{"id":186600,"date":"2025-06-15T14:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186600\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:54:15","slug":"ferrari-wins-as-porsche-spoils-1-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186600\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari wins as Porsche spoils 1-2-3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ferrari has won the 93rd running of the Le Mans 24 Hours with its satellite #83 entry, driven by Phil Hanson, Robert Kubica<\/a> and Yifei Ye<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Italian constructor could have been the first marque to lock out the podium at Circuit de la Sarthe since factory Audi outfit Joest Racing took a 1-2-3 in 2012, but the sister #50 (Fuoco-Molina-Nielsen) and #51 (Calado-Giovinazzi-Pier Guidi) cars were eventually outpaced by the #6 Porsche (Campbell-Estre-Vanthoor).<\/p>\n

The race largely was a four-way fight between those cars, which all finished within 30 seconds of one another, though other Hypercar competitors did occasionally join the fray.<\/p>\n

Ferrari benefitted greatly from a mid-race safety car period that nullified its deficit following several mistakes, after which the Scuderia\u2019s race execution improved, leaving little opportunity to competitors.<\/p>\n

The Cadillac Jota cars started 1-2 on the grid after impressing in Hyperpole, but Sebastien Bourdais\u2019 fears about their raceability related to a lack of top speed, proved well-founded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take more than a minute for Julien Andlauer<\/a> (#5 Porsche) to take the lead at the expense of Will Stevens<\/a> (#12 Cadillac) and Earl Bamber<\/a> (#38 Cadillac).<\/p>\n

\"#6 <\/p>\n

#6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963: Kevin Estre, Laurens Vanthoor, Matt Campbell<\/p>\n

Photo by: Marc Fleury<\/p>\n

The Cadillac Jota cars still maintained second and third in the first hour of the race, but by the end of hour three they had plummeted out of the top 10, though their deficit was under 45 seconds.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Porsche proved to be a serious contender for victory following the #6 car\u2019s disqualification from qualifying due to being underweight. Kevin Estre<\/a> scythed through the pack, going from 21st to fifth in an hour, then overtaking the Cadillacs for third.<\/p>\n

Porsche\u2019s Mathieu Jaminet<\/a> (#5) lost the lead to Ferrari\u2019s Antonio Fuoco<\/a> (#50) after two and a half hours into the race, with the Italian outdragging his opponent at the exit of Mulsanne corner. Jaminet lost second to the sister #6 car when it was hindered by an LMGT3 car, then the #5 entry got a drive-through penalty for a slow-zone infringement.<\/p>\n

Shortly after 8pm local time, the #51 Ferrari overtook the #6 Porsche, making it a Ferrari 1-2-3, but the Campbell-Estre-Vanthoor crew kept fighting and eventually took the lead back as the Scuderia made more and more mistakes.<\/p>\n

The #51 car in particular suffered a left-front puncture in an incident with a Corvette that also led to a five-second penalty, then a 20-second stop-go penalty after malfunctioning brakes meant the car hit 73km\/h instead of 60km\/h at the pitlane speed trap.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the #50 entry got a drive-through penalty for a yellow flag infringement. Two of the three Porsches also had to serve drive-through for slow-zone shenanigans, but crucially the dominant #6 was not one of them.<\/p>\n

\"#24 <\/p>\n

#24 Nielsen Racing Oreca 07 – Gibson: Naveen Rao, Cem Bolukbasi, Colin Braun<\/p>\n

Photo by: Rainier Ehrhardt<\/p>\n

Cem Bolukbasi<\/a>\u2019s crash at Tertre Rouge at 3:12am, ending Nielsen Racing<\/a>\u2019s #24 LMP2 entry\u2019s race, reshuffled the cards as it caused the only safety car period of the race. The #51 and #50 Ferraris were two minutes down on the #6 Porsche, but that gap evaporated in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n

The #8 Toyota subsequently took the lead, but it was rather short-lived as Ryo Hirakawa<\/a> was overtaken by Ye (#83) at 4:51am.<\/p>\n

Sixteen hours into the lead, the #51 and #83 Ferraris were leading by close to two minutes, but yellow-flag breaches meant they both got drive-through penalties, amid team order drama as Kubica (#83) grew increasingly upset with not being allowed to attack Giovinazzzi (#51).<\/p>\n

The Scuderia eventually agreed to a swap, but Kubica wasn\u2019t close enough to make the move anymore.<\/p>\n

However, the #51\u2019s advantage was squandered at 11:09am when Pier Guidi lost control on the kerb as he came into the pits, spinning into the gravel trap; he had been leading by some 30 seconds on top of the hour. The Italian veteran dropped down to third after his pitstop, behind the #83 and #50 sister cars, with a 26-second deficit on the lead.<\/p>\n

As the #8 Toyota was definitively taken out of the fight for the podium \u2013 or top 10, for that matter \u2013 positions by a loose wheel following a pitstop, the #83 car pulled away with a 33-second advantage.<\/p>\n

Yet, the #6 Porsche couldn\u2019t be discounted, and Matt Campbell<\/a> had a remarkable stint. The Australian driver caught up with Calado (#51) and swiftly overtook him on the Mulsanne straight, then passed the #50 Ferrari in the pits, with both moves occurring shortly before 2pm.<\/p>\n

