2016 24 Hours of Le Mans

Teams that won their class in the previous running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, or won championships in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) or the Asian Le Mans Series (ALMS) earned automatic entry invitations. Some championship runners-up were also granted automatic invitations in certain series. Two participants in the IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA) were chosen by the series to be automatic entries by the ACO regardless of their performance. All FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) full-season entries automatically earned invitations. As invitations were granted to teams, they could change their cars from the previous year to the next but were not allowed to change their category. In the ELMS and ALMS, the Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance (LMGTE) class invitations could choose between the Pro and Am categories. ELMS' Le Mans Prototype 3 (LMP3) champion was required to field an entry in Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) while the ALMS LMP3 champion was allowed to select between LMP2 or LMGTE Am. ELMS GTC class champions were limited to the LMGTE Am category.[9]

Among the fourteen automatic invitations granted, three teams chose not to accept: Team LNT and Marc VDS did not continue their ELMS efforts in 2016 while SMP Racing opted to concentrate on their LMP2 entries and forgo defense of their Le Mans victory in LMGTE Am.[9]

Automatic entries for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans

Reason invited	LMP1	LMP2	LMGTE Am	LMGTE Pro
1st in the 24 Hours of Le Mans	Porsche Team	KCMG	SMP Racing	Corvette Racing
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 and LMGTE)		Greaves Motorsport	Formula Racing
2nd in the European Le Mans Series (LMGTE)			BMW Team Marc VDS
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP3 and GTC)		Team LNT	TDS Racing
IMSA SportsCar Championship at-large entries		Michael Shank Racing	Scuderia Corsa
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP2 and GT)		Race Performance	Clearwater Racing
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP3)		DC Racing
Source:[9]

In conjunction with the announcement of entries for the FIA WEC and the ELMS, the ACO announced the full 60 car entry list and ten car reserve list in Paris on 5 February. In addition to the 32 guaranteed entries from the FIA WEC, 13 entries came from the ELMS, nine from IMSA, four from the ALMS, while one-off entries competing only at Le Mans filled the rest of the field.[10]

The ACO named ten reserves to replace any entries which were withdrawn prior to the official test session.[10] Greaves Motorsport, Riley Motorsports, and Proton Competition later withdrew their reserve entries. Algarve Pro Racing was promoted to the race entry when TDS Racing withdrew their LMGTE Am Aston Martin.[11] Six reserves remained before the race, with a second entry from Pegasus Racing and Team AAI, as well as lone entries from JMW Motorsport, Courage, OAK Racing, and DragonSpeed.[12]

The Garage 56 entry to display new technologies returned following an absence in 2015.[13] Frédéric Sausset, a quadruple amputee, participated in the race driving a modified Morgan LMP2 developed in conjunction with Onroak Automotive. The adapted automobile featured a throttle and braking system controlled by Sausset through his thighs while steering was achieved by attaching his right limb directly to the steering column. The car was also able to be driven in a normal fashion by his co-drivers.[14] SRT 41 initially planned to use a new Audi engine for the programme but later changed to the ubiquitous Nissan LMP2 engine. The team participated in the Silverstone ELMS race as a precursor to Le Mans, the first Garage 56 entry to compete prior to Le Mans.[15]

Some drivers made their first appearance in the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans. Four-time IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon co-drove Ford Chip Ganassi Racing's (CGR) No. 69 car, although he missed the first day of scrutineering because of a rain delay in the Firestone 600 at the Texas Motor Speedway.[16] It was announced in March that Olympic gold medallist and multiple cycling world champion Chris Hoy would share the No. 25 Algarve Pro Racing Ligier JS P2-Nissan with Andrea Pizzitola and Michael Munemann.[17] Hoy was the first Summer Olympic gold medallist to compete at Le Mans,[17] the ninth former Olympian to race there and the second Olympic champion to do so, after alpine skier Henri Oreiller.[18] British GT Championship race winner Oliver Bryant was paired with Johnny O'Connell and Mark Patterson in the No. 57 Team AAI Chevrolet Corvette C7.R.[19]

Provisional pole positions in each class are denoted in bold. The fastest time set by each entry is denoted with a gray background. Times for Qualifying 3 are not included as many teams did not set a lap time, and no team made an improvement on their time.

