Portimão – Facts and Figures

1. The first edition of the 4 Hours of Portimão was held on the 22^ndOctober 2017 and won by the no40 Graff Oreca 07-Gibson of Richard Bradley, James Allen and Gustavo Yacaman.
2. Proton Competition has won three of the six previous 4 Hours of Portimão, with Christian Ried being a member of all three crews in 2017, 2018 and 2020.
3. United Autosports is the most successful team at Portimão with two LMP2 (2018 and 2021) and two LMP3 (2017 and 2020) victories.The Anglo-American team has also appeared on both the LMP2 and LMP3 podiums in every race from 2017 to 2021, and on the LMP3 podium in 2022.United Autosports have secured 13 podium finishes in the six races held at Portimao.
4. In 2022 Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting and Doriane Pin became the first all-female crew to win an ELMS race in their Iron Lynx run Ferrari 488 GTE EVO.
5. In 2022 Malthe Jakobsen also set a new ELMS record when the Dane secured his sixth LMP3 pole position from six attempts in the no17 COOL Racing Ligier-Nissan, the first time all six pole positions in a season have gone to the same driver.
6. There are 17 previous winners of the 4 Hours of Portimão taking part in 2023 –

- Louis Deletraz (no34 Racing Team Turkey) - 2022 - LMP2

- Salih Yoluc (no34 Racing Team Turkey) - 2022 - LMP2 P/A

- Charlie Eastwood (no34 Racing Team Turkey) - 2022 - LMP2 P/A

- Malthe Jakobsen (no37 COOL Racing) - 2022 - LMP3

- Phil Hanson (no22 United Autosports) - 2021/2018 - LMP2

- Jonathan Aberdein (no43 Inter Europol Comp)2021LMP2

- Alexandre Coigny (no37 COOL Racing) - 2021 - LMP2 P/A

- Nicolas Lapierre (no37 COOL Racing) - 2021 - LMP2 P/A

- Matteo Cressoni (no60 Iron Lynx) - 2021 - LMGTE

- Christian Ried (no77 Proton Competition) - 2020/2018/2017 - LMGTE

- Alessio Picariello (no16 Proton Competition) - 2020 - LMGTE

- Paul Loup Chatin (no28 IDEC Sport) - 2019 - LMP2

- Paul Lafargue (no28 IDEC Sport) - 2019 - LMP2

- James Dayson (no5 RLR M Sport) - 2019 - LMP3

- Nicklas Nielsen (no50 Formula Racing) - 2019 - LMGTE

- James Allen (no25 Algarve Pro Racing) - 2017 - LMP2

- Matteo Cairoli (no60 Iron Lynx) - 2017 - LMGTE

1. The current lap records were all set on 01 November 2020

- LMP2 - Mikkel JENSEN - 1m29.670 - 186.8kph

- LMP3 - Tom GAMBLE - 1m37.180 - 172.4kph

- LMGTE - Rahel FREY - 1m39.671 - 168.1kph

1. The fastest ELMS lap recorded at Portimão was set on 31 October 2020

- Job VAN UITERT - 1m28.627 - 189.0kph - LMP2 Qualifying

1. The longest race was held in 2020, with the winners completing 683.99km or 147 laps of the 4.653km circuit.
2. The shortest race was held in 2019. Only 493.22km or 106 laps were completed.

The 4 Hours of Algarve and the 4 Hours of Portimão are Round 5 and Round 6 of the 2023 European Le Mans Series and will be held on Friday 20 and Sunday 22 October respectively.