2012 24 Hours of Le Mans

2012 24 Hours of Le Mans
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The 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 24 Heures du Mans 2012) was the 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race, and formed the third round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship season.^[1] It was held on 16–17 June 2012 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France, and was organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO).

The overall winning #1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro, driven by Fässler, Tréluyer and Lotterer.

For the second year in a row the race was won by Marcel Fässler, Benoît Tréluyer, and André Lotterer, who were driving an e-tron quattro, hybrid electric version of the Audi R18.^[2] They were a lap ahead of their sister R18 e-tron quattro entry, and three laps ahead of a conventionally powered Audi R18 ultra. This victory made the Audi R18 e-tron quattro the first hybrid electric vehicle to win at Le Mans,^[3] as well as the first with four-wheel drive.^[4]

Schedule

A test session was held at the circuit two weeks before the race, on 3 June, scheduled to avoid clashing with events within the 2012 Formula One season.^[5] The race itself was also scheduled so as to avoid Formula One event clashes.

Schedule [6]
Date	Time (CEST)	Event
Le Mans Test Day Schedule
Friday, 1 June	09:00 – 18:00	Sporting Checks and Administrative scrutineering
Saturday, 2 June	09:00 – 15:00	Sporting Checks and Administrative scrutineering
Sunday, 3 June	09:00 – 13:00	Free practice
	14:00 – 18:00
2012 24 Hours of Le Mans Schedule
Sunday, 10 June	14:30 – 19:00	Sporting Checks and Administrative scrutineering
Monday, 11 June	10:00 – 18:00	Sporting Checks and Administrative scrutineering
Wednesday, 13 June	16:00 – 20:00	Free practice
	22:00 – 24:00	Qualifying
Thursday, 14 June	19:00 – 21:00	Qualifying
	22:00 – 24:00
Friday, 15 June	17:30 – 19:30	The 18th Drivers' Parade in Le Mans City center [7]
Saturday, 16 June	09:00 – 09:45	Warm-up
	15:00	Start of the 80th 24 Hours of Le Mans
Sunday, 17 June	15:00	Finish of the 80th 24 Hours of Le Mans

Entries

For the second year, the ACO granted 56 invitations to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Entries were divided between the LMP1 (Le Mans Prototype 1), LMP2 (Le Mans Prototype 2), LMGTE Pro (Le Mans GT Endurance Professional), and LMGTE Am (Le Mans GT Endurance Amateur) categories, while a final 56th entry was granted for the Nissan-engined DeltaWing, which does not conform to any of the four categories.

Automatic entries

Automatic entries are earned by teams which won the previous running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, or have won Le Mans-based series and events such as the American Le Mans Series, Le Mans Series, and the Petit Le Mans. Some second-place finishers are also granted automatic entries in certain series and events. Entries are also granted for the winners of the Michelin Energy Endurance Challenge in both the American Le Mans Series and Le Mans Series. A final entry is granted to the champion in the Formula Le Mans category of the Le Mans Series, with the winner receiving their invitation in LMP2.^[8]

As automatic entries are granted to teams, the teams are allowed to change their cars from the previous year to the next, but are not allowed to change their category. However, automatic invitations in the two GTE categories are able to be swapped between the two based on the driver line-ups chosen by these teams. As the American Le Mans Series does not separate between the Pro and Am categories, only a single GTE invitation will be granted for their class champion.

Reason Entered	LMP1	LMP2	LMGTE Pro	LMGTE Am
1st in the 24 Hours of Le Mans	Audi Sport Team Joest	Greaves Motorsport	Corvette Racing	Larbre Compétition
1st in the Le Mans Series	Rebellion Racing	Greaves Motorsport	AF Corse	IMSA Performance Matmut
2nd in the Le Mans Series	Pescarolo Team	Strakka Racing	JMW Motorsport	AF Corse
1st in the American Le Mans Series	Dyson Racing Team	Not Awarded	BMW Team RLL
2nd in the American Le Mans Series	Muscle Milk Aston Martin Racing	Not Awarded	Corvette Racing
1st in the Petit Le Mans	Peugeot Sport Total	Level 5 Motorsports	AF Corse	Krohn Racing
1st in Le Mans Series Energy Endurance Challenge	Pescarolo Team		AF Corse
1st in American Le Mans Series Energy Endurance Challenge	Dyson Racing Team		BMW Team RLL
1st in Le Mans Series FLM category		Pegasus Racing

