The 2022 Michelin Le Mans Cup saw 32 full season entries in LMP3, with 23 teams and 93 drivers competing in the seven races, representing 24 different nations.
The LMP3 competitors completed 6,578 racing laps or 43,062.74 kilometres.
Four teams – Racing Spirit of Leman, Cool Racing, Graff Racing, Reiter Engineering – won in 2022, with six more cars taking a podium finish at least once during the season.
The LMP3 field saw 24 Ligier JS P320-Nissans and 8 Duqueine M30-D08-Nissans.Ligier scored 21 podiums, a clean sweep of the 21 available places in the seven races.
Duqueine scored 4 pole positions and 4 fastest laps in the seven races held in 2022.
In 2022 the race duration was reduced from 120 minutes to 110 minutes for all races, except for the two Road To Le Mans races, which remained at 55-minutes per race.
1st: #10 Racing Spirit of Leman
2nd: #29 MV2S Forestier Racing
3rd: #53 RLR MSport
POLE POSITION:Torsten KRATZ - #11 WTM Racing - 1m50.508 - 188.0kph
FASTEST LAP Laurents HORR - #3 DKR Engineering - 1m50.480 - 188.0kph
NUMBER OF ENTRIES: 31
CIRCUIT LAP DISTANCE: 5.771km
LAPS COMPLETED BY WINNER: 54
DISTANCE COVERED BY WINNER: 311.63km
LAPS COMPLETED BY LMP3 FIELD: 1568
DISTANCE COVERED BY LMP3 FIELD: 9,048.93km
1st: #69 Cool Racing
2nd: #23 United Autosports
3rd: #22 United Autosports
POLE POSITION: Jerome DE SADELEER - #29 MV2S Forestier Racing - 1m39.052 - 178.4kph
FASTEST LAP: Laurents HORR - #3 DKR Engineering - 1m38.235 - 179.9kph**
NUMBER OF ENTRIES: 32
CIRCUIT LAP DISTANCE: 4.909km
LAPS COMPLETED BY WINNER: 53
DISTANCE COVERED BY WINNER: 260.18km
LAPS COMPLETED BY LMP3 FIELD: 1430
DISTANCE COVERED BY LMP3 FIELD: 7019.87km
** NEW LAP RECORD
1st: #10 Racing Spirit of Leman
2nd: #43 Racing Spirit of Leman
3rd: #7 Nielsen Racing
POLE POSITION: Laurents HORR - #3 DKR Engineering - 3m45.606 - 217.4kph
FASTEST LAP: Daniel KIELWITZ - #66 Rinaldi Racing - 3m52.339 - 211.1kph
NUMBER OF ENTRIES: 36
CIRCUIT LAP DISTANCE: 13.626km
LAPS COMPLETED BY WINNER: 12
DISTANCE COVERED BY WINNER: 163.51km
LAPS COMPLETED BY LMP3 FIELD: 367
DISTANCE COVERED BY LMP3 FIELD: 5000.74km
1st: #25 Cool Racing ***
2nd: #76 Reiter Engineering
3rd: #10 Racing Spirit of Leman
POLE POSITION: Torsten KRATZ - #11 WTM Racing - 3m48.479 - 214.7kph
FASTEST LAP: Malthe JAKOBSEN - #69 Cool Racing - 3m46.938 - 216.2kph
NUMBER OF ENTRIES: 36
CIRCUIT LAP DISTANCE: 13.626km
LAPS COMPLETED BY WINNER: 11
DISTANCE COVERED BY WINNER: 149.89km
LAPS COMPLETED BY LMP3 FIELD: 353
DISTANCE COVERED BY LMP3 FIELD: 4809.98km
*** Not a MLMC Full Season Entry
1st: #10 Racing Spirit of Leman
2nd: #29 MV2S Forestier Racing
3rd: #43 Racing Spirit of Leman
POLE POSITION: Freddie HUNT - #76 Reiter Engineering - 1m44.838 - 198.9kph
FASTEST LAP: Laurents HORR - #3 DKR Engineering - 1m44.587 - 199.4kph
NUMBER OF ENTRIES: 29
CIRCUIT LAP DISTANCE: 5.793km
LAPS COMPLETED BY WINNER: 49
DISTANCE COVERED BY WINNER: 283.86km
LAPS COMPLETED BY LMP3 FIELD: 1222
DISTANCE COVERED BY LMP3 FIELD: 7079.05km
1st: #40 Graff Racing
2nd: #76 Reiter Engineering
3rd: #43 Racing Spirit of Leman
POLE POSITION: Freddie HUNT - #76 Reiter Engineering - 2m14.883 - 186.9kph
FASTEST LAP: Malthe JAKOBSEN - #69 Cool Racing - 2m30.241 - 167.8kph
NUMBER OF ENTRIES: 31
CIRCUIT LAP DISTANCE: 7.0039km
LAPS COMPLETED BY WINNER: 36
DISTANCE COVERED BY WINNER: 252.14km
LAPS COMPLETED BY LMP3 FIELD: 1056
DISTANCE COVERED BY LMP3 FIELD: 7396.12km
1st: #76 Reiter Engineering
2nd: #7 Nielsen Racing
3rd: #10 Racing Spirit of Leman
POLE POSITION: Torsten KRATZ - #11 WTM Racing - 1m38.294 - 170.4kph
FASTEST LAP: David DROUX - #40 Graff Racing - 1m38.049 - 170.8kph
NUMBER OF ENTRIES: 31
CIRCUIT LAP DISTANCE: 4.653km
LAPS COMPLETED BY WINNER: 20 ****
DISTANCE COVERED BY WINNER: 93.06km
LAPS COMPLETED BY LMP3 FIELD: 582 ****
DISTANCE COVERED BY LMP3 FIELD: 2708.05km
**** Race shortened following long red flag after accident involving #29 MV2S Forestier Racing.
