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Revision as of 14:04, 19 September 2020

2020 24 Hours of Le Mans
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The 88th 24 Hours of Le Mans (Template:Lang-fr) will be an automobile endurance event at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France. It will be the 88th running of the 24 Hour race organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, and the penultimate round of the 2019–20 FIA World Endurance Championship. The event is scheduled to be held from 19 to 20 September 2020. The event was originally scheduled for 13 to 14 June 2020 but was postponed to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background

The 24 Hours of Le Mans, was proposed in 1922 by the automotive journalist Charles Faroux to Georges Durand, the president of the automotive group, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and the industrialist Emile Coquilem to test car reliability and fuel-efficiency.[1][2] It is considered one of the world's most prestigious motor races and is part of the Triple Crown of Motorsport.[3]

The 2020 event, which is the 88th edition of the race was proposed to take place on the 13 and 14 of June. However, due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic the race was postponed to the 19 and 20 September.[4][5] This is the second occasion that the 24 Hours of Le Mans has been held in September, with the 1968 edition being postponed because of civil unrest.[6][7] As a result of the postponement of the race around two hours of extra night running will take place.[8] A virtual event of the race took place on the original dates in June.[9] In August the Automobile Club de l’Ouest and the Sarthe Prefecture announced that the event would be held without fans present due to a rise in COVID-19 cases as organisers had stated in June that a limited amount of spectators would be present at the race.[10][11][12]

Originally the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans was to be the final round of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship.[13] Due to postponements and cancellations of races caused by COVID-19, the race became the penultimate round of 8 in the championship.[7][14] 29 entries of the 60 car grid across the four classes are eligible to score points in the World Endurance Championship. The LMP2 class has the largest grid at 24 entries, however just 8 cars will be able to score points.[7]

The event usually takes place over a week, however this year to save costs the test day the cancelled and the event was condensed into 4 days of action on track, with the race starting at 14:30 on Saturday and 11 hours of practice compared to 12 hours in other years.[15][16][17][18] As a result of the test day being scrapped, drivers who had not raced at the circuit within the last five years had to complete a minimum of 10 laps (including a minimum of five full timed laps) in the first two free practice sessions. In addition they were required to attend a session with an ACO approved simulator operator before 15 September.[8] The traditional scrutineering events in the city centre itself has been moved to the circuit.[15][19] COVID-19 procedures which adhered to French law were in place at the event.[20] A new qualifying procedure known as "Hyperpole" was introduced for this event. Originally qualifying would take place on Wednesday and Thursday, with 45 minutes of qualifying between 11:15 pm and midnight on the Wednesday. The top six in each class would return to the track on Thursday at 9pm for a half hour session to determine pole position in each class.[21][22] Due to schedule changes qualifying was held on Thursday afternoon with the hyperpole session taking place on Friday morning.[18][15]

Date Time (local: CEST) Event [18]
Wednesday, 16 September 08:00 - 18:00 Administrative and technical checks (Scrutineering)
Thursday, 17 September 10:00 - 13:00 Practice
14:00 - 17:00
17:15 - 18:00 Qualifying 1
20:00 - 00:00 Practice
Friday, 18 September 10:00 - 11:00 Practice
11:30 - 12:00 Qualifying 2 - Hyperpole
Saturday, 19 September 10:30 - 10:45 Warm-up
14:30 Start of the 88th 24 Hours of Le Mans
Sunday, 20 September 14:30 Finish of the 88th 24 Hours of Le Mans

Emanuele Pirro five time winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans was named as the Grand Marshall.[23][24][25] Carlos Tavares, CEO of the PSA Group, was the official starter of the race.[26][27][23] Tavares will also drive a Peugeot 908, which won the race 2009, just before the start as a nod to the manufacturer's impending return and past successes.[28] The 24 hours race will be supported by the Road to Le Mans race which is the fourth round of the Michelin Le Mans Cup and a Porsche Carrera Cup race which will form the third round of the Porsche Carrera Cup France and the first round of the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland.[23][29] For this year's race the gravel traps at the Mulsanne corner have been made smaller with more tarmac run off to decrease the amount of disruption caused by a car going off.[23]

Entries

Automatic entries

Automatic entry invitations were earned by teams that won their class in the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, or won championships in the European Le Mans Series, Asian Le Mans Series, and the Michelin Le Mans Cup. The second-place finishers in the European Le Mans Series in LMP2 and LMGTE championships also earned an automatic invitation each.[30] Two participants from the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship were chosen by the series to be automatic entries by the ACO regardless of their performance or category. As invitations were granted to teams, they were allowed to change their cars from the previous year to the next, but not allowed to change their category. The LMGTE class invitations from the European and Asian Le Mans Series were allowed to choose between the Pro and Am categories. European Le Mans Series' LMP3 (Le Mans Prototype 3) champion is required to field an entry in LMP2 while the Asian Le Mans Series LMP3 champion were permitted to choose between LMP2 or LMGTE Am. The Michelin Le Mans Cup Group GT3 (GT3) champion was limited to the LMGTE Am category.