56th entry

For the 56th and final entry for the 2012 running of Le Mans, the ACO has turned to promoting cars which feature advancements in technology, either for performance or ecological improvement. Three projects were submitted to the ACO, with the automatic entry being granted to an American group by the name of Project 56 who are developing the DeltaWing concept originally proposed for the American IndyCar Series. The extremely lightweight car features a unique layout that is far removed from the style of Le Mans Prototypes. The project is backed by Highcroft Racing, All American Racers, and the Panoz Group.^[9] Two other entries had been granted reserve status if the DeltaWing team withdrew; the Swiss-developed GreenGT LMP-H2, which utilizes a hydrogen fuel cell to run electric motors within a Le Mans Prototype style body,^[10] and the French Courage 0.12 will use stored energy to drive electric motors.^[11]

Entry list

In conjunction with the announcement of entries for the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship, the ACO announced the full 56 car entry list for Le Mans, plus nine reserves.^[12] On 16 April, the ACO released an updated entry list which confirmed the withdrawal of both Dyson Racing cars. Status Grand Prix and Murphy Prototypes were promoted from the reserve list in Dyson's absence. Several teams also withdrew their entries from the reserve list, including Jetalliance, Hope Racing, Lotus Cars, and Aston Martin Racing.

The 9 initial reserve entries were divided between five LMP and four GTE entries. Rather than the first reserve replacing a car of any class, a withdrawing LMP can only be replaced by another LMP and the same applies to GTs. The specific classes within LMP and GT are not considered in this process. At the time of the Test Day, there were 3 remaining reserve entries, a second Lotus entry in LMP, and the Pro IMSA Matmut Porsche and the Am Proton Competition Porsche in GT.^[12]

Qualifying

Qualifying was held over three sessions, each two hours in length. The first session, held on Wednesday night, was led by a trio of Audis with the No. 1 car setting the pace with a lap time of 3:25.453. Toyota, in their first qualifying session with the TS030 was fourth in the standings, 1.7 seconds off the lead Audi's pace. The Thiriet by TDS Racing Oreca-Nissan led the LMP2 category by two tenths of a second over Murphy Prototypes. Corvette Racing No. 74 led the LMGTE Pro category with a 3:55.910 lap ahead of Luxury Racing's Ferrari and the No. 73 Corvette. The LMGTE Am class was led by Flying Lizard Motorsports by half a second over the Prospeed Competition Porsche.

The No. 59 Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 of Luxury Racing led LMGTE Pro with a second session time of 3:55.393

The second session of qualifying was held in the early evening of Thursday. The majority of cars participating improved their qualifying times from the previous day, while the provisional pole position was lowered to a 3:24.078, now held by the No. 3 Audi. In the LMP2 category OAK Racing's No. 24 Morgan-Judd was the fastest ahead of the Signatech Oreca-Nissan. Luxury Racing was able to supplant Corvette at the top of the LMGTE Pro class by improving the class lap time by over half a second, while Aston Martin moved into second place ahead of Corvette. Flying Lizard did not improve their LMGTE Am lap time, maintaining the lead in the category. The final session held at the end of Thursday was led by defending race winner André Lotterer who ran a 3:23.787 lap early in the session, which was not beaten by the end of qualifying nearly two hours later. The pole position for the No. 1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro was the first for a hybrid electric vehicle. Audi No. 3's time from the second session held for second place, 0.2 seconds behind the pole sitter, while Toyota No. 8 improved to third on the grid although a full second behind the fast lap. ADR-Delta brought home the LMP2 category pole by setting a nearly half a second ahead of OAK's lap from the second session. No improvements were made by the top cars of either of the LMGTE categories, giving Luxury Racing Ferrari and Flying Lizard Porsche pole positions in Pro and Am respectively. The unclassified DeltaWing 3:42.612 in the first qualifying session, making it the 29th fastest car in the field.

Jean-Christophe Boullion was injured in an accident prior to qualifying on Wednesday was ruled out of the event two days later after complaining of pain in his ribs.^[13] No replacement driver was found, leaving Emmanuel Collard and Stuart Hall as the only drivers for the No. 16 Pescarolo-Judd.

