Road to Le Mans - LMP3 & GT3 support race

First lap action in the road to Le Mans race.

The Road to Le Mans race was a support race at the 2017 Le Mans 24 hours and a round of the Michelin Le Mans Cup series.  This huge field of LMP3 and GT3 cars featured cars from that series, the ELMS series plus a number of one-off competitors.  Although it had a great variety of cars, I didn't find the race particularly close or interesting. However, I am sure the drivers relished the chance to race on the full 24 hour circuit.  The race I saw was on the Saturday morning and lasted for 55 minutes and was the second race for these cars of the week. 49 cars took part and the format of the race was that each car had to have a mandatory pitstop to change driver.  The faster cars covered 13 laps.  Here are some of the cars that took part. As an experiment and to keep out of the sun I took all of these photos from the Tertre Rouge grandstand.

1st place overall and in the LMP3 class went to the DKR Engineering Norma M30-Nissan.  

Winner of the GT3 class was this TF Sport Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3.

This N'Race Ligier JS P3 finished sixth.

A lap behind in 35th place was this DKR Engineering Adess 03-Nissan.

Spectators watching the battle for the lead in the Road to Le Mans.

The Spirit of Race Ferrari 458 Italia completed 11 laps.

Third in the GT3 class was this SVC Sport management Lamboghini Huracan GT3.

The IMSA Performance Porsche 911 GT3 R.

Porsche GT3 leads Ligier LMP3

Optimum Racing Audi R8 LMS.

Spirit of Race Ferrari 488

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