Reason invited[31] LMP1 LMP2 LMGTE Pro LMGTE Am
1st in the 24 Hours of Le Mans [22] Japan Toyota Gazoo Racing France Signatech Alpine Matmut Italy AF Corse Germany Team Project 1
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 and LMGTE) [22] France IDEC Sport United States Luzich Racing
2nd in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 and LMGTE) [22] Russia G-Drive Racing Germany Dempsey-Proton Racing
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP3) United States EuroInternational
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at-large entries Canada Cameron Cassels United States Richard Heistand
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP2 and GT) Russia G-Drive Racing with Algarve Taiwan HubAuto Corsa
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP2 Am) United States Rick Ware Racing
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP3) [32] United Kingdom Nielsen Racing – or – United Kingdom Nielsen Racing
1st in the Michelin Le Mans Cup (GT3) [22] Switzerland Kessel Racing

Entry list

For the first time since the mid 1970s there will be two all female driver line up competing for Richard Mille Racing Team (LMP2) and Iron Lynx in the Iron Dames project (LMGTE) in the race,[33] this is the first time that women have raced in the LMP2 class.[7] During second free practice Dwight Merriman driving the number 17 IDEC ORECA-Gibson 07 car crashed coming out of the Porsche Curves.[34] Merriman was not cleared by medical staff to drive, as he had sustained a back injury and was replaced by Patrick Pilet.[35][36]

Porsche's factory GT team are running a special livery to mark 50 years since Porsche's first overall win at Le Mans.[37][38]

