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The race-winning No. 50 Ferrari 499P. The 92nd 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 92 e 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.
IMSA cited the growth of the GTP class as a contributing factor to dropping LMP3 for 2024 onwards, in addition to growth in other classes. [1] GTP is the flagship class of the championship, and consists of two sister technical regulations: Le Mans Daytona h (LMDh), and Le Mans Hypercar (LMH). The former regulation allows developing a bespoke ...
BMW's only previous entry into the FIA World Endurance Championship was in the GTE Pro category in 2018–19, while the Dallara-based M Hybrid V8, which debuted in the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship, marked BMW's return to top-class sportscar racing for the first time since winning the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans. [45]
The 2024 Lone Star Le Mans was an endurance sportscar racing event held on September 1, 2024, as the sixth of eight rounds of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship. It was the seventh running of the event as part of the World Endurance Championship, and the first running of the event since 2020 .
The 2025 calendar for the IndyCar racing series has a race the same weekend as next year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, causing a problem for drivers who would do both. IndyCar's 2025 Schedule Poses a Big ...
LMDh (Le Mans Daytona h) [1] is a sports prototype category that competes alongside Le Mans Hypercar entries in the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class of the IMSA SportsCar Championship from 2023. [2] It also competes in the Hypercar class in the FIA World Endurance Championship. [3]
While Porsche and Cadillac's cars are built to the IMSA-style LMDh regulations, the Vanwall entry will be built to the same Le Mans Hypercar rule set used by Peugeot, Toyota, Ferrari, and Glickenhaus.
In 2022, 2023, and 2024: Fewest cars in a single race: 17: In 1930: Most finishers: 53: In 2022: Fewest finishers: 6: In 1931: Highest percentage of finishers: 90.9%: In 1923 (30/33 finishers) Lowest percentage of finishers: 13.7%: In 1970 (7/51 finishers) Most cars in the leading lap: 9: In 2024 Most time behind the safety car: 6 hrs 54 min 27 ...