Qualifying result

Pole positions in each class are denoted in bold. The fastest time set by each entry is denoted in gray.

Pos	No.	Team	Car	Class	Qualifying 1	Qualifying 2	Qualifying 3	Gap	Grid
1	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	3:25.453	3:24.997	3:23.787		1
2	3	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R18 ultra	LMP1	3:26.694	3:24.078	3:27.578	+0.291	2
3	8	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	LMP1	3:28.295	3:26.151	3:24.842	+1.055	3
4	2	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	3:26.536	3:26.038	3:25.433	+1.646	4
5	7	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	LMP1	3:27.191	3:26.502	3:25.488	+1.701	5
6	4	Audi Sport North America	Audi R18 ultra	LMP1	3:27.554	3:26.420	3:26.600	+2.633	6
7	21	Strakka Racing	HPD ARX-03a-Honda	LMP1	3:32.750	3:29.622	3:37.253	+5.835	7
8	12	Rebellion Racing	Lola B12/60-Toyota	LMP1	3:33.211	3:29.837	3:34.476	+6.050	8
9	13	Rebellion Racing	Lola B12/60-Toyota	LMP1	3:33.140	3:31.866	3:41.533	+8.079	9
10	17	Pescarolo Team	Dome S102.5-Judd	LMP1	3:34.716	3:34.925	3:33.066	+9.279	10
11	22	JRM	HPD ARX-03a-Honda	LMP1	3:37.088	No Time	3:35.421	+11.634	11
12	15	OAK Racing	OAK Pescarolo 01-Judd	LMP1	3:38.414	3:37.367	3:35.584	+11.797	12
13	16	Pescarolo Team	Pescarolo 03-Judd	LMP1	No Time	3:37.485	3:48.716	+13.698	—^1
14	25	ADR-Delta	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	3:41.791	3:40.174	3:38.181	+14.394	13
15	24	OAK Racing	Morgan LMP2-Judd	LMP2	3:40.902	3:38.598	3:40.310	+14.811	14
16	26	Signatech-Nissan	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	3:42.157	3:39.152	3:44.622	+15.365	15
17	46	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	3:39.252	3:41.975	3:41.990	+15.465	16
18	49	Pecom Racing	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	3:41.916	3:39.711	3:40.292	+15.924	17
19	48	Murphy Prototypes	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	3:39.877	3:40.652	3:42.057	+16.090	18
20	35	OAK Racing	Morgan LMP2-Nissan	LMP2	3:41.721	3:39.899	3:41.707	+16.112	19
21	30	Status Grand Prix	Lola B12/80-Judd	LMP2	3:41.451	3:42.518	3:40.280	+16.493	20
22	44	Starworks Motorsport	HPD ARX-03b-Honda	LMP2	3:40.639	3:41.863	3:40.471	+16.684	21
23	45	Boutsen Ginion Racing	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	3:40.727	3:43.763	3:42.949	+16.940	22
24	42	Greaves Motorsport	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	3:42.125	3:40.738	3:43.230	+16.951	23
25	38	Jota	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	3:41.287	3:41.428	No Time	+17.500	24
26	23	Signatech-Nissan	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	3:44.495	3:42.581	3:41.982	+18.195	25
27	33	Level 5 Motorsports	HPD ARX-03b-Honda	LMP2	3:42.224	No Time	3:42.696	+18.437	26
28	41	Greaves Motorsport	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	3:47.408	3:43.406	3:42.292	+18.505	27
29	0	Highcroft Racing	DeltaWing-Nissan		3:42.612	3:48.142	3:50.903	+18.825	28
30	40	Race Performance	Oreca 03-Judd	LMP2	3:48.124	3:43.619	3:46.200	+19.832	29
31	31	Lotus	Lola B12/80-Lotus	LMP2	3:48.067	No Time	3:45.664	+21.877	30
32	28	Gulf Racing Middle East	Lola B12/80-Nissan	LMP2	3:50.526	3:47.244	4:15.649	+23.457	31
33	43	Extrême Limite ARIC	Norma MP200P-Judd	LMP2	3:51.012	3:53.560	3:48.025	+24.238	32
34	59	Luxury Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	LMGTE Pro	3:56.076	3:55.393	3:58.647	+31.606	33
35	97	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	LMGTE Pro	3:57.466	3:55.870	3:56.036	+32.083	34
36	74	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	LMGTE Pro	3:55.910	3:58.214	3:57.981	+32.123	35
37	71	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	LMGTE Pro	3:57.509	3:58.960	3:56.484	+32.697	36
38	73	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	LMGTE Pro	3:57.181	3:59.433	3:59.471	+33.394	37
39	79	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	LMGTE Am	3:57.594	4:09.762	4:03.420	+33.807	38
40	77	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	LMGTE Pro	3:57.648	3:57.606	4:19.147	+33.819	39
41	75	Prospeed Competition	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	LMGTE Am	3:58.035	9:51.593	3:59.739	+34.248	40
42	80	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	LMGTE Pro	3:58.717	4:00.011	3:59.372	+34.930	41
43	99	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	LMGTE Am	3:58.725	4:00.958	No Time	+34.938	42
44	58	Luxury Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	LMGTE Am	4:00.849	3:58.800	No Time	+35.013	43
45	29	Gulf Racing Middle East	Lola B12/80-Nissan	LMP2	4:14.086	No Time	3:58.895	+35.108	44
46	88	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	LMGTE Am	3:59.529	3:59.181	3:59.971	+35.394	45
47	50	Larbre Compétition	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	LMGTE Am	3:59.192	4:05.426	4:13.459	+35.405	46
48	66	JMW Motorsport	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	LMGTE Pro	4:00.883	3:59.638	4:10.192	+35.851	47
49	51	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	LMGTE Pro	No Time	No Time	4:00.025	+36.238	48
50	81	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	LMGTE Am	4:04.493	4:00.288	4:00.924	+36.501	49
51	67	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	LMGTE Am	4:00.332	4:00.829	4:07.180	+36.545	50
52	61	AF Corse-Waltrip	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	LMGTE Am	4:04.861	4:00.691	4:08.217	+36.904	51
53	57	Krohn Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	LMGTE Am	4:04.698	4:04.075	4:02.323	+38.536	52
54	83	JMB Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	LMGTE Am	4:04.416	4:02.461	4:20.082	+38.674	53
55	70	Larbre Compétition	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	LMGTE Am	4:03.021	4:02.969	4:09.709	+39.182	54
56	55	JWA-Avila	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	LMGTE Am	4:08.170	4:03.661	4:03.705	+39.874	55

