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France 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans
Event information
Round 4 of 8 in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship
Date15–16 June 2024
LocationLe Mans, France
VenueCircuit de la Sarthe
Duration24 Hours
Results
Laps completed311
Distance (km)4237.542
Distance (miles)2633.087
Hypercar
Pole position
Time3:24.634
TeamGermany Porsche Penske Motorsport
DriversFrance Kévin Estre
Winners
TeamItaly Ferrari AF Corse
DriversItaly Antonio Fuoco
Spain Miguel Molina
Denmark Nicklas Nielsen
LMP2
Winners
TeamUnited Kingdom United Autosports
DriversUnited States Bijoy Garg
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
United States Nolan Siegel
LMP2 Pro-Am
Winners
TeamItaly AF Corse
DriversUnited Kingdom Ben Barnicoat
France François Perrodo
Argentina Nicolás Varrone
LMGT3
Winners
TeamGermany Manthey EMA
DriversAustria Richard Lietz
Netherlands Morris Schuring
Australia Yasser Shahin
The race-winning No. 50 Ferrari 499P

The 92nd 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 92e 24 Heures du Mans) was an automobile endurance race for teams of three drivers each racing Le Mans Prototypes (LMP) and Le Mans Grand Touring Car (LMGT3) cars held from 15 to 16 June 2024 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, near Le Mans, France. The Automobile Club de l'Ouest's 92nd 24-hour race drew 329,000 spectators and was the fourth round of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship. There was a test day on 9 June, a week before the event.

Kévin Estre, André Lotterer and Laurens Vanthoor's Porsche 963 from Porsche Penske Motorsport started from pole position after Estre achieved the fastest overall lap time in the Le Mans Hypercar category in the Hyperpole session. Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen's Ferrari 499P of Ferrari AF Corse took the overall victory after 311 laps. It was Fuoco, Molina, and Nielsen's first overall Le Mans victory, Ferrari's second consecutive win, and the Italian marque's 11th. Nyck de Vries, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López finished second in a Toyota GR010 Hybrid, duelling with the race winners in the final two hours. The sister Ferrari AF Corse team of James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi were third overall. A record number of cars, nine, finished on the lead lap.

United Autosports's Bijoy Garg, Oliver Jarvis and Nolan Siegel shared an Oreca 07-Gibson car and led the last two hours of the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class, giving the team its second category victory after 2020. Inter Europol Competition's trio of Vladislav Lomko, Clément Novalak and Jakub Śmiechowski finished 18.6 seconds behind in second place, with IDEC Sport's Reshad de Gerus, Paul Lafargue and Job van Uitert taking third. In the first LMGT3 race at Le Mans, the Manthey EMA team of Richard Lietz, Morris Schuring and Yasser Shahin in a Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) won the category by one lap ahead over Team WRT's Augusto Farfus, Sean Gelael and Darren Leung, who shared a BMW M4 GT3.

The Porsche Penske trio of Estre, Lotterer and Vanthoor remained atop the Hypercar Drivers' Championship with 99 points; their advantage was cut to nine points by race winners Fuoco, Molina and Nielsen, who moved from fifth to second. Lietz, Shahin, Schuring became the joint leaders of the FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGT3 Drivers with Manthey PureRxcing's Klaus Bachler, Alex Malykhin and Joel Sturm. Porsche, the No. 12 Hertz Team Jota and the No. 91 Manthey EMA teams left Le Mans as the Hypercar World Endurance Championship, World Cup for Hypercar Teams and Endurance Trophy for LMGT3 Teams leaders with four races remaining in the season.

Background

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In June 2023, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), the organiser of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance motor race confirmed the dates for the 2024 edition.[1][2] It was held at the 13.626 km (8.467 mi) Circuit de la Sarthe close to the city of Le Mans in the French department of Sarthe between 15 and 16 June, and was the 92nd running of the race since the first in 1923 as well as was the fourth round of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).[2][3][4]

Before the race, Porsche Penske Motorsport's Kévin Estre, André Lotterer and Laurens Vanthoor led the Hypercar Drivers' Championship with 74 points, 22 ahead of Team Jota's Callum Ilott and Will Stevens, who in turn, were six points ahead of Toyota's Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries.[5] In the FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGT3 Drivers, Manthey PureRxcing's Klaus Bachler, Alex Malykhin and Joel Sturm led Team WRT's Augusto Farfus, Sean Gelael and Darren Leung and Heart of Racing Team's Ian James, Daniel Mancinelli and Alex Riberas by 35 points each.[5] Porsche led Toyota by 23 points in the Hypercar World Endurance Championship, Hertz Team Jota led AF Corse by nine points in the World Cup for Hypercar Teams and Manthey PureRxcing led Team WRT and Heart of Racing Team by 35 points in the Endurance Trophy for LMGT3 Teams.[5]

Regulation and circuit changes

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A new Le Mans Grand Touring Car (LMGT3) category,[6] with regulations based on the global GT3-specification of cars intended to reduce costs and ensure that the event was more affordable for participants, replaced the ageing Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Am (LMGTE Am) class as the race's production-based car category.[7][8] Cars were modified to ensure that they conformed to WEC regulations,[9] and the class is run to pro–am regulations in that teams are required to sign at least one Bronze-rated driver with one additional Bronze or Silver-rated driver.[10] Although the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) category had been dropped from the WEC because of an increase in Le Mans Hypercar (Hypercar) entries, it was retained for Le Mans but entries would not score championship points since they do not compete full-time in the WEC.[11]

Following criticism of the race restarts being too long following the end of a safety car procedure in 2023, the system was slightly modified to remove the "drop-back" element in which all three classes were grouped together. Thus, all classes would be mixed together at a restart to try to prevent duels from being split up and to shorten the procedure.[12] The ACO prohibited the heating of tyres through the use of tyre warmers prior to their installation onto a car to bring the race in line with the rest of the WEC season after an exception was granted for the 2023 event as a result of multiple accidents at the 2023 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps when several cars on cold tyres crashed in cool conditions.[13] An exception to the tyre warmer ban was considered but not implemented.[14]

In September 2023, the road surface between the Mulsanne to Arnage corners were resurfaced for the first time since 2005 by the public organisation Syndicat Mixte des 24 Heures du Mans for better technical compliance for Le Mans sports cars on the circuit.[15]

Entries

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Entry to the event was opened from 7 December 2023 to 13 February 2024. The ACO Selection Committee granted 62 invitations and entries were divided between the Hypercar, LMP2 and LMGT3 categories.[16]

Automatic entries

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Teams that won championships in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), the Asian Le Mans Series (ALMS) and the GT World Challenge Europe (GTWCE) in its combined Endurance and Sprint Bronze Cup championships earned automatic invitations. The ELMS LMP2 championship runner-up received an automatic invitation as well.[17] Unlike previous years, Le Mans Cup participants were not granted any invites,[17] while the ALMS' LMP3 champion instead earned a priority invitation to the Road to Le Mans support race.[18] All current WEC full-season entries were automatically invited. Three participants from the IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA) were chosen by the ACO to be automatic entries, with one invited to enter the Hypercar category at IMSA's discretion and the other two to the LMP2 and LMGTE classes. The ELMS LMGTE team that earned an automatic entry could only enter in LMGT3 while its LMP3 champion had to enter an LMP2 car.[17]

Invitations were given if the car had been entered in the ALMS, ELMS or IMSA series for 2024 and were only issued if the entrant took part in all events in their given championship. No competitor was allowed to accumulate more than two invitations in each category combined and invites were not transferable to another entrant.[17] The ACO announced the full list of automatic entries on 12 February 2024.[18] Algarve Pro Racing opted to forego their automatic invitation as winners of the 2023–24 ALMS LMP2 category because it wanted to concentrate on running two cars at Le Mans and did not want to possibly compromise on quality with three entries.[19] Pure Rxcing also did not take up their automatic invites for winning the GTWCE Bronze Cup as well as the ALMS GT championship.[20] Neither of the ALMS runners-up in Proton Competition (LMP2) or Triple Eight JMR (GT) were given invites as a result.[21]

