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. It took place at the Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France 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

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won the race overall in their first use of the

Audi R15 TDI The Audi R15 TDI, commonly abbreviated to the R15, is a Le Mans Prototype (LMP) racing car constructed by the German car manufacturer Audi AG. It is the successor to the Audi R10 TDI. Like its predecessor, the R15 TDI uses a turbocharged diese ...

in the Le Mans Series, with drivers Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello. Aston Martin Racing and Rebellion Racing completed the overall podium five laps behind the winning Audi. Strakka Racing also brought Honda Performance Development 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

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Qualifying

Qualifying saw Oreca take

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in their first outing with their new

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, beating the factory

by 0.4 seconds. Strakka Racing had a similar story taking LMP2 pole in their first outing with their

HPD ARX-01C The Acura ARX-01, later known as the HPD ARX-01 is a series of Le Mans Prototype built for sports car racing, specifically in the American Le Mans Series, Le Mans Series, and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It is the first purpose-built race car by t ...

. They qualified two seconds before the next nearest car, the Quifel Ginetta- Zytek.

took GT2 pole and DAMS took the first pole position in Le Mans Series history in the new

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class.

Qualifying result

Pole position In a motorsports race, the pole position is usually the best and "statistically the most advantageous" starting position on the track. The pole position is usually earned by the driver with the best qualifying times in the trials before the rac ...

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 The 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (formerly the 1000 Kilometres of Spa-Francorchamps) is an endurance race for sports cars held at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. History The Spa 24 Hours had been introduced in 1924, and other races f ...

Castellet Castellet-en-Luberon (before 2018: ''Castellet'')Décret n° 2018-956
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6 Hours of Castellet Eight hours April 2010 sports events in France