2024 24 Hours of Le Mans

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. The Automobile Club de l'Ouest's 92nd 24-hour race drew 329,000 spectators and was the fourth round of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship. There was a test day on 9 June, a week before the event. Kévin Estre, André Lotterer and Laurens Vanthoor's Porsche 963 from Porsche Penske Motorsport started from pole position after Estre achieved the fastest overall lap time in the Le Mans Hypercar category in the Hyperpole session. Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen's Ferrari 499P of Ferrari AF Corse took the overall victory after 311 laps. It was Fuoco, Molina, and Nielsen's first overall Le Mans victory, Ferrari's second consecutive win, and the Italian marque's 11th. Nyck de Vries, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López finished second in a Toyota GR010 Hybrid, duelling with the race winners in the final two hours. 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. United Autosports's Bijoy Garg, Oliver Jarvis and Nolan Siegel shared an Oreca 07-Gibson car and led the last two hours of the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class, giving the team its second category victory after 2020. Inter Europol Competition's trio of Vladislav Lomko, Clément Novalak and Jakub Śmiechowski finished 18.6 seconds behind in second place, with IDEC Sport's Reshad de Gerus, Paul Lafargue and Job van Uitert taking 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 by one lap ahead over Team WRT's Augusto Farfus, Sean Gelael and Darren Leung, who shared a BMW M4 GT3. The Porsche Penske trio of Estre, Lotterer and Vanthoor remained atop the Hypercar Drivers' Championship with 99 points; their advantage was cut 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.