However, a 10 second post race penalty for the #9 Oreca (Stewards Decision no24) saw Prema Racing demoted to 5thand the #21 Muehlner Motorsport Oreca move into the final podium position, the Belgian teams first in LMP2, ahead of the #22 United Autosports Oreca.

The LMP3 battle was won by the #13 Euro Interpol Competition Ligier, with Guilherme Oliveira finishing the four-hour race nine seconds ahead of the #6 360 Racing Ligier of Ross Kaiser.

The #2 United Autosports Ligier of Finn Gehrsitz went off track and dropped back down the order with 18 minutes of the race remaining and the leading #10 Eurointernational Ligier of Glenn Van Berlo was handed a drive through penalty in the final five minutes of the race.

Reigning Champions Iron Lynx were the first of the 12 LMGTE cars to cross the finish line with Davide Rigon in the #60 Ferrari 488 GTE EVO fighting his way up the order to take the chequered flag at the home race for the all Italian team.

However, the #60 Ferrari stopped on track and was pushed to the pitlane by the #83 Iron Dames Ferrari, which is a breach of Article 15.1.1 of the 2022 ELMS Sporting Regulations and Article 2.5 of the FIA International Sporting Code (ISC) and was disqualified.The Iron Lynx team have appealed this decision and the LMGTE results remain provisional (Stewards Decision no25).

The #77 Proton Competition Porsche, which finished in second place with Lorenzo Ferrari taking the finish just 0.9 seconds behind the lead car, is now classified as the winner with the no57 Kessel Racing Ferrari in second and the no18 Absolute Racing Porsche in third.

The next round of the 2022 European Le Mans Series will be the 4 Hours of Barcelona on Sunday 28 August.

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