Notes:

• ^1 —The No. 16 Pescarolo 03-Judd started from the pit lane.^[14]

Race

The Nissan Deltawing racing at Le Mans in 2012

Audi drivers Marcel Fässler, Benoît Tréluyer, and André Lotterer won the overall race for the second year in a row by a margin of one lap over their teammates.^[2] The victory was Audi's eleventh and Joest Racing's twelfth success at Le Mans. The Audi R18 e-tron quattro also became the first hybrid electric vehicle to win at Le Mans^[3] as well as the first with a four-wheel drivetrain.^[4] The leading car covered 5151.8 km, making 33 pit stops. Audi's primary competitors, Toyota, making its return at Le Mans as an entrant for the first time since 1999, failed to complete the event following several accidents and mechanical failures. The No. 8 Toyota driven by Anthony Davidson was sent airborne at the Mulsanne Corner after being clipped by the No. 81 AF Corse Ferrari of amateur driver Piergiuseppe Perazzini at the end of five hours. The Ferrari also flipped and landed on its roof after hitting the tyre barrier. Davidson suffered two broken vertebrae in the crash but was able to pull himself from the car in the immediate aftermath of the accident^[15] The No. 7 Toyota, driven by Kazuki Nakajima, made contact with the experimental DeltaWing as the race restarted after an hour under caution for Davidson's incident. Following lengthy repairs, the Toyota returned to the race but succumbed to an engine failure in the 11th hour.