Icon Series
WEC FIA World Endurance Championship
ELMS European Le Mans Series
ALMS Asian Le Mans Series
WTSC WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
24LM 24 Hours of Le Mans only
No. Entrant Car Tyre Series Driver 1 Driver 2 Driver 3
LMP1 (5 entries)[39]
1 Switzerland Rebellion Racing Rebellion R13-Gibson M WEC United States Gustavo Menezes France Norman Nato Brazil Bruno Senna
3 Switzerland Rebellion Racing Rebellion R13-Gibson M 24LM France Nathanaël Berthon Switzerland Louis Delétraz France Romain Dumas
4 Austria ByKolles Racing Team ENSO CLM P1/01-Gibson M 24LM France Tom Dillmann Canada Bruno Spengler United Kingdom Oliver Webb
7 Japan Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota TS050 Hybrid M WEC United Kingdom Mike Conway Japan Kamui Kobayashi Argentina José María López
8 Japan Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota TS050 Hybrid M WEC Switzerland Sébastien Buemi New Zealand Brendon Hartley Japan Kazuki Nakajima
LMP2 (24 entries)
11 United States Eurointernational Ligier JS P217-Gibson M ELMS Belgium Christophe D'Ansembourg[40] France Erik Maris[40] France Adrien Tambay[40]
16 Russia G-Drive Racing with Algarve Aurus 01-Gibson G ALMS Republic of Ireland Ryan Cullen[41] United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis[41] United Kingdom Nick Tandy[41]
17 France IDEC Sport Oreca 07-Gibson M ELMS United Kingdom Jonathan Kennard[42] France Patrick Pilet[43] United Kingdom Kyle Tilley[42]
21 United States DragonSpeed USA Oreca 07-Gibson M ELMS France Timothé Buret Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya[44] Mexico Memo Rojas[44]
22 United Kingdom United Autosports Oreca 07-Gibson M WEC Portugal Filipe Albuquerque United Kingdom Philip Hanson United Kingdom Paul di Resta
24 United Kingdom Nielsen Racing Oreca 07-Gibson M ALMS Canada Garett Grist United Kingdom Alex Kapadia United Kingdom Tony Wells
25 Portugal Algarve Pro Racing Oreca 07-Gibson G ELMS United States John Falb United States Matt McMurry[45] Switzerland Simon Trummer
26 Russia G-Drive Racing Aurus 01-Gibson M ELMS Russia Roman Rusinov France Jean-Éric Vergne Denmark Mikkel Jensen
27 United States DragonSpeed USA Oreca 07-Gibson M WTSC United Kingdom Ben Hanley Sweden Henrik Hedman Netherlands Renger van der Zande
28 France IDEC Sport Oreca 07-Gibson M ELMS United Kingdom Richard Bradley France Paul-Loup Chatin France Paul Lafargue
29 Netherlands Racing Team Nederland Oreca 07-Gibson M WEC Netherlands Frits van Eerd Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Netherlands Nyck de Vries
30 France Duqueine Team Oreca 07-Gibson M ELMS France Tristan Gommendy Switzerland Jonathan Hirschi Russia Konstantin Tereshchenko
31 France Panis Racing Oreca 07-Gibson G ELMS France Julien Canal[46] France Nico Jamin[46] France Matthieu Vaxivière[46]
32 United Kingdom United Autosports Oreca 07-Gibson M ELMS United Kingdom Alex Brundle United States Will Owen Netherlands Job van Uitert
33 Denmark High Class Racing Oreca 07-Gibson M WEC Denmark Anders Fjordbach United States Mark Patterson Japan Kenta Yamashita
34 Poland Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P217-Gibson M ELMS Austria René Binder Poland Jakub Śmiechowski Russia Matevos Isaakyan
35 Philippines Eurasia Motorsport Ligier JS P217-Gibson M ALMS Australia Nick Foster[47] Spain Roberto Merhi[47] Japan Nobuya Yamanaka[47]
36 France Signatech Alpine Elf Alpine A470-Gibson M WEC France Thomas Laurent Brazil André Negrão France Pierre Ragues
37 China Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca 07-Gibson G WEC France Gabriel Aubry United Kingdom Will Stevens Netherlands Ho-Pin Tung
38 United Kingdom Jota Sport Oreca 07-Gibson G WEC Portugal António Félix da Costa United Kingdom Anthony Davidson Mexico Roberto González
39 France SO24-HAS By Graff Oreca 07-Gibson M ELMS Australia James Allen France Vincent Capillaire France Charles Milesi
42 Switzerland Cool Racing Oreca 07-Gibson M WEC Switzerland Antonin Borga Switzerland Alexandre Coigny France Nicolas Lapierre
47 Italy Cetilar Racing Dallara P217-Gibson M WEC Italy Andrea Belicchi Italy Roberto Lacorte Italy Giorgio Sernagiotto
50 France Richard Mille Racing Team Oreca 07-Gibson M ELMS Colombia Tatiana Calderón[48] Germany Sophia Flörsch[48] Netherlands Beitske Visser[48]
LMGTE Pro (8 entries)
51 Italy AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M WEC United Kingdom James Calado Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi Brazil Daniel Serra
63 United States WeatherTech Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M WTSC United States Cooper MacNeil[49] United States Jeff Segal[49] Finland Toni Vilander[49]
71 Italy AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M WEC United Kingdom Sam Bird Spain Miguel Molina Italy Davide Rigon
82 United States Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M WTSC France Sébastien Bourdais[50] France Jules Gounon[50] France Olivier Pla[50]
91 Germany Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR-19 M WEC Italy Gianmaria Bruni Austria Richard Lietz France Frédéric Makowiecki
92 Germany Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR-19 M WEC Denmark Michael Christensen France Kévin Estre Belgium Laurens Vanthoor
95 United Kingdom Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR M WEC Denmark Marco Sørensen Denmark Nicki Thiim United Kingdom Richard Westbrook
97 United Kingdom Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR M WEC United Kingdom Alex Lynn Belgium Maxime Martin United Kingdom Harry Tincknell
LMGTE Am (22 entries)
52 Italy AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M ELMS Germany Steffen Görig Switzerland Christoph Ulrich Sweden Alexander West
54 Italy AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M WEC Switzerland Thomas Flohr Italy Francesco Castellacci Italy Giancarlo Fisichella
55 Switzerland Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M ELMS United Kingdom Duncan Cameron Republic of Ireland Matt Griffin United Kingdom Aaron Scott
56 Germany Team Project 1 Porsche 911 RSR M WEC Italy Matteo Cairoli Norway Egidio Perfetti Netherlands Larry ten Voorde[51]
57 Germany Team Project 1 Porsche 911 RSR M WEC Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen Brazil Felipe Fraga United States Ben Keating
60 Italy Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M ELMS Italy Sergio Pianezzola Italy Paolo Ruberti Italy Claudio Schiavoni
61 Switzerland Luzich Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M ELMS France Côme Ledogar[52] Brazil Oswaldo Negri Jr.[52] Puerto Rico Francesco Piovanetti[52]
62 United Kingdom Red River Sport Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M WEC United Kingdom Bonamy Grimes United Kingdom Charles Hollings United Kingdom Johnny Mowlem
66 United Kingdom JMW Motorsport Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M ELMS United States Richard Heistand Denmark Jan Magnussen United States Max Root
70 Japan MR Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M WEC Monaco Vincent Abril[53] Japan Kei Cozzolino[52] Japan Takeshi Kimura[52]
72 Taiwan Hub Auto Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M ALMS United Kingdom Tom Blomqvist Taiwan Morris Chen Brazil Marcos Gomes
75 Italy Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M 24LM Italy Matteo Cressoni Italy Rino Mastronardi Italy Andrea Piccini
77 Germany Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR M WEC Australia Matt Campbell Italy Riccardo Pera Germany Christian Ried
78 Germany Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR M ELMS Italy Michele Beretta Austria Horst Felbermayr, Jr. Netherlands Max van Splunteren
83 Italy AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M WEC France Emmanuel Collard Denmark Nicklas Nielsen France François Perrodo
85 Italy Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GTE Evo M ELMS Switzerland Rahel Frey Denmark Michelle Gatting Italy Manuela Gostner
86 United Kingdom Gulf Racing Porsche 911 RSR M WEC United Kingdom Ben Barker United Kingdom Michael Wainwright United Kingdom Andrew Watson
88 Germany Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR M WEC United States Dominique Bastien[54] Belgium Adrien de Leener[54] Austria Thomas Preining[54]
89 Germany Team Project 1 Porsche 911 RSR M 24LM France "Steve Brooks" Greece Andreas Laskaratos France Julien Piguet
90 United Kingdom TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage AMR M WEC United Kingdom Jonathan Adam Republic of Ireland Charlie Eastwood Turkey Salih Yoluç
98 United Kingdom Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR M WEC Canada Paul Dalla Lana Brazil Augusto Farfus United Kingdom Ross Gunn
99 Germany Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR M ELMS France Julien Andlauer Thailand Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak Switzerland Lucas Légeret

