2024 4 Hours of Dubai

The 2024 4 Hours of Dubai was an endurance sportscar racing event held between 2 and 4 February 2024 at Dubai Autodrome in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was the third round of 2023–24 Asian Le Mans Series season.

The Grand Prix layout of the Dubai Autodrome

Schedule

DateTime (local: GST)Event
Friday, 2 February14:45Free Practice 1
Saturday, 3 February10:10Free Practice 2
14:30Qualifying
Sunday, 4 February13:00Race
Source:[1]

Entry list

The entry list was published on 24 January and consisted of 42 entries in 3 categories – 13 in LMP2, 6 in LMP3 and 23 in GT.[2][3]

In comparison to the previous round there were four new entrants and one withdrawal. GG Classic Cars entered a Ligier JS P320 with George Nakas and Fraser Ross as its drivers. Dragon Racing did field a Ferrari 296 GT3 with Rui Andrade, Nicola Marinangeli and Marco Pulcini behind the wheel. Nielsen Racing and COOL Racing each did field one Oreca 07. Matt Bell, Patrick Liddy and Blake McDonald raced for Nielsen Racing while Alexandre Coigny, Vladislav Lomko and Lorenzo Fluxá drove for COOL Racing. Craft-Bamboo Racing withdrew from remaining rounds of the season.[2]

The No. 56 Team Project 1 withdrew after Sean Gelael took an opportunity to substitute Paul Evrard in the No. 43 Saintéloc Racing[4][5]

Free practice

  • Only the fastest car in each class is shown.
Free Practice 1ClassNo.EntrantTime
LMP222 Proton Competition1:49.386
LMP32 CD Sport1:54.605
GT21 AF Corse1:58.931
Free Practice 2ClassNo.EntrantTime
LMP225 Algarve Pro Racing1:48.104
LMP326 Bretton Racing1:54.884
GT86 GR Racing1:58.067
Source:[6][7]

Qualifying

Qualifying Results

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

PosClassNo.TeamDriverTimeGapGrid
1LMP255 Proton Competition P. J. Hyett1:48.8731
2LMP299 99 Racing Ahmad Al Harthy1:48.919+0.0462
3LMP290 TF Sport Salih Yoluç1:49.131+0.2583
4LMP222 Proton Competition Giorgio Roda1:49.270+0.3974
5LMP230 Duqueine Team John Falb1:49.688+0.8155
6LMP283 AF Corse François Perrodo1:50.036+1.1636
7LMP24 CrowdStrike Racing by APR George Kurtz1:50.182+1.3097
8LMP23 DKR Engineering Alexander Mattschull1:50.231+1.3588
9LMP247 Cool Racing Alexandre Coigny1:50.813+1.9409
10LMP225 Algarve Pro Racing Chris McMurry1:51.020+2.14710
11LMP234 Nielsen Racing 1:51.350+2.47711
12LMP224 Nielsen Racing Ian Loggie1:51.582+2.70912
13LMP244 ARC Bratislava Miro Konôpka1:52.887+4.01413
14LMP317 Cool Racing Alexander Bukhantsov1:55.118+6.24514
15LMP326 Bretton Racing Julien Gerbi1:55.457+6.58415
16LMP320 High Class Racing Auðunn Guðmundsson1:55.806+6.93316
17LMP32 CD Sport Nick Adcock1:56.068+7.19517
18GT7 Al Manar Racing by GetSpeed Anthony Liu1:58.280+9.40720
19GT42 Saintéloc Racing Alban Varutti1:58.411+9.53821
20GT91 Pure Rxcing Alex Malykhin1:58.824+9.95122
21GT69 Optimum Motorsport James Cottingham1:59.129+10.25623
22GT88 Triple Eight Prince Jefri Ibrahim1:59.339+10.46624
23GT19 Leipert Motorsport Gabriel Rindone1:59.346+10.47325
24GT9 GetSpeed Martin Konrad1:59.385+10.51226
25GT27 Optimum Motorsport Mark Radcliffe1:59.412+10.53927
26GT66 Attempto Racing Andrey Mukovoz1:59.639+10.76628
27GT43 Saintéloc Racing Zhou Bihuang1:59.820+10.94729
28GT98 Dragon Racing Marco Pulcini1:59.877+11.00430
29GT93 Team Project 1 Darren Leung1:59.949+11.07631
30GT33 Herberth Motorsport Antares Au2:00.036+11.16332
31GT21 AF Corse François Heriau2:00.155+11.28233
32GT77 D'Station Racing Satoshi Hoshino2:00.370+11.49734
33GT82 AF Corse Charles-Henri Samani2:01.084+12.21135
34LMP358 GG Classic Cars George Nakas2:01.319+12.44618
35GT11 Attempto Racing Ilya Gorbatsky2:01.392+12.51936
36GT8 EBM Setiawan Santoso2:01.575+12.70237
37GT95 TF Sport John Hartshorne2:01.722+12.84938
38GT86 GR Racing Michael Wainwright2:01.746+12.87339
39GT75 Team Motopark Heiko Neumann2:01.767+12.89440
40LMP365 Viper Niza Racing Douglas Khoo2:02.381+13.50819
41GT84 EBM Adrian D'Silva2:03.271+14.39841
Source:[8][9][10][11]

