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Most podiums before first win: 6: Toyota [Note 6] Most podiums without winning: 3: Pescarolo [Note 7] Starts Most participations by a single constructor: 73: Porsche between 1951 and 2023: Most entries by a single constructor in a single race: 33: Porsche in 1971 (33 starters/49) Most entries by a single constructor (total) 861: Porsche since 1951
Joest Racing are the most successful race team with 15 victories and the Audi R8 is the best race-winning vehicle with five victories. [ 10 ] [ 12 ] As of the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans , [update] there have been 146 victorious drivers from 20 individual countries and 25 winning manufacturers representing 7 different nations in the race's 92 ...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 24 Heures du Mans) is an endurance-focused sports car race held annually near the town of Le Mans, France. [1] It is widely considered to be one of the world's most prestigious races, [2] [3] and is one of the races—along with the Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500—that form the Triple Crown of Motorsport, and is also one of the races alongside the 24 ...
This was the first overall win at Le Mans for the Ford GT40 as ... starts at Le Mans; and Jacky Ickx, whose record of six Le Mans ... Le Mans 24 Hour Race 1949 ...
Their drivers were Le Mans local François Migault (in the race-winning chassis from the previous year), and Gordon Spice (despite him suffering a serious road-accident less than a month earlier) in one, [14] and Jean-Louis Schlesser/Philippe Streiff/Jacky Haran in the other. Once again, Keith Greene (formerly of De Cadenet and Dome) was the ...
This record capped a great race for Porsche – finishing 1-2-3-4, as Jaguar had done in 1957, and winning all four of the classes they had been represented in. [35] The torrential rain in the second half of the race made it the slowest Le Mans since 1958; the total distance was down fully 17% on the previous year. [30] [8]
Le Mans in 1995. The 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 63rd Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 17 and 18 June 1995 in one of the wettest races in the event's history with about 17 hours of steady rain. The race was won by the #59 McLaren F1 GTR driven by JJ Lehto, Yannick Dalmas and Masanori Sekiya entered in the GT1
Ferrari were second and third, and these top-three cars all broke the 5000 km mark in total distance covered for the first time. All overall records were broken – fastest, furthest, a new lap record, and biggest engine to win, along with a number of class records. [1] Le Mans in 1967