Alpine won the 6 Hours of Monza 2022 at Autodromo Nazionale Monza. The #36 Alpine A480 of Alpine ELF Team covered 194 laps over 6 hours, a race distance of 1,124 km. The winning crew: André Negrão, Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere. The margin to second place was just 2.762 s — a sprint finish after a full endurance race. The quickest manufacturer over one lap was Glickenhaus — but the win went to Alpine. Pace and result do not always match.
How the Lead Was Won
Across the race we counted 2 lead changes among 3 different cars in the HYPERCAR class. At the closest point, first and second were only 2.2 s apart. For 5 of 6 measured hours the gap stayed under 30 seconds.
That is a real head-to-head fight, not a comfortable lead.
Figure 1 shows how that gap moved over the distance.
Manufacturer Pace
We rank pace by the average of each manufacturer’s fastest lap. That measures real speed over the distance instead of one lucky lap. The order at the top: Glickenhaus (215.9 km/h), Alpine (213.3 km/h), Toyota (213.2 km/h).
Between the fastest and the slowest manufacturer in the HYPERCAR class lie 4.0 km/h. That is a wide spread. At this track, the concept differences show clearly.
Figure 2 sets the pace order side by side.
Reliability by Class
3 of 38 cars did not make the finish — an overall retirement rate of 8%. The heaviest toll fell on HYPERCAR with 33%, while LMGTE Pro came through best at 0%.
Over this distance, reliability is a result in itself. A car that stops scores nothing, no matter how fast it was.
Figure 3 compares the classes directly.
Efficiency Over the Distance
Our efficiency score multiplies average lap speed by laps completed and compares that to the class average. It rewards cars that were fast and stayed out of trouble. A value of 1.000 is exactly class average.
The top score goes to #36 Alpine with 1.307. That is the winning car — speed and durability came from the same package.
Figure 4 ranks the cars by that score.
The Closing Phase
In the final hour, 76% of the field held position within ±1 place (n = 38). Most of the order was set, but a few fights ran to the end. The biggest single move came from #31 Oreca, 9 places forward.
Figure 5 shows how settled the finish really was.
Fastest Lap and Class Gaps
The fastest single lap of the race belongs to #708 Glickenhaus (Glickenhaus Racing): 1:36.589 at 215.9 km/h. Crew: Olivier Pla, Romain Dumas and Luis Felipe Derani.
Between HYPERCAR and LMP2 sits a pace gap of 2.5 s per lap. That number decides how much traffic the leaders have to work through.
Class winners — HYPERCAR: #36 Alpine (Alpine ELF Team), LMP2: #41 Oreca (Realteam by WRT), LMGTE Pro: #64 Chevrolet (Corvette Racing), LMGTE Am: #77 Porsche (Dempsey - Proton Racing).
Putting the Race in Context
The winner averaged 186.9 km/h across 1,124 km. On a 5.793 km lap, that is the pace the whole strategy had to sustain.
We calculate the same metrics for every race in the archive: pace order, reliability by class, lead changes, winning margin, closing stability and efficiency. That makes this race directly comparable with every other round of the 2022 season — and with the seasons before it.
All figures are derived from the full classification of every race hour and are recalculated with each build.
