2001 European Le Mans Series season

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The 2001 European Le Mans Series season was the only season for the IMSA European Le Mans Series. It is a series comprised of Le Mans prototypes and Grand Touring race cars divided into 4 classes: LMP900, LMP675, GTS, and GT. It began March 17, 2001 and ended October 6, 2001 after 7 races.

The series came about following the expansion of Don Panoz's American Le Mans Series to include European rounds in 2000. The ELMS become a separate series for 2001, although following the same IMSA and ACO rules that the ALMS followed, and even having shared events among the two series. Like the Petit Le Mans for the ALMS, the 1000km of Estoril was meant to be a unique event that would earn automatic entries to the 24 Hours of Le Mans for its winners. Unfortunately a lack of interest from the European racing community, as well as competition from the FIA's series, meant that this would be the only season of ELMS. Another planned series, known as Asian-Pacific Le Mans Series (APLMS) was planned to begin in late 2001, but never occurred.

Following the demise of the European Le Mans Series, the ACO would attempt to create another European-based sportscar series in 2003 with the more successful Le Mans Endurance Series.

Contents 1 Schedule 2 Season results 3 Teams' Championship 3.1 LMP900 standings 3.2 LMP675 standings 3.3 GTS standings 3.4 GT standings 4 External links

[edit] Schedule

Besides Sebring, Estoril, and Petit Le Mans, all events were 2 Hours and 45 Minutes in length.

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Exxon Superflo 12 Hours of Sebring†	Sebring International Raceway	March 17
2	ELMS Race at Donington Park†	Donington Park	April 14
3	ELMS Race at Jarama†	Circuito Permanente Del Jarama	May 20
4	1000km of Estoril	Autódromo do Estoril	July 15
5	ELMS Race at Most	Autodrom Most	August 5
6	ELMS Race at Vallelunga	Autodromo di Vallelunga	September 2
7	Audi presents Petit Le Mans†	Road Atlanta	October 6

† - Joint event with ALMS.

[edit] Season results

Overall winner in bold.

Rnd	Circuit	LMP900 Winning Team	LMP675 Winning Team	GTS Winning Team	GT Winning Team	Results
		LMP900 Winning Drivers	LMP675 Winning Drivers	GTS Winning Drivers	GT Winning Drivers
1	Sebring	#1 Audi Sport North America	None	#26 Konrad Team Saleen	#23 Alex Job Racing	Results
		Michele Alboreto Rinaldo Capello Laurent Aïello		Oliver Gavin Terry Borcheller Franz Konrad	Sascha Maassen Lucas Luhr Emmanuel Collard
2	Donington	#1 Audi Sport Team Joest	#21 Rowan Racing	#41 Ray Mallock, Ltd. (RML)	#23 Alex Job Racing	Results
		Tom Kristensen Rinaldo Capello	Martin O'Connell Warren Carway	Bruno Lambert Ian McKellar Jr.	Lucas Luhr Sascha Maassen
3	Jarama	#1 Audi Sport Team Joest	#5 Dick Barbour Racing	#26 Konrad Team Saleen	#43 Team Schnitzer	Results
		Tom Kristensen Rinaldo Capello	Eric van de Poele Didier de Radigues	Toni Seiler Walter Brun Franz Konrad	Dirk Müller Fredrik Ekblom
4	Estoril	#72 Pescarolo Sport	None	#41 Ray Mallock, Ltd. (RML)	#77 Freisinger Motorsport	Results
		Jean-Christophe Boullion Laurent Redon Boris Derichebourg		Bruno Lambert Ian McKellar Jr. Chris Goodwin	Xavier Pompidou Romain Dumas
5	Most	#7 Johansson Motorsport	#38 ROC	#41 Ray Mallock, Ltd. (RML)	#60 P.K. Sport	Results
		Stefan Johansson Patrick Lemarié	Jordi Gené Christophe Pillon	Bruno Lambert Ian McKellar Jr.	Robin Liddell Mike Youles
6	Vallelunga	#9 Lanesra	#28 Didier Bonnet	#41 Ray Mallock, Ltd. (RML)	#66 Harlow Motorsport	Results
		Richard Dean Gary Formato	Francois Jakubowski Xavier Bich	Ian McKellar Jr. Chris Goodwin	Terry Rymer Magnus Wallinder
7	Road Atlanta	#2 Audi Sport North America	#57 Dick Barbour Racing	#4 Corvette Racing	#6 PTG	Results
		Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro	Scott Maxwell John Graham Milka Duno	Kelly Collins Andy Pilgrim Franck Freon	Hans Joachim Stuck Boris Said Bill Auberlen

[edit] Teams' Championship

Points are awarded to the finishers in the following order:

• 25-21-19-17-15-14-13-12-11-10-...