The weather at the start of the race were wet. The air temperature throughout the race ranged from 12.2 to 20.4 °C (54.0 to 68.7 °F) and the track temperature between 13 and 32 °C (55 and 90 °F).[39] 263,500 people attended the event.[40] The French tricolour was waved at 15:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST) by actor Brad Pitt to start the race.[41] Heavy rain fell on the circuit in the hour before the event started, forcing the race organisers to start it behind the safety car for the first time in history.[42] During the reconnaissance lap, the Ford No. 66 GT was pushed into the garage after it lost gearbox pressure making it difficult to change gears.[43] The safety car remained on the track for 53 minutes after which the cars were allowed to overtake when the track begun to dry.[44] Jani maintained his pole position advantage heading into the first corner. Mike Conway's No. 6 Toyota tried unsuccessfully to pass Bernhard heading into Mulsanne corner, allowing Lotterer to attack him entering the Dunlop Bridge. The Audis passed the No. 5 Toyota of Sébastien Buemi for fourth and fifth. Conway overtook Bernhard on the way into the first Mulsanne Chicane for second and took the lead from Jani at the eighth lap's conclusion.[43]

Duval passed Bernhard for third place while Lotterer began a sequence of pit stops to change to dry compound tyres soon after. After the pit stops, Lotterer moved to the front of the race with Hartley in second and Duval third after both Toyotas had slow stops. Lotterer extended his advantage to seven seconds before entering the pit lane for an unscheduled stop. He was pushed into his garage for a change of turbocharger and repairs to his car's rear hydraulics system, promoting Hartley to the lead. Duval retook first by passing Hartley on the pit lane straight but lost the position to him at Mulsanne corner when a short rain shower fell.[45] The LMP2 lead was taken by Roberto Merhi's No. 44 Manor at the start of the hour after he switched to the intermediate tyres during the first lap of competitive racing. In LMGTE Pro, Makowiecki's No. 92 Porsche was 13.8 seconds ahead of Richard Westbrook's No. 69 Ford. Westbrook eroded Makowiecki's advantage by going two seconds per lap faster than him. He took the class lead on the approach to Mulsanne Corner before the second hour was over.[45][46] The battle for the outright lead continued to be a multi-car duel between representatives of the three manufacturers as they were separated by less than three seconds. This fluctuated due to the various levels of traffic.[47]

Webber's No. 1 Porsche and Kobayashi's No. 6 Toyota exchanged the lead through the following pit stop cycle and the next three hours as the Toyotas were on track longer. This meant they ran a lap more at full speed in their attempt at making one less stop later in the race.[48] The lead of LMGTE Pro was left to Vilander's Risi Ferrari after Briscoe relieved Westbrook in the No. 69 Ford. Vilander pulled away from Briscoe, whose performance faded in the early phase of his first stint, and he was caught by Joey Hand's sister No. 68 car which was on average 1.6 seconds faster. Hand moved out of Briscoe's slipstream and overtook him on the Mulsanne Straight for second in class. Hand caught the Vilander's category-leading vehicle and the two battled for several minutes until Hand overhauled Vilander and Briscoe followed soon after.[49][50] In LMP2 Matthew Rao took over from Merhi in the class leading No. 44 Manor, but he was under pressure from Ryo Hirakawa's No. 46 TDS Racing car in second and Will Stevens' third-placed No. 26 G-Drive entry with the trio close by one other. Four hours and fifty minutes into the race, Rao spun at the Dunlop Chicane. This promoted Hirakawa into the lead of LMP2 while Rao fell to fourth.[49]

During the sixth hour of the race Kobayashi in the No. 6 Toyota was better able to mount a challenge to Webber and later Bernhard's No. 1 Porsche. Kobayashi lowered the No. 1 Porsche's advantage to 13.7 seconds after setting a new fastest lap of the race at 3 minutes, 21.445 seconds and consistently lapped in this range and strategically scythed his way through slower traffic. Matteo Malucelli returned the No. 82 Ferrari back to the front of LMGTE Pro after passing the two class leading Fords of Dixon and Stefan Mücke. Malucelli was later demoted from the top of LMGTE Pro to third when Sébastien Bourdais and later Dixon got ahead of him.[51][52] Kobayashi and later Sarrazin took the overall lead from Bernhard after a local slow zone procedure was activated for trackside officials to recover Taittinger's No. 28 Pegasus Morgan. Tattiner misjudged the braking point for the right-hand Mulsanne Corner and was beached in the gravel trap.[52] Bernhard lost forty seconds to Kobayashi because he lost sight on the approach to the slow zone due to the diminishing sunlight. He flat-spotted his tyres but stopped the No. 1 car from clouting the wall.[51][53] LMGTE Am had been led by Porsche from the start. The No. 88 Abu Dhabi-Proton car and the No. 78 KCMG entry exchanged the class lead until Lamy's No. 98 Aston Martin broke up the monopoly midway through the seventh hour when he overtook Christian Ried for second and began to draw closer to Long.[51][52]

