The 2010 8 Hours of Le Castellet (''8 Heures du Castellet'') was the inaugural round of the
2010 Le Mans Series season
The 2010 Le Mans Series was the seventh season of Automobile Club de l'Ouest's Le Mans Series. It featured five events between 11 April and 12 September 2010. For the first time in 2010, Formula Le Mans (FLM) cars were run in a fifth class in the ...
. It took place at the
Circuit Paul Ricard
The Circuit Paul Ricard () is a French motorsport race track built in 1969 at Le Castellet, Var, near Marseille, with finance from pastis magnate Paul Ricard. Ricard wanted to experience the challenge of building a racetrack. The circuit has h ...
,
Le Castellet,
France
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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
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.
Audi Sport Team Joest
Joest Racing is a sports car racing team that was established in 1978 by former Porsche works racer Reinhold Joest. Their headquarters are in Wald-Michelbach, Germany.
Early years
As a combined driver/team owner, Reinhold Joest first began t ...
won the race overall in their first use of the
Audi R15 TDI in the Le Mans Series, with drivers
Allan McNish
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and
Rinaldo Capello
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.
Aston Martin Racing
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and
Rebellion Racing
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completed the overall podium five laps behind the winning Audi. Strakka Racing also brought
Honda Performance Development
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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
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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
Ginetta Cars Limited is a British specialist builder of racing and sports cars based in Garforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
History 20th century
Ginetta was founded in 1958 by four Walklett brothers (Bob, Ivor, Trevers and Douglas) in Woodbridge, ...
-
Zytek
Gibson Technology is an automotive and motorsport company based at Repton, Derbyshire, England. It was founded by Bill Gibson as "Zytek Engineering" in 1981.
In 1981 Gibson founded the "Zytech Group" with two main divisions: Zytek Automotive, ...
.
AF Corse took GT2 pole and
DAMS
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took the first pole position in
Le Mans Series
The European Le Mans Series (abbreviated as ELMS) is a European sports car racing endurance series inspired by the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and organized by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). The European Le Mans Series is similar to the fo ...
history in the new
Formula Le Mans class.
Qualifying result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.
Race
Race result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).
References
External links
Le Mans Series - 8 Heures du Castellet
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1000 km of Spa
6 Hours of Castellet
Eight hours
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April 2010 sports events in France