Exception being for 12 Hours of Sebring, 1000km of Estoril, and Petit Le Mans which awarded in the following order:

• 30-26-24-22-20-19-18-17-16-15-...

Points were awarded in two separate ways. Only the best finish out of the two American rounds (1 and 7) was included. In addition to this, only the top five finishes for the entire season were included. Points earned but not counting towards the team's total are listed in italics.

Teams only score the points of their highest finishing entry in each race. Teams which participated at Sebring and Petit Le Mans but did not attend any European events are also not counted towards the ELMS championships.

[edit] LMP900 standings

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Total
1	Johansson Motorsport	Audi R8	Audi 3.6L Turbo V8	22	19	19	26	25		26	115
2	Audi Sport North America	Audi R8	Audi 3.6L Turbo V8	30	25	25				30	80
3	Pescarolo Sport	Courage C60	Peugeot A32 3.2L Turbo V6	18	17		30				65
4	Panoz Motorsports	Panoz LMP07 Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S	Élan (Zytek) 4.0L V8 Élan 6L8 6.0L V8	17	14	17				19	50
5	Lanesra Racing	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S	Élan 6L8 6.0L V8					21	25		46
6	Westward Racing	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S	Élan 6L8 6.0L V8		15						15
7	Team PlayStation (Oreca)	Chrysler LMP	Mopar 6.0L V8		12						12
8	Team Ascari	Ascari A410	Judd GV4 4.0L V10		11						11

[edit] LMP675 standings

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Total
1=	Didier Bonnet	Debora LMP200	BMW 3.2L I6				30	21	25		76
1=	Dick Barbour Racing	Reynard 01Q	Judd GV675 3.4L V8		21	25				30	76
3	Roock-KnightHawk Racing	Lola B2K/40	Nissan (AER) VQL 3.4L V8	30		21				22	51
4	Racing Organisation Course	Reynard 2KQ	Volkswagen 2.0L Turbo I4					25		19	44
5	Rowan Racing	Pilbeam MP84	Nissan (AER) VQL 3.0L V6		25						25

[edit] GTS standings

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Total
1	Ray Mallock Ltd.	Saleen S7-R	Ford 7.0L V8		25	19	30	25	25		124
2	Konrad Team Saleen	Saleen S7-R	Ford 7.0L V8	30	21	25	26	21	19	26	123
3	Brookspeed	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Chrysler 8.0L V10				24			17	41
4	Konrad Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT2 Saleen S7-R	Porsche 3.8L Turbo Flat-6 Ford 7.0L V8			21				19	40
5	Cirtek Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT2	Porsche 3.8L Turbo Flat-6						21		21

[edit] GT standings

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Total
1	P.K. Sport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6		19	17	26	25	14		101
2	Paco Orti Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6		14	14	20	19	19		86
3	Harlow Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6			11	24	15	25		75
4	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	30	25	19				24	74
5	Sebah Automotive, Ltd.	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6		8	10	13	21	13	16	73
6	Seikel Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	19	17	13	22			18	71
7	Freisinger Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	16			30		21		67
8	BMW Motorsport	BMW M3 GTR	BMW 4.0L V8	24	10	25				26	61
9	Kyser Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	18	15					17	33
10	Cirtek Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	15					15		30
11=	Skea Racing International	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6				12	17			29
11=	Noël del Bello Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6		12		17				29
13	Atomic Kitten Motorsport	Chevrolet Corvette LM-GT	Chevrolet 5.7L V8				14		11		25
14	Luc Alphand Aventures	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6				19				19
15	Racing Engineering	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6				16				16

[edit] External links

• IMSA European Le Mans Series 2001