The 25 competitors of the Barcelona Heat took part in the first free practice session of the season at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (Spain). Tomas Pompidou and Marcus Terkildsen respectively put the #19 Trajectus Motorsport Ligier JS P4 and the #88 23Events Racing Ligier JS2 R at the top of the timesheets. The second free practice session will get underway at 13:50 local time.
The seventh season of the Ligier European Series officially got underway on Friday morning, 10 April, at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (4.657 km), in spring-like conditions with an ambient temperature of 15°C.
This 40-minute session proved particularly lively. In the Ligier JS P4 category, 2025 Ligier JS Cup France Junior champion Tomas Pompidou, at the wheel of the #19 Trajectus Motorsport entry, first beat last year’s Free Practice 1 benchmark time before improving further to set the reference lap of the session in 1:44.700.
Behind him, Mika Abrahams in the #6 ANS Motorsport Ligier JS P4 (1:45.573) and August Therbo in the #57 M Racing car (1:45.599) were separated by just 0.026 seconds. Alex Gardner in the #14 Team Virage entry and reigning Ligier JS2 R Champion Simone Riccitelli in the #7 LR Motorsport car completed the top five.
In the PRO-AM class, August Therbo set the fastest time in the #57 M Racing car. AM leader Jeremy Loisel experienced a busy session in the #50 Les Deux Arbres entry, with an orange and black flag shown for smoke, followed by a spin towards the end of the session.
The pace was equally strong in the Ligier JS2 R category, where Denmark’s Marcus Terkildsen, driving the #88 for 23Events Racing, broke the category lap record (1:49.811) by setting a 1:49.726 on his ninth lap. He finished ahead of the #41 VSF Sports car, which had long led the session in the hands of Daniel Dallakyan (1:50.221), and the #83 Trajectus Motorsport entry driven by Charles Lambert (1:50.707). The top three GT cars were covered by less than one second.
Maxime Aparicio set the fastest time in PRO-AM in the #18 VSF Sports Ligier JS2 R, while David Caussanel led the AM class in the #94 Pegasus Racing car.
The second 40-minute free practice session will begin at 13:50 (local time).
To view the full session results, CLICK HERE.