As night fell on the circuit, the battle for the overall victory was left to both Toyotas and Porsches because Duval's No. 8 Audi dropped off the pace in fifth. Jani lapped more than a second faster than his teammate Bernhard and overtook him for second on the 120th lap.[54] This came as the Audis were instructed by race control to enter their garages for repairs to their number lighting systems.[55] Repairs to both Audis took less than six minutes each, and the team's drivers rejoined in the same positions they were in earlier.[54] Tsugio Matsuda's No. 47 KCMG car suffered an apparent power failure and pulled off to the side of the circuit on the straight linking the Mulsanne and Indianapolis turns. That allowed Roman Rusinov's No. 26 G-Drive Oreca back into third in LMP2 after the team recovered from a drive-through penalty and a subsequent puncture.[54][55] For 20 minutes the safety cars were dispatched to slow the race for a second time as two near simultaneous incidents involving GTE cars occurred. The first saw Paul Dalla Lana's No. 98 Aston Martin hit the barrier beside the track on his way to the Porsche Curves. He spun across the track and beached the car facing oncoming traffic. Then Perrodo's No. 83 AF Corse Ferrari went straight into the gravel trap at Mulsanne Corner after he could not steer right.[54] In the meantime, Hartley's No. 1 Porsche was forced out of contention for the victory when it went to the garage for two and a half hours to rectify water pump and engine temperature problems, losing 39 laps and falling to 53rd.[56]

In LMP2 the safety cars had split the field, leaving Pierre Thiriet's No. 46 TDS Racing vehicle two minutes and 48 seconds ahead of Lapierre's second-place No. 36 Signatech Alpine car as it made a pit stop.[57] It did not, however, have much effect on the GTE classes as the gaps at the front of their respective fields was narrow.[54] When racing resumed Jani's No. 2 Porsche was able to attack Conway's No. 6 Toyota leaving Tertre Rouge turn and pass him for the lead into the first Mulsanne Chicane. Jani held the position until he made a pit stop and was relieved by Dumas.[57] Bradley ran wide into the entrance of the Porsche Curves due to a power steering failure that sent the No. 47 KCMG car deep into the gravel trap. The car was abandoned since it could not be restarted. Not long after Estre's No. 91 Porsche begun leaking oil on the run to the Porsche Curves as the car's engine failed. Pizzitola's No. 25 Algarve Pro entry was caught out by Estre's oil and slid sideways into the gravel. That caused the third deployment of the safety cars as marshals worked for 28 minutes to dry the spilled oil by scattering an oil-neutralising compound across the track. As the safety cars were recalled Dumas put pressure on Buemi's No. 5 Toyota and overtook him on the Mulsanne Straight for second. Soon after passing Kraihamer's No. 13 Rebellion for fifth Fässler's No. 7 Audi developed a hybrid system issue that forced its return to the pit lane.[58]

The LMGTE Am lead changed midway through the twelfth hour from Khaled Al Qubaisi's No. 88 Abu Dhabi-Proton Porsche to Bell's No. 62 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari.[59] Not long after Stevens' No. 26 G-Drive Oreca served a one-minute stop-and-go penalty for speeding in a slow zone. He fell a further minute and a half behind Hirakawa's No. 46 TDS Racing car but stayed in third place in LMP2.[60] Several LMGTE cars took the opportunity to change brake discs at this point in the morning, including the LMGTE Pro leading Risi Ferrari of Fisichella. Halfway through the 13th hour, Kobayashi relinquished the No. 6 Toyota's hold on first to Lieb's No. 2 Porsche for five laps when he made an unscheduled pit stop to repair minor left-hand side bodywork damage.[59][61] Lieb could not establish a healthy advantage as a local slow zone procedure was needed for the No. 13 Rebellion of Tuscher who retired just before the entrance to the second Mulsanne Chicane with a fuel injector failure that shut down the R-One's engine.[59][61][62] Just after the slow zone was lifted, Lieb ran over some gravel that was strewn on the track and picked up a slow puncture. He was forced into the pit lane for a replacement wheel and fuel. Davidson's No. 5 Toyota inherited second. He started closing up to his teammate Kobayashi before Lieb retook the lead through the following pit stop cycle.[59][61]

