2012 6 Hours of Donington

The 2012 6 Hours of Donington was an auto race held at the Donington Park Circuit, Leicestershire, United Kingdom on 13–15 July 2012. It was the second round of the 2012 European Le Mans Series season, and the first time that the European Le Mans Series held the 6 Hours of Donington since 2006. The race was won by Olivier Pla, Demitri Enjalbert, and Bertrand Baguette driving for OAK Racing in a Morgan-Nissan.

Layout of the Donington Park

Qualifying

Qualifying result

Pole position in each class are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	Team	Driver	Lap Time	Grid
1	LMP2	No. 24 OAK Racing	Matthieu Lahaye	1:20.921	1
2	LMP2	No. 46 Thiriet by TDS Racing	Mathias Beche	1:21.063	2
3	LMP2	No. 38 Jota	Sam Hancock	1:21.192	3
4	LMP2	No. 35 OAK Racing	Olivier Pla	1:21.226	4
5	LMP2	No. 1 Greaves Motorsport	Tom Kimber-Smith	1:21.238	5
6	LMP2	No. 17 Status GP	Alexander Sims	1:21.293	6
7	LMP2	No. 19 Sébastien Loeb Racing	Stéphane Sarrazin	1:21.539	7
8	LMP2	No. 18 Murphy Prototypes	Jody Firth	1:21.971	8
9	LMP2	No. 10 Pecom Racing	Soheil Ayari	1:22.879	9
10	LMPC	No. 40 Boutsen Ginion Racing	Thomas Dagoneau	1:28.737	10
11	LMGTE Pro	No. 66 JMW Racing	Jonny Cocker	1:29.328	13
12	LMGTE Am	No. 60 AF Corse	Marco Cioci	1:29.733	11
13	LMGTE Am	No. 67 IMSA Performance Matmut	Nicolas Armindo	1:30.183	12

Note: The No. 66 JMW Ferrari was moved to the back of the starting grid for substituting a driver after the qualifying session.

Race

Race result

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps
					Engine
1	LMP2	35	OAK Racing	Olivier Pla Dimitri Enjalbert Bertrand Baguette	Morgan LMP2	D	251
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
2	LMP2	46	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Pierre Thiriet Mathias Beche	Oreca 03	D	251
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
3	LMP2	18	Murphy Prototypes	Warren Hughes Jody Firth Brendon Hartley	MG-Oreca 03	D	251
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
4	LMP2	19	Sébastien Loeb Racing	Nicolas Marroc Stéphane Sarrazin Nicolas Minassian	Oreca 03	D	250
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
5	LMP2	10	Pecom Racing	Luís Pérez Companc Pierre Kaffer Soheil Ayari	Oreca 03	D	246
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
6	LMP2	24	OAK Racing	Matthieu Lahaye Jacques Nicolet	Morgan LMP2	D	244
					Judd HK 3.6 L V8
7	LMP2	1	Greaves Motorsport	Alex Brundle Tom Kimber-Smith Lucas Ordoñez	Zytek Z11SN	D	234
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
8	LMGTE Pro	66	JMW Motorsport	Jonny Cocker Allan Simonsen	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	D	232
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
9	LMGTE Am	67	IMSA Performance Matmut	Anthony Pons Nicolas Armindo Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	231
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
10	LMGTE Am	60	AF Corse	Piergiuseppe Perazzini Marco Cioci Matt Griffin	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	230
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
11	LMPC	40	Boutsen Ginion Racing	Thomas Dagoneau Jean-Charles Battut John Hartshorne	Oreca FLM09	M	213
					Corvette 6.2 L V8
12 DNF	LMP2	38	Jota	Sam Hancock Simon Dolan	Zytek Z11SN	D	127
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
13 DNF	LMP2	17	Status GP	Alexander Sims Julien Jousse Maxime Jousse	Lola B12/80	D	45
					Judd HK 3.6 L V8