team Turkey67710669 Bent Viscaal Algarve Pro Racing281012853710 Pietro Fittipaldi Inter Europol Competition11911162432 David Heinemeier Hansson Inter Europol Competition119111624 Fabio Scherer Inter Europol Competition11911162411 Jack Aitken Racing Team Turkey6771063012 Nicklas Nielsen AF Corse8141257825 François Perrodo AF Corse81412578 Alessio Rovera AF Corse8141257813 Sophia Flörsch Algarve Pro Racing2810122314 Richard Bradley Duqueine Team126Ret69920 Memo Rojas Duqueine Team126Ret69915 Matthias Kaiser Mühlner Motorsport91139RetRet19 Thomas Laurent Mühlner Motorsport91139RetRet Ugo de Wilde Mühlner Motorsport91139RetRet16 Matt Bell Nielsen Racing131267111015 Ben Hanley Nielsen Racing1312671110 Rodrigo Sales Nielsen Racing131267111017 Filip Ugran Algarve Pro Racing851418 Reshad de Gerus Duqueine Team126Ret819 Anders Fjordbach Duqueine Team6820 Will Stevens Racing Team Turkey6821 James Allen Algarve Pro Racing17159810Ret7 John Falb Algarve Pro Racing17159810Ret Alex Peroni Algarve Pro Racing17159810Ret22 Mathias Beche TDS Racing x Vaillante1010131112114 Philippe Cimadomo TDS Racing x Vaillante101013111211 Tijmen van der Helm TDS Racing x Vaillante10101311121123 Mathieu de Barbuat Duqueine Team9224 Rui Andrade Duqueine Team9225 Sergio Campana BHK Motorsport1416141513120 Francesco Dracone BHK Motorsport141614151312 Markus Pommer BHK Motorsport14161415131226 Gabriel Aubry Team Virage15Ret151414NC0 Rob Hodes Team Virage15Ret151414NC27 Jazeman Jaafar Team Virage15Ret15028 David Droux Graff Racing1613160 Sébastien Page Graff Racing161316 Eric Trouillet Graff Racing16131629 Ian Rodríguez Team Virage1414NC0DriverTeamLECIMOMNZCATSPAPORPointsSources:Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap
LMP2 Pro-Am Drivers Championship