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The best, most competitive field in the history of the race:

2024 Le Mans Entry List

23-car Hypercar field:

3 Cadillac VRs
6 Porsche 963s
3 Ferrari 499Ps
2 Toyota GR010s
2 BMW MHV8s
2 Peugeot 9X8s
2 Alpine A24s
2 Lamborghini SC63s
1 Isotta Fraschini

16-car LMP2 class

23 GT3 cars:

2 Porsche 911
2 Corvette Z06
2 Aston Martin Vantage
3 Ford Mustang
2 BMW M4
5 Ferrari 296
3 McLaren 720S
2 Lamborghini Huracan
2 Lexus RC F

Le Mans TV - practice starts tomorrow.

Le Mans TV

Full 24-Hour race coverage on MotorTrend TV here in the USA.

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Radio Le Mans Wednesday Live:

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MAX has it under the WEC offerings... All the practice, pole, race also... Cool.

Really curious to see how the mustangs do.

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Originally Posted by unclebilly (Post 12265442)

Really curious to see how the mustangs do.

Crossing the finish line at the end of the 24hrs will be a victory.

Alex Palou in the Ganassi Cadillac fastest in practice right now. The Hertz Jota 963 that made it into Hyperpole qualifying crashed last night and they're trying to build up a new car for Hyperpole later today.

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Originally Posted by unclebilly (Post 12265442)

Really curious to see how the mustangs do.

Mustang 1st in qualifying yesterday! Top 8 qualifiers go to Hyperpole today.

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Alpine have done shockingly well with their new cars, one of them making it into Hyperpole. They have a Live 24-Hour onboard feed:

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Wow, what a qualifying round :eek: Bourdais lays down a fast time in the Cadillac and - like a boss - parks it with minutes to go. It's Ferrari's pole for the taking at that point but neither car can do it. With only a few seconds left, Alex Lynn in the other Ganassi Cadillac takes pole for an all Cadillac front row! But wait, there's one more car running. Kevin Estre in the Penske Porsche but they haven't been fast all week and nobody's paying attention. Ganassi is getting ready to crack the champagne when Estre crosses the line with Pole Position :cool: Porsche-Cadillac-Cadillac-Ferrari-Ferrari-Alpine.

Yeah I felt bad for Seb but quali in a 24 hours race means little. Bring it on. The Cadillacs look and sound great, the Ferrari are georgous, the Porsches look like platypus but they are Porsches, and toyota...who cares... Fun !!!

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Originally Posted by astrochex (Post 12265500)

Crossing the finish line at the end of the 24hrs will be a victory.

Probably right...it's a rookie effort. Lots to learn...

The updated list of WEC/IMSA engines with newbies Aston Martin. I'm really hoping that Honda pulls the trigger on a WEC/Le Mans program next year. Ganassi would be the logical team given they no longer have a dance partner for 2025.

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Thanks for the thread and posts, gentlemen........wow....this should be a GOOD one!

After wrecking one of their 963s in practice, Jota had to shake down the rebuilt car at the Le Mans Airport yesterday :cool:

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Aaaand they’re off….

Did the French track workers wave the white flag on guard rail repairs ? Yikes it's been a long safety car .

Kubica should get a penalty for his move into the BMW.

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Originally Posted by astrochex (Post 12266885)

Kubica should get a penalty for his move into the BMW.

Yeah his in car video should confirm a penalty .

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Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc (Post 12266894)

Yeah his in car video should confirm a penalty .

One of the commentators said, and I rewatched to confirm, that Vanthoors steering wheel did not move at the time of the incident. Dumb on Kubicas part.

I got a kick out of the comments after a Caddy crashed and kept on going.

'Those Caddies are sure built Ford tough'.

Why do some tail lights flash? GT cars have the typical low rain light and the hyper cars have high flashing lights. Seems like that would get distracting and annoying to be behind, especially at night.

What does the blue flashing light mean on the sides of the track? Let the faster cars go by?

I think it means regeneration.

