2018 Road to Le Mans

The 3rd Road to Le Mans was an automobile endurance event composed of two 55-minute races contested by 50 teams of two drivers each racing Le Mans Prototype 3 (LMP3) and Group GT3 (GT3) cars. It was held on 14 and 16 June 2018 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, near Le Mans, France, as a support event for the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans and the third round of six in the 2018 Le Mans Cup. The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) organised the third Road to Le Mans race along with the Le Mans Cup promoter Le Mans Endurance Management.

A Ligier JS P3-Nissan car shared by Mikkel Jensen and Kay van Berlo of EuroInternational won the first race after starting from pole position and leading every lap. The United Autosports duo of John Falb and Sean Rayhall finished in second and DKR Engineering's Leonard Hoogenboom and Jens Petersen took third. The GT3 category was won by the AF Corse pair of Marco Cioci and Piergiuseppe Perazzini sharing a Ferrari 488 GT3 from the Kessel Racing duo of Sergio Pianezzola and Giacomo Piccini. The second race was won by the Lanan Racing team of Michael Benham and Duncan Tappy sharing a Norma M30-Nissan after overtaking Rayhall in the final three laps. Falb and Rayhall duplicated their first race result by finishing in second and the DB Autosport duo of Nicolas Schatz and Jacques Wolff completed the overall podium in third. Maurizio Mediani and Christoph Ulrich of Spirit of Race won the GT3 class in a Ferrari from Kessel Racing's Andrea Piccini and Claudio Schiavoni.

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