A grid of 46 cars will assemble for Round 4 of the 2021 Michelin Le Mans Cup, with two 55-minute races on the full 13.6km La Sarthe circuit at Le Mans on the Thursday and Saturday of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race week 19 & 21 August.
The regular Michelin Le Mans Cup competitors will be joined by a number of race-by-race entries.
GT3
The GT3 grid will feature eleven cars run by seven teams, 5 x Ferrari 488 GT3, 2 x Porsche 911 GT3R, 1 x Aston Martin Vantage GT3, 2 x Audi R8 LMS and 1 x Mercedes AMG GT3.
Championship leader Nicolas Leutwiler will be joined in the #2 Pzoberer Zurichsee by TFT Porsche by Julien Andlauer. Leutwiler is currently on 55 points after taking a win and two thirds in the first three races of the season. The Swiss driver is 16 points ahead of Ken Abe in the #51 AF Corse Ferrari who will be joined by Eddie Cheever III for RTLM.
With Sarah Bovy making her debut for Iron Lynx in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Doriane Pin will be joined by Manuela Gostner in the #9 Iron Lynx Ferrari, the young French driver already securing two podium finishes at Le Castellet and Monza so far this season.
The Team Championship leading #8 Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 will see American Logan Sargeant return to the cockpit of the Ferrari. He will be joined by former LMP3 front runner Rory Penttinen.
Amongst the additional entries, 2017 Road to Le Mans double race winner Ahmad Al Harthy will compete in the #95 Oman Racing Aston Martin Vantage alongside American Michael Dinan.
ELMS LMP2 Championship leaders Team WRT will be fielding two Audi R8 LMSs, their first GT3 entries in ACO rules racing. The #34 Audi will be raced by father and son Roald and Benjamin Goethe whilst Charles Weerts will race the sister car with a yet-to-be-confirmed driving partner.
Le Castellet race winner Alfred Renauer returns to the MLMC in the #92 Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 RSR at Le Mans with fellow German Jürgen Häring.
Former 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and current FIA World Endurance LMGTE Am Champion Emmanuel Collard meanwhile will race in the #83 Racetivity Mercedes alongside fellow Frenchman Charles-Henri Samani, brother-in-law of Collard’s regular ELMS team-mate Francois Perrodo.
LMP3
The Road To Le Mans LMP3 grid will consist of 35 cars run by 21 different teams, with 25 x Ligier JS P320, 9 x Duqueine M30-D08 and 1 x Adess-03 EVO.
Round 3 winners and championship leaders Scott Andrews and Gerald Kraut (#22 United Autosports Ligier) are on 50 points, just two points ahead of Tony Wells and Colin Noble (#7 Nielsen Racing Ligier), with John Schauerman and Wayne Boyd (#23 United Autosports Ligier) on 45 points in third.
With Wayne Boyd making his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with United Autosports he will be replaced by Duncan Tappy at the wheel of the #23 Ligier.
Reigning champions DKR Engineering have won three of the nine Road to Le Mans races held since 2016, with Cool Racing, Graff, Eurointernational, Lanan Racing, United Autosports and DC Racing all winning on one occasion.
The #3 DKR Engineering Duqueine will see Jean Glorieux and Laurents Hörr reunited. The pair won their first Road to Le Mans race together in 2020, with Hörr also winning in 2019 alongside Francois Kirmann and Glorieux winning with Alex Toril in 2017.
After finishing second in Monza, Alexander Mattschull and Nicolas Varrone will be looking for another podium finish at Le Mans in the #66 Rinaldi Racing Duqueine.
Matt Bell and Maurice Smith took a double podium at the Road to Le Mans in 2020. After finishing second at Le Castellet last month, the Anglo-American duo are aiming for the top step of the podium in Le Mans in the #69 Cool Racing Ligier.
Road to Le Mans will see the first entry by an all-Australian team, Revere Lifestyle.The team are running the only Adess-03 EVO on the grid for Andres Latorre Canon and fellow Aussie Garnet Patterson.
Amongst the additional LMP3s for Le Mans are a second RLR MSPort Ligier for Alex Kapadia and Martin Rich and a gaggle of regular ELMS cars including entries from Nielsen Racing, Cool Racing, MV2S and Rinaldi.
