2024 24 Hours of Le Mans
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Event information | |
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Round 4 of 8 in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship | |
Date | 15–16 June 2024 |
Location | Le Mans, France |
Venue | Circuit de la Sarthe |
Duration | 24 Hours |
Results | |
Laps completed | 311 |
Distance (km) | 4237.542 |
Distance (miles) | 2633.087 |
Hypercar | |
Pole position | |
Time | 3:24.634 |
Team | Porsche Penske Motorsport |
Drivers | Kévin Estre |
Winners | |
Team | Ferrari AF Corse |
Drivers | Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen |
LMP2 | |
Winners | |
Team | United Autosports |
Drivers | Bijoy Garg Oliver Jarvis Nolan Siegel |
LMP2 Pro-Am | |
Winners | |
Team | AF Corse |
Drivers | Ben Barnicoat François Perrodo Nicolás Varrone |
LMGT3 | |
Winners | |
Team | Manthey EMA |
Drivers | Richard Lietz Morris Schuring Yasser Shahin |
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
[edit]The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), the promoter of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance motor race, announced the 2024 dates in June 2023.[1][2] The race took place on 15 and 16 June 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. It was the 92nd running of the race since its inception in 1923, and 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 more than Team Jota's Callum Ilott and Will Stevens, who 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
[edit]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 Le Mans 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 comply with WEC standards,[9] and the class follows pro-am rules, which require teams to sign at least one Bronze-rated driver and one extra Bronze or Silver-rated driver.[10] Although the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) category was removed from the WEC due to an increase in Le Mans Hypercar (Hypercar) entrants, it was retained for Le Mans, although entries would not earn championship points because they do not compete full-time in the WEC.[11]
Following criticism that race restarts were too protracted following the end of a safety car procedure in 2023, the system was slightly modified to remove the "drop-back" feature that combined all three classes. As a result, at a restart, all classes would be mixed together to try to avoid ending duels and shorten the procedure.[12] To bring the race in line with the rest of the WEC season, the ACO prohibited the heating of tyres through the use of tyre warmers prior to their installation onto a car, after an exception was granted for 2023 as a result of multiple accidents at the 2023 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, where 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 public organisation Syndicat Mixte des 24 Heures du Mans resurfaced the road between Mulsanne and Arnage corners for the first time since 2005 in order to improve technical compliance for Le Mans sports cars on the circuit.[15]
Entries
[edit]The event's registration period was from 7 December 2023 to 13 February 2024. The ACO Selection Committee issued 62 invites, with entries divided between the Hypercar, LMP2, and LMGT3 categories.[16]
Automatic entries
[edit]Teams that won championships in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), Asian Le Mans Series (ALMS) and GT World Challenge Europe's (GTWCE) combined Endurance and Sprint Bronze Cup championships received automatic invitations. The 2023 ELMS LMP2 championship runner-up also received an automatic invitation.[17] Unlike previous years, Le Mans Cup entrants were not invited,[17] while the 2023–24 ALMS LMP3 champion received a priority invitation to the Road to Le Mans support race.[18] All current WEC full-season entries were automatically invited. The ACO selected three IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA) participants as automatic entries, with one invited to the Hypercar category at IMSA's discretion and the other two to the LMP2 and LMGTE classes. The ELMS LMGTE team that earned automatic entry could only enter in LMGT3 while its LMP3 champion had to enter an LMP2 car.[17]
IInvitations were provided if the car was entered in the ALMS, ELMS, or IMSA series for 2024 and only if the entrant competed in all events in their respective championships. No competitor could accrue more than two invitations in each category combined and invitations were not transferable to another entrant.[17] The ACO announced the full list of automatic entries on 12 February 2024.[18] Algarve Pro Racing declined their automatic invitation as winners of the 2023–24 ALMS LMP2 category because they wanted to focus on running two cars at Le Mans and not risk compromising quality with three entries.[19] Pure Rxcing also declined their automatic invitations for winning both the 2023 GTWCE Bronze Cup and the 2023–24 ALMS GT title.[20] As a result, neither the ALMS runners-up in Proton Competition (LMP2) nor Triple Eight JMR (GT) received invitations.[21]
Reason invited | Hypercar | LMP2 | LMGT3 |
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1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 and LMGTE) | Algarve Pro Racing | Proton Competition | |
2nd in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2) | United Autosports | ||
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 Pro-Am) | AF Corse | ||
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP3) | Cool Racing | ||
IMSA SportsCar Championship at-large entries | Whelen Cadillac Racing | George Kurtz | Brendan Iribe |
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP2 and GT) | CrowdStrike Racing by APR | Pure Rxcing | |