Automatic entries for the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans
Reason invited Hypercar LMP2 LMGT3
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 and LMGTE) Portugal Algarve Pro Racing Germany Proton Competition
2nd in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2) United States United Autosports
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 Pro-Am) Italy AF Corse
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP3) Switzerland Cool Racing
IMSA SportsCar Championship at-large entries United States Whelen Cadillac Racing United States George Kurtz United States Brendan Iribe
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP2 and GT) Portugal CrowdStrike Racing by APR Lithuania Pure Rxcing
1st in the GT World Challenge Europe (Bronze Cup) Lithuania Pure Rxcing
Source:[18]

Entry list and reserves

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Further information: 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship § Entries

The ACO announced the full 62 car entry list on 19 February 2024.[20] In addition to the 37 guaranteed WEC entries, there were 17 ELMS entries, seven WTSC entries, no ALMS entries, and a single one-off Le Mans entry. There were 39 cars in the two Prototype classes and 23 in the LMGT3 category.[22] There was no successful applications for the Garage 56 concept.[21] In addition to the 62 entries invited, seven (one from Hypercar and three each from LMP2 and LMGT3) were placed on a reserve list to replace withdrawn or unaccepted invitations. Reserve entries were ordered, with the first one replacing the first withdrawal from the race, regardless of class.[23] Entries were selected for their sporting quality, technical, fan, media and public interest and commitment, loyalty to other ACO-administered series and entrant's performance.[16]

An updated entry list was published on 6 May 2024 and included all driver-line ups. The ACO did not promote any reserves to the race, which was reduced from seven to five cars following the withdrawal of the Formula Racing's Ferrari 296 GT3 and Richard Mille by TDS's Oreca 07-Gibson LMP2 car.[23][24] By the start of test day, three reserves remained on the list: a second Proton Competition Porsche 963, and one Oreca LMP2 car each from Inter Europol Competition and Staysail Motorsport.[25]

Pre-race balance of performance changes

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The balance of performance was changed to try to ensure parity within all three classes,[26] and the race marked the debut of the WEC's Power Gain system that adjusts a car's maximum power over two speed thresholds to try to create further parity.[27][28] The Alpine A424, BMW M Hybrid V8, Isotta Fraschini Tipo 6 LMH-C, Toyota GR010 Hybrid were the four Hypercars that had their power raised while Ferrari 499P, the Lamborghini SC63, the Peugeot 9X8 received power reductions. Neither the Cadillac V-Series.R nor the Porsche 963 received any power alternations.[27] All of the nine cars in the LMGT3 category had ballast added to them to affect their handling. The Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo, the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R, the Ferrari 296 GT3, the Ford Mustang GT3, the Lexus RC F GT3 the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 and the Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) received power increases for better performance while the BMW M4 GT3 and the McLaren 720S GT3 Evo received no power increases.[29]

Testing

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One week before the race, on 9 June, all entrants were obliged to participate in six hours of driving divided into two sessions.[16] Some teams allowed their reserve drivers to participate in testing in place of their regular drivers who had other commitments.[25][30] Scott Dixon, Romain Grosjean, Álex Palou, Nolan Siegel and Kyffin Simpson missed testing because they were competing in the IndyCar Series race at Road America.[30][31] Midway through the opening session, Jack Aitken, Mirko Bortolotti, René Rast, Kelvin van der Linde, Sheldon van der Linde and Marco Wittmann left Le Mans after completing their running and travelled to Circuit Zandvoort to compete in the second Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters race there.[32][33] Frederik Vesti only participated in the second session as he had been working as Mercedes's Formula One reserve driver at the Canadian Grand Prix.[32]

Kévin Estre set the fastest overall lap time during the test day

Testing took place in sunny weather and no rain fell.[34] Toyota paced the field with a 3:28.467 lap from Kobayashi's No. 7 entry set early in the morning session. Estre's No. 6 Penske Porsche was second, ahead of Robin Frijns's No. 20 BMW, Bortolotti's No. 63 Iron Lynx Lamborghini and Robert Kubica's No. 83 AF Corse Ferrari.[35] 40 minutes in, Renger van der Zande stopped the No. 3 Cadillac on the run from Mulsanne corner to Indianapolis turn with a fuel-line fault, causing testing's first stoppage which lasted for 13 minutes.[36][37] Job van Uitert's No. 28 IDEC Sport car led LMP2 with a lap of 3:37.034 that was 0.132 seconds faster than Oliver Jarvis's No. 22 United Autosports vehicle.[35] Louis Delétraz in the No. 14 AO by TF car was the fastest LMP2 Pro-Am driver in third.[36] Lorenzo Fluxá brought an early end to the session when he crashed the No. 37 Cool Racing entry at the exit of the Porsche Curves after possibly getting the car unsettled over a bump in the track surface in that area with two minutes remaining.[36][37] Fluxá was unhurt.[36] Kelvin van der Linde paced LMGT3 with a 4:00.106 time in the No. 78 Akkodis ASP Team Lexus. Esteban Masson's sister No. 87 car and Gelael's No. 31 WRT BMW were second and third in class.[35][37]

Lap times were improved upon during the second session.[38] Estre set the early pace with a 3:27.998 lap time before improving to a 3:26.907 not long after to go fastest overall in testing. Felipe Nasr's sister No. 4 Penske Porsche went second in the session's final ten minutes. Third through fifth were Brendon Hartley's No. 8 Toyota, Michael Christensen's No. 5 Penske Porsche and Miguel Molina's No. 50 Ferrari.[39] Kobayashi ran wide at Indianapolis turn and damaged the No. 7 Toyota into the barrier with seven minutes remaining. The session was concluded early because Kobayashi's car required recovery.[40] In LMP2, Jarvis improved the fastest class lap to a 3:34.704 within the opening 15 minutes. Olli Caldwell's No. 25 Algarve Pro Racing and James Allen's No. 30 Duqueine Team entries followed in second and third. Stéphane Richelmi damaged the No. 10 Vector Sport car's front-left and floor at Indianapolis corner and stopped on the inside of the circuit. The session was stopped to recover the vehicle, which was sidelined for the rest of testing. P. J. Hyett was endeavouring to lap slower GT cars when he crashed the No. 14 AO by TF car at Indianapolis corner, prompting the safety car's deployment with 36 minutes left. Sébastien Baud set the first sub-four minute lap in LMGT3 with a 3:59.883 in the No. 82 TF Sport Corvette, 0.037 seconds faster than Riberas's 27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin.[39][40]

After testing

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After testing, Matteo Cairoli was issued a suspended 30-second stop-and-hold penalty for the rest of the event and one penalty point on his licence for driving in the opposite direction after spinning the No. 19 Iron Lynx Lamborghini at the exit of Arnage turn. Vesti and his team Cool Racing was required to serve a five-minute stop-and-hold penalty during the first practice session for violating track limits in testing after its early end prevented him from serving the penalty.[33][41]

Practice

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The first three-hour practice session took place in cloudy and cool weather conditions on the afternoon of 12 June.[3][42] Hartley set the fastest lap in the No. 8 Toyota with a time of 3:26.013 set with 50 minutes remaining.[42] Ilott's No. 12 Jota Porsche was second-fastest and was top for most of the session until Hartley's lap. Dries Vanthoor's No. 15 BMW was third, followed by Julien Andlauer's No. 99 Proton Porsche and De Vries's No. 7 Toyota.[43] Alex Lynn lost control of the rear of the No. 3 Cadillac at the exit to Tertre Rouge corner and crashed into the inside tyre barrier.[42][44] The accident brought out the red flag but Lynn returned to the garage for repairs.[42] All of the fastest times in LMP2 were set 15 minutes into the session.[44] Delétraz set the pace with a lap of 3:34.245 from Allen and Ben Hanley's No. 23 United Autosports USA entry.[43] Slow zones were required when Rodrigo Sales spun the No. 65 Panis Racing car into the Dunlop Curves gravel trap, Ben Keating stopped the No. 23 United Autosports USA car in the gravel just before the Porsche Curves wall and Vesti stopped the No. 47 Cool car on the inside of the first chicane. A right-front suspension forced Nicolás Varrone to stop the No. 183 AF Corse entry at Tertre Rouge turn.[42][45] Masson led LMGT3 with a 3:57.808 time set on his final lap of the session.[45] Brendan Iribe's No. 70 Inception Racing McLaren was second and held the fastest time for most of the session until Masson's lap.[43][45] Arnold Robin caused a stoppage when the No. 78 Akkodis ASP Lexus stopped at the side of the Mulsanne Straight while Michael Wainwright pulled the No. 86 GR Racing Ferrari to the side of the straight with a complete loss of power that could not be rectified, causing a Slow Zone.[42][45]

Callum Ilott damaged the tub of the No. 12 Hertz Team Jota Porsche 963 in an accident in the first practice session, leading to the chassis being replaced.

