2016 6 Hours of Silverstone
7 car of André Lotterer, Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer won the pole position and maintained their advantage on the race's first lap.
7 Audi was disqualified when scrutineers discovered that its front skid block was worn out by more than the regulations allowed for, handing the victory to Lieb, Jani and Romain Dumas.
5 drivers Stéphane Sarrazin, Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi finished in second and Dominik Kraihamer, Alexandre Imperatori and Mathéo Tuscher came in third to secure Rebellion Racing's first podium in the series since 2013.
The Le Mans Grand Touring Amateur (LMGTE Am) category was led throughout the final stages by François Perrodo, Emmanuel Collard and Rui Águas who won their first race of the season in the No.
The result meant Lieb, Jani and Dumas became the leaders of the Drivers' Championship with 25 points, seven ahead of their nearest rivals Sarrazin, Conway and Kobayashi, and a further three in front of Kraihamer, Imperatori and Piquet.
[2] 2014–15 Formula E champion Nelson Piquet Jr. took over from Mathias Beche and joined fellow racers Nick Heidfeld and Nico Prost in Rebellion Racing's No.
88 Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR, joining the team's regular drivers David Heinemeier Hansson and Khaled Al Qubaisi.
[7] Gulf Racing made their first appearance in the series with 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix driver Adam Carroll, Porsche Supercup podium finisher Ben Barker and the team's co-founder Michael Wainwright.
[10] Heading into the new season, co-defending World Endurance champion Mark Webber stated Porsche's performance advantage over their two main rivals could possibly disappear at Silverstone but felt the team could successfully retain the drivers' and manufacturers' titles.
[13] In the second practice session, which took place in dry weather conditions for most of the 90-minute period and became wet when rain fell in the closing stages which prevented any drivers from improving on their fastest times, Brendon Hartley in Porsche's No.
51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE, while Carroll's Gulf Racing car was fastest in LMGTE Am, despite driving off the track in the session's closing minutes.
[19] Driver adviser Yannick Dalmas was asked to assess the track's condition during the stoppage and gave feedback that prompted the session's premature end with half an hour remaining.
7 Audi clinched the vehicle's first pole position of the season, and the team's first since the 2013 6 Hours of Fuji, with an average lap time of 1 minute and 53.204 seconds.
[24] Di Grassi recorded the fastest qualifying timed lap late in the session but went off the track heading into Vale corner while attempting to go faster.
50 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R held the class pole position in the early part of the session but the team fell to third following the handover to co-driver Yutaka Yamagishi.
31 Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier driving into Club corner after encountering a LMGTE Ferrari, went across grass, and spun at the turn's center, allowing Rusinov to move into the lead of LMP2 and Ricardo González took over second.
Turner overtook Priaulx for fourth place in LMGTE Pro while Christensen moved ahead of Mücke for second position in the category at Stowe corner.
Panciatici heavily out-braked Cumming to claim fourth place while Piquet lost control of his car in an attempt to overtake the defensive Rossiter who kept eighth position.
Benoît Tréluyer pushed hard and lost control of his car's back-end at Vale corner, allowing Jani to move into second position.
[36] Christensen's right-front tyre was punctured at Becketts corner and he made a pit stop for a replacement wheel which promoted Turner to second in the class.
[35] The incident allowed Jani to move into the lead but di Grassi stopped at Farm Curve with a motor generator unit problem shortly afterwards.
13 Rebellion Racing car, Tréluyer overtook Lieb to move into the lead on the approach to Maggots corner and pulled away on the Hangar straight.
[35] Rast stopped at the entrance of Maggots corner with a fuel pump pressure failure,[41] causing him to lose the LMP2 lead to Watts and rejoined in third place in class.
After serving an earlier three-minute stop-and-go penalty for changing the car's engine Calado was running third in LMGTE Pro while Buemi drove the No.
71 AF Corse Ferrari of Bird and Rigon were unchallenged throughout the race and clinched their first victory of the season, in front of teammates Bruni and Calado, with Turner, Nicki Thiim and Marco Sørensen in the No.
[43] In LMGTE Am, François Perrodo, Emmanuel Collard and Agias led the final half hour to secure their team's first win of the year in the category with a one-lap advantage over Aston Martin's No.
Lotterer was delighted over his team's performance, saying at this early stage of the season, Audi were "amazed" they were able to finish as the winners, but felt they were lucky because of Hartley's crash.
[47] Conway said the team's result was "a cool way to start the year" but had not been easy because Toyota still needed to work on their car's pace to get closer to their opposition.
Hartley revealed that he did not feel pressure because of his large advantage upfront but did not apportion blame for the accident, calling it "a shocking moment and it is a true shame.
7 Audi's disqualification meant Lieb, Jani and Dumas took their first victory of the season with Sarrazin, Conway and Kobayashi promoted to second,[43] and Rebellion Racing's No.