1st in the GT World Challenge Europe (Bronze Cup) | Pure Rxcing | ||
Source:[18] |
Entry list and reserves
[edit]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 declined invites. 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]
On May 6, 2024, a revised entry list was published with all driver lineups. The ACO did not promote any reserves for the race, which was reduced from seven to five cars after Formula Racing's Ferrari 296 GT3 and Richard Mille by TDS's Oreca 07-Gibson LMP2 car withdrew.[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
[edit]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, which adjusts a car's maximum power over two speed thresholds to try to create more parity.[27][28] The Alpine A424, BMW M Hybrid V8, Isotta Fraschini Tipo 6 LMH-C, Toyota GR010 Hybrid were the four Hypercars with increased powerwhile Ferrari 499P, the Lamborghini SC63, the Peugeot 9X8 had their power reduced. Neither the Cadillac V-Series.R nor the Porsche 963 received any power alternations.[27] All nine LMGT3 cars had ballast added 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) all received power increases to improve performance while the BMW M4 GT3 and the McLaren 720S GT3 Evo did not.[29]
Testing
[edit]All entrants were required to drive for six hours in two sessions one week before the race, on 9 June.[16] Some teams allowed reserve drivers to test in place of regular drivers who had other obligations.[25][30] Scott Dixon, Romain Grosjean, Álex Palou, Nolan Siegel and Kyffin Simpson missed testing to compete 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 completed their running and left Le Mans to compete in the second Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters race at Circuit Zandvoort.[32][33] Frederik Vesti only drove in the second session since he was serving as Mercedes's Formula One reserve driver at the 2024.[32]
Testing was held in sunny weather with no rain.[34] Toyota led the field with a 3:28.467 lap from Kobayashi's No. 7 entry set early 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 due to a fuel-line failure, resulting in a 13-minute interruption in testing.[36][37] Job van Uitert's No. 28 IDEC Sport car led LMP2 with a lap of 3:37.034, 0.132 seconds faster than Oliver Jarvis's No. 22 United Autosports entry.[35] Louis Delétraz's No. 14 AO by TF car was the fastest LMP2 Pro-Am entry in third.[36] Lorenzo Fluxá ended the session early when he crashed the No. 37 Cool Racing entry near the exit of the Porsche Curves, possibly due to a bump in the track surface in that area, with two minutes left.[36][37] Fluxá was unhurt.[36] Kelvin van der Linde, driving the No. 78 Akkodis ASP Team Lexus, led LMGT3 at 4:00.106. Esteban Masson's sister No. 87 car and Gelael's No. 31 WRT BMW were second and third in class.[35][37]
Lap times improved during the second session.[38] Estre set the early pace with a 3:27.998 lap time, but quickly improved to a 3:26.907 to finish first overall in testing. Felipe Nasr's 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 the Indianapolis turn, crashing the No. 7 Toyota into the barrier with seven minutes left. Kobayashi's car needed to be recovered, so testing ended early.[40] In LMP2, Jarvis improved the quickest class lap to 3:34.704 within the first 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, stopping on the inside of the circuit. The session was stopped to recover the car, which was abandoned 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 in the No. 82 TF Sport Corvette with a 3:59.883, 0.037 seconds faster than Riberas's 27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin.[39][40]
After testing
[edit]Matteo Cairoli received 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 had to serve a five-minute stop-and-hold penalty during the first practice session for exceeding track limits in testing, but the session's early end prevented him from doing so.[33][41]
Practice
[edit]The first three-hour practice session happened on the afternoon of 12 June 12, in cloudy and cool weather.[3][42] With 50 minutes remaining, Hartley's No. 8 Toyota set the fastest lap at 3:26.013.[42] Ilott's No. 12 Jota Porsche was second-fastest and led most of the practice 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 No. 3 Cadillac's rear at the exit to Tertre Rouge corner, crashing into the inside tyre barrier.[42][44] The accident stopped practice but Lynn returned to the garage for repairs.[42] The fastest LMP2 times were set 15 minutes into the session.[44] Delétraz set the pace at 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 failure forced Nicolás Varrone to stop the No. 183 AF Corse car at Tertre Rouge turn.[42][45] Masson led LMGT3 with a 3:57.808 time on his final lap of the session.[45] Brendan Iribe's No. 70 Inception Racing McLaren was second and was fastest for most of the session until Masson's lap.[43][45] Arnold Robin's No. 78 Akkodis ASP Lexus caused a stoppage when the car stopped at the side of the Mulsanne Straight while Michael Wainwright pulled the No. 86 GR Racing Ferrari to the side of the straight due to a complete loss of power that could not be rectified, causing a Slow Zone.[42][45]
A second session, lasting two hours, followed that evening.[3] Sébastien Buemi's No. 8 Toyota was fastest with a time of 3:27.474 set early on.[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 to fifth.[47] Dries Vanthoor mounted the kerb too hard at Indianapolis corner, crashing into the tyre barrier with less than 20 minutes remaining. He drove the No. 15 BMW to the pit lane for repairs without help. Nato's co-driver Ilott went off at Tertre Rouge corner, damaging 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] Malthe Jakobsen's No. 37 Cool car led LMP2 with a 3:35.386 lap. Jakobsen demoted initial class pacesetter Jarvis to second while Scott Huffaker's No. 65 Panis entry was third.[47][50] Going into Indianapolis corner, Hyett stopped the AO by TF car with a detached wheel.[46] Four different manufacturers took the first four places in LMGTE.[46] Dennis Olsen's No. 88 Proton Ford led the category with a 3:58.689 lap, 0.027 seconds faster than Marco Sørensen's No. 777 D'station Racing Aston Martin and Farfus's No. 31 BMW.[47]
