2023 Le Mans Cup

The 2023 Le Mans Cup, known as the 2023 Michelin Le Mans Cup under sponsorship, will be the eighth season of the Le Mans Cup. The six-event season will begin at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 22 April and will finish at Algarve International Circuit on 22 October.[1] The series is open to Le Mans Prototypes in the LMP3 class, and grand tourer sports cars in the GT3 class.

Racing Spirit of Léman are the reigning champions in LMP3 whilst GMB Motorsport are the defending teams' champion in GT3.

Calendar

The provisional calendar for the 2023 season was announced on 22 September 2022.[1]

Rnd Race Circuit Location Date
1 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Montmeló, Spain 1 hour, 50 mins 22 April
2 Italy Imola Circuit Imola, Italy 1 hour, 50 mins 6 May
3 France Circuit de la Sarthe Le Mans, France 55 minutes 8 June
55 minutes 9 June
4 France Circuit Paul Ricard Le Castellet, France 1 hour, 50 mins 15 July
5 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Stavelot, Belgium 1 hour, 50 mins 23 September
6 Portugal Algarve International Circuit Portimão, Portugal 1 hour, 50 mins 22 October

Entries

LMP3

All cars in the LMP3 class used the 2020 spec Nissan VK56DE 5.6L V8 engine and Michelin tyres. The new-for-2022 race length of 1h 50m removes the need for the additional mandatory stop that was introduced in 2020 to mitigate unexpected higher fuel consumption.

Entrant/Team Chassis No. Drivers Rounds
Spain CD Sport Ligier JS P320 2 France Fabian Michal TBA
Main Page Kirill Smal[2][N 1] TBA
11 France Franck Chappard TBA
Lebanon Shahan Sarkissian TBA
Luxembourg DKR Engineering Duqueine M30 - D08 3 United Arab Emirates Alexander Bukhanstov[N 1] TBA
TBA TBA
United Kingdom Nielsen Racing Duqueine M30 - D08 4 United Kingdom Matt Bell TBA
United States John Melsom TBA
Ligier JS P320 7 United Kingdom Josh Skelton TBA
United Kingdom Anthony Wells TBA
France ANS Motorsport Ligier JS P320 6 France Johnathan Brossard TBA
France Nicolas Schatz TBA
France Graff Racing Ligier JS P320 8 Australia George Nakas[3] TBA
Australia Fraser Ross[3] TBA
39 Republic of Ireland Lucca Allen[3] TBA
United Kingdom James Sweetnam[3] TBA
Switzerland Racing Spirit of Léman Ligier JS P320 9 Germany Christian Gisy TBA
Germany Ralf Kelleners TBA
Poland Inter Europol Competition[4] Ligier JS P320 13 Poland Jakub Śmiechowski[4] TBA
TBA TBA
14 United States Bryson Morris[4] TBA
United Kingdom Chris Short[4] TBA
15 Canada Daniel Ali[4] TBA
Canada James Dayson[4] TBA
Poland Team Virage[5] Ligier JS P320 16 France Gillian Henrion TBA
TBA TBA
59 Paraguay Oscar Bittar TBA
Italy Alessandro Bracalente TBA
France IDEC Sport[6] Ligier JS P320 17 France Patrice Lafargue[6] TBA
France Dino Lunardi[6] TBA
United Kingdom United Autosports Ligier JS P320 22 Australia Scott Andrews TBA
United States Gerald Kraut TBA
23 United Kingdom Wayne Boyd TBA
United States John Schauerman TBA
France H24 Racing GreenGT H24 24 France Norman Nato TBA
Monaco Stéphane Richelmi TBA
United Kingdom 360 Racing Ligier JS P320 25 Spain Belén García[7] TBA
United Kingdom Mark Richards TBA
26 United Kingdom Terrence Woodward TBA
TBA TBA
United Kingdom 24-7 Motorsport Ligier JS P320 27 United Kingdom Andrew Ferguson TBA
United Kingdom Louis Hamilton-Smith TBA
France MV2S Racing Ligier JS P320 28 Switzerland Jérôme de Sadeleer[3] TBA
France Christophe Cresp[3] TBA
29 France Emilien Carde[3] TBA
Germany Matthias Lüthen[3] TBA
Germany Frikadelli Racing Team Ligier JS P320 30 Germany Klaus Abbelen TBA
Germany Felipe Fernandez Laser TBA
Republic of Ireland Murphy Prototypes Duqueine M30 - D08 48 United Kingdom Adrian Watt TBA
TBA TBA
Germany Rinaldi Racing Ligier JS P320 66 Germany Daniel Keilwitz TBA
Germany Steve Parrow TBA
Switzerland Haegeli by T2 Racing Duqueine M30 - D08 67 Switzerland Pieder Decurtins TBA
Belgium Brent Verheyen TBA
France M Racing Ligier JS P320 68 France Hugo Delacour TBA
France Yvan Muller TBA
Iceland Team Thor Ligier JS P320 77 Iceland Auðunn Guðmundsson TBA
United Kingdom Colin Noble TBA
Switzerland Cool Racing[8] Ligier JS P320 87 France Adrien Chila[8] TBA
Switzerland Cedric Oltramare[8] TBA
97 Switzerland David Droux[8] TBA
Switzerland Luis Sanjuan[8] TBA
Source:[9]

GT3
Entrant/Team Chassis Engine No. Drivers Rounds
Switzerland Racing Spirit of Léman Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 10 France Valentin Hasse-Clot TBA
TBA TBA
United Kingdom Team Parker Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6 18 United Kingdom Nick Jones TBA
United Kingdom Scott Malvern TBA
64 United Kingdom Charles Bateman TBA
United Kingdom Alex Martin TBA
Germany Leipert Motorsport Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 19 Finland Patrick Kujala TBA
Luxembourg Gabriele Rindone TBA
70 New Zealand Brendon Leitch TBA
United States Gerhard Watzinger TBA
United Kingdom Steller Motorsport[10] Audi R8 LMS Evo II Audi 5.2 L V10 42 United Kingdom Sennan Fielding[10] TBA
United Kingdom James Wood[10] TBA
Italy AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6 51 Japan Kei Cozzolino TBA
Japan Hiroshi Koizumi TBA
83 France Emmanuel Collard TBA
France Charles-Henri Samani TBA
Denmark GMB Motorsport[11] Honda NSX GT3 Evo22 Honda 3.5 L Turbo V6 55 Denmark Thomas Andersen TBA
Denmark Simon Birch[11] TBA
88 Denmark Lars Engelbreckt Pedersen TBA
Denmark Jan Magnussen TBA
Italy Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 63 Japan Hiroshi Hamaguchi TBA
TBA TBA
Denmark HCR with Caffeinesix Porsche 911 GT3 R Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 86 United Kingdom Tim Creswick TBA
Denmark Anders Fjordbach TBA
Source:[9]

Notes
  1. Smal is Russian, but he competes as a neutral competitor as Russian national emblems were banned by the FIA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Bukhantsov, also a Russian, competes under an Emirati licence for the same reason.

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