24 Hours of Le Mans 2024

Looking forward to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a few days! Such a grand motorsport event! Very full field…especially HyperCar! Here is the entry list for those that are interested.
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Looking forward to watching. I’m excited to see BMW back in the top class.

Some pretty cool Test Day track footage from today!
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BMW Hybrid quickest in qualifying. The GT3s not so much. Hybrid crashed in night practice.

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/bmw-tops-qualifying-as-hyperpole-spots-decided/

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/buemi-paces-night-practice-trouble-for-wrt-jota/

Porsche edges Cadillac to claim pole for 24 Hours of Le Mans
Porsche Penske Motorsport’s No. 6 963 will start the 92nd edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours this weekend from pole position after a masterful performance in the Hyperpole shootout on Thursday night from Kevin Estre.
https://racer.com/2024/06/13/porsche-edges-cadillac-to-claim-pole-for-24-hours-of-le-mans/

Le Mans 2024: Hyperpole classification
Hypercars

1 #6 PORSCHE PENSKE MOTORSPORT (K. Estre, A. Lotterer, L. Vanthoor) 3:24.634

2 #2 CADILLAC RACING (E. Bamber, A. Lynn, A. Palou) 3:24.782

3 #3 CADILLAC RACING (S. Bourdais, R. van der Zande, S. Dixon) 3:24.816

4 #51 FERRARI AF CORSE (A. Pier Guidi, J. Calado, A. Giovinazzi) 3:25.156

5 #50 FERRARI AF CORSE (A. Fuoco, M. Molina, N. Nielsen) 3:25.598

6 #35 ALPINE ENDURANCE TEAM (P. Chatin, F. Habsburg, C. Milesi) 3:25.713

7 #15 BMW M TEAM WRT (D. Vanthoor, R. Marciello, M. Wittmann) NO TIME

LMP2

1 #14 AO BY TF (P. Hyett, L. Deletraz, A. Quinn) 3:33.217

2 #28 IDEC SPORT (P. Lafargue, J. Van Uitert, R. de Gerus) 3:33.827

3 #65 PANIS RACING (R. Sales, M. Beche, S. Huffaker) 3:34.053

4 #23 UNITED AUTOSPORTS USA (B. Keating, F. Albuquerque, B. Hanley) 3:34.221

5 #22 UNITED AUTOSPORTS (O. Jarvis, B. Garg, N. Siegel) 3:34.270

6 #37 COOL RACING (L. Fluxá, M. Jakobsen, R. Miyata) 3:34.773

7 #33 DKR ENGINEERING (A. Mattschull, R. Binder, L. Hörr) 3:34.330

8 #10 VECTOR SPORT (R. Cullen, P. Pilet, S. Richelmi) 3:34.262

LMGT3

1 #70 INCEPTION RACING (B. Iribe, O. Millroy, F. Schandorff) 3:58.120

2 #92 MANTHEY PURERXCING (A. Malykhin, J. Sturm, K. Bachler) 3:58.928

3 #66 JMW MOTORSPORT (G. Petrobelli, L. ten Voorde, S. Yoluc) 3:58.938

4 #77 PROTON COMPETITION (R. Hardwick, Z. Robichon, B. Barker) 3:59.443

5 #27 HEART OF RACING TEAM (I. James, D. Mancinelli, A. Riberas 3:59.655

6 #777 D’STATION RACING (S. Hoshino, E. Bastard, M. Sorensen) 4:02.787

7 #82 TF SPORT (H. Koizumi, S. Baud, D. Juncadella) 4:03.681

I think the #3 CADILLAC RACING (S. Bourdais, R. van der Zande, S. Dixon) will be there in the end. I do love to root for the underdogs.

Kevin Estre’s pole lap in the Porsche Penske is pretty great!
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It’s a great race, I drove the e39 540i there in 2003 to see the Bentley Speed 8’s take a 1st & 2nd. Although tbf Audi didn’t compete as it was Bentleys 100th Anniversary year.
It was a great weekend, the drive there & back was pretty good too

for those in the US

It looks as if Motor Trend TV will broadcast the entire Le Mans race starting tomorrow at 9AM.

Personally, I’m anxious to see Jenson Button drive for Team Jota Porsche! Big fan of Jenson so great to see him behind the wheel again!

Killed by Death wrote

Rossi did a good job in totalling that

M5Rick wrote

Rossi did a good job in totalling that

Make sure we attribute the crash to the right Rossi: Louis Rossi

Car-Addicted wrote

Make sure we attribute the crash to the right Rossi: Louis Rossi

Of course, Valentino is making his debut in the LM GT3 class in a BMW M4 GT3.

Le Marseillaise being sung now.

Killed by Death wrote

De Vries was asleep lol rear ended the Lexus sister car to Toyota ! What a F* pillock.

Strong cross winds blowing over the track with forest debris as the race gets under way with the 50 Ferrari AF Corse just now taking the lead.

Robert Kubica up to 5th in the customer #83 499P AF Corse

M5Rick wrote

Robert Kubica up to 5th in the customer #83 499P AF Corse

The good old KubiCrasher ...

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The good old KubiCrasher ...

Ages ago in that Fabia, he's got that Caddy in his sights now

Disappointed in BMW’s program. The car was developed at the same time as the Porsche and they’ve figured it out. Time to fix the mechanical and possible driver issues as they seem to qualify well, but can’t keep the pace during the race.

At least the M4 GT3 platform seems to be doing well.