The No. 12 Jota Porsche's chassis was damaged beyond repair as a result of Ilott's accident, thus the team had to acquire a replacement chassis from Penske.[51] The stewards granted Jota permission to test the new car at nearby Le Mans Arnage Airport on the evening of 14 June.[48]
A third three-hour session was held the next afternoon in overcast weather and teams worked 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 set when the session ended.[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's No. 65 Panis car paced LMP2 with a 3:37.217 lap 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 at 3:57.558 despite co-driver James Cottingham going backwards into the barrier at Tertre Rouge corner after entering the grass. The session was stopped and the car was recovered to the pit lane.[54][55] Soon later, Frederik Schandorff's No. 70 Inception McLaren stopped 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 last hour-long session began 30 minutes later than planned that evening owing to an accident in the Road to Le Mans support race. Rain fell on the track towards the session's end, meaning teams installed wet-weather tyres.[3][56][57] Hartley set the fastest overall lap of 3:29.451 20 minutes in. Molina's No. 50 Ferrari was 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 in the opening minutes.[58] Fabio Scherer's No. 24 Nielsen Racing and Siegel's No. 23 United Autosports USA entries were second and third in class. Masson led 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
[edit]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]
Heavy traffic was a factor during the session.[60] Dries Vanthoor set the quickest Hypercar time of 3:24.465 with less than ten minutes remaining by going very fast in the last sector despite a very slow first sector.[61][62] Bourdais was fastest until Vanthoor dropped him to second, while Fuoco took third.[61] Kobayashi was fourth until race control deleted all of the No. 7 Toyota's lap times after he spun into the gravel trap at the exit of the last Porsche Curves turn (Karting) with two minutes remaining, causing qualifying to be stopped and prevented teams from doing a final run.[61][63][64] This meant the No. 7 Toyota started from the back of the Hypercar grid.[63] Paul-Loup Chatin's No. 36 Alpine was moved to fourth, ahead of Lynn's repaired No. 2 Cadillac.[61][65] The final 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][65] The LMP2 Hyperpole qualifiers 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.[65][66] 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][66]
The Hyperpole session began 35 minutes late due to an accident in the first Road to Le Mans support race, which damaged the Armco barrier between the Mulsanne and Indianapolis turns.[67][68] When qualifying began, in dark, cloudy weather, Ferrari and 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,[69][70] having slipstreamed Delétraz's LMP2 car into Indianapolis turn to run faster and using electrical power while saving fuel.[71][72] It was Porsche's first Le Mans pole since 2016 and their 19th overall.[73] Lynn took second in the No. 2 Cadillac and held pole position until Estre's lap.[70] His teammate Bourdais drove the sister No. 3 car to third with a lap set on his third fast lap halfway through Hyperpole.[68][72] He did not set any other laps after the session was restarted following a stoppage because the halt interrupted his second run and he did not have enough fuel to return to the track.[72][73][74] Pier Guidi was Ferrari's fastest driver, placing fourth. Fuoco's sister No. 50 entry was fifth after aborting his final run due to a mistake at the Dunlop chicane that forced him to abort a lap. Chatin's No. 36 Alpine was sixth.[68][69][70] Dries Vanthoor on a second set of tyres understeered the No. 15 BMW heavily into the tyre wall at Indianapolis corner and Hyperpole was stopped with 7 minutes and 41 seconds left as the car needed extricating.[68][69][75] Vanthoor's lap times were consequently invalidated.[73] and qualifying resumed approximately 10 minutes later.[71] The No. 12 Jota Porsche did not participate in the session as it was being rebuilt from its second practice session accident.[75] Delétraz's No. 14 AO by TF car took the LMP2 pole with a 3:33.217 lap on his final run in his first Le Mans pole position. Van Utiert's No. 28 IDEC entry was second after battling Delétraz for pole late in Hyperpole.[69][70] Following in third to fifth were Beche's No. 65 Panis car and the United Autosports pair of Hanley and Jarvis. In the first LMGT3 category qualifying session at Le Mans, Iribe drove the No. 70 Inception McLaren to the team's and marque's first pole position, lapping at 3:58.120.[73][75] He tried to lap faster, but he went too fast and spun after the Ford chicane on his last quick lap.[69][73] Malykhin's No. 92 Manthey Porsche secured second and Giacomo Petrobelli's No. 66 Ferrari took third.[70]
Following Hyperpole, the No. 2 Cadillac was demoted five places on the grid due to a penalty imposed when driver Earl Bamber collided with an LMGT3-category BMW at the previous 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.[74]
Qualifying results
[edit]Pole positions in each class are denoted in bold.
