The 2023 4 Hours of Portimão was an

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event held between 19 and 22 October 2023, as the sixth and the final round of the

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season.

Entry list

The entry list was published on 11 October and consisted of 41 entries in 4 categories – 7 in LMP2, 10 in LMP2 Pro/Am, 12 in LMP3 and 12 in LMGTE. The No. 10

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withdrew from competing before the racing weekend.

Schedule

Free practice

* Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Qualifying

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Race

Race result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 67 laps. Class winners are marked in bold.

Statistics

Fastest lap

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Job van Uitert Jacobus "Job" van Uitert (born 10 October 1998 in Dongen) is a racing driver from the Netherlands. He is currently racing in the LMP2 class of the 2024 European Le Mans Series, European Le Mans Series with IDEC Sport Racing, IDEC Sport. Early ca ...

, #65

Panis Racing Olivier Jean Denis Marie Panis (; born 2 September 1966) is a French former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Panis won the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix with Ligier. Panis competed in Formula One for Ligier, Prost, BAR and Toyota, ...

, 1:35.475 , align="center" , 77 , - ! LMP2 Pro/Am ,

Ian Rodríguez Ian Geoffrey Rodríguez Wright (born 28 July 2000) is a Guatemalan racing driver who is currently driving in the Formula Regional Americas Championship for Newman Wachs Racing. Career Karting Born in Guatemala City, Rodríguez started ...

, #19 Team Virage , 1:35.854 , align="center" , 77 , - ! LMP3 , Marcos Siebert , #17

Cool Racing CLX Motorsport, formerly known as Cool Racing, is a French-based Swiss sports car racing team which currently competes in the European Le Mans Series, fielding entries in the LMP2 and LMP3 classes, as well as the Le Mans Cup. Founded in 2017 by ...

, 1:41.421 , align="center" , 90 , - ! LMGTE ,

Daniel Serra Daniel Gardano Serra (born 24 February 1984) is a Brazilian auto racing driver. He competes full-time in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series, driving the No. 29 Chevrolet Cruze for Eurofarma-RC and is also a Ferrari Factory Driver. He won 3 tim ...

, #57

Kessel Racing Loris Kessel (1 April 1950 – 15 May 2010) was a racing driver from Switzerland. Biography Kessel was born in Lugano. He participated in six Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 2 May 1976. He scored no championship points. ...

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References

Portimão Portimão () is a city and a municipality in the district of Faro (district), Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. The population in 2022 was 63,079 in an area of 182.06 km2. It was formerly known as Vila Nova de Portimão. In ...

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