A second session, lasting two hours, followed that evening.[3] Sébastien Buemi was fastest with a time of 3:27.474 set early in the session aboard the No. 8 Toyota.[46] Kubica's No 83 Ferrari, Estre's No. 6 Penske Porsche, Norman Nato's No. 12 Jota Porsche and Nicolas Lapierre's No. 36 Alpine were second through fifth.[47] Dries Vanthoor mounted the kerb too hard at Indianapolis corner and went off into the tyre barrier with less than 20 minutes left. He was able to recover the No. 15 BMW to the pit lane for repairs without external aid. Nato's co-driver Ilott went off going into Tertre Rouge corner and damaged the No. 12 Jota Porsche's chassis insert stud mounting on the bottom front-right wishbone against the barrier just before the session ended.[46][47][48] Ilott was unhurt.[49] LMP2 was led by Malthe Jakobsen's No. 37 Cool car with a lap of 3:35.386. Jakobsen demoted initial class pacesetter Jarvis to second while Scott Huffaker's No. 65 Panis entry was third.[47][50] Hyett stopped the AO by TF car on the drive to Indianapolis corner with a detached wheel.[46] The first four places in LMGTE were taken by four different manufacturers.[46] Dennis Olsen led the category with a 3:58.689 lap in the No. 88 Proton Ford, 0.027 seconds faster than Marco Sørensen's No. 777 D'station Racing Aston Martin and Farfus's No. 31 BMW.[47]

The chassis of the No. 12 Jota Porsche was damaged beyond repair as a result of Ilott's accident, so the team were required to source a replacement chassis from Penske.[51] Jota were granted dispensation by the stewards to test the new car on the nearby Le Mans Arnage Airport on the evening of 14 June.[48]

A third session ran for three hours and was held in overcast conditions the following afternoon for teams to focus on racing setups and long runs.[3][52][53] Five separate manufacturers had the first five places,[53] with Antonio Fuoco's No. 50 Ferrari fastest with a 3:27.283 lap recorded at the session's conclusion.[54] Estre was second, with Dries Vanthoor third, and Sébastien Bourdais's No. 3 Cadillac fourth, separated by two-tenths of a second from Fuoco.[53] Mathias Beche set the fastest LMP2 lap time in the No. 65 Panis car at 3:37.217 despite his co-drivers Sales spinning into the tyre barrier at the exit of the Ford chicane and Huffaker got stuck in the gravel trap at Indianapolis corner.[52][53][55] Following Beche was Vesti's No. 47 Cool and Delétraz's No. 14 AO by TF entries.[54] Grégoire Saucy's No. 59 United Autosports McLaren led LMGT3 with a 3:57.558 despite co-driver James Cottingham crashing backwards into the barrier at Tertre Rouge corner after going onto the grass. The session was stopped and the car was recovered to the pit lane.[54][55] Not long after, Frederik Schandorff stopped the No. 70 Inception McLaren at the exit to Mulsanne corner with an acceleration fault. Franck Perera's No. 60 Iron Lynx Lamborghini and Daniel Serra's No. 86 GR Ferrari were second and third in class.[54]

The final session held for an hour started half an hour later than scheduled that evening due to an accident in the Road to Le Mans support race and rain fell on the track towards the conclusion of the session, meaning teams installed wet-weather tyres.[3][56][57] Hartley set the fastest overall lap time of 3:29.451 20 minutes into the session. Molina carried the No. 50 Ferrari to second with Sheldon van der Linde's No. 20 BMW third.[58] Mikkel Jensen's No. 93 Peugeot was fourth with Dries Vanthoor fifth.[59] Hanley led LMP2 with a time of 3:37.121 set during the session's opening minutes.[58] Fabio Scherer's No. 24 Nielsen Racing and Siegel's No. 23 United Autosports USA entries were second and third in category. Masson was fastest in LMGTE with a 3:58.755 from Marino Sato's No. 95 United Autosports McLaren and Ben Barker's No. 77 Proton Ford.[56][59]

Qualifying

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Divided into two sessions, an initial one-hour qualifying session decided the race's starting order, except for the fastest eight vehicles in each class, who qualified for a half-hour shootout, "Le Mans Hyperpole," which determined pole position in all three classes. Every Hypercar started upfront, regardless of lap time, followed by LMP2 and LMGT3. The eight qualifying Hyperpole cars were ordered by fastest Hyperpole-session lap time first, followed by the other non-qualifying class vehicles by fastest lap time set during the first qualifying session.[16]

The No. 7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid had all of its lap times deleted in the first qualifying session because driver Kamui Kobayashi caused qualifying to be stopped after spinning into the gravel trap.

Heavy traffic was a factor during the session.[60] The quickest Hypercar time was a 3:24.465 recorded by Dries Vanthoor with less than ten minutes remaining by being very fast in the final sector despite a very slow first sector.[61][62] Bourdais was the fastest driver until he was demoted to second by Vanthoor and Fuoco took third.[61] Kobayashi was fourth until the No. 7 Toyota had all of its lap times deleted by race control because he spun into the gravel trap at the exit of the final Porsche Curves turn with two minutes left and caused qualifying to be stopped.[61][63] This meant the No. 7 Toyota began the race from the rear of the Hypercar grid.[63] Paul-Loup Chatin's No. 36 Alpine was moved to fourth ahead of Lynn in the repaired No. 2 Cadillac.[61][64] The last of the three Hypercar qualifiers were Alessandro Pier Guidi's No. 51 Ferrari, Estre's No. 6 (despite an error at Mulsanne corner in the final ten minutes) Penske Porsche and Ilott's No. 12 Jota Porsche after Kobayashi's lap times were deleted.[61][63][64] The LMP2 qualifiers for Hyperpole were Jakobsen's No. 37 Cool, Delétraz's No. 14 AO by TF, Hanley's No. 23 United Autosports, Beche's No. 65 Panis, Van Utiert's No. 28 IDEC, Patrick Pilet's No. 10 Vector Sport, Laurents Hörr's No. 33 DKR Engineering and Jarvis's No. 22 United Autosport entries.[64][65] In LMGT3, Barker's No. 77 Proton Ford, Schandorff's No. 70 Inception McLaren, Daniel Juncadella's No. 82 TF Corvette, Perera's No. 60 Iron Lynx Lamborghini, Bachler's No. 92 Manthey PureRxcing Porsche, Riberas's No. 27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin, Larry ten Voorde's No. 66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari and Sørensen's No. 777 D'station Aston Martin advanced to Hyperpole.[61][65]

Kévin Estre secured the first pole position for Porsche at Le Mans since 2016.