Taking over from Campbell, Estre brought the gap to Kubica down to 10 seconds with just half an hour remaining on the clock, but was unable to make further inroads, though he still took second.<\/p>\n

\"#83 <\/p>\n

#83 AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye, Philip Hanson<\/p>\n

Photo by: Marc Fleury<\/p>\n

Giovinazzi and Fuoco battled all the way to the chequered flag for the last spot on the podium, with the former\u2019s #51 car prevailing.<\/p>\n

The #12 Cadillac (Lynn-Nato-Stevens) had a very solid race after all, taking fifth just two minutes away from victory, after a mostly trouble-free race. The sister #38 car can\u2019t say as much, with a front-left puncture and a couple of driving errors by veteran Bourdais, who did set the fastest lap of the race with a 3m26.063s on lap 310.<\/p>\n

The customer Cadillacs entered by Whelen and Wayne Taylor Racing<\/a> both retired due to technical issues described as a loss of power.<\/p>\n

The Alpines went largely unnoticed, except when Paul-Loup Chatin<\/a> hit the #94 Peugeot at Mulsanne with the #35 car and Jules Gounon<\/a> beached the #36 entry in the gravel at the same corner. That car also got two severe penalties for pitlane speeding.<\/p>\n

Peugeot knew it was going to struggle after complaining about the Balance of Performance, but while the #93 car\u2019s race took a turn for the worse as Paul Di Resta<\/a> crashed in the first hour, the #94 entry was sometimes seen at the front early on, having opted for an alternate strategy with longer stints thanks to fuel-saving. It eventually finished 12th.<\/p>\n

BMW suffered a horrid race with a mix of technical issues, penalties and driver errors, with both cars out of the top 15, while Aston Martin was very low-key \u2013 but for lack of actual speed, the Valkyries were consistent and largely stayed out of trouble, with its #009 car taking 13th.<\/p>\n

LMP2: Inter Europol beats home favourites TDS Panis Racing
\n \"#43 <\/p>\n

#43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 – Gibson: Jakub Smiechowski, Tom Dillmann, Nick Yelloly<\/p>\n

Photo by: Emanuele Clivati | AG Photo<\/p>\n

The LMP2 class went the way of Tom Dillmann<\/a>, Jakub Smiechowski<\/a> and Nick Yelloly<\/a> in Inter Europol Competition<\/a>\u2019s #43 ORECA, which led for pretty much the last eight hours and survived a late-race drive-through penalty to win.<\/p>\n

Oliver Gray<\/a>, Esteban Masson<\/a> and Franck Perera<\/a> enjoyed a remarkably consistent race in VDS Panis Racing\u2019s #48 entry and offered relentless competition to the winning car, but lost pace in the late stages of the race and failed to capitalise on their opponents\u2019 penalty.<\/p>\n

Third place and Pro\/Am honours were taken by Dane Cameron<\/a>, Louis Deletraz<\/a> and P.J. Hyett for AO by TF, one lap down on the winning car, with the Swiss driver finally tasting success after losing LMP2 victory on the final lap in 2021 and finishing second in class or sub-class in the last three years.<\/p>\n

TDS Racing<\/a>\u2019s #29 entry, which Mathias Beche<\/a> had qualified on pole, finished down in fifth with no major issues other than a couple of penalties, but the Swiss still took second in the Pro\/Am sub-class alongside team-mates Clement Novalak<\/a> and Rodrigo Sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fourth position went to the Iron Lynx<\/a> \u2013 Proton #9 car, which started from the antepenultimate spot on the LMP2 grid and fought its way through the pack with drivers Maceo Capietto<\/a>, Reshad de Gerus<\/a> and Jonas Ried<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On top of Bolukbasi, there were only two retirements in LMP2 \u2013 both IDEC Sport cars, due to losing wheels. Job van Uitert<\/a> was travelling at high speed in the Porsche curves when it happened to him, but he escaped unharmed \u2013 though that #28 car lost a real shot at a podium finish as they were running in third.<\/p>\n

LMGT3: Manthey Porsche prevails
\n \"#92 <\/p>\n

#92 Manthey 1st Phorm Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3: Ryan Hardwick, Riccardo Pera, Richard Lietz<\/p>\n

Photo by: Emanuele Clivati | AG Photo<\/p>\n

In a much more attritional race, Ryan Hardwick<\/a>, Richard Lietz<\/a> and Riccardo Pera<\/a> prevailed in Manthey\u2019s #92 Porsche; their main competitors, Team WRT<\/a>\u2019s #46 BMW driven by Valentino Rossi<\/a>, Ahmad Al Harthy<\/a> and Kelvin van der Linde<\/a>, retired shortly before the midway point after van der Linde went off at the Porsche curves.<\/p>\n

It still was five different constructors in the top five, with Vista AF Corse<\/a>\u2019s #21 Ferrari (Heriau-Mann-Rovera) and TF Sport<\/a>\u2019s #81 Corvette (Andrade-Eastwood-van Rompuy) making up the podium ahead of Heart of Racing\u2019s polesitting #27 Aston Martin and Akkodis ASP Team\u2019s #87 Lexus.<\/p>\n

Other brands had a tougher race, with United Autosports<\/a>\u2019 McLarens both retiring after suffering from alternator and drivetrain problems.<\/p>\n

2025 Le Mans 24 Hours – Race results<\/p>\n

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