Ferrari won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the second consecutive time on Sunday, June 16, after a 92e incredibly competitive edition on the Sarthe circuit. The number 50 car of Italian Antonio Fuoco, Spaniard Miguel Molina and Dane Nicklas Nielsen won ahead of Toyota no 7 and the other Ferrari, the no 51, victorious in 2023, on the famous Le Mans route.
The first Porsche in the ranking, the no 6 lead on Saturday, failed at the foot of the podium.
The promoters of the new premier category, Hypercars, launched in 2021, can congratulate themselves since the density of the field offered a fierce race for 24 hours: Sunday at 4 p.m., nine cars finished in the same lap, representing four manufacturers on nine entered at the start.
Abandonment for Valentino Rossi
The intervention of safety cars during the night and in the morning – due to rain or accidents – often made the gaps between the cars obsolete, and de facto launched a new race each time. This explains such small margins between the fastest prototypes entered.
In the lower categories, the Oreca no 22 from the United Autosports team won in LMP2 and the Porsche no 91 of the Manthey Ema team won in LMGT3, a category in which Valentino Rossi competed for the first time at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Italian motorcycle legend had to retire during the night, after his teammate went off the track at the wheel of their BMW, then in the Top 5.