The start of the Hyperpole session was delayed by 35 minutes because of an accident in the first Road to Le Mans support race that damaged the Armco barrier between the Mulsanne and Indianapolis corners.[66] When it did begin, under dark, cloudy conditions, Ferrari and then Cadillac were the early pacesetters before Estre qualified the No. 6 Penske Porsche on pole position with a 3:24.634 lap on his category's final lap of the session,[67][68] having slipstreamed Delétraz's LMP2 car into Indianapolis turn to run faster.[69] It was Porsche's first pole at Le Mans since 2016 and their 19th at the race.[70] Lynn put the No. 2 Cadillac second on his final lap and had pole until Estre's lap.[68] His teammate Bourdais carried the sister No. 3 car to third with a lap set halfway through Hyperpole and he did not set any other laps after the session was restarted following a stoppage because the halt to the session interrupted his second run and he did not have enough fuel to return to the track.[69][70][71] Pier Guidi was the quickest Ferrari driver in fourth. Fuoco's sister No. 50 entry was fifth after he aborted his final run due to a mistake at the Dunlop chicane. Chatin's No. 36 Alpine was sixth.[67][68] Dries Vanthoor understeered the No. 15 BMW heavily into the tyre wall at Indianapolis corner and Hyperpole was stopped with eight minutes left as the car needed extricating.[67][72] All of Vanthoor's lap times were invalidated as a result.[70] The No. 12 Jota Porsche did not participate in the session as it was being rebuilt from its second practice session accident.[72] LMP2 pole position was claimed by Delétraz's No. 14 AO by TF car with a 3:33.217 lap set on his final run in his maiden Le Mans pole position. Van Utiert's No. 28 IDEC entry was second after battling Delétraz for pole late in Hyperpole.[67][68] Following in third to fifth were Beche's No. 65 Panis car and the United Autosports pair of Hanley and Jarvis. Iribe carried the No. 70 Inception McLaren to the team's and marque's first Le Mans pole position in the maiden LMGT3 category qualifying session at Le Mans with a time of 3:58.120.[70][72] He attempted to lap faster but he was too fast and spun leaving the Ford chicane on his final fast lap.[67][70] Malykhin's No. 92 Manthey Porsche secured second and Giacomo Petrobelli's No. 66 Ferrari took third.[68]

After Hyperpole, the No. 2 Cadillac was demoted five places on the grid due to a penalty it was assessed after driver Earl Bamber collided with a LMGT3-category BMW at the preceding 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.[71]

Qualifying results

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Pole positions in each class are denoted in bold.

Final qualifying classification
Pos Class No. Team Qualifying Hyperpole Grid[73]
1 Hypercar 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 3:25.051 3:24.634 1
2 Hypercar 2 Cadillac Racing 3:24.993 3:24.782 7[Q 1]
3 Hypercar 3 Cadillac Racing 3:24.642 3:24.816 2
4 Hypercar 51 Ferrari AF Corse 3:25.049 3:25.156 3
5 Hypercar 50 Ferrari AF Corse 3:24.731 3:25.598 4
6 Hypercar 35 Alpine Endurance Team 3:24.872 3:25.713 5
7 Hypercar 15 BMW M Team WRT 3:24.465 No time 6
8 Hypercar 12 Hertz Team Jota 3:25.145 No time 8
9 Hypercar 36 Alpine Endurance Team 3:25.278 9
10 Hypercar 5 Porsche Penske Motorsport 3:25.307 10
11 Hypercar 8 Toyota Gazoo Racing 3:25.446 11
12 Hypercar 83 AF Corse 3:25.766 12
13 Hypercar 63 Lamborghini Iron Lynx 3:25.973 13
14 Hypercar 99 Proton Competition 3:25.992 14
15 Hypercar 93 Peugeot TotalEnergies 3:26.195 15
16 Hypercar 20 BMW M Team WRT 3:26.223 16
17 Hypercar 38 Hertz Team Jota 3:26.290 17
18 Hypercar 311 Whelen Cadillac Racing 3:26.311 18
19 Hypercar 4 Porsche Penske Motorsport 3:26.362 19
20 Hypercar 94 Peugeot TotalEnergies 3:27.251 20
21 Hypercar 19 Lamborghini Iron Lynx 3:27.655 21
22 Hypercar 11 Isotta Fraschini 3:29.865 22
23 Hypercar 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing No time 23
24 LMP2 Pro-Am 14 AO by TF 3:33.134 3:33.217 24
25 LMP2 28 IDEC Sport 3:34.215 3:33.827 25
26 LMP2 Pro-Am 65 Panis Racing 3:33.827 3:34.053 26
27 LMP2 Pro-Am 23 United Autosports USA 3:33.430 3:34.221 27
28 LMP2 22 United Autosports 3:34.480 3:34.270 28
29 LMP2 37 Cool Racing 3:32.827 3:34.773 29
30 LMP2 Pro-Am 33 DKR Engineering 3:34.330 3:35.699 30
31 LMP2 10 Vector Sport 3:34.262 3:35.855 31
32 LMP2 Pro-Am 183 AF Corse 3:34.767 32
33 LMP2 24 Nielsen Racing 3:34.794 33
34 LMP2 34 Inter Europol Competition 3:34.885 34
35 LMP2 9 Proton Competition 3:34.963 35
36 LMP2 Pro-Am 30 Duqueine Team 3:35.070 36
37 LMP2 Pro-Am 47 Cool Racing 3:35.360 37
38 LMP2 25 Algarve Pro Racing 3:35.474 38
39 LMP2 Pro-Am 45 CrowdStrike Racing by APR 3:39.222 39
40 LMGT3 70 Inception Racing 3:55.406 3:58.120 40
41 LMGT3 92 Manthey PureRxcing 3:56.189 3:58.928 41
42 LMGT3 66 JMW Motorsport 3:56.443 3:58.938 42
43 LMGT3 77 Proton Competition 3:55.263 3:59.443 43
44 LMGT3 27 Heart of Racing Team 3:56.243 3:59.655 44
45 LMGT3 777 D'station Racing 3:56.500 4:02.787 45
46 LMGT3 82 TF Sport 3:56.105 4:03.681 46
47 LMGT3 60 Iron Lynx 3:56.153 4:06.495 47
48 LMGT3 85 Iron Dames 3:56.530 48
49 LMGT3 87 Akkodis ASP Team 3:56.561 49
50 LMGT3 59 United Autosports 3:56.710 50
51 LMGT3 46 Team WRT 3:56.738 51
52 LMGT3 54 Vista AF Corse 3:56.780 52
53 LMGT3 44 Proton Competition 3:56.836 53
54 LMGT3 31 Team WRT 3:56.947 54
55 LMGT3 91 Manthey EMA 3:57.026 55
56 LMGT3 88 Proton Competition 3:57.221 56
57 LMGT3 81 TF Sport 3:57.296 57
58 LMGT3 95 United Autosports 3:57.313 58
59 LMGT3 155 Spirit of Race 3:57.349 59
60 LMGT3 78 Akkodis ASP Team 3:57.441 60
61 LMGT3 55 Vista AF Corse 3:58.282 61
62 LMGT3 86 GR Racing No time 62
Sources:[74][75][76]
  1. ^ The No. 2 Cadillac Racing entry qualified second but began from seventh due to a five-place grid penalty, received after the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps for a collision with an LMGT3-category car.[71]

Warm-up

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The rear of the No. 78 Akkodis ASP Team Lexus RC F GT3 was damaged by the No. 7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid in the warm-up session.

