2020 Michelin Le Mans Cup

The 2020 Michelin Le Mans Cup was the fifth season of the Michelin Le Mans Cup. It began at the Circuit Paul Ricard on 18 July and finished at Algarve International Circuit on 1 November.

2020 Michelin Le Mans Cup
Previous:	2019	Next:	2021
Support series: European Le Mans Series Road to Le Mans Ligier European Series

The series was open to Le Mans Prototypes in the LMP3 class, and grand tourer-style racing cars in the GT3 class.

Calendar

All races support the 2020 European Le Mans Series except the Le Mans round, which is part of the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans weekend.
The 2020 calendar was released on 4 April 2020,[1]
The Barcelona round was moved to Paul Ricard due to the COVID-19 situation in Barcelona.[2]

Rnd	Circuit	Location	Length	Date
1	Circuit Paul Ricard	Le Castellet, France	2 hours	18 July
2	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Spa, Belgium	2 hours	8 August
3	Circuit Paul Ricard	Le Castellet, France	2 hours	29 August
4	Circuit de la Sarthe	Le Mans, France	2 x 55 minutes	18 & 19 September
5	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Monza, Italy	2 hours	10 October
6	Algarve International Circuit	Portimão, Portugal	2 hours	1 November

Entries

LMP3

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
DKR Engineering[3]	Duqueine M30 - D08	3	Jean Glorieux[3]	All
			Laurents Hörr[3]	All
CD Sport[3]	Ligier JS P320	5	Nicholas Adcock[3]	All
			Michael Jensen[3]	All
		6	Jacques Wolff[3]	All
			Joffrey de Narda[3]	1–3, 5–6
			Kévin Bole Besançon[4]	4
Nielsen Racing[3]	Duqueine M30 - D08	7	Colin Noble[3]	All
			Anthony Wells[3]	All
		10	Garett Grist[3]	All
			Rob Hodes[3]	All
Racing Experience[3]	Duqueine M30 - D08	11	David Hauser[3]	1–3, 5
			Yury Wagner	1, 3
			Nicolas Melin	2, 4–6
			Gary Hauser	4, 6
Grainmarket Racing[3]	Duqueine M30 - D08	20	Mark Crader[3]	1–2, 5
			Alex Mortimer[3]	1–2, 5
Mühlner Motorsport[3]	Duqueine M30 - D08	21	Moritz Kranz[3]	All
			Tom Cloet[3]	1–3
			Gilles Magnus[4]	4
			Alex Kapadia	5–6
United Autosports[5]	Ligier JS P320[5]	23	Wayne Boyd[6]	All
			John Schauerman[6]	All
		24	Andy Meyrick[7]	All
			Daniel Schneider[7]	All
Graff[3]	Ligier JS P320	26	Matthias Kaiser[3]	All
			Rory Penttinen[3]	All
MV2S Racing[3]	Ligier JS P320	27	Christophe Cresp[3]	All
			Bruce Jouanny[3]	1, 4
			Fabien Lavergne	2–3, 5–6
Cool Racing[3]	Ligier JS P320	37	Edouard Cauhaupe[3]	All
			Nicolas Maulini[3]	All
		69	Maurice Smith[3]	All
			Ben Barnicoat[3]	1
			Matt Bell	2–6
Rinaldi Racing[3]	Duqueine M30 - D08	55	Alexander Mattschull[3]	1, 3–4, 6
			Daniel Keilwitz[3]	1, 3
			Nicolas Schatz	4
			Nicolás Varrone	6
		66	Steve Parrow[3]	1–4, 6
			Dominik Schwager[3]	1–4, 6
Motorsport98[3]	Ligier JS P320	98	Eric De Doncker[3]	1–3, 5–6
			Dino Lunardi[3]	1–3, 5–6
Entries:[8]

GT3

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Pzoberer Zürichsee by TFT[3]	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2	Julien Andlauer[3]	1, 3–6
			Nicolas Leutwiler[3]	1, 3–6
Iron Lynx[9]	Ferrari 488 GT3[9]	8	Giacomo Piccini[9]	All
			Rino Mastronardi[9]	All
		9	Michelle Gatting[9]	1–2, 6
			Deborah Mayer[9]	1–2, 6
			Paolo Ruberti[4]	4
			Murad Sultanov[4]	4
			Niccolò Schirò	5
			Emanuele Maria Tabacchi	5
		77	Andrea Piccini[3]	All
			Claudio Schiavoni[3]	All
Kessel Racing[3]	Ferrari 488 GT3	50	Oliver Hancock[3]	All
			John Hartshorne[3]	All
		67	Murad Sultanov[3]	1–3
			Paolo Ruberti[3]	1–2
			Andrea Belicchi	3
			Murat Cuhadaroglu[4]	4–5
			Nicola Cadei[4]	4
			David Fumanelli	5
		74	Michael Broniszewski[3]	All
			David Perel[3]	All
Spirit of Race[4]	Ferrari 488 GT3	51	Gunnar Jeannette[4]	4
			Rodrigo Sales[4]	4
Entries[8]

Race results

Bold indicates the overall winner.