A series of incidents in LMGTE Pro and LMP2 during the first hours of the morning prompted localised slow zone procedures and later the fourth deployment of the safety cars. Simon Dolan's No. 38 G-Drive car was hit by Dalla Lana's No. 98 Aston Martin that he lapped in the braking zone for the Ford Chicanes. Dolan was sent scuttling across the kerbing and heavily into the tyre barrier alongside the track. Later, Milner inflicted extensive damage to his No. 64 Corvette. He crashed into the end of the right-hand side tyre barrier at the entry to the Dunlop Chicane after losing control of its rear on the kerbs through driver error under braking. Soon after, Panciatici's fourth-placed No. 35 Baxi DC Alpine LMP2 ran straight across the gravel trap at the first Mulsanne Chicane and into the concrete wall. The final incident happened when Thiriet hit the inside barrier beside the circuit and removed the front bodywork from the No. 46 TDS Racing entry. He then ran over several trackside bollards on his way to beaching in the gravel trap.[63][64][65] The safety car separated the LMP1 field as Conway's and Buemi's Toyotas made pit stops. After racing resumed they slipstreamed one another in slower traffic on the Mulsanne Straight and Buemi overtook Conway around the outside for second. Conway and Buemi retook first and second when Jani's No. 2 Porsche made a pit stop from the lead by the close of the 17th hour and emerged close behind the pair.[63]

The outright leaders settled down as the 18th hour approached. The two Toyotas opened up a significant lead over Jani's No. 2 Porsche, who could not match their pace after his race-long speed advantage had been nullified at that point. Müller's No. 68 Ford fell back from the battle for the lead of LMGTE Pro with the No. 82 Risi Ferrari of Malucelli on the 245th lap. Müller was penalised with a drive-through penalty for having the engine running during his refuelling pit stop. He responded by going a second per lap faster than Malucelli. It lowered his lead in LMGTE Pro to seven seconds going into the next pit stop phase.[66] Hand later relieved Müller in the No. 68 Ford and got the car back to the front of LMGTE Pro by overtaking Malucelli on the first part of the Mulsanne Straight. He began to pull clear with 41⁄2 remaining. Lieb's No. 2 Porsche returned to the outright lead, but he ceded it to Davidson's faster No. 5 Toyota entering Mulsanne corner. The sister No. 6 Toyota had an anxious moment when Kobayashi lost control of the car into Karting corner and came to a rest in the gravel trap. He returned to third without needing external aid but lost 20 seconds to teammate Davidson. The pressure put on Ford by Ferrari in LMGTE Pro eased when Vilander lost control of the rear of the No. 82 car leaving the Porsche Curves but retained second in class despite getting temporarily beached in the gravel trap.[67][68]

Kobayashi bowed out of the battle for the outright victory when he entered the garage to fix the No. 6 Toyota's floor, which was damaged during the night when it hit a slower car and have a precautionary cooling system check done so it could get to the end of the race. Although repairs to the car lost it three laps to Davidson's sister No. 5 Toyota it retained its hold on third as the No. 8 Audi was ten laps behind in fourth.[69] Davidson and later Nakajima matched Jani's pace. He could not get a consistent rate of lap times or get closer to the front of the pack. This was after Porsche changed its strategy to match the one employed by Toyota throughout the event, which had the No. 2 car stay on track for 14 laps at a time.[70][71] Fuel mileage was also a concern for the LMGTE Pro leaders as Briscoe's No. 69 Ford stopped one lap later than all other cars in the class. That drew him closer to Vilander's No. 82 Risi Ferrari as Hand's sister No. 68 Ford was responding to his pace.[69][70] During the 22nd hour Mathias Lauda's No. 98 Aston Martin pulled off behind the left-hand concrete wall on the approach to the Porsche Curves with a terminal gearbox problem. Soon after that Tattinger's No. 28 Morgan Pegasus repeated its earlier excursion into the right-hand side gravel trap at Mulsanne Corner and retired a few minutes later with a right-rear tyre fire.[70]

The No. 5 Toyota TS050 Hybrid had a mechanical failure in the final six minutes that stopped the Japanese manufacturer from taking its first Le Mans victory.