A 15-minute warm-up session was held at midday in overcast and cool conditions on 15 June with rain falling as the session ended.[3][77] The No. 83 Ferrarj driven by Kubica set the fastest lap time of 3:29.260. The sister No. 51 Ferrari of Antonio Giovinazzi was second followed by Charles Milesi's No. 35 Alpine and Laurens Vanthoor's No. 6 Penske Porsche. The fastest LMP2 lap was a 3:36.884 set by Ben Barnicoat's No. 183 AF Corse entry and Serra's No. 86 GR Ferrari was quickest in LMGT3 at 3:58.198.[78] De Vries damaged the front of the No. 7 Toyota against the rear of Kelvin van der Linde's No. 78 Akkodis ASP Lexus and half-spun after De Vries was caught out by a group of cars slowing ahead of him at the exit of the Porsche Curves. De Vries returned to the pit lane for a new front end for the Toyota. The stewards penalised Van Der Linde with a suspended stop-and-go penalty as he was judged chiefly to blame for the accident. Naveen Rao's No. 47 Cool LMP2 vehicle and Bourdais's No. 3 Cadillac collided at the first Mulsanne Straight chicane but both drivers contined.[77][78]

Race

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Start and early hours

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The air temperature was between 12.5 and 18.8 °C (54.5 and 65.8 °F) and the track temperature was between 13.5 and 22.8 °C (56.3 and 73.0 °F).[79] There were 329,000 spectators in attendance.[80] The French tricolour was waved by FIFA World Cup winning footballer Zinedine Zidane at 16:00 Central European Summer Time to start the race,[81] which was led by the pole-sitting Laurens Vanthoor.[80][82] 62 cars planned to take the start,[82] but the No. 78 Akkodis Lexus began from the pit lane because the car was being repaired following its warm-up collision with the No. 7 Toyota.[83] Nielsen moved the No. 50 Ferrari from fourth to the race lead during the first lap while his teammate Giovinazzi in the sister No. 51 car moved to second by lap four. Vanthoor's No. 6 Penske Porsche retook the race lead following the first round of pit stops but lost it again to Nielsen on the Mulsanne Straight.[84] However, the No. 50 Ferrari was issued a ten-second stop-and-go penalty to be served at its next pit stop because Nielsen was unsafely released into the path of Bourdais's No. 3 Cadillac in the fast lane.[85] The first hour of the race ended with Bent Viscaal's No. 9 Proton car taking the LMP2 class lead from Delétraz's No. 9 AO by TF car because it had a faster pit stop since it was released with the same set of tyres it began the race on.[86][87]

A rain shower fell across parts of the circuit in the second hour and this caused a loss of grip in some cars on the wet track.[88] Many teams opted to install wet-weather tyres onto their cars and briefly lapped faster than their rivals but some kept their cars on the circuit since much of it was dry.[88][89] The race lead became a battle between Nielsen's and Kubica's No. 50 and 83 Ferraris with both drivers exchanging positions until Nielsen was able to pull clear when Kubica was delayed by slower cars exiting Tertre Rouge corner.[89][90] Ten Voorde's No. 66 JMW Ferrari was the fastest driver in LMGT3 at the time and took the category lead from Christopher Mies's No. 44 Proton Ford.[89] In the third hour, Thomas Flohr lost control of the rear of the No. 54 AF Corse Ferrari and crashed heavily into the outside barriers at the Dunlop chicane. Flohr was unhurt but the car was retired because it was too heavily damaged.[91][92] A slow zone was enforced as a result and the subsequent pit stop cycle moved the No. 83 Ferrari of Robert Shwartzman to the race lead and gradually pulled away from Christensen's No. 5 Penske Porsche.[88] The LMP2 lead became a battle between Clément Novalak's No. 34 Inter Europol car and Ryan Cullen's No. 10 Vector entry through the pit stop cycle after both cars were not brought into the pit lane for wet-weather tyres and gained a large amount of time as a result.[90][93]

The LMGT3 lead also became a battle between Masson's No. 87 Akkodis Lexus,[93] Morris Schuring and later Richard Lietz's No. 91 Manthey EMA Porsche, Valentino Rossi and Ahmad Al Harthy's No. 46 WRT BMW and Malykhin's No. 92 Manthey PureRxcing as different teams opted to run Bronze-rated drivers at certain points and run tyres for two stints.[94][95] The No. 34 Inter Europol car of Novalak was forced to slowly enter the pit lane because the left-front wheel had detached from the vehicle and it dropped off the lead lap in LMP2 during the fourth hour.[95][96] The fifth hour saw Ferdinand Habsburg pull the No. 35 Alpine to the side of the track in the run-off area at the exit of Arnage corner with smoke billowing from the rear of the car.[97][98] Cool Racing's No. 37 entry and Richelmi's No. 10 Vector car exchanged the lead of LMP2 through the pit stop cycles because of the amount of time Vector had lost changing tyres until Cool driver Ritomo Miyata was relieved by Fluxá.[94][99][100] Lapierre brought the No. 36 Alpine into the garage and the car was retired because of a rear driveshaft fault.[100][101]

Night to morning

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The No. 15 WRT BMW M Hybrid V8 was forced to retire because of a collision between driver Dries Vanthoor and AF Corse's Robert Kubica in the seventh hour.

As night fell, Kubica's No. 83 Ferrari was lapping Dries Vanthoor's No. 15 BMW (who had cold tyres) going into Mulsanne Corner when the two cars collided as they were both overtaking the slower LMGT3-category Pure Rxcing Porsche.[102][103] Vanthoor crashed heavily into the outside Armco barriers and severely damaged the front of the BMW. The car was immediately retired and Vanthoor exited unaided but was sent to the medical centre for checks and was released after saying his left foot was in pain.[104][105] The safety cars were deployed by race control for the first time in the event to clean the debris, repair the barriers and recover the damaged BMW.[103][105] The stewards investigated the incident and deemed Kubica was responsible for the accident and imposed a 30-second stop-and-go penalty on the No. 83 Ferrari.[105] Just as the safety cars were recalled after more than 90 minutes, rain began falling on the circuit again and some teams made pit stops for wet-weather tyres in the ninth hour. Kubica took the No. 83 Ferrari's 30-second stop-and-go penalty and dropped to sixth place, promoting Hirakawa's No. 8 Toyota to the overall lead.[106][107] Al Harthy's No. 46 WRT BMW had an accident against the tyre wall at the Forest Esses. The crash and the subsequent water leak in the car forced its retirement from the race.[106]

The overall lead became a battle between the team of the No. 8 Toyota and the drivers of the No. 6 Penske Porsche, with the two sets of crews following one another nose to tail for a multitude of laps.[108][109] LMP2 saw Miyata's class-leading No. 37 Cool car spin after the tenth hour began and then Pilet's No. 10 Vector entry was handed a drive-through penalty for a slow zone infringement that was brought out by the No. 66 JMW Ferrari of Salih Yoluç stopping at the exit to the Porsche Curves and was moved behind a wall.[108][109] In the 11th hour, David Heinemeier Hansson's No. 24 Nielsen LMP2 entry attempted to pass Zacharie Robichon's No. 77 LMGT3-class Proton Ford on the inside at the Forest Esses and both cars collided. Both were sent into the gravel and required extraction with the Nielsen car out of contention for the LMP2 class win.[110][111] These events promoted Varrone's No. 183 AF Corse car to the LMP2 class lead, with Siegel's No. 22 United car second in category.[109] LMGT3 continued to be a close battle between the No. 59 United McLaren, the No. 92 Manthey PureRxing Porsche, the No. 91 Manthey Racing Porsche and the two Akkodis Lexuses.[108][111][112]

Rain returned to the circuit during the 12th hour and its increasing intensity led to the safety cars being deployed for the second time and closing up the fields in each of the three categories. Every team thus made the switch to wet-weather tyres.[109][113] Incessant rainfall and reduced visibility in the night forced the race director to keep the safety cars on the circuit for longer than expected and each of three safety cars had to be refuelled, meaning reserve safety cars replaced them on the start/finish straight. LMP2 and LMGT3 teams allowed their Bronze or Silver-rated drivers to drive in order to comply with the rule that they had to complete six hours of driving and open up strategies of driver deployment for the rest of the event.[114] De Vries's No. 7 Toyota was investigated for rejoining behind the wrong safety car after he relieved José María López but re-entered the pit lane to correct the error by joining behind the correct line of cars as per an agreement with race control and the stewards.[114][115]

The No. 92 Manthey Pure Rxcing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) was a contender for the LMGT3 class victory until a gear selection fault dropped it down the class order.

