2024 24 Hours of Le Mans

2024 24 Hours of Le Mans
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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. Held before 329,000 spectators, 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. There was a test day on 9 June, a week before the event.

A Porsche 963 shared by Kévin Estre, André Lotterer and Laurens Vanthoor of Porsche Penske Motorsport began from pole position after Estre set the fastest overall lap time in the Le Mans Hypercar category in the Hyperpole session. The Ferrari AF Corse trio of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen won overall after completing 311 laps. It was the first overall Le Mans victory for Fuoco, Molina and Nielsen, the second in succession for Ferrari as well as the Italian marque's 11th. Nyck de Vries, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López finished second in a Toyota GR010 Hybrid after battling the race winners in the final hour of the race. 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.

The United Autosports crew of Bijoy Garg, Oliver Jarvis, Nolan Siegel shared an Oreca 07-Gibson car and led the final two hours in the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class to achieve the team's second category victory after its first in 2020. Inter Europol Competition's trio of Vladislav Lomko, Clément Novalak and Jakub Śmiechowski finished 18.6 seconds behind in second place and IDEC Sport's Reshad de Gerus, Paul Lafargue and Job van Uitert took 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, one lap ahead of the trio of Augusto Farfus, Sean Gelael and Darren Leung, who shared a BMW M4 GT3 for Team WRT.

The Porsche Penske trio of Estre, Lotterer and Vanthoor remained atop the Hypercar Drivers' Championship with 99 points; their advantage was reduced 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.