With six minutes remaining Nakajima's No. 5 Toyota was ahead of Jani's No. 2 Porsche by 70 seconds and looked set to claim the manufacturer's first overall Le Mans victory. But Nakajima slowed to less than 200 km/h (120 mph) on the Mulsanne Straight due to a failure of the connector line linking the turbocharger and the intercooler, reducing power and causing a sudden loss of control over the turbocharger. Nakajima slowed even more two minutes later, and stopped the No. 5 Toyota after the start/finish line as the car's power gave out entirely.[72][73] Jani overcame the gap and overtook Nakajima seconds later to take the chequered flag for the No. 2 Porsche and the marque's 18th overall victory at Le Mans. It was Jani and Lieb's first Le Mans victory and Dumas' second after triumphing in 2010. The sister No. 6 Toyota of Sarrazin, Conway and Kobayashi finished three laps behind in second, while the No. 8 Audi of Duval, di Grassi and Jarvis took third to maintain Audi's record of getting one car on the podium since debuting in 1999.[74] The No. 36 Signatech Alpine of Lapierre, Gustavo Menezes and Stéphane Richelmi led the final 196 laps to take the victory in LMP2.[75] The second-placed No. 26 G-Drive Oreca of Rusinov, Rast and Stevens finished on the same lap as the Alpine. It gave Lapierre his second successive category win and Menezes and Richelmi's first. The all-Russian SMP Racing BR01 of Vitaly Petrov, Kirill Ladygin and Viktor Shaytar, which came four laps behind in third, completed the class podium.[76]

On the day of the 50th anniversary of their first overall 24 Hours of Le Mans victory in 1966, Ford won the LMGTE Pro class with the No. 68 American entry of Hand, Bourdais and Müller. Risi Competizione's No. 82 Ferrari were provisionally one minute adrift in second position with Fisichella, Vilander and Malucelli after they and the category winning Ford had led all but 26 laps of the race. Ford CGR USA's sister No. 69 car of Briscoe, Dixon and Westbrook was third.[75][77] After the race the No. 68 Ford was penalised a total of 70 seconds towards its total race time for being deemed to have sped in a slow zone and for having faulty wheel speed sensors. Risi's No. 82 Ferrari had twenty seconds added to its total time and fined €5,000 for ignoring multiple black flags with an orange disc that were deployed to instruct the team to rectify a faulty leader light board after Ford CGR filed a protest over the technical problem in the final hour of the event. The result of the penalties reduced the No. 68 Ford's margin of victory over the No. 82 Risi Ferrari to 10.2 seconds.[78] American also led LMGTE Am with the Scuderia Corsa's No. 62 Ferrari of Bell, Jeff Segal, and Bill Sweedler edging out the fellow No. 83 Ferrari of AF Corse, driven by Emmanuel Collard, Rui Águas. Perrodo. Al Qubaisi, Long, and David Heinemeier Hansson were third in class for Abu Dhabi-Proton.[77] There were 28 outright lead changes during the race; four cars reached the front of the field. The No. 6 Toyota led thirteen times for 173 laps, more than any other car. The No. 2 Porsche led twelve times for a total of 51 laps.[75]

The minimum number of laps for classification (70 per cent of the overall winning car's race distance) was 268 laps. Class winners are denoted with bold.[86]