The safety car period ended after four hours and 26 minutes,[116] the longest single safety car deployment in the race's history and it also broke the race record for the most overall time spent behind the safety car.[117] Bachler drove the LMGT3-leading No. 92 Manthey PureRxcing Porsche into the pit lane with a gear selection fault that took 25 minutes to resolve. The stop dropped the car five laps down in class and moved Lietz's sister No. 91 Manthey EMA Porsche to the category lead. De Vries's No. 7 Toyota made an unscheduled pit stop because he reported poor visibility as his windscreen had oil on it.[116][118] In the 18th hour, Nasr lost control of the rear of the No. 4 Penske Porsche and crashed into the tyre barrier into Indianapolis turn. The car was retired from the race and a slow zone was activated as marshals were repairing the barriers.[118][119] Laurens Vanthoor made a pit stop while the slow zone was in force and the time saved as a result gained the No. 6 Penske Porsche the race lead from Hirakawa's No. 8 Toyota.[120]

Mancinelli's No. 27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin was being lapped by the No. 51 LMH Ferrari when he lost control of his car on a wet patch of track. He crashed heavily into the inside tyre wall backwards at high speed at Indianapolis corner and his car landed upside down after going airborne. Mancinelli was unhurt but the safety cars were deployed for the third time to recover the vehicle and repair the barrier.[118][119] Some cars suffered issues during the third safety car period. Nico Müller made a driver error and crashed the No. 93 Peugeot into the tyre barrier at Indianapolis turn and Dixon's No. 3 Cadillac stopped with an oil leak caused by a punctured oil tank on the Mulsanne Straight but was able to return to the garage on electric power where the car was retired, extending the safety car period as it was tended to.[80][121][122][123] When racing resumed, it became a four-car duel between Ferrari, Porsche, Toyota and Cadillac for the overall lead.[121] The LMP2 category continued to be competitive with the No. 34 Inter Europol, the No. 10 Vector and the No. 28 IDEC cars duelling each other for the class lead while LMGT3 became a two-car battle between the No. 91 Manthey EMA Porsche and the No. 31 WRT BMW.[123]

Afternoon to finish

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AF Corse's No. 83 Ferrari was forced to retire from the battle for the win because of a motor–generator unit fault.

Schwartman brought the No. 83 Ferrari into the pit lane and it was moved into the garage with smoke emanating from the brakes because of a motor–generator unit fault on the front axle in the 21st hour that forced the car into retirement.[124][125][126] Rain returned to the circuit towards the conclusion of the following hour and teams switched back to wet-weather tyres. The pit stop cycle saw Jarvis's No. 22 United entry move to the lead of the LMP2 category. Hartley's No. 8 Toyota lost time in the pit lane because of a faulty wheel gun that could not install the front-right tyre.[126][127] The No. 50 Ferrari of Nielsen was investigated for a possible unsafe release into the path of the No. 37 Cool LMP2 car but was not penalised.[127][128] Not long after, Hartley's No. 8 Toyota and Pier Guidi's No. 51 Ferrari collided at the right-hand Mulsanne corner while Hartley was attempting to overtake Pier Guidi on the inside for second place. The collision sent Hartley into a spin to the inside of the turn and the No. 8 Toyota fell to sixth position after losing approximately 35 seconds on that lap and five on the following lap as he generated heat into his tyres.[80][127][129]

López's No. 7 Toyota gained on Pier Guidi's No. 51 Ferrari and unsuccessfully attempted to pass the Ferrari for second at the Dunlop Chicane as the two cars made side-by-side contact. He then slipstreamed past Pier Guidi on the Mulsanne Straight going into the first chicane to claim the position. The right-hand side door on the No. 50 Ferrari had trouble remaining shut and Nielsen attempted to close the door harder to unsuccessfully rectify the problem. The race director and black-and-white warning flags instructed Nielsen to make a pit stop to fix the broken door and this promoted López's No. 7 Toyota to the race lead and dropped Nielsen to fifth. The No. 51 Ferrari was assessed a five-second time penalty to be served at its next pit stop for it was deemed to have caused the collision with the No. 8 Toyota. Nielsen's No. 50 Ferrari was off the normal pit stop sequence to the rest of the Hypercar field and this allowed him to return to the overall lead once other cars made their pit stops.[80][129][130]

Nielsen adopted a strategy that saw him conserve fuel and battery usage while under pressure from López's No. 7 Toyota despite López having to change the Toyota's power cycle after exiting the pit lane and he crossed the finish line first to secure victory for the No. 50 Ferrari after completing 311 laps.[80][131][132] It was Fuoco's, Molina's and Nielsen's first overall Le Mans win,[133] Ferrari's 11th and its second in succession.[131] They finished 14.2 seconds ahead of the second-placed No. 7 Toyota that had three slow punctures and a turbocharger boost fault caused by a sensor issue. The No. 51 Ferrari completed the overall podium in third.[80][133] The No. 22 United Autosports entry achieved the team's first victory in LMP2 since 2020 and second in the category, finishing 18.651 seconds ahead of Inter Europol's No. 34 car and 33 seconds ahead of the third-placed No. 28 IDEC team.[134] The No. 183 AF Corse squad that was fourth overall in class after lacking pace in the wet conditions won the LMP2 Pro-Am subclass by two laps over the No. 14 AO by TF team.[135][136] Porsche won the first LMGT3 race at Le Mans and achieved its first category win since 2022 with the No. 91 Manthey EMA car one lap ahead of the No. 31 WRT BMW.[137] A record number of cars, nine, finished on the lead lap.[138]

Post-race

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The No. 50 Ferrari 499P being driven towards the pit lane exit after winning the race.

The top three teams in each of the four classes appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media at individual press conferences.[16] Nielsen said that "It was one of the toughest races I've ever done" because of the changeable conditions and the door issue.[139] Fuoco added his team were prepared and said "It is still not easy to understand what we have managed to achieve."[139] Molina praised the last switch to wet-weather tyres and was proud of his team, "We've been looking for this result for so long, and we are really proud. Today was our day, actually! We experienced some tense moments, but we could go through them. And at the end, the result was here."[140] De Vries said he felt "bittersweet" over finishing second because of the technical issues the No. 7 Toyota crew experienced during the race, "We could have maybe had a closer shot. But at the end of the day, that's part of racing."[140] López argued that Toyota had the pace for victory and described the event as "the hardest one I have ever experienced."[141] Calado admitted Ferrari struggled in the wet compared to the dry and that strategic errors meant his team "were pretty much on the back foot through the race."[80]

Siegel contrasted his failing to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 and winning the LMP2 class at Le Mans, "Pretty cool to have had the opportunity to compete in the two biggest races in the world in the same year and for the first time for both of them. Two pretty polar opposite results, so it has definitely been interesting, but extremely grateful to have won here."[142] Jarvis characterised the race as the most difficult of his career because of the changeable track conditions and said there were moments where he unsure as to whether he would win or crash.[143] Lietz commented on his fifth Le Mans GT class victory, "To be honest, always when you were there, you were like, 'This is really, really nice.' You know all these people. And it's the one place you want to come back every year."[144] His co-driver Yasser Shahin remarked "We're pleased Le Mans chose us this year" and Schuring added "Winning Le Mans is a dream; anyone would sign up for that."[145]

WRT team principal Vincent Vosse and Dries Vanthoor said that the 30-second stop-and-go penalty levied at Kubica for his seventh-hour collision with Vanthoor was too lenient; Vosse added he would have advocated for a three or five-minute time penalty that would have put the No. 83 Ferrari one lap down.[146] Vanthoor said on a podcast that he believed Kubica purposefully caused the accident because of how Kubica conducted himself afterwards. He disclosed he received hate messages on social media accusing him of not complying with blue flags when the faster Kubica was behind him but stated he had enough time within two sectors before allowing Kubica past. Kubica denied causing the accident deliberately and said an attempt at making contact with another car at high speed would have hampered his opportunity to win.[147] He said of the blue flags that "there are drivers in slower cars who want to prove themselves at all costs. I don't know why" after highlighting the difference in blue flag rules in different series.[147]

Ferrari global head of endurance Antonello Coletta believed the win came after learning from an error it had made at the 6 Hours of Imola when it lost a certain race victory by keeping their cars on track with dry tyres despite them being fastest overall.[148] According to Porsche LMDh factory director Urs Kuratle, the German marque lacked top speed compared to their rivals and made strategy errors with regards what tyres to use in the changing conditions.[149] Hartley said the No. 8 Toyota's spin late in the race put him and his co-drivers out of contention for the win in the final hours.[141] Christensen believed Ferrari and Toyota went quicker during race week in order to beat Porsche while the marque's motorsport boss Thomas Laudenbach added that the pace was much more different to that observed during practice, "If other competitors didn't want to show everything in the practice that's of no meaning to me."[150]

