Live Round 4 of the 2021 European Le Mans Series will be the 4 Hours of Monza on Sunday 11 July and is the final event before the 24 Hours of Le Mans on August 21/22.
The grid will consist of 44 cars run by 31 different teams, with 127 drivers taking part representing a total of 32 different nations from all four corners of the world.
Italy will be well represented on the ELMS grid, with 6 cars, 16 drivers and, of course, six Ferrari 488 GTE EVOs on the LMGTE grid.
LMP2: Can G-Drive Racing Add Another Monza Victory to their ELMS total?
19 cars on the LMP2 grid, the largest LMP2 entry in the ELMS since 2018
9 entries in the Pro / Am category
JOTA, Realteam Racing and Racing Team Nederland return to the ELMS grid as part of their preparations for Le Mans. 2016 ELMS Champion Giedo Van der Garde will race in the no92 Racing Team Nederland Oreca alongside Frits Van Eerd.
The 4 Hours of Le Castellet marked G-Drive Racing’s tenth overall victory in the ELMS.
There are two Italian drivers on the LMP2 grid, Francesco Dracone and Sergio Campana in the no35 BHK Motorsport Oreca-Gibson.
After finishing 5 th in Le Castellet, Robert Kubica, Louis Deletraz and Yifei Ye (no41 Orlen Team WRT) still lead the championship on 60 points, but their lead is reduced to just 3 points over Roman Rusinov, Nyck De Vries and Franco Colapinto ( no26 G-Drive Racing).
Mikkel Jensen will replace Nyck De Vries in the no26 G-Drive Aurus and Pablo Montoya will join the n ° 21 DragonSpeed Oreca 07 crew.
The no25 G-Drive Racing Aurus still leads the Pro / Am category. John Falb and Rui Andrade are currently on 61 points, 9 points ahead of Salih Yoluc and Charlie Eastwood (no34 Racing Team Turkey) and Francois Heriau, Jean-Baptiste Lahaye and Matthieu Lahaye (no29 Ultimate) who are all tied on 52 points.
LMP3: Cool Racing Extend Championship Lead after 3 Rounds
16 cars on the LMP3 grid in Italy.
2 cars (Eurointernational and 1 Aim Villorba Corse) and 5 drivers will race under the Italian flag at Monza.
After finishing second in Le Castellet, Nicolas Maulini, Matt Bell and Niklas Kruetten extended their championship lead to 27 points in the no19 Cool Racing Ligier. They are currently on 68 points, with Laurents Hörr on 41 points after securing DKR Engineering’s first ELMS class victory in France.
Former MotoGP racer Mattia Pasini will once again be behind the wheel of the no14 Inter Europol Competition Ligier-Nissan and the Italian will be hoping to improve on his season best of 5 th at the Red Bull Ring.
The other Italian drivers on the LMP3 grid are Andrea Dromedari, Jacopo Baratto (no11 Eurointernational), Alessandro Bressan and Damiano Fioravanti (no18 1 Aim Villorba Corse).
LMGTE: Can Porsche or Aston Martin Beat Ferrari on Home Soil?
9 cars on the LMGTE grid for the 4 Hours of Monza.
4 cars, 2 teams (Iron Lynx / AF Corse) and 9 drivers are representing Italy at Monza.
Six Ferraris, two Porsche and one Aston Martin will compete once again.
Ferrari have won all three rounds of the 2021 ELMS so far with the no80 Iron Lynx and no88 AF Corse.
After securing their second victory of the season in Le Castellet, Matteo Cressoni, Rino Mastronardi and Miguel Molina (no80 Iron Lynx) are on 65 points, 14 points ahead of the no55 Spirit of Race Ferrari of Duncan Cameron, Matt Griffin and David Perel.
The no60 Iron Lynx Ferrari will feature the only all Italian crew on the ELMS grid in Monza, with Claudio Schiavoni, Giorgio Sernagiotto and Paolo Ruberti.
Former FIA WEC LMGTE Champion Gianmaria Bruni will be joining reigning ELMS LMGTE Champion Christian Ried and Cooper MacNeil once again in the no77 Proton Competition Porsche.
Round 2 winner Alessio Rovera will be racing alongside reigning FIA WEC LMGTE AM Champions François Perrodo and Emmanuel Collard in the no88 AF Corse Ferrari.
Andrea Fontana (no66 JMW Motorsport) and Manuela Gostner (no83 Iron Lynx) will also be on the grid for their home race in Italy.
The 4 Hours of Monza will take place between the 9-11 July 2021 and is Round 4 of the 2021 European Le Mans Series.
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