Final race classification Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps Time/Retired Engine 1 LMP1 2 Porsche Team Marc Lieb Romain Dumas Neel Jani Porsche 919 Hybrid M 384 24:00:38.449 Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 2 LMP1 6 Toyota Gazoo Racing Stéphane Sarrazin Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Toyota TS050 Hybrid M 381 +3 Laps Toyota 2.4 L Turbo V6 3 LMP1 8 Audi Sport Team Joest Loïc Duval Lucas di Grassi Oliver Jarvis Audi R18 M 372 +12 Laps Audi TDI 4.0 L Turbo Diesel V6 4 LMP1 7 Audi Sport Team Joest André Lotterer Marcel Fässler Benoît Tréluyer Audi R18 M 367 +17 Laps Audi TDI 4.0 L Turbo Diesel V6 5 LMP2 36 Signatech Alpine Nicolas Lapierre Gustavo Menezes Stéphane Richelmi Alpine A460 D 357 +27 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 6 LMP2 26 G-Drive Racing Roman Rusinov Will Stevens René Rast Oreca 05 D 357 +27 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 7 LMP2 37 SMP Racing Vitaly Petrov Viktor Shaytar Kirill Ladygin BR Engineering BR01 D 353 +31 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 8 LMP2 42 Strakka Racing Nick Leventis Jonny Kane Danny Watts Gibson 015S D 351 +33 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 9 LMP2 33 Eurasia Motorsport Pu Jun Jin Tristan Gommendy Nick de Bruijn Oreca 05 D 348 +37 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 10 LMP2 41 Greaves Motorsport Memo Rojas Julien Canal Nathanaël Berthon Ligier JS P2 D 348 +37 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 11 LMP2 27 SMP Racing Nicolas Minassian Maurizio Mediani Mikhail Aleshin BR Engineering BR01 D 347 +37 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 12 LMP2 23 Panis-Barthez Compétition Fabien Barthez Timothé Buret Paul-Loup Chatin Ligier JS P2 M 347 +37 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 13 LMP1 1 Porsche Team Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley Mark Webber Porsche 919 Hybrid M 346 +38 Laps Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 14 LMP2 49 Michael Shank Racing John Pew Oswaldo Negri Jr. Laurens Vanthoor Ligier JS P2 D 345 +39 Laps Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6 15 LMP2 43 RGR Sport by Morand Ricardo González Filipe Albuquerque Bruno Senna Ligier JS P2 D 344 +40 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 16 LMP2 30 Extreme Speed Motorsports Scott Sharp Ed Brown Johannes van Overbeek Ligier JS P2 D 341 +43 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 17 LMP2 25 Algarve Pro Racing Michael Munemann Chris Hoy Andrea Pizzitola Ligier JS P2 D 341 +43 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 18 LMGTE Pro 68 Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA Joey Hand Dirk Müller Sébastien Bourdais Ford GT M 340 +44 Laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6 19 LMGTE Pro 82 Risi Competizione Giancarlo Fisichella Matteo Malucelli Toni Vilander Ferrari 488 GTE M 340 +44 Laps Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 20 LMGTE Pro 69 Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Scott Dixon Ford GT M 340 +44 Laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6 21 LMGTE Pro 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Olivier Pla Stefan Mücke Billy Johnson Ford GT M 339 +45 Laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6 22 LMP2 40 Krohn Racing Tracy Krohn Niclas Jönsson João Barbosa Ligier JS P2 M 338 +46 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 23 LMGTE Pro 95 Aston Martin Racing Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen Darren Turner Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE D 338 +46 Laps Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 24 LMGTE Pro 97 Aston Martin Racing Fernando Rees Jonathan Adam Richie Stanaway Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE D 337 +47 Laps Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 25 LMGTE Pro 63 Corvette Racing – GM Jan Magnussen Antonio García Ricky Taylor Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 336 +48 Laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 26 LMGTE Am 62 Scuderia Corsa Bill Sweedler Townsend Bell Jeff Segal Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 331 +53 Laps Ferrari F136GT 4.5 L V8 27 LMGTE Am 83 AF Corse François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Rui Águas Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 331 +53 Laps Ferrari F136GT 4.5 L V8 28 LMGTE Am 88 Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Khaled Al Qubaisi Patrick Long David Heinemeier Hansson Porsche 911 RSR M 330 +54 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 29 LMP1 12 Rebellion Racing Nicolas Prost Nick Heidfeld Nelson Piquet Jr. Rebellion R-One D 330 +54 Laps AER P60 2.4 L Turbo V6 30 LMGTE Am 61 Clearwater Racing Weng Sun Mok Rob Bell Keita