Race

Race result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 83 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Final Classification[12]
PosClassNo.TeamDriversCarTyresLapsTime/Gap
1LMP299 99 Racing Ahmad Al Harthy
Nikita Mazepin
Louis Delétraz
Oreca 07M1194:01:25.599
2LMP222 Proton Competition Giorgio Roda
Julien Andlauer
René Binder
Oreca 07M119+3.499
3LMP24 CrowdStrike Racing by APR George Kurtz
Colin Braun
Malthe Jakobsen
Oreca 07M119+6.520
4LMP23 DKR Engineering Alexander Mattschull
Tom Dillmann
Laurents Hörr
Oreca 07M119+31.280
5LMP290 TF Sport Salih Yoluç
Michael Dinan
Charlie Eastwood
Oreca 07M119+40.502
6LMP225 Algarve Pro Racing Chris McMurry
Freddie Tomlinson
Toby Sowery
Oreca 07M119+44.561
7LMP255 Proton Competition P. J. Hyett
Harry Tincknell
Paul-Loup Chatin
Oreca 07M119+45.576
8LMP283 AF Corse François Perrodo
Matthieu Vaxivière
Alessio Rovera
Oreca 07M119+54.303
9LMP224 Nielsen Racing Ian Loggie
Alejandro García
Will Stevens
Oreca 07M118+1 Lap
10LMP244 ARC Bratislava Miro Konôpka
Mathias Beche
Jonas Ried
Oreca 07M118+1 Lap
11LMP234 Nielsen Racing Blake McDonald
Patrick Liddy
Matthew Bell
Oreca 07M118+1 Lap
12LMP317 Cool Racing James Winslow
Alexander Bukhantsov
Ligier JS P320M114+5 Laps
13LMP32 CD Sport Michael Jensen
Nick Adcock
Fabien Lavergne
Ligier JS P320M114+5 Laps
14LMP320 High Class Racing Auðunn Guðmundsson
Anders Fjordbach
Seth Lucas
Ligier JS P320M114+5 Laps
15LMP326 Bretton Racing John Corbett
Julien Gerbi
Mihnea Ștefan
Ligier JS P320M113+6 Laps
16GT91 Pure Rxcing Alex Malykhin
Klaus Bachler
Joel Sturm
Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)M112+7 Laps
17GT7 Al Manar Racing by GetSpeed Al Faisal Al Zubair
Anthony Liu
Fabian Schiller
Mercedes-AMG GT3 EvoM112+7 Laps
18GT21 AF Corse Simon Mann
François Heriau
Davide Rigon
Ferrari 296 GT3M112+7 Laps
19GT43 Saintéloc Racing Dennis Marschall
Zhou Bihuang
Sean Gelael
Audi R8 LMS Evo IIM112+7 Laps
20GT88 Triple Eight Prince Jefri Ibrahim
Jordan Love
Luca Stolz
Mercedes-AMG GT3 EvoM112+7 Laps
21GT27 Optimum Motorsport Mark Radcliffe
Rob Bell
Ollie Millroy
McLaren 720S GT3 EvoM112+7 Laps
22GT93 Team Project 1 Darren Leung
Christian Bogle
Dan Harper
BMW M4 GT3M112+7 Laps
23GT86 GR Racing Michael Wainwright
Benjamin Barker
Riccardo Pera
Ferrari 296 GT3M112+7 Laps
24GT33 Herberth Motorsport Antares Au
Tim Heinemann
Laurin Heinrich
Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)M112+7 Laps
25GT95 TF Sport John Hartshorne
Ben Tuck
Jonathan Adam
Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3M111+8 Laps
26GT82 AF Corse Charles-Henri Samani
Emmanuel Collard
Kei Cozzolino
Ferrari 296 GT3M111+8 Laps
27GT8 EBM Setiawan Santoso
Tanart Sathienthirakul
Bastian Buus
Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)M111+8 Laps
28GT75 Team Motopark Lukas Dunner
Heiko Neumann
Morten Strømsted
Mercedes-AMG GT3 EvoM111+8 Laps
29GT98 Dragon Racing Rui Andrade
Nicola Marinangeli
Marco Pulcini
Ferrari 296 GT3M110+9 Laps
30GT84 EBM Adrian D'Silva
Kerong Li
Earl Bamber
Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)M108+11 Laps
31LMP358 GG Classic Cars Fraser Ross
George Nakas
Ligier JS P320M103+16 Laps
Not classified
GT9 GetSpeed Anthony Bartone
Aaron Walker
Martin Konrad
Mercedes-AMG GT3 EvoM86Damage
GT11 Attempto Racing Alexey Nesov
Sergey Titarenko
Ilya Gorbatsky
Audi R8 LMS Evo IIM81Retired
LMP230 Duqueine Team John Falb
Carl Bennett
Oliver Rasmussen
Oreca 07M78Wheel
GT42 Saintéloc Racing Christopher Haase
Gilles Magnus
Alban Varutti
Audi R8 LMS Evo IIM78Mechanical
GT77 D'Station Racing Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii
Casper Stevenson
Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3M73Collision
GT66 Attempto Racing Dylan Pereira
Alex Aka
Andrey Mukovoz
Audi R8 LMS Evo IIM73Collision
GT19 Leipert Motorsport Gabriel Rindone
Brendon Leitch
Marco Mapelli
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2M49Damage
LMP247 COOL Racing Alexandre Coigny
Vladislav Lomko
Lorenzo Fluxá
Oreca 07M1Collision
LMP365 Viper Niza Racing Douglas Khoo
Dominic Ang
Ligier JS P320M0Collision
GT69 Optimum Motorsport Sam De Haan
James Cottingham
Tom Gamble
McLaren 720S GT3 EvoM0Collision

Statistics

Fastest lap

ClassDriverTeamTimeLap
LMP2 Malthe Jakobsen #4 CrowdStrike Racing by APR1:47.82492
LMP3 Anders Fjordbach #20 High Class Racing1:56.14191
GT Riccardo Pera #86 GR Racing1:58.54785
Source:[13]

References