Qualifying

The new qualifying format for the Le Mans event, which had been three qualifying sessions, will reduce qualifying to two single sessions. The 45-minute Thursday late afternoon qualifying session will determine the field, except for the top six cars in each category. The top six cars in each class participate in a 30-minute shootout on Friday morning, known as "Le Mans Hyperpole". The shootout will determine the pole position in each category.[21] Cars will be placed on the starting grid in order by category, with all LMP1s at the front of the field regardless of lap time, followed by LMP2, LMGTE Pro, and LMGTE Am. The cars will be placed in following order: the 6 cars that qualified for Hyperpole by best Hyperpole session lap time, and then followed by the rest of the cars in the class that did not qualify for Hyperpole by best lap time set during first qualifying session.[55]

All five entries in the LMP1 class progressed to the hyperpole portion of qualifying. The 95 and 97 Aston Martin Racing Vantage's, along with car 51 and 71 AF Corse Ferrari's and Porsche 911 RSR-19 cars 91 and 92 progressed to Hyperpole in LMGTE Pro. LMGTE Am saw the 98 Aston Martin Racing Vantage and the 90 TF Sport Vantage along with Gulf Racing, the number 61 Luzich Racing Ferrari, Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche with car 77 and the Team Project 1 Porsche with car 56 going through to hyperpole. In LMP2 the Racing Team Nederlands entry along with entries from the Jackie Chan DC Racing team, the number 22 and 32 United Autosports and G-Drive Racing's number 26 car all qualified for the hyperpole session.[56]