Pos | Class | No. | Team | Qualifying | Hyperpole | Grid[76] |
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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:[77][78][79] |
- ^ 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.[74]
Warm-up
[edit]On 15 June, a 15-minute warm-up session was held at midday in overcast and cool weather with rain falling towards the end.[3][80] Kubica's No. 83 Ferrari recorded the fastest lap time of 3:29.260. Antonio Giovinazzi's sister No. 51 Ferrari 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.[81] De Vries damaged the front of the No. 7 Toyota against Kelvin van der Linde's No. 78 Akkodis ASP Lexus and half-spun after being 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 to replace the Toyota's front end. 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 car and Bourdais' No. 3 Cadillac collided at the first Mulsanne Straight chicane, although both drivers continued.[80][81]
Race
[edit]Start and early hours
[edit]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).[82] There were 329,000 spectators in attendance.[83] The French tricolour was waved by FIFA World Cup winning footballer Zinedine Zidane at 16:00 Central European Summer Time to start the race,[84] which was led by the pole-sitting Laurens Vanthoor.[83][85] 62 cars planned to take the start,[85] 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.[86] 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.[87] 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.[88] 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.[89][90]
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.[91] 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.[91][92] 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.[92][93] 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.[92] 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.[94][95] 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.[91] 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.[93][96]
The LMGT3 lead also became a battle between Masson's No. 87 Akkodis Lexus,[96] 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.[97][98] 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.[98][99] 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.[100][101] 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.[97][102][103] Lapierre brought the No. 36 Alpine into the garage and the car was retired because of a rear driveshaft fault.[103][104]
Night to morning
[edit]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.[105][106] 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.[107][108] 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.[106][108] 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.[108] 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.[109][110] Al Harthy's No. 46 WRT BMW had an accident against the tyre wall at the Forest Esses after losing control on a damp white line while on slick tyres. The crash and subsequent water leak in the car forced its retirement from the race.[109][111]
The overall lead became a battle between the No. 8 Toyota and the No. 6 Penske Porsche, with both sets of crews following one another nose to tail for a multitude of laps.[112][113] 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.[112][113] 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.[114][115] 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.[113] 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.[112][115][116]
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.[113][117] Incessant rainfall and reduced visibility in the night forced the race director to keep the safety cars on the circuit for longer than expected but the race was not stopped.[118][119] Each of three safety cars had to be refuelled, and were replaced by reserve safety cars on the start/finish straight. LMP2 and LMGT3 teams fielded their Bronze or Silver-rated drivers so they complied 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.[119] Drivers were dazzled by the brake lights of the cars ahead of them.[118] 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.[119][120]
The safety car period ended after four hours and 26 minutes,[121] 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.[122] 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.[121][123] 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.[123][124] 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.[125]
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.[123][124] 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.[83][126][127][128] When racing resumed, it became a four-car duel between Ferrari, Porsche, Toyota and Cadillac for the overall lead.[126] 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.[128]
Afternoon to finish
[edit]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.[129][130][131] 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.[131][132] 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.[132][133] 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.[83][132][134]
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.[83][134][135] Toyota kept López in the No. 7 car instead of replacing him with Kobayashi because of his familiarity with how the car ran in the rain.[118]
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. He crossed the finish line first to secure victory for the No. 50 Ferrari team after completing 311 laps.[83][136][137] It was Fuoco's, Molina's and Nielsen's first overall Le Mans win,[138] Ferrari's 11th and its second in succession.[136] 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.[83][138] 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.[139] 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.[140][141] 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.[142] A record number of cars, nine, finished on the lead lap.[143]
Post-race
[edit]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.[144] Fuoco added his team were prepared and said "It is still not easy to understand what we have managed to achieve."[144] 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."[145] 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."[145] López argued that Toyota had the pace for victory and described the event as "the hardest one I have ever experienced."[146] 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."[83]
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."[147] 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.[148] 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."[149] 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."[150]
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.[151] 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.[152] 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.[152]
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.[153] 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.[154] 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.[146] 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."[155]
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
[edit]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][83][157]
Championship standings after the race
[edit]- Only the top five positions are included for all championship standings.
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Notes
[edit]- ^ 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.[156]
- ^ 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.[158][159][160]
- ^ 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.[158][161]
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External links
[edit]- Media related to 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website