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Team Endurance Challenge FLM Oreca were the winners in the LMPC category in the European Le Mans Series race in Italy.

The 20-minute qualifying session at Imola took place under blue skies.

The two 60-minute sessions on day one of the 3 Hours of Imola weekend saw plenty of track action.

In LMGTE, the pole was taken by Ram Racing's Ferrari team while the GTC honors went to the MOMO Audi No. 65

Final testing before the start of the ELMS

Thirty cars and ten different nationalities to start the first ELMS round.

"Le Mans remains an important objective for us and we are starting the work today to be there in 2014 in accordance with our ambitions," explains Dominique Heintz, team manager.

Soheil Ayari and Anthony Pons will share one of three ORECA-FLM 09 entered in the ELMS. Alex Loan and Matthieu Lecuyer have also been selected by Team Endurance Challenge.

As reported earlier in the week, the famous Renault brand Alpine will be returning to sportscars this year. It's official.

The twenty-two teams represent nine different countries - France, Great Britain, Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy, Netherlands and the United States.

Exceptional cars and top-line drivers plus stars will be ready for the 90th Anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Along side their GT and French Porsche Carrera Cup programs, Sébastien Loeb Racing will enter the European Le Mans Series

Stephen Errity, ELMS corespondent