The result kept Estre, Lotterer and Vanthoor atop the Hypercar Drivers' Championship with 99 points while race winners Fuoco, Molina and Nielsen moved from fifth to second, nine points behind. LMGT3 winners Lietz, Shahin and Schuring moved to the joint lead of the Endurance Trophy for LMGT3 Drivers tied on points with Bachler, Sturm and Malykhin.[5] Porsche continued to lead the Hypercar World Endurance Championship but their advantage was cut to nine points by Ferrari. Hertz Team Jota increased their lead in the World Cup for Hypercar Teams to 50 points over Proton Competition and Manthey EMA became the joint leaders of the Endurance Trophy for LMGT3 Teams with Manthey PureRxcing with four races remaining in the season.[5]

Race results

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The minimum number of laps for classification (70 per cent of the overall race winner's distance) was 217 laps. Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡.[N 1][80][152]

Final race classification
Pos Class No. Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps Time/Reason
Engine
1 Hypercar 50 Italy Ferrari AF Corse Italy Antonio Fuoco
Spain Miguel Molina
Denmark Nicklas Nielsen 		Ferrari 499P M 311 24:01:55.856‡
Ferrari F163 3.0 L Turbo V6
2 Hypercar 7 Japan Toyota Gazoo Racing Japan Kamui Kobayashi
Argentina José María López
Netherlands Nyck de Vries 		Toyota GR010 Hybrid M 311 +14.221
Toyota 3.5 L Turbo V6
3 Hypercar 51 Italy Ferrari AF Corse United Kingdom James Calado
Italy Antonio Giovinazzi
Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi 		Ferrari 499P M 311 +36.730
Ferrari F163 3.0 L Turbo V6
4 Hypercar 6 Germany Porsche Penske Motorsport France Kévin Estre
Germany André Lotterer
Belgium Laurens Vanthoor 		Porsche 963 M 311 +37.897
Porsche 9RD 4.6 L Turbo V8
5 Hypercar 8 Japan Toyota Gazoo Racing Switzerland Sébastien Buemi
New Zealand Brendon Hartley
Japan Ryō Hirakawa 		Toyota GR010 Hybrid M 311 +1:02.824
Toyota 3.5 L Turbo V6
6 Hypercar 5 Germany Porsche Penske Motorsport Australia Matt Campbell
Denmark Michael Christensen
France Frédéric Makowiecki 		Porsche 963 M 311 +1:45.654
Porsche 9RD 4.6 L Turbo V8
7 Hypercar 2 United States Cadillac Racing New Zealand Earl Bamber
United Kingdom Alex Lynn
Spain Álex Palou 		Cadillac V-Series.R M 311 +2:34.468
Cadillac LMC55R 5.5 L V8
8 Hypercar 12 United Kingdom Hertz Team Jota United Kingdom Callum Ilott
France Norman Nato
United Kingdom Will Stevens 		Porsche 963 M 311 +3:02.691
Porsche 9RD 4.6 L Turbo V8
9 Hypercar 38 United Kingdom Hertz Team Jota United Kingdom Jenson Button
United Kingdom Phil Hanson
Denmark Oliver Rasmussen 		Porsche 963 M 311 +3:36.756
Porsche 9RD 4.6 L Turbo V8
10 Hypercar 63 Italy Lamborghini Iron Lynx Italy Mirko Bortolotti
Daniil Kvyat[N 2]
Italy Edoardo Mortara 		Lamborghini SC63 M 309 +2 laps
Lamborghini 3.8 L Turbo V8
11 Hypercar 94 France Peugeot TotalEnergies United Kingdom Paul di Resta
France Loïc Duval
Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne 		Peugeot 9X8 M 309 +2 laps
Peugeot X6H 2.6 L Turbo V6
12 Hypercar 93 France Peugeot TotalEnergies Denmark Mikkel Jensen
Switzerland Nico Müller
France Jean-Éric Vergne 		Peugeot 9X8 M 309 +2 laps
Peugeot X6H 2.6 L Turbo V6
13 Hypercar 19 Italy Lamborghini Iron Lynx Italy Matteo Cairoli
Italy Andrea Caldarelli
France Romain Grosjean 		Lamborghini SC63 M 309 +2 laps
Lamborghini 3.8 L Turbo V8
14 Hypercar 11 Italy Isotta Fraschini Thailand Carl Bennett
Canada Antonio Serravalle
France Jean-Karl Vernay 		Isotta Fraschini Tipo 6-C M 302 +9 laps
Isotta Fraschini 3.0 L Turbo V6
15 LMP2 22 United Kingdom United Autosports United States Bijoy Garg
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
United States Nolan Siegel 		Oreca 07 G 297 +14 laps‡
Gibson GK428 V8
16 LMP2 34 Poland Inter Europol Competition Grenada Vladislav Lomko[N 2]
France Clément Novalak
Poland Jakub Śmiechowski 		Oreca 07 G 297 +14 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
17 LMP2 28 France IDEC Sport France Reshad de Gerus
France Paul Lafargue
Netherlands Job van Uitert 		Oreca 07 G 297 +14 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
18 LMP2 (Pro-Am) 183 Italy AF Corse United Kingdom Ben Barnicoat
France François Perrodo
Argentina Nicolás Varrone 		Oreca 07 G 297 +14 laps‡
Gibson GK428 V8
19 LMP2 10 United Kingdom Vector Sport Republic of Ireland Ryan Cullen
France Patrick Pilet
Monaco Stéphane Richelmi 		Oreca 07 G 297 +14 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
20 LMP2 (Pro-Am) 14 United States AO by TF Switzerland Louis Delétraz
United States P. J. Hyett
United Kingdom Alex Quinn 		Oreca 07 G 295 +16 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
21 LMP2 (Pro-Am) 33 Luxembourg DKR Engineering Austria René Binder
Germany Laurents Hörr
Germany Alexander Mattschull 		Oreca 07 G 295 +16 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
22 LMP2 25 Portugal Algarve Pro Racing United Kingdom Olli Caldwell
Canada Roman De Angelis
Liechtenstein Matthias Kaiser 		Oreca 07 G 294 +17 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
23 LMP2 (Pro-Am) 65 France Panis Racing Switzerland Mathias Beche
United States Scott Huffaker
United States Rodrigo Sales 		Oreca 07 G 293 +18 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
24 LMP2 (Pro-Am) 47 Switzerland Cool Racing United Kingdom Matt Bell
United States Naveen Rao
Denmark Frederik Vesti 		Oreca 07 G 291 +20 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
25 LMP2 24 United Kingdom Nielsen Racing Denmark David Heinemeier Hansson
Switzerland Fabio Scherer
Cayman Islands Kyffin Simpson 		Oreca 07 G 291 +20 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
26 LMP2 37 Switzerland Cool Racing Spain Lorenzo Fluxá
Denmark Malthe Jakobsen
Japan Ritomo Miyata 		Oreca 07 G 289 +22 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
27 LMGT3 91 Germany Manthey EMA Austria Richard Lietz
Netherlands Morris Schuring
Australia Yasser Shahin 		Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) G 281 +30 laps‡
Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6
28 LMGT3 31 Belgium Team WRT Brazil Augusto Farfus
Indonesia Sean Gelael
United Kingdom Darren Leung 		BMW M4 GT3 G 280 +31 laps
BMW P58 3.0 L Turbo I6
29 Hypercar 311 United States Whelen Cadillac Racing United Kingdom Jack Aitken
Brazil Pipo Derani
Brazil Felipe Drugovich 		Cadillac V-Series.R M 280 +31 laps
Cadillac LMC55R 5.5 L V8
30 LMGT3 88 Germany Proton Competition Norway Dennis Olsen
Denmark Mikkel O. Pedersen
Italy Giorgio Roda 		Ford Mustang GT3 G 280 +31 laps
Ford Coyote 5.4 L V8
31 LMGT3 44 Germany Proton Competition United Kingdom John Hartshorne
Germany Christopher Mies
United Kingdom Ben Tuck 		Ford Mustang GT3 G 280 +31 laps
Ford Coyote 5.4 L V8
32 LMGT3 85 Italy Iron Dames Belgium Sarah Bovy
Switzerland Rahel Frey
Denmark Michelle Gatting 		Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 G 279 +32 laps