Sawa Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 329 +55 Laps Ferrari F136GT 4.5 L V8 31 LMGTE Pro 77 Dempsey-Proton Racing Richard Lietz Philipp Eng Michael Christensen Porsche 911 RSR M 329 +55 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 32 LMP2 22 SO24! by Lombard Racing Vincent Capillaire Erik Maris Jonathan Coleman Ligier JS P2 D 328 +56 Laps Judd HK 3.6 L V8 33 LMGTE Am 86 Gulf Racing Mike Wainwright Adam Carroll Ben Barker Porsche 911 RSR M 328 +56 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 34 LMP2 48 Murphy Prototypes Ben Keating Marc Goossens Jeroen Bleekemolen Oreca 03R D 323 +61 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 35 LMGTE Am 60 Formula Racing Johnny Laursen Christina Nielsen Mikkel Mac Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 319 +65 Laps Ferrari F136GT 4.5 L V8 36 LMGTE Am 99 Aston Martin Racing Andrew Howard Liam Griffin Gary Hirsch Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE D 318 +66 Laps Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 37 LMGTE Am 50 Larbre Compétition Yutaka Yamagishi Pierre Ragues Jean-Philippe Belloc Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 316 +68 Laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 38 84 SRT41 by OAK Racing Fréderic Sausset Christophe Tinseau Jean-Bernard Bouvet Morgan LMP2 M 315 +69 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 39 LMGTE Am 57 Team AAI Johnny O'Connell Mark Patterson Oliver Bryant Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 306 +78 Laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 40 LMGTE Pro 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Andy Priaulx Marino Franchitti Harry Tincknell Ford GT M 306 +78 Laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6 41 LMGTE Am 78 KCMG Christian Ried Wolf Henzler Joël Camathias Porsche 911 RSR M 300 +84 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 42 LMP2 31 Extreme Speed Motorsports Ryan Dalziel Chris Cumming Pipo Derani Ligier JS P2 D 297 +87 Laps Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 43 LMGTE Am 55 AF Corse Duncan Cameron Aaron Scott Matt Griffin Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 289 +94 Laps Ferrari F136GT 4.5 L V8 44 LMP2 34 Race Performance Nicolas Leutwiler James Winslow Shinji Nakano Oreca 03R D 289[N 3] +94 Laps Judd HK 3.6 L V8 NC LMP1 5 Toyota Gazoo Racing Anthony Davidson Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Toyota TS050 Hybrid M 384 Final lap time[N 4] Toyota 2.4 L Turbo V6 DNF LMP2 28 Pegasus Racing Inès Taittinger Léo Roussel Rémy Striebig Morgan LMP2 M 292 Fire Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 DNF LMP2 44 Manor Tor Graves Matthew Rao Roberto Merhi Oreca 05 D 283 Accident Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 DNF LMGTE Am 98 Aston Martin Racing Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE D 281 Gearbox Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 DNF LMP2 46 Thiriet by TDS Racing Pierre Thiriet Mathias Beche Ryō Hirakawa Oreca 05 D 241 Crash Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 DNF LMP2 35 Baxi DC Racing Alpine David Cheng Ho-Pin Tung Nelson Panciatici Alpine A460 D 234 Crash Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 DNF LMP2 38 G-Drive Racing Simon Dolan Jake Dennis Giedo van der Garde Gibson 015S D 222 Crash Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 DNF LMGTE Pro 64 Corvette Racing – GM Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Jordan Taylor Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 219 Accident Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 DNF LMP1 4 ByKolles Racing Team Simon Trummer Pierre Kaffer Oliver Webb CLM P1/01 D 206 Engine AER P60 2.4 L Turbo V6 DNF LMP1 13 Rebellion Racing Dominik Kraihamer Alexandre Imperatori Mathéo Tuscher Rebellion R-One D 200 Fuel injector AER P60 2.4 L Turbo V6 DNF LMGTE Pro 51 AF Corse Gianmaria Bruni Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Ferrari 488 GTE M 179 Engine Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 DNF LMGTE Pro 71 AF Corse Davide Rigon Andrea Bertolini Sam Bird Ferrari 488 GTE M 143 Wheel Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 DNF LMGTE Pro 92 Porsche Motorsport Frédéric Makowiecki Jörg Bergmeister Earl Bamber Porsche 911 RSR M 140 Suspension Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 DNF LMGTE Pro 91 Porsche Motorsport Patrick Pilet Kévin Estre Nick Tandy Porsche 911 RSR M 135 Engine Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 DNF LMP2 47 KCMG Tsugio Matsuda Richard Bradley Matthew Howson Oreca 05 D 116 Electrical Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 DNF LMGTE Am 89 Proton Competition[N 5] Leh Keen Marc Miller Porsche 911 RSR M 50 Crash Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6

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