Pos.[57] Class No. Team Qualifying Hyperpole Grid
1 LMP1 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing 3:17.089 3:15.267 1
2 LMP1 1 Rebellion Racing 3:21.598 3:15.822 2
3 LMP1 8 Toyota Gazoo Racing 3:17.336 3:16.649 3
4 LMP1 3 Rebellion Racing 3:24.632 3:18.330 4
5 LMP1 4 ByKolles Racing Team 3:24.468 3:23.043 5
6 LMP2 22 United Autosports 3:27.148 3:24.528 6
7 LMP2 26 G-Drive Racing 3:27.366 3:24.860 7
8 LMP2 29 Racing Team Nederland 3:26.648 3:25.062 8
9 LMP2 33 High Class Racing 3:27.611 3:25.426 9
10 LMP2 32 United Autosports 3:27.598 3:25.671 10
11 LMP2 37 Jackie Chan DC Racing 3:27.097 3:25.785 11
12 LMP2 38 Jota 3:27.728 12
13 LMP2 16 G-Drive Racing by Algarve 3:27.767 13
14 LMP2 31 Panis Racing 3:27.791 14
15 LMP2 36 Signatech Alpine Elf 3:27.794 15
16 LMP2 27 DragonSpeed USA 3:27.913 16
17 LMP2 42 Cool Racing 3:28.509 17
18 LMP2 39 SO24-Has by Graff 3:28.574 18
19 LMP2 30 Duqueine Team 3:29.091 19
20 LMP2 25 Algarve Pro Racing 3:29.402 20
21 LMP2 21 DragonSpeed USA 3:29.741 21
22 LMP2 47 Cetilar Racing 3:29.880 22
23 LMP2 35 Eurasia Motorsport 3:30.497 23
24 LMP2 24 Nielsen Racing 3:30.897 24
25 LMP2 50 Richard Mille Racing Team 3:31.020 25
26 LMP2 34 Inter Europol Competition 3:31.393 26
27 LMP2 11 EuroInternational 3:33.747 27
28 LMGTE Pro 91 Porsche GT Team 3:52.036 3:50.874 28
29 LMGTE Pro 51 AF Corse 3:51.244 3:51.115 29
30 LMGTE Pro 95 Aston Martin Racing 3:50.872 3:51.241 30
31 LMGTE Pro 97 Aston Martin Racing 3:50.925 3:51.324 31
32 LMGTE Pro 71 AF Corse 3:51.988 3:51.515 32
33 LMGTE Pro 92 Porsche GT Team 3:52.142 3:51.770 33
34 LMGTE Pro 63 WeatherTech Racing 3:52.508 34
35 LMGTE Am 61 Luzich Racing 3:53.292 3:51.266 36
36 LMGTE Am 77 Dempsey-Proton Racing 3:53.334 3:51.322 37
37 LMGTE Am 56 Team Project 1 3:53.598 3:51.647 38
38 LMGTE Am 98 Aston Martin Racing 3:52.778 3:52.105 39
39 LMGTE Am 90 TF Sport 3:52.961 3:52.299 40
40 LMGTE Am 86 Gulf Racing 3:52.970 3:52.346 41
41 LMGTE Am 83 AF Corse 3:53.621 42
42 LMGTE Am 99 Dempsey-Proton Racing 3:53.670 43
43 LMGTE Am 57 Team Project 1 3:53.838 44
44 LMGTE Am 54 AF Corse 3:54.144 45
45 LMGTE Am 88 Dempsey-Proton Racing 3:54.281 46
46 LMGTE Am 70 MR Racing 3:54.628 47
47 LMGTE Am 72 Hub Auto Racing 3:55.308 48
48 LMGTE Am 55 Spirit of Race 3:55.772 49
49 LMGTE Am 75 Iron Lynx 3:56.141 50
50 LMGTE Am 66 JMW Motorsport 3:56.383 51
51 LMGTE Am 78 Proton Competition 3:56.475 52
52 LMGTE Am 85 Iron Lynx 3:556.833 53
53 LMGTE Am 60 Iron Lynx 3:57.876 54
54 LMGTE Am 62 Red River Sport 4:00.084 55
55 LMGTE Am 89 Team Project 1 4:00.691 56
- LMGTE Pro 82 Risi Competizione No Time[Q 1] 35
- LMGTE Am 52 AF Corse No Time[Q 1] 57
- LMP2 17 IDEC Sport No Time PL[Q 2]
- LMP2 28 IDEC Sport No Time PL[Q 2]
  1. ^ a b The No. 82 Risi Ferrari and No. 52 AF Corse Ferrari had all their qualifying lap times deleted after both teams broke parc fermé regulations by lifting the car.[58][59]
  2. ^ a b The No. 17 and No. 28 IDEC Oreca-Gibsons will start from pit lane after the conclusion of the first racing lap due to failing to participate in qualifying.[60]

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