The 2023 4 Hours of Aragón was an

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event held between 23 and 26 August 2023, as the third round of the

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season.

Entry list

The pre-event entry list consisted of 42 entries in 4 categories - 7 in LMP2, 11 in LMP2 Pro/Am, 12 in LMP3 and 12 in LMGTE. Nelson Piquet Jr. was replaced by

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in the No. 21 United Autosports USA. Piquet was unable to take part in this race due to calendar clash with

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. Bent Viscaal replaced

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in the No. 20 Algarve Pro Racing. In the No. 83

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was replaced by

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. Both Barnicoat and Hawksworth could not take part in this race due to a clash with

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. Jacek Zielonka was set to join Glenn van Berlo in the No. 10

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but in the end Matthias Lüthen was Berlo's teammate in this race. Tom van Rompuy was replaced by Andreas Laskaratos in the No. 3

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. United Autosport USA's No. 23 moved from LMP2 Pro/Am to LMP2 class after Jim McGuire was forced to not take part in this race weekend. Garnet Patterson joined

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and Guy Smith in the No. 23 squad.

Schedule

Free practice

* Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Qualifying

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

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.

Statistics

Fastest lap

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Neel Jani Neel Jani (born 8 December 1983) is a Swiss people, Swiss professional racing driver. He achieved his greatest success winning the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016 after first joining Porsche 919 Hybrid, Porsche's Le Mans Pro ...

, #30

Duqueine Team Duqueine Team, formerly known as Duqueine Engineering, is a French sports car racing team founded in 2014. The team currently competes in the European Le Mans Series in LMP2. They previously operated Isotta Fraschini's Hypercar entry in the FIA ...

, 1:48.864 , align="center" , 91 , - ! LMP2 Pro/Am , Malthe Jakobsen , #37

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, 1:48.792 , align="center" , 81 , - ! LMP3 , Marcos Siebert , #17

, 1:55.233 , align="center" , 88 , - ! LMGTE , Martin Rump , #93

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References

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