Yelloly and Milesi outpaced Cairoli in qualifying

Cracking batte for pole position between three drivers in LMP2 where Nick Yelloly in #43 Inter Europol Competion and Charles Milesi in #48 VDS Panis Racing outpaced Matteo Cairoli in Iron Lynx – Proton’s #9 ORECA 07 Gibson during the very last lap. It’s Inter Europol Competion’s first ever pole position in European Le Mans Series.

Nick Yelloly the fastest in LMP2

Acura MSR IMSA driver Nicholas YELLOLY in #43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 - Gibson was fastest of the LMP2 qualifying session with a 1:48.741 and will start from pole.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Le Castellet 2025. #43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 - Gibson

VDS Panis Racing in first row

Alpine Hypercar factory driver Charles Milesi was second of the LMP2 qualifying session with a 1:48.876 which which puts his #48 VDS Panis Racing Oreca 07 - Gibson in first row of tomorrow’s race. Both first row starting drivers were the only ones under the 1:49” of all sessions so far.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Le Castellet 2025. #48 VDS Panis Racing Oreca 07 - Gibson

Matteo Cairoli and Mattys Jaubert in second row

Matteo Cairoli (Iron Lynx – Proton’s #9 ORECA 07 Gibson) who has been dominating Thursday Collective tests and both Free Practices ended third of qualifying with a 1:49.009 ahead of Mathys Jaubert with #18 Genesis-backed IDEC Sport with a 1:49.206.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Le Castellet 2025. Iron Lynx – Proton’s #9 ORECA 07 Gibson (left); #18 Genesis-backed IDEC Sport (right)

Inter Europol and CLX _ Pure Racing in third row.

Luca GHIOTTO in #34 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 - Gibson ended up fifth fastest and Tom Blomqvist in #37 CLX - Pure Racing sixth.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Le Castellet 2025. #34 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 - Gibson (left); #37 CLX - Pure Racing (right)

LMP2 Qualifying session results by driver

Source: ELMS

LMP2 Pro-Am

PJ Hyett in #99 AO by TF was the fastest Bronze drivers participating to the LMP2 Pro-Am qualifying session reduced to 7 cars as last year class champion François Perrodo with #83 AF Corse did not participate to the session. Giorgio Roda in #77 Proton Competition Oreca was second ahead of Rodrigo Sales in #29 TDS Racing Oreca.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Le Castellet 2025. #99 AO by TF Oreca 07 - Gibson (left); #77 Proton Competition Oreca (center); #29 TDS Racing Oreca. (right)

LMP2 Pro-Am Qualifying session results by driver

Source: ELMS

Schedule

Sunday May 4th: 12:00-16:00: race

Related info

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Le Castellet. Matteo Cairoli fastest, only Fittipaldi within 1"

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Barcelona. ELMS circus at Le Castellet this coming weekend.

📷 © Courtesy of iron Dames. The Iron Dames commanding performance at Barcelona

📷 © Luc Warnotet at Barcelona. 4 women at start of race with the 4 clinching P1