2-1/2 hours to go. 4 Porsches still on the lead lap but they just lack speed. Cadillac has a shot at the win depending on how the pit stops work out, but it looks like it's Toyota/Ferrari's race to lose.

BMW & Porsche in GT3 with Mustang in 3rd but back a minute +.

Cadillac live stream with the 2 remaining cars. Rain starting ....

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Ferrari on board live stream:

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Live timing & data:

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.... and it's never over til it's over. Rain, spinning Toyota after contact with Ferrari, door open on Ferrari at speed!, unsafe release of leading other Ferrari, wheel stuck on Toyota trying to put wets on ... Porsche soldiers on :cool:

Porsche had 6 hyper cars with 5 still running but they don't have the pace . Unless weather or a mistake happens I don't see them winning this one . Hoping that Porsche Manthey brings home the LMGT3 victory .

https://racingnews365.com/2024-le-mans-24-hours-full-results

The #50 Ferrari of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen took Hypercar and overall victory in the 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours, at the Circuit de la Sarthe.

They were joined by the podium by the #7 Toyota of Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria Lopez and Nyck de Vries and the #51 Ferrari of James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi in the race's leading class.

In LMP2, the #22 United Autosport of Bijoy Garg, Oliver Jarvis and Nolan Seigel won the second tier, from the #34 Enter Europol Competition of Vladislav Lomko, Clement Novalak and Jakub Smiechowski and the #28 IDEC Sport of Reshad de Gerus, Paul Lafargue and Job van Uitert.

In the third and final category, LMGT3, the #91 Manthey EMA of Richard Lietz, Morris Schuring and Yasser Shahin triumphed ahead of the #31 Team WRT of Augusto Farfus, Sean Gelael and Darren Leung. The #88 Proton Competition of Dennis Olsen, Mikkel O. Pedersen and Giorgio Roda rounded out the podium places after a heavily weather and safety car disrupted event.

2024 LE MANS 24 HOURS RESULTS

HYPERCAR

POS. NO. TEAM DRIVERS
1 50 Ferrari AF Corse A. Fuoco, M. Molina, N. Nielsen
2 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing J. Lopez, K. Kobayashi, N. de Vries
3 51 Ferrari AF Corse A. Pier Guidi, J. Calado, A. Giovinazzi
4 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport K. Estre, A. Lotterer, L. Vanthoor
5 8 Toyota Gazoo Racing S. Buemi, B. Hartley, R. Hirakawa
6 5 Porsche Penske Motorsport M. Campbell, M. Christensen, F.
Makowiecki
7 2 Cadillac Racing E. Bamber, A. Lynn, A. Palou
8 12 Hertz Team JOTA W. Stevens, N. Nato, C. Ilott
9 38 Hertz Team JOTA O. Rasmussen, P. Hanson, J. Button
10 63 Lamborghini Iron Lynx M. Bortolotti, D. Kvyat, E. Mortara
11 94 Peugeot TotalEnergies S. Vandoorne, P. di Resta, L. Duval
12 93 Peugeot TotalEnergies J. Vergne, M. Jensen, N. Müller
13 19 Lamborghini Iron Lynx R. Grosjean, A. Caldarelli, M. Cairoli
14 11 Isotta Fraschini C. Bennett, J. Vernay, A. Serravalle
15 311 Whelen Cadillac Racing P. Derani, J. Aitken, F. Drugovich
16 99 Proton Competition N. Jani, H. Tincknell, J. Andlauer
17 20 BMW M Team WRT S. Van der Linde, R. Frijns, R. Rast
DNF 83 AF Corse R. Kubica, R. Shwartzman, Y. Yifei
DNF 3 Cadillac Racing S. Bourdais, R. van der Zande, S. Dixon
DNF 4 Porsche Penske Motorsport M. Jaminet, F. Nasr, N. Tandy
DNF 15 BMW M Team WRT D. Vanthoor, R. Marciello, M. Wittmann
DNF 36 Alpine Endurance Team N. Lapierre, M. Schumacher, M. Vaxiviere
DNF 35 Alpine Endurance Team P. Chatin, F. Habsburg, C. Milesi