The American Starworks Motorsport team won the LMP2 prototype category in a HPD-Honda with drivers Ryan Dalziel, Enzo Potolicchio, and Tom Kimber-Smith. The grand touring professional category was won by No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari's Giancarlo Fisichella, Gianmaria Bruni, and Toni Vilander, while the amateur class was won by No. 50 Larbre Competition Corvette, driven by Patrick Bornhauser, Julien Canal, and Pedro Lamy.^[16] 240,000 spectators attended the race weekend.^[17]

Race result

Class winners are marked in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance (264 laps) are marked as Not Classified (NC).^[18]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps
					Engine
1	LMP1	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Marcel Fässler Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	M	378
					Audi TDI 3.7 L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)
2	LMP1	2	Audi Sport Team Joest	Allan McNish Rinaldo Capello Tom Kristensen	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	M	377
					Audi TDI 3.7 L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)
3	LMP1	4	Audi Sport North America	Oliver Jarvis Marco Bonanomi Mike Rockenfeller	Audi R18 ultra	M	375
					Audi TDI 3.7 L Turbo V6 (Diesel)
4	LMP1	12	Rebellion Racing	Nicolas Prost Nick Heidfeld Neel Jani	Lola B12/60	M	367
					Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8
5	LMP1	3	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marc Gené Romain Dumas Loïc Duval	Audi R18 ultra	M	366
					Audi TDI 3.7 L Turbo V6 (Diesel)
6	LMP1	22	JRM	David Brabham Peter Dumbreck Karun Chandhok	HPD ARX-03a	M	357
					Honda LM-V8 3.4 L V8
7	LMP2	44	Starworks Motorsport	Enzo Potolicchio Ryan Dalziel Tom Kimber-Smith	HPD ARX-03b	D	354
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
8	LMP2	46	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Pierre Thiriet Mathias Beche Christophe Tinseau	Oreca 03	D	353
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
9	LMP2	49	Pecom Racing	Luís Pérez Companc Pierre Kaffer Soheil Ayari	Oreca 03	D	352
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
10	LMP2	26	Signatech-Nissan	Pierre Ragues Nelson Panciatici Roman Rusinov	Oreca 03	D	351
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
11	LMP1	13	Rebellion Racing	Andrea Belicchi Jeroen Bleekemolen Harold Primat	Lola B12/60	M	350
					Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8
12	LMP2	41	Greaves Motorsport	Christian Zugel Elton Julian Ricardo González	Zytek Z11SN	D	348
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
13	LMP2	25	ADR-Delta	John Martin Tor Graves Jan Charouz	Oreca 03	D	346
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
14	LMP2	35	OAK Racing	David Heinemeier Hansson Bas Leinders Maxime Martin	Morgan LMP2	D	341
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
15	LMP2	42	Greaves Motorsport	Alex Brundle Martin Brundle Lucas Ordóñez	Zytek Z11SN	D	340
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
16	LMP2	23	Signatech-Nissan	Jordan Tresson Franck Mailleux Olivier Lombard	Oreca 03	D	340
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
17	LMGTE Pro	51	AF Corse	Giancarlo Fisichella Gianmaria Bruni Toni Vilander	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	336
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
18	LMGTE Pro	59	Luxury Racing	Frédéric Makowiecki Jaime Melo Dominik Farnbacher	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	333
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
19	LMGTE Pro	97	Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke Adrián Fernández Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	332
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
20	LMGTE Am	50	Larbre Compétition	Patrick Bornhauser Julien Canal Pedro Lamy	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	329
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
21	LMGTE Am	67	IMSA Performance Matmut	Anthony Pons Nicolas Armindo Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	328
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
22	LMGTE Pro	71	AF Corse	Andrea Bertolini Olivier Beretta Marco Cioci	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	326
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
23	LMGTE Pro	73	Corvette Racing	Antonio García Jan Magnussen Jordan Taylor	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	326
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
24	LMP2	45	Boutsen Ginion Racing	Bastien Brière Shinji Nakano Jens Petersen	Oreca 03	D	325
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
25	LMGTE Am	57	Krohn Racing	Tracy Krohn Niclas Jönsson Michele Rugolo	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	D	323
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
26	LMP2	40	Race Performance	Michel Frey Jonathan Hirschi Ralph Meichtry	Oreca 03	D	320
