4 Hours of Portimão

The 4 Hours of Portimão (also known as 4 Hours of Algarve) is an endurance race for sports cars, held at Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, in Portugal. The first races were held in 2009 and 2010 as 1000 Kilometres of Algarve, as part of Le Mans Series calendar. Since 2017, it is run in 4 hours format, as part of the European Le Mans Series.

4 Hours of Portimão

Le Mans Series
Venue	Autódromo Internacional do Algarve
First race	2009
First LMS race	2009
Duration	4 hours
Most wins (driver)	Philip Hanson (4)
Most wins (team)	United Autosports (4)
Most wins (manufacturer)	Oreca (6)

Not to be confused with 6 Hours of Portimão, which was a FIA World Endurance Championship race, held in 2021 and 2023.

History

The 1000 Kilometres of Algarve was run for the first time in 2009, and was the third round of the Le Mans Series. The race was won by Pescarolo Sport, whilst Quifel ASM Team won the LMP2 category, Alphand Aventures won the GT1 category, and JMW Motorsport won the GT2 category. The race was held again in 2010, and again was the third round of the Le Mans Series. This time, Team Oreca Matmut took the overall victory, whilst RML won the LMP2 category, DAMS won the Formula Le Mans category, AF Corse won the GT2 category, and Larbre Competition won the GT1 category. For 2011, the Portuguese round of the Le Mans Series used the Autódromo do Estoril instead, and the 1000 km of Algarve hasn't been run since.

In 2017 Portimão took the place of Estoril in the European Le Mans series calendar, in a 4 hour race.

In 2023 with the cancelation of the 4 Hours of Imola for the European Le Mans Series, the Portimão round became a double-header to fill the void, with the race being named 4 Hours of Algarve and 4 Hours of Portimão.

Winners

Year	Drivers	Team	Car	Time	Distance	Championship
2009	Jean-Christophe Boullion Christophe Tinseau	Pescarolo Sport	Pescarolo 01 Evo	5:49:04.176	1000 km	Le Mans Series
2010	Olivier Panis Stéphane Sarrazin Nicolas Lapierre	Team Oreca Matmut	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (Diesel)	5:48:30.820	1000 km	Le Mans Series
2011–2016: not held
Year	Drivers	Team	Car	Laps (Distance)	Duration	Championship
2017	James Allen Richard Bradley Gustavo Yacamán	Graff	Oreca 07	139 laps (646,64 km)	4 hours	European Le Mans Series
2018	Filipe Albuquerque Philip Hanson	United Autosports	Ligier JS P217	140 laps (651,69 km)	4 hours	European Le Mans Series
2019	Paul-Loup Chatin Paul Lafargue Memo Rojas	IDEC Sport	Oreca 07	106 laps (492,95 km)	4 hours	European Le Mans Series
2020	Roman Rusinov Mikkel Jensen Nyck de Vries	G-Drive Racing	Aurus 01	147 laps (683,72 km)	4 hours	European Le Mans Series
2021	Jonathan Aberdein Tom Gamble Philip Hanson	United Autosports	Oreca 07	130 laps (604,89 km)	4 hours	European Le Mans Series
2022	Louis Delétraz Ferdinand Habsburg Juan Manuel Correa	Prema Racing	Oreca 07	126 laps (586,28 km)	4 hours	European Le Mans Series
2023 (4 Hours of Algarve)	Marino Sato Philip Hanson Oliver Jarvis	United Autosports	Oreca 07	120 laps (558,00 km)	4 hours	European Le Mans Series
2023 (4 Hours of Portimão)	Marino Sato Philip Hanson Oliver Jarvis	United Autosports	Oreca 07	97 laps (442,32 km)	4 hours	European Le Mans Series