Donington win, and title, for Pescarolo.

Pescarolo Sport have claimed the 2006 Le Mans Series title after Emmanuel Collard, Jean-Christophe Boullion and Didier Andre took the flag at Donington Park to make it four wins from four this season.

The Judd powered car battled back from an early drive through penalty and a stop-go penalty to claim victory by two laps from the Creation Autosportif car of Nicolas Minassian and Kevin McGarrity, with the sister car of Jamie Campbell-Walter, Felipe Ortiz and Beppe Gabbiani rounding out the podium places.

"It was our target to win the race and the title," Boullion said. "We would like to win all five races so we still have one more to go and then we will be very happy. We have to congratulate the team as they did a great job and gave us a good car. They helped us to win the race."

In LMP2, RML benefited from late heartache for Martin Short's Rollcentre Racing team to claim a first victory of the season with the MG Lola. With Rob Barff out front in the Radical but Tommy Erdos reeling him in, it looked like being a fight to the flag between the two British teams, only for a starter motor problem to halt Barff's challenge when he pitted for a late fuel stop. With the car stationary in the garage when the flag dropped, the team was denied a classified finish, which gave second in class to the Pilbeam of Marc Rostan and Pierre Bruneau, with the Binnie Motorsports Lola third.

GT1 honours also went the way of a British team, and again in dramatic late fashion, as the Team Modena Aston Martin DBR9 driven by Antonio Garcia and Peter Hardman overhauled the Luc Alphand Aventures Corvette C5-R in the dying minutes, the Corvette crossing the line in second, with the Convers MenX Ferrari 550 Maranello showing there is life in the old dog yet by taking the final podium place.

The Team Oreca Saleen S7R of Stephane Ortelli and Soheil Ayari had plenty of pace to lead the category, but Ortelli continued his eventful weekend by driving through the length of a gravel trap at speed, damaging the floor, and then retiring with a loss of engine power, while the Larbre Aston Martin lost time with a brake problem and had to settle for fifth in class - behind the PSI Experience Corvette C6.R.

Team LNT made it a hat-trick for the home crews, taking the GT2 class victory thanks to Rob Bell and Warren Hughes in the #82 Panoz Esperante, with Marc Lieb and Joel Camathias second in the Autorlando Porsche - a result good enough to secure the class title.

The #97 GPC Ferrari, which had led the class until a spin for Andrea Montermini at the Old Hairpin, completed the podium.