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The starting grid – The Italians in the race – Rossi in LMGT3 – Presentation of the 24h Le Mans 2024 – Ferrari Hypercar –
17:07 In about 10′ Antonio Giovinazzi’s Ferrari no. 51 will take Vanthoor’s Porsche no. 6. The gap fell to under 3″.
5.05pm Meanwhile, Max Martin’s super stint continues, climbing another position to seventh. Let’s remember that Valentino Rossi will later ride the n.46 of Team WRT!
5.03pm The former blue Formula 1 driver continues to earn! He is currently 3.8 seconds behind the Porsche #6 in second place. Earn money straight away!
5.02pm Antonio Giovinazzi UNLEASHED. He takes third position against Bourdais and his #3 Cadillac!! Ferrari first and third at the moment.
17:01 Good Giovinazzi on Buemi! Bring the n.51 to fourth position!
5.00pm Unfortunately, confirmation arrives that Ferrari no. 50, currently in the lead, will have to serve a 10″ penalty for an unsafe release.
16:59 Incredible battle between the Cadillac n. 3 and Bouemi’s Toyota.
4.57pm Meanwhile, a super second stint for Max Martin, who brings the no. 46 to eighth place, which will soon see Valentino Rossi on the track!
16:56 Giovinazzi will soon attack Buemi for fourth position. The Hypercar group has reunited!
4.55pm Nielsen regains the leadership with Ferrari no. 50! We remind you that he will have to serve (perhaps, if confirmed) the penalty for unsafe release.
4.53pm OK restart for the two Ferraris n.50 and n.51, which maintain second and fifth positions.
Via the Slow Zone.
4.52pm Nielsen is proceeding slowly and is half a second behind the Porsche no.6 driven by Vanthoor. Antonio Giovinazzi recovered ground from the lead and brought the Ferrari no.51 back to +8.8 seconds.
4.50pm Slow Zone in the third sector.
16:50 Yellow flag in the third sector, due to Ben Keating’s United n.23 going long into the gravel.
16:48 Unsafe release confirmed for Ferrari n.50. The car currently driven by Nielsen is therefore under investigation.
16:46 Antonio Giovinazzi’s Ferrari n.51 has instead served the 10″ penalty, and is in fifth position, +10″3 from the Porsche n.6.
4.45pm Risk of penalty for the Ferrari no. 50, which nervously entered the pit lane once the pit stop was finished. We’ll see what the race direction decides.
4.44pm Pit stops for all three Ferraris, as well as all the first 14 Hypercar cars.
4.42pm We are nearing the end of the first hour of the 24 that will lead to discovering the winning machine of this edition of the queen race of the World Endurance Championship.
4.41pm The No. 6 Porsche has come significantly closer to the leading pair of Ferraris. All the teams are preparing for the first pit stop of the 24h of Le Mans 2024!
16:39 First pit stops soon in the top positions in Hypercar.
4.37pm Vanthoor’s Porsche no.6 returns. He moved to +2 ″ 2 from Antonio Giovinazzi’s Ferrari n.51.
4.35pm Valentino Rossi’s n.46, currently driven by Max Martin, is still in thirteenth place in the LMGT3.
16:31 In the Lmp2 category, AO by Tf is still leading with Deletraz, followed by the no.28 of IDEC Sport of Van Uitert. In LMGT3 the BMW Team WRT n.15 with Wittmann followed by the n.70 of Inception Racing driven by Schandoff.
16:28 Giovinazzi’s gap after the dubbing of 0″9 by Nielsen. Vanthoor’s Porsche remains where it was, 4.5 seconds behind. Bourdais approaches with the #3 Cadillac.
4.27pm The dubbing of the Hypercars has begun. The first LMGT3s are dubbed. Giovinazzi loses ground due to traffic, which Nielsen completely ignored and even went onto the grass. What a risk!
4.25pm Giovinazzi is one second behind Nielsen. They lose behind, with the #6 Porsche 2.8 seconds behind the lead and the #3 Cadillac 5.7 seconds behind.
4.23pm At the end of the next lap, in about 5 minutes, the lapping of the Hypercars will begin. One of the first cars to be lapped will be the No. 46 of the WRT team.
16:22 Giovinazzi gains on Vanthoor, bringing the advantage over the Porsche to +2″3. He is getting closer to Nielsen’s Ferrari n.50!
