The 87th running of the world's oldest race, the Le Mans 24 Hours is happening this weekend. The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019 is scheduled to start at 2:00 pm (BST), 6:30 pm (India) on Saturday , 15th June and is expected to finish when the clock ticks 2:00 pm (BST), 6:30 pm (India) on Sunday the 16th of June.
The grid consists of 62 cars and the best of race drivers from across the world including former top F1 drivers racing at the Hours of Le Mans 2019 .
LMP1 Class: Le Mans Prototype 1 Category Car Number Team Car Driver 1 Driver 2 Driver 3 1 Rebellion Racing Rebellion R13-Gibson Neel Jani André Lotterer Bruno Senna 3 Rebellion Racing Rebellion R13-Gibson Nathanaël Berthon Thomas Laurent Gustavo Menezes 4 ByKolles Racing Team ENSO CLM P1/01-Gibson Tom Dillmann Paolo Ruberti Oliver Webb 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota TS050 Hybrid Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi José María López 8 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota TS050 Hybrid Fernando Alonso Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima 10 DragonSpeed BR Engineering BR1-Gibson Ben Hanley Henrik Hedman Renger van der Zande 11 SMP Racing BR Engineering BR1-AER Mikhail Aleshin Vitaly Petrov Stoffel Vandoorne 17 SMP Racing BR Engineering BR1-AER Egor Orudzhev Stéphane Sarrazin Sergey Sirotkin
LMP2 Class: Le Mans Prototype 2 Category 20 High Class Racing Oreca 07-Gibson Dennis Andersen Mathias Beche Anders Fjordbach 22 United Autosports Ligier JS P217-Gibson Filipe Albuquerque Philip Hanson Paul di Resta 23 Panis Barthez Competition Ligier JS P217-Gibson René Binder Julien Canal Will Stevens 25 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca 07-Gibson John Falb Andrea Pizzitola David Zollinger 26 G-Drive Racing Aurus 01-Gibson Roman Rusinov Job van Uitert Jean-Éric Vergne 28 TDS Racing Oreca 07-Gibson Loïc Duval François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxiviere 29 Racing Team Nederland Dallara P217-Gibson Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Nyck de Vries 30 Duqueine Engineering Oreca 07-Gibson Romain Dumas Nico Jamin Pierre Ragues 31 DragonSpeed Oreca 07-Gibson Anthony Davidson Roberto González Pastor Maldonado 32 United Autosports Ligier JS P217-Gibson Alex Brundle Ryan Cullen Will Owen 34 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P217-Gibson Nigel Moore Jakub Smiechowski James Winslow 36 Signatech Alpine Matmut Alpine A470-Gibson Nicolas Lapierre André Negrão Pierre Thiriet 37 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca 07-Gibson David Heinemeier Hansson Jordan King Ricky Taylor 38 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca 07-Gibson Gabriel Aubry Stéphane Richelmi Ho-Pin Tung 39 Graff Oreca 07-Gibson Vincent Capillaire Jonathan Hirschi Tristan Gommendy 43 RLR M Sport/Tower Events Oreca 07-Gibson John Farano Arjun Maini Norman Nato 47 Cetilar Racing Villorba Corse Dallara P217-Gibson Andrea Belicchi Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto 48 IDEC Sport Oreca 07-Gibson Paul-Loup Chatin Paul Lafargue Memo Rojas 49 ARC Bratislava Ligier JS P217-Gibson Henning Enqvist Miro Konôpka Konstantin Tereshchenko 50 Larbre Compétition Ligier JS P217-Gibson Nicholas Boulle Erwin Creed Romano Ricci
LMGTE Pro Class: Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Pro Category 51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi Daniel Serra 63 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7.R Antonio García Jan Magnussen Mike Rockenfeller 64 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7.R Marcel Fässler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Ford GT Billy Johnson Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Ford GT Jonathan Bomarito Andy Priaulx Harry Tincknell 68 Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA Ford GT Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Müller 69 Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA Ford GT Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook 71 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Sam Bird Miguel Molina Davide Rigon 81 BMW Team MTEK BMW M8 GTE Nick Catsburg Philipp Eng Martin Tomczyk 82 BMW Team MTEK BMW M8 GTE Antonio Felix da Costa Augusto Farfus Jesse Krohn 89 Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Pipo Derani Jules Gounon Oliver Jarvis 91 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki 92 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR Michael Christensen Kevin Estre Laurens Vanthoor 93 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR Earl Bamber Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy 94 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR Mathieu Jaminet Sven Müller Dennis Olsen 95 Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR Marco Sørensen Nicki Thiim Darren Turner 97 Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR Jonathan Adam Alex Lynn Maxime Martin
LMGTE Am Class: Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Am Category 54 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GTE Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella Thomas Flohr 56 Team Project 1 Porsche 911 RSR Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Lindsey Egidio Perfetti 57 Car Guy Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura Côme Ledogar 60 Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Claudio Schiavoni Sergio Pianezzola Andrea Piccini 61 Clearwater Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Luís Pérez Companc Matteo Cressoni Matt Griffin 62 WeatherTech Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Cooper MacNeil Robert Smith Toni Vilander 70 MR Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Olivier Beretta Eddie Cheever III Motoaki Ishikawa 77 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR Julien Andlauer Matt Campbell Christian Ried 78 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR Vincent Abril Louis Prette Philippe Prette 83 Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Manuela Gostner 84 JMW Motorsport Ferrari 488 GTE Rodrigo Baptista Wei Lu Jeff Segal 85 Keating Motorsports Ford GT Jeroen Bleekemolen Felipe Fraga Ben Keating 86 Gulf Racing Porsche 911 RSR Ben Barker Thomas Preining Michael Wainwright 88 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR Matteo Cairoli Satoshi Hoshino Giorgio Roda 90 TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage GTE Charlie Eastwood Euan Hankey Salih Yoluç 98 Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage GTE Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda 99 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR Niclas Jönsson Tracy Krohn Patrick Long
Reserve Entries Reserve Class Car Number Team Car 1st LMP2 33 Eurasia Motorsport Ligier JS P217-Gibson 2nd LMP2 27 IDEC Sport Ligier JS P217-Gibson 3rd LMGTE Am 79 TF Sport Red River Sport Aston Martin Vantage GTE