					Judd HK 3.6 L V8
27	LMGTE Am	79	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Seth Neiman Spencer Pumpelly Patrick Pilet	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	313
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
28	LMGTE Am	70	Larbre Compétition	Christophe Bourret Pascal Gibon Jean-Philippe Belloc	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	309
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
29	LMP2	43	Extrême Limite ARIC	Fabien Rosier Phillipe Haezebrouck Philippe Thirion	Norma MP200P	D	308
					Judd HK 3.6 L V8
30	LMP1	21	Strakka Racing	Nick Leventis Jonny Kane Danny Watts	HPD ARX-03a	M	303
					Honda LM-V8 3.4 L V8
31	LMGTE Am	61	AF Corse-Waltrip	Robert Kauffman Brian Vickers Rui Águas	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	294
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
32	LMGTE Am	83	JMB Racing	Manuel Rodrigues Philippe Illiano Alain Ferté	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	292
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
33	LMGTE Am	55	JWA-Avila	Paul Daniels Joël Camathias Markus Palttala	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	P	290
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
NC	LMGTE Pro	74	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Richard Westbrook Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	215
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
NC	LMP1	17	Pescarolo Team	Nicolas Minassian Sébastien Bourdais Seiji Ara	Dome S102.5	M	203
					Judd DB 3.4 L V8
DNF	LMP2	38	Jota	Sam Hancock Simon Dolan Haruki Kurosawa	Zytek Z11SN	D	271
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMP2	33	Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker Christophe Bouchut Luis Díaz	HPD ARX-03b	D	240
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
DNF	LMP2	30	Status Grand Prix	Alexander Sims Yelmer Buurman Romain Iannetta	Lola B12/80	D	239
					Judd HK 3.6 L V8
DNF	LMGTE Am	88	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Christian Ried Gianluca Roda Paolo Ruberti	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	222
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
DNF	LMP1	15	OAK Racing	Franck Montagny Dominik Kraihamer Bertrand Baguette	OAK Pescarolo 01	D	219
					Judd DB 3.4 L V8
DNF	LMGTE Pro	66	JMW Motorsport	Jonny Cocker James Walker Roger Wills	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	D	204
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMP2	48	Murphy Prototypes	Jody Firth Warren Hughes Brendon Hartley	Oreca 03	D	196
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMGTE Pro	77	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Richard Lietz Marc Lieb Wolf Henzler	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	185
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
DNF	LMGTE Am	75	Prospeed Competition	Abdulaziz Al-Faisal Bret Curtis Sean Edwards	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	180
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
DNF	LMP2	31	Lotus	Thomas Holzer Mirco Schultis Luca Moro	Lola B12/80	D	155
					Lotus (Judd) 3.6 L V8
DNF	LMGTE Am	58	Luxury Racing	Pierre Ehret Gunnar Jeannette Frankie Montecalvo	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	146
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMP2	24	OAK Racing	Jacques Nicolet Matthieu Lahaye Olivier Pla	Morgan LMP2	D	139
					Judd HK 3.6 L V8
DNF	LMP1	7	Toyota Racing	Alexander Wurz Kazuki Nakajima Nicolas Lapierre	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	M	134
					Toyota 3.4 L V8 (Hybrid)
DNF	LMGTE Pro	80	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Marco Holzer Patrick Long	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	114
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
DNF	LMP2	28	Gulf Racing Middle East	Fabien Giroix Ludovic Badey Stefan Johansson	Lola B12/80	D	92
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMP1	8	Toyota Racing	Anthony Davidson Sébastien Buemi Stéphane Sarrazin	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	M	82
					Toyota 3.4 L V8 (Hybrid)
DNF		0	Highcroft Racing	Marino Franchitti Michael Krumm Satoshi Motoyama	DeltaWing	M	75
					Nissan 1.6 L Turbo I4
DNF	LMGTE Am	81	AF Corse	Piergiuseppe Perazzini Niki Cadei Matt Griffin	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	70
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMGTE Am	99	Aston Martin Racing	Christoffer Nygaard Kristian Poulsen Allan Simonsen	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	31
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMP1	16	Pescarolo Team	Emmanuel Collard Stuart Hall	Pescarolo 03	M	20
					Judd DB 3.4 L V8
DNF	LMP2	29	Gulf Racing Middle East	Keiko Ihara Jean-Denis Délétraz Marc Rostan	Lola B12/80	D	17
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8

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