The 2021 8 Hours of Portimão was an

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sports car racing event held at the

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Algarve The Algarve (, , ; from ) is the southernmost NUTS II region of continental Portugal. It has an area of with 467,495 permanent inhabitants and incorporates 16 municipalities ( ''concelhos'' or ''municípios'' in Portuguese). The region has it ...

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, on 13 June 2021. It served as the second round of the

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, and was the first running of the

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as part of the championship. The race marked the debut of the Glickenhaus Racing car called the 007 LMH. The race was originally scheduled to be the opening round of the championship, replacing a race at

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due to travel issues relating to the

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. The race was later postponed from the original date of 4 April due to quarantine regulations in Portugal, meaning it would no-longer be the opening round. The race was won by the

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of Sebastien Buemi,

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and

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Qualifying

Qualifying Results

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Race

Race Result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of the overall winning car's race distance) was 210 laps. Class winners are denoted in bold and with .

Standings after the race

;2021 Hypercar World Endurance Drivers' Championship ;2021 Hypercar World Endurance Championship * Note: Only the top five positions are included for the Drivers Championship standings. ;2021 LMP2 World Endurance Drivers' Championship ;2021 LMP2 World Endurance Championship * Note: Only the top five positions are included for the Drivers Championship standings. ;2021 World Endurance GTE Drivers' Championship ;2021 World Endurance GTE Manufacturers' Championship * Note: Only the top five positions are included for the Drivers Championship standings.

References

{{WEC Rounds Auto races in Portugal

Portimão Portimão () is a city and a municipality in the district of Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 55,614, in an area of 182.06 km2. It was formerly known as Vila Nova de Portimão (). In 1924, it was ...

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