2016 Road to Le Mans

The 1st Road to Le Mans was an 55-minute automobile endurance event for 37 teams of one or two drivers racing Le Mans Prototype 3 (LMP3) and Group GT3 (GT3) cars. It was held on 18 June 2016 at the Circuit de la Sarthe near Le Mans, France, as a support race for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans and the second round of the 2016 GT3 Le Mans Cup. The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) organised the first Road to Le Mans race in partnership with the promoter Le Mans Endurance Management.

United Autosport's Martin Brundle and Christian England shared a Ligier JS P3-Nissan car and began from pole position after Brundle set the fastest overall lap time in qualifying. Brundle lost the race lead to Team LNT's Charlie Robertson and Lawrence Tomlinson at the start, which Tomlinson maintained until the mandatory pit stops. Alexandre Cougnaud and Thomas Laurent of DC Racing took the race lead following the pit stops and led the final six laps to win by 16.863 seconds over Brundle and England. The GT3 category was won by SMP Racing's Aleksey Basov and Viktor Shaytar in a Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 from FFF Racing Team by ACM's McLaren 650S GT3 shared by Hiroshi Hamaguchi and Adrian Quaife-Hobbs after Mentos Racing's Porsche 911 GT3 R of Klaus Bachler and Egidio Perfetti served a ten-second stop-and-go penalty for speeding in the pit lane.

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