4.21pm Soon, Nielsen and Giovinazzi will find themselves lapping Team WRT’s n.46, which Valentino Rossi will soon ride! They are currently sailing with Max Martin in thirteenth position in the LMGT3 category!
4.20pm Just over two seconds separate the two Ferraris, with the #50 leading the #51.
4.17pm Toyota, which competed for victory with Ferrari in 2023, is currently sailing with Buemi in sixth and with De Vries in last position, forced to start from the pit lane.
4.16pm We travel towards the conclusion of the 5th lap of the 24h of Le Mans. Ferrari flies!
16:13 Giovinazzi takes second position on Vanthoor. One-two Ferrari! Then the Porsche. Bourdais’s Cadillac is already detached.
16:12 In LMGT3 Rossi’s crew sails in eighth position with the WRT team.
4.11pm Problems for Alpine and Robert Milesi. Forced to return to the pits.
16:09 Asphalt temperature dropped to 18.9°! Ferrari which has a 0″5 margin over the Porsche n.6 and 1″2 over Antonio Giovinazzi’s Ferrari n.51, which seems to have more at this stage.
16:08 In the LMP2 category AO by TF leads the way on Panis Racing and Idec Sport.
16:07 Inception leads the LMGT3 category ahead of JMW Motorsport and Proton.
16:06 Giovinazzi takes third position over Bourdais! Ferrari in first and third position.
4.05pm Robert Kubica of AF Corse is in fifth place, a few meters behind Ferrari no. 51.
16:04 Ferrari immediately on the attack. Nielsen takes the lead over Vanthoor! Giovinazzi shows up on Bourdais.
16:03 Cold tires for everyone. We proceed with Porsche in front of everyone, then the Ferrari n.50, the Cadillac n.3 and the Ferrari n.51.
16:01 Immediately the Ferrari n.50 climbs two positions and moves into second place behind Vanthoor’s Porsche n.6.
THE 24H OF LE MANS 2024 HAS GONE!!
3.59pm Zinedine Zidane ready to start the 92nd edition of the queen race of the Endurance World Championship!
3.57pm The Porsche no. 6 proceeds zigzagging and will start from pole. Frederic Vasseur is also ready to enjoy the start of the 24h of Le Mans.
3.55pm Asphalt temperature at 20.2°! Serious difficulties in getting the tires up to temperature are expected during the night.
3.54pm The reconnaissance tour has started!!
3.53pm Ferrari boasts 10 overall victories (1949, 1954, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 and 2023) at Le Mans.
3.50pm Valentine Rossi9 times world champion on two wheels, will take part in the queen race of the World Endurance Championship. He will do it aboard the BMW M4 GT3 n.46 of Team WRT. The “Doctor” car will start eighth in the LMGT3 category.
3.45pm In pole position in the main category, the Hypercar, the Porsche n.6 will start followed by the Cadillac Racing n.3. Then the two Ferraris will start, namely the n.51 and the n.50 in that order. In truth, in the front row there was the other Cadillac, the n.2, downgraded to 7th place after the episode that occurred in Spa.
3.40pm Ferrari no. 51 has brought the Prancing Horse back to the top step of the podium in 2023 after over 50 years, it was 1966. This year, reconfirming itself will be really difficult but both the no. 51 and the no. 50 have what it takes to try in a race that is unpredictable by definition.
3.30pm Here we are! In less than 30 minutes the former footballer Zinedine Zidane will wave the green flag and give the start of the 92nd edition of the 24h of Le Mans.
Everything is ready for the 92nd edition of the 24h Le Mans, fourth act of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The anticipation is growing to experience the most important car competition in the world, a challenge not to be missed which will see over 20 contenders for the record at the start in the premier class.
Ferrari tries to confirm itself at the top after last season’s triumph, the Maranello brand is preparing to confirm itself as the absolute leader against Toyota, Cadillac and Porsche, on pole thanks to an amazing qualifying lap by Kevin Estre n.6.
Honorable mention in the lineup also for Lamborghinis and Isotta Fraschini as well as obviously also a Valentino Rossi who for the first time will compete in the challenge on the ‘Circuit della Sarthe’ aboard the BMW M4 GT3 n.46 of Team WRT.
The event will begin as usual at 4.00 pm, OA Sport will constantly follow the action on the track with Live Live. Have fun with our real-time updates!