Rnd		Circuit	LMP3 Winning Team	GT3 Winning Team
			LMP3 Winning Drivers	GT3 Winning Drivers
1		Paul Ricard	No. 3 DKR Engineering	No. 8 Iron Lynx
			Jean Glorieux Laurents Hörr	Rino Mastronardi Giacomo Picini
2		Spa-Francorchamps	No. 37 Cool Racing	No. 8 Iron Lynx
			Edouard Cauhaupe Nicolas Maulini	Rino Mastronardi Giacomo Picini
3		Paul Ricard	No. 69 Cool Racing	No. 2 Pzoberer Zürichsee by TFT
			Maurice Smith Matt Bell	Julien Andlauer Nicolas Leutwiler
4	R1	Le Mans	No. 3 DKR Engineering	No. 8 Iron Lynx[N 1]
			Jean Glorieux Laurents Hörr	Rino Mastronardi Giacomo Picini
	R2		No. 37 Cool Racing	No. 74 Kessel Racing[N 2]
			Edouard Cauhaupe Nicolas Maulini	Michael Broniszewski David Perel
5		Monza	No. 3 DKR Engineering	No. 2 Pzoberer Zürichsee by TFT
			Jean Glorieux Laurents Hörr	Julien Andlauer Nicolas Leutwiler
6		Portimão	No. 7 Nielsen Racing	No. 8 Iron Lynx
			Colin Noble Anthony Wells	Rino Mastronardi Giacomo Picini

1. The GT3 class winner in Race 1 at Le Mans was the No. 63 FFF Racing Team by ACM invitational entry. As it is not a full-season Michelin Le Mans Cup entrant, the points for the win were awarded to the No. 8 Iron Lynx entry
2. The GT3 class winner in Race 2 at Le Mans was the No. 63 FFF Racing Team by ACM invitational entry. As it is not a full-season Michelin Le Mans Cup entrant, the points for the win were awarded to the No. 74 Kessel Racing entry

Standings

Points are awarded according to the following structure:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Other	Pole
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1	0.5	1
Le Mans	15	9	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0.5	0.5	1

LMP3

Pos. Team Car RIC SPA LEC LMS MNZ POR Points 1 #3 DKR Engineering Duqueine M30 - D08 1 2 4 1 2 1 3 120 2 #37 Cool Racing Ligier JS P320 Ret 1 5 2 1 2 6 89 3 #26 Graff Ligier JS P320 3 5 2 13 5 3 7 70.5 4 #69 Cool Racing Ligier JS P320 5 7 1 3 3 8 Ret 59 5 #7 Nielsen Racing Duqueine M30 - D08 14 3 6 11 4 Ret 1 55 6 #98 Motorsport98 Ligier JS P320 2 6 Ret 5 8 40 7 #21 Mühlner Motorsport Duqueine M30 - D08 4 11 11 7 12 Ret 2 34.5 8 #23 United Autosports Ligier JS P320 12 4 9 5 Ret 9 4 34.5 9 #24 United Autosports Ligier JS P320 6 Ret 3 4 10 Ret Ret 29.5 10 #10 Nielsen Racing Duqueine M30 - D08 9 9 7 9 9 4 Ret 24 11 #6 CD Sport Ligier JS P320 13 13 8 Ret 8 7 9 15 12 #27 MV2S Racing Ligier JS P320 7 10 12 8 6 11 Ret 14 13 #55 Rinaldi Racing Duqueine M30 - D08 10 10 12 13 5 13 14 #20 Grainmarket Racing Duqueine M30 - D08 8 Ret 6 12 15 #11 Racing Experience Duqueine M30 - D08 Ret 8 Ret 6 7 10 WD 12 16 #66 Rinaldi Racing Duqueine M30 - D08 Ret 12 14 10 11 10 3 17 #5 CD Sport Ligier JS P320 11 14 13 Ret Ret Ret Ret 1.5 Pos. Team Car RIC SPA LEC LMS MNZ POR Points

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did Not Participate Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

GT3

Pos.	Team	Car	RIC	SPA	LEC	LMS		MNZ	POR	Points
1	#8 Iron Lynx	Ferrari 488 GT3	1	1	3	1	3	3	1	132
2	#74 Kessel Racing	Ferrari 488 GT3	Ret	2	2	2	1	4	2	92
3	#2 Pzoberer Zürichsee by TFT	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Ret		1	5	Ret	1	3	70
4	#67 Kessel Racing	Ferrari 488 GT3	2	3	4	6	2	7		64
5	#50 Kessel Racing	Ferrari 488 GT3	4	4	6	4	6	6	4	62
6	#77 Iron Lynx	Ferrari 488 GT3	3	DNS	5	3	4	5	WD	48
7	#9 Iron Lynx	Ferrari 488 GT3	5	Ret		Ret	5	2	WD	33
8	#51 Spirit of Race	Ferrari 488 GT3				DNS	7			3
Pos.	Team	Car	RIC	SPA	LEC	LMS		MNZ	POR	Points

References

1. Staff, Sportscar365 (4 April 2020). "Revised 2020 Sports Car Racing Calendars". sportscar365. John Dagys Media. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
2. Goodwin, Graham (6 August 2020). "Second ELMS Race at Le Castellet Replaces 4 Hours of Barcelona". dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
3. "26 Cars For Michelin Le Mans Cup Season Opener". Dailysportscar. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
4. "2020 Michelin Le Mans Cup - Road to Le Mans - Provisional Entry List" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Michelin Le Mans Cup. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
5. Goodwin, Graham (29 November 2019). "Gerry Kraut & Scott Andrews Join United Autosports For 2020 Michelin Le Mans Cup". dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
6. "John Schauerman To Join United Autosports Alongside Wayne Boyd For 2020 Michelin Le Mans Cup". sportscarracingnews.com. SportsCarRacingNews. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
7. Kilbey, Stephen (12 February 2020). "Meyrick Signs With United For Le Mans Cup". Dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
8. "2020 Michelin Le Mans Cup - Season Entry List" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Michelin Le Mans Cup. 5 March 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
9. Kilbey, Stephen (29 February 2020). "Iron Lynx Confirms ELMS & Le Mans Cup Drivers". dailysportscar.com. Dailysportscar. Retrieved 29 February 2020.

External links

• Official website