Flag: | FRA |
2024 24 Hours of Le Mans | |
Round No: | 4 |
Round Total: | 8 |
Year: | 2024 |
Track Map: | Circuit_de_la_Sarthe_track_map.svg |
Date: | 15–16 June |
Location: | Le Mans, France |
Circuit: | Circuit de la Sarthe |
Duration: | 24 Hours |
Laps: | 311 |
Distance Km: | 4237.542 |
Distance Miles: | 2633.087 |
Pole Time: | 3:24.634 |
Pole Team: | Porsche Penske Motorsport |
Category1: | Hypercar |
Category1 Winner Team: | Ferrari AF Corse |
Category1 Winner Drivers: | Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen |
Category2: | LMP2 |
Category2 Winner Team: | United Autosports |
Category2 Winner Drivers: | Bijoy Garg Oliver Jarvis Nolan Siegel |
Category3: | LMP2 Pro-Am |
Category3 Winner Team: | AF Corse |
Category3 Winner Drivers: | Ben Barnicoat François Perrodo Nicolás Varrone |
Category4: | LMGT3 |
Category4 Winner Team: | Manthey EMA |
Category4 Winner Drivers: | Richard Lietz Morris Schuring Yasser Shahin |
The 92nd 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: link=no|92<sup>e</sup> 24 Heures du Mans) was an automobile endurance race for teams of three drivers each racing Prototype and Grand Touring cars held from 15 to 16 June 2024 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, near Le Mans, France. It was the 92nd edition of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's 24-hour race and the fourth round of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship.
Ferrari won overall for the second year in succession and eleventh in total, with the Ferrari 499P Hypercar shared by Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen beating the Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Kamui Kobayashi, José María López and Nyck de Vries by 14 seconds. Third place was taken by 2023 winners James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi in the other factory-run AF Corse Ferrari. A record number of cars, nine, finished on the lead lap.[1]
United Autosports emerged victorious in Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) for the second time, with Bijoy Garg, Oliver Jarvis and Nolan Siegel driving a Gibson-powered Oreca 07. The first edition of LMGT3 was won by Manthey EMA's Richard Lietz, Morris Schuring and Yasser Shahin in a Porsche 911 GT3 R (992). The race was affected by heavy rain and fog, with a four-hour safety car intervention in the early morning owing to the weather.[1]
The 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 92nd running of the 24-hour race organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest. The LM GTE Am class of 2023 was transitioned to LMGT3 for the 2024 race. While LMP2 cars did not run in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship, Automobile Club de l'Ouest allocated a minimum of 15 grid slots to LMP2 cars for the race.[2] A number of new and returning manufacturers hoped to field cars in the 2024 event, including Alpine, Ford, BMW, and McLaren.[3] [4] [5] [6] LMGT3 models that did not compete for the full 2024 FIA WEC seasons were not permitted to enter at the 24 hour race.[7]
In addition to all full season WEC entries, automatic invites were given to championship winners in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), LMP2 and LMGTE in the Asian Le Mans Series (ALMS) and Bronze Cup in GT World Challenge Europe (GTWCE) in a combined Endurance and Sprint Championship. Second-place finishers in LMP2 in the ELMS also earned an invite. Three IMSA teams were also granted invites, one in Hypercar at the discretion of IMSA, and one each for the Jim Trueman and Bob Akin awards.[8]
Reason invited | Hypercar | LMP2 | LMGT3 | ||||
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nowrap | 1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 and LMGTE) | nowrap | Algarve Pro Racing | nowrap | Proton Competition | ||
nowrap | 2nd in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2) | nowrap | United Autosports | ||||
nowrap | 1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 Pro-Am) | nowrap | AF Corse | ||||
nowrap | 1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP3) | nowrap | Cool Racing | ||||
nowrap | IMSA SportsCar Championship at-large entries | nowrap | Whelen Cadillac Racing | nowrap | George Kurtz | nowrap | Brendan Iribe |
nowrap | 1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP2 and GT) | nowrap | CrowdStrike Racing by APR | nowrap | Pure Rxcing | ||
nowrap | 1st in the GT World Challenge Europe (Bronze Cup) | nowrap | Pure Rxcing | ||||
Sources:[9] |
Entries in the LMP2 Pro-Am Cup, set aside for teams with a Bronze-rated driver in their line-up, are denoted with Icons.
Icon | Series | |
---|---|---|
WEC | FIA World Endurance Championship | |
ELMS | European Le Mans Series | |
ALMS | Asian Le Mans Series | |
WTSC | WeatherTech SportsCar Championship | |
24LM | 24 Hours of Le Mans only | |
Icon | MISC | |
P2 | LMP2 | |
PA | LMP2 Pro-Am |
In addition to the 62 entries given invitations for the race, seven entries are put on a reserve list to potentially replace any invitations that were not accepted or withdrawn. Reserve entries are ordered with the first reserve replacing the first withdrawal from the race, regardless of the class of either entry.
Reserve | Class | Entrant | Car | Tyre | Series | MISC | Driver 1 | Driver 2 | Driver 3 | ||
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1st | Hypercar | 79 | Proton Competition | Porsche 963 | WTSC | Hybrid | nowrap | Gianmaria Bruni | TBA | TBA | |
2nd | LMP2 | 43 | nowrap | Inter Europol Competition | Oreca 07-Gibson | ELMS | P2 | Clément Novalak | TBA | TBA | |
3rd | LMP2 | 41 | Staysail Motorsport | Oreca 07-Gibson | 24LM | P2 | Michael Dinan | TBA | TBA | ||
Source:[30] |
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, "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.[31]
Pole positions in each class are denoted in bold.
Class | Team | [32] | |||||
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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 | |
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 | ||
Source:[33] [34] [35] |
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 .[36]