LMP2

POS. NO. TEAM DRIVERS
1 22 United Autosports O. Jarvis, B. Garg, N. Siegel
2 34 Inter Europol Competition J. Smiechowski, V. Lomko, C. Novalak
3 28 IDEC Sport P. Lafargue, J. Van Uitert, R. de Gerus
4 183 AF Corse F. Perrodo, B. Barnicoat, N. Varrone
5 10 Vector Sport R. Cullen, P. Pilet, S. Richelmi
6 14 AO by TF P. Hyett, L. Deletraz, A. Quinn
7 33 DKR Engineering A. Mattschull, R. Binder, L. Hörr
8 25 Algarve Pro Racing M. Kaiser, O. Caldwell, R. De Angelis
9 65 Panis Racing R. Sales, M. Beche, S. Huffaker
10 47 COOL Racing N. Rao, M. Bell, F. Vesti
11 24 Nielsen Racing F. Scherer, D. Heinemeier Hansson, K. Simpson
12 37 COOL Racing L. Fluxá, M. Jakobsen, R. Miyata
13 23 United Autosports USA B. Keating, F. Albuquerque, B. Hanley
DNF 45 Crowdstrike Racing by APR G. Kurtz, C. Braun, N. Catsburg
DNF 30 Duqueine Team J. Falb, J. Allen, J. Simmenauer
DNF 9 Proton Competition J. Ried, M. Capietto, B. Viscaal

LMGT3

POS. NO. TEAM DRIVERS
1 91 Manthey EMA Y. Shahin, M. Schuring, R. Lietz
2 31 Team WRT D. Leung, S. Gelael, A. Farfus
3 88 Proton Competition G. Roda, M. Pedersen, D. Olsen
4 44 Proton Competition J. Hartshorne, B. Tuck, C. Mies
5 85 Iron Dames S. Bovy, M. Gatting, R. Frey
6 55 Vista AF Corse F. Heriau, S. Mann, A. Rovera
7 78 Akkodis ASP Team A. Robin, T. Boguslavskiy, K. van der Linde
8 155 Spirit of Race J. Laursen, C. Laursen, J. Taylor
9 777 D'Station Racing S. Hoshino, E. Bastard, M. Sorensen
10 87 Akkodis ASP Team T. Kimura, E. Masson, J. Hawksworth
11 82 TF Sport H. Koizumi, S. Baud, D. Juncadella
12 86 GR Racing M. Wainwright, D. Serra, R. Pera
13 70 Inception Racing B. Iribe, O. Millroy, F. Schandorff
14 92 Manthey PureRxcing A. Malykhin, J. Sturm, K. Bachler
15 81 TF Sport T. Van Rompuy, R. Andrade, C. Eastwood
16 60 Iron Lynx C. Schiavoni, M. Cressoni, F. Perera
17 77 Proton Competition R. Hardwick, Z. Robichon, B. Barker
DNF 59 United Autosports J. Cottingham, N. Costa, G. Saucy
DNF 95 United Autosports H. Hamaguchi, N. Pino, M. Sato
DNF 27 Heart of Racing Team I. James, D. Mancinelli, A. Riberas
DNF 66 JMW Motorsport G. Petrobelli, L. ten Voorde, S. Yoluc
DNF 46 Team WRT A. Al Harthy, V. Rossi, M. Martin
DNF 54 Vista AF Corse T. Flohr, F. Castellacci, D. Rigon

The weather made some of the race very boring.

I wish they would use the car name instead of the Team name in LMGT3.

Overheard in the sky control booth:
They stuck us with a DEI pick interviewer,
but they didn't say we had to turn her mike on.
:)

It will be interesting to see what the debriefing eventually reveals with Porsche's lack of speed in Hypercar. They have typically gotten better toward the end of races but this time around they were there and were solid, but just didn't quite have it. I heard it mentioned several times that they had trouble getting traction out of the low-speed corners??

Great run in GT3 though!

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