Lamborghini DGF 5.2 L V10
33 LMGT3 55 Italy Vista AF Corse France François Heriau
United States Simon Mann
Italy Alessio Rovera 		Ferrari 296 GT3 G 279 +32 laps
Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
34 LMGT3 78 France Akkodis ASP Team Timur Boguslavskiy[N 2]
France Arnold Robin
South Africa Kelvin van der Linde 		Lexus RC F GT3 G 279 +32 laps
Lexus 2UR-GSE 5.0 L V8
35 LMGT3 155 Italy Spirit of Race Denmark Conrad Laursen
Denmark Johnny Laursen
United States Jordan Taylor 		Ferrari 296 GT3 G 279 +32 laps
Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
36 LMGT3 777 Japan D'station Racing France Erwan Bastard
Japan Satoshi Hoshino
Denmark Marco Sørensen 		Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo G 279 +32 laps
Aston Martin M177 4.0 L Turbo V8
37 LMGT3 87 France Akkodis ASP Team United Kingdom Jack Hawksworth
Japan Takeshi Kimura
France Esteban Masson 		Lexus RC F GT3 G 279 +32 laps
Lexus 2UR-GSE 5.0 L V8
38 LMGT3 82 United Kingdom TF Sport France Sébastien Baud
Spain Daniel Juncadella
Japan Hiroshi Koizumi 		Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R G 278 +33 laps
Chevrolet LT6.R 5.5 L V8
39 LMGT3 86 United Kingdom GR Racing Italy Riccardo Pera
Brazil Daniel Serra
United Kingdom Michael Wainwright 		Ferrari 296 GT3 G 278 +33 laps
Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
40 LMGT3 70 United Kingdom Inception Racing United States Brendan Iribe
United Kingdom Ollie Millroy
Denmark Frederik Schandorff 		McLaren 720S GT3 Evo G 275 +36 laps
McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8
41 LMGT3 92 Lithuania Manthey PureRxcing Austria Klaus Bachler
Saint Kitts and Nevis Alex Malykhin[N 3]
Germany Joel Sturm 		Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) G 273 +38 laps
Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6
42 LMP2 (Pro-Am) 23 United States United Autosports USA Portugal Filipe Albuquerque
United Kingdom Ben Hanley
United States Ben Keating 		Oreca 07 G 272 +39 laps
Gibson GK428 V8
43 LMGT3 81 United Kingdom TF Sport Angola Rui Andrade
Republic of Ireland Charlie Eastwood
Belgium Tom van Rompuy 		Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R G 267 +44 laps
Chevrolet LT6.R 5.5 L V8
44 LMGT3 60 Italy Iron Lynx Italy Matteo Cressoni
France Franck Perera
Italy Claudio Schiavoni 		Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 G 258 +53 laps
Lamborghini DGF 5.2 L V10
45 Hypercar 99 Germany Proton Competition France Julien Andlauer
Switzerland Neel Jani
United Kingdom Harry Tincknell 		Porsche 963 M 251 +60 laps
Porsche 9RD 4.6 L Turbo V8
46 LMGT3 77 Germany Proton Competition United Kingdom Ben Barker
United States Ryan Hardwick
Canada Zacharie Robichon 		Ford Mustang GT3 G 227 +84 laps
Ford Coyote 5.4 L V8
NC Hypercar 20 Belgium BMW M Team WRT Netherlands Robin Frijns
Germany René Rast
South Africa Sheldon van der Linde 		BMW M Hybrid V8 M 96 Insufficient distance
BMW P66/3 4.0 L Turbo V8
DNF Hypercar 83 Italy AF Corse Poland Robert Kubica
Israel Robert Shwartzman
China Yifei Ye 		Ferrari 499P M 248 Electronics
Ferrari F163 3.0 L Turbo V6
DNF Hypercar 3 United States Cadillac Racing France Sébastien Bourdais
New Zealand Scott Dixon
Netherlands Renger van der Zande 		Cadillac V-Series.R M 223 Mechanical
Cadillac LMC55R 5.5 L V8
DNF LMGT3 59 United Kingdom United Autosports Brazil Nicolas Costa
United Kingdom James Cottingham
Switzerland Grégoire Saucy 		McLaren 720S GT3 Evo G 220 Retired
McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8
DNF LMGT3 95 United Kingdom United Autosports Japan Hiroshi Hamaguchi
Chile Nico Pino
Japan Marino Sato 		McLaren 720S GT3 Evo G 212 Retired
McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8
DNF Hypercar 4 Germany Porsche Penske Motorsport France Mathieu Jaminet
Brazil Felipe Nasr
United Kingdom Nick Tandy 		Porsche 963 M 211 Crash
Porsche 9RD 4.6 L Turbo V8
DNF LMGT3 27 United States Heart of Racing Team United Kingdom Ian James
Italy Daniel Mancinelli
Spain Alex Riberas 		Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo G 196 Crash
Aston Martin M177 4.0 L Turbo V8
DNF LMP2 (Pro-Am) 45 Portugal CrowdStrike Racing by APR United States Colin Braun
Netherlands Nicky Catsburg
United States George Kurtz 		Oreca 07 G 149 Loose wheel
Gibson GK428 V8
DNF LMP2 (Pro-Am) 30 France Duqueine Team Australia James Allen
United States John Falb
France Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer 		Oreca 07 G 112 Engine
Gibson GK428 V8
DNF LMGT3 66 United Kingdom JMW Motorsport Italy Giacomo Petrobelli
Netherlands Larry ten Voorde
Turkey Salih Yoluç 		Ferrari 296 GT3 G 112 Fuel pump
Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
DNF LMGT3 46 Belgium Team WRT Oman Ahmad Al Harthy
Belgium Maxime Martin
Italy Valentino Rossi 		BMW M4 GT3 G 109 Accident
BMW P58 3.0 L Turbo I6
DNF Hypercar 15 Belgium BMW M Team WRT Switzerland Raffaele Marciello
Belgium Dries Vanthoor
Germany Marco Wittmann 		BMW M Hybrid V8 M 102 Accident
BMW P66/3 4.0 L Turbo V8
DNF Hypercar 36 France Alpine Endurance Team France Nicolas Lapierre
Germany Mick Schumacher
France Matthieu Vaxivière 		Alpine A424 M 88 Engine
Alpine V634 3.4 L Turbo V6
DNF LMP2 9 Germany Proton Competition France Macéo Capietto
Germany Jonas Ried
Netherlands Bent Viscaal 		Oreca 07 G 86 Battery
Gibson GK428 V8
DNF Hypercar 35 France Alpine Endurance Team France Paul-Loup Chatin
Austria Ferdinand Habsburg
France Charles Milesi 		Alpine A424 M 75 Engine
Alpine V634 3.4 L Turbo V6
DNF LMGT3 54 Italy Vista AF Corse Italy Francesco Castellacci
Switzerland Thomas Flohr
Italy Davide Rigon 		Ferrari 296 GT3 G 30 Crash
Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6
Tyre manufacturers
Key
Symbol Tyre manufacturer
G Goodyear
M Michelin

Championship standings after the race

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  • Only the top five positions are included for all championship standings.

Notes

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  1. ^ The race classification remained provisional until July 2024 following the completion of an Automobile Club de l'Ouest and Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) investigation into the compliance of components that were impounded from seven cars by both bodies during post-race scrutineering. All of the impounded components were found to comply with their technical regulations.[151]
  2. ^ a b c Kvyat and Boguslavskiy are Russian, but they compete as neutral competitors as Russian national emblems were banned by the FIA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Lomko, also a Russian, competes under a Grenadian licence for the same reason.[153][154][155]
  3. ^ Malykhin is Belarusian, but he competes under a Kittitian licence as Belarusian national emblems were banned by the FIA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[153][156]

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