European Le Mans Series returns to Silverstone

After a six-year hiatus, Silverstone is again on the ELMS schedule. The 4 Hours of Silverstone on 13 and 14 September 2025 will carry endurance racing again to the long-lasting residence of British motorsport and can undoubtedly play a pivotal position in deciding this yr’s champions, throughout the penultimate occasion of the season.

Fans will be capable of cheer on British drivers, together with Oliver Gray, Jamie Chadwick, Nick Yelloly, Tim Creswick, Duncan Cameron and lots of extra as they combat for victory on residence soil.

The weekend would be the first time the Michelin Le Mans Cup and Ligier European Series has raced on UK soil.

Four fiercely contested lessons – LMP2, LMP2 Pro/Am, LMP3 and LMGT3 – comprise an enormous 42-car grid and can be joined by the equally aggressive Michelin Le Mans Cup help collection.

Each automotive runs with a renewable biofuel (Excellium Racing 100) from TotalEnergies, a 100% licensed sustainable gas, providing a novel method to fuelling endurance racing.

Pierre Fillon, President of the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, feedback, “Once again the European Le Mans Series calendar features a selection of circuits, each with a variety of challenges to test both the car and the driver.  The ACO is extremely pleased to see the ELMS returning to the UK for the first time since 2019, giving the British fans a taste of Le Mans at home at Silverstone.

“The ELMS has firmly established itself as the leading European endurance series. With grids of over 40 cars, featuring a great mix of Le Mans Prototypes and GTs, and some of the top drivers and teams from around the world.  It looks like the 2025 season is going to deliver even more.”

 

The classes

LMP2

The Le Mans Prototype 2 class contains privateer groups impartial of constructors, all of whom use one in every of 4 chassis from Dallara, Ligier Automotive, Oreca and Riley Tech/Multimatic in addition to a 4-litre V8 engine from Gibson Tecchnology.

LMP2 is the main class in ELMS, and a spot on the grid has turn out to be much more wanted because the class was dropped from the World Endurance Championship invoice for the 2024 season.

 

LMP2 Pro/Am

Running the identical equipment as the usual LMP2 class, the one differentiator in LMP2 Pro/Am is the motive force line-up; every workforce a lot function at the very least one Bronze rated driver.

 

LMP3

With the purpose of being reasonably priced, mechanically accessible and ultra-competitive, 4 producers race within the LMP3 class – Ligier, Duqueine Engineering, Ginetta and Adess. This class serves as a proving floor for bold endurance drivers, engineers and mechanics of the longer term.

 

LMGT3

LMGT3 race automobiles are based mostly on manufacturing street automotive fashions categorised as Grand Tourers. Like LMP2 Pro/Am, automobiles racing on this class should additionally function a Bronze-rated driver.

 

Everything to play for

Motorsport Team UK graduate Jamie Chadwick, the three time W Series Champion, made historical past as first lady to win a NXT/Indy Lights race on a street course in 2024. She can be sharing the IDEC Sport with Mathys Jaubert and Daniel Juncadella, who took LMP2 honours within the opening two races however has slipped again to 3rd within the rankings after ending 11^th in each two latest rounds.

Oliver Gray, Motorsport UK Academy graduate and a previous member of Williams Driver Academy, has taken her place on the prime of the standing after successful at each Imola and Spa within the VDS Panis Entry he shares with Esteban Masson and Charles Melesi. Gray switched to ELMS at begin of 2024 after failing to make an impression in FIA F3 in 2023, ending second in LMP2 throughout his Le Mans debut in June. He continues to make a mark in endurance racing.

Le Mans class winner, and Motorsport UK Academy graduate, Nick Yelloly holds second place within the standings having completed runner-up previously three races sharing the Inter Europol Competition entry wirh Tom Dillmann and Jakub Smiechowski. Adding to British curiosity Oli Caldwell and Alex Quin head the LMP2 Pro-Am Drivers’ Championship after successful the category at Spa.