Ferrari win 24 Hours of Le Mans

It’s been 58 years since Ferrari won the premier class at Le Mans and 50 years since it even participated in the top-class of motorsport in the world’s most famous race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The last time Ferrari won, I wasn’t even born yet but the winner was from my home town in the form of Masten Gregory or “The Kansas City Flash”. He was teamed with the world’s only posthumous Formula 1 champion, Jochen Rindt. You could write entire articles and books on these two, which has been done, but in short, Masten was an enigma and amazingly quick driver who used to jump out of moving race cars while Jochen was perhaps one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time had he not perished at Monza.

Despite that rich history, it’s been 58 years since Ferrari have won the top step in the top classification. Sure, they’ve done well over the years in GT racing but not LMP1—now known as Hypercar.

On their first year back in the top class, they defeated the dominant Toyota to take victory with Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and former F1 driver Antonio Giovinazzi at the wheel. Ferrari AF Corse are back!

Ferrari beat Toyota who finished second ahead of the #2 Cadillac with Inter Europol claiming LMP2 victory ahead of the #33 Corvette who took GTE honors.

On a personal note, a huge congratulations to our own Paul Charsley and the Heart of Racing Aston Martin team who claimed 6th in their very first Le Mans as a team.

The Ferrari 499Ps started from the top two positions on the grid with Hypercar numbers 50 and 51, respectively, thanks to the times posted during the Hyperpole when Fuoco took pole.

This was the Prancing Horse’s tenth overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, to go with those collected in 1949, 1954, 1958, and 1960-1965. Ferrari’s history at Le Mans now comprises 39 victories, including 29 class wins.

With this result in round four of the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship, Ferrari remains second in the Manufacturers’ standings, narrowing the gap to Toyota to 19 points.

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Gap
1	51	James Calado  Antonio Giovinazzi  Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 499P	HYPERCAR
2	8	Sébastien Buemi  Brendon Hartley  Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 – Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1’21.793
3	2	Earl Bamber  Alex Lynn  Richard Westbrook	Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR	1 Lap
4	3	Sébastien Bourdais  Scott Dixon  Renger van der Zande	Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR
5	50	Antonio Fuoco  Miguel Molina  Nicklas Nielsen	Ferrari 499P	HYPERCAR
6	708	Ryan Briscoe  Romain Dumas  Olivier Pla	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR
7	709	Nathanael Berthon  Esteban Gutierrez  Franck Mailleux	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR
8	93	Paul di Resta  Mikkel Jensen  Jean-Eric Vergne	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR
9	5	Dane Cameron  Michael Christensen  Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR
10	34	Albert Costa  Fabio Scherer  Jakub Smiechowski	Oreca 07	LMP2
11	41	Rui Andrade  Louis Deletraz  Robert Kubica	Oreca 07	LMP2	14 Laps
12	30	Rene Binder  Neel Jani  Nicolas Pino	Oreca 07	LMP2
13	36	Julien Canal  Charles Milesi  Matthieu Vaxiviere	Oreca 07	LMP2	15 Laps
14	31	Robin Frijns  Sean Gelael  Ferdinand Habsburg	Oreca 07	LMP2	15 Laps
15	48	Paul-Loup Chatin  Laurents Hörr  Paul Lafargue	Oreca 07	LMP2	15 Laps
16	10	Gabriel Aubry  Ryan Cullen  Matthias Kaiser	Oreca 07	LMP2
17	311	Jack Aitken  Pipo Derani  Alexander Sims	Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR
18	23	Tom Blomqvist  Oliver Jarvis  Josh Pierson	Oreca 07	LMP2
19	35	Olli Caldwell  Andre Negrao  Memo Rojas	Oreca 07	LMP2
20	45	James Allen  Colin Braun  George Kurtz	Oreca 07	LMP2	20 Laps
21	22	Filipe Albuquerque  Philip Hanson  Frederick Lubin	Oreca 07	LMP2
22	6	Kevin Estre  Andre Lotterer  Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR
23	37	Alexandre Coigny  Malthe Jakobsen  Nicolas Lapierre	Oreca 07	LMP2
24	28	Pietro Fittipaldi  David Heinemeier Hansson  Oliver Rasmussen	Oreca 07	LMP2
25	65	Tijmen van der Helm  Manuel Maldonado  Job Van Uitert	Oreca 07	LMP2	26 Laps
26	33	Nick Catsburg  Ben Keating Nicolas Varrone	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE AM
27	94	Loic Duval  Gustavo Menezes  Nico Müller	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR
28	25	Ahmad Al Harthy  Michael Dinan  Charles Eastwood	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	30 Laps
29	86	Benjamin Barker  Riccardo Pera  Michael Wainwright	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM	30 Laps
30	85	Sarah Bovy  Rahel Frey  Michelle Gatting	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM	30 Laps
31	54	Francesco Castellacci  Thomas Flohr  Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	30 Laps
32	43	Maxime Martin  Tom Van Rompuy  Ugo de Wilde	Oreca 07	LMP2
33	98	Ian James  Daniel Mancinelli  Alex Riberas	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
34	9	Juan Manuel Correa  Filip Ugran  Bent Viscaal	Oreca 07	LMP2	32 Laps
35	56	Matteo Cairoli  PJ Hyett  Gunnar Jeannette	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM
36	100	Andrew Haryanto  Chandler Hull  Jeff Segal	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM
37	39	Giedo van der Garde  Roberto Lacorte  Patrick Pilet	Oreca 07	LMP2
38	74	Kei Cozzolino  Yorikatsu Tsujiko  Naoki Yokomizo	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	39 Laps
39	24	Jenson Button  Jimmie Johnson  Mike Rockenfeller	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1	INNOVATIVE CAR
40	38	Antonio Felix da Costa  Will Stevens  Ye Yifei	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR
41	57	Scott Huffaker  Takeshi Kimura  Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM
42	911	Michael Fassbender  Richard Lietz  Martin Rump	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM
43	80	Ben Barnicoat  Norman Nato  François Perrodo	Oreca 07	LMP2
44	88	Jonas Ried  Harry Tincknell  Don Yount	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM
45	4	Tom Dillmann  Esteban Guerrieri  Tristan Vautier	Vanwall Vandervell 680	HYPERCAR
46	777	Tomonobu Fujii  Satoshi Hoshino  Casper Stevenson	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
47	47	Reshad de Gerus  Vlad Lomko  Simon Pagenaud	Oreca 07	LMP2
48	77	Julien Andlauer  Christian Ried Mikkel Pedersen	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM
49	32	Anders Fjordbach  Mark Kvamme  Jan Magnussen	Oreca 07	LMP2
50	63	Mirko Bortolotti  Daniil Kvyat  Doriane Pin	Oreca 07	LMP2
51	7	Mike Conway  Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 – Hybrid	HYPERCAR
52	66	Thomas Neubauer  Giacomo Petrobelli Louis Prette	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM
53	923	Tom Gamble  Dries Vanthoor  Salih Yoluc	Oreca 07	LMP2
54	75	Mathieu Jaminet  Felipe Nasr  Nick Tandy	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR
55	72	Valentin Hasse-Clot Arnold Robin Maxime Robin	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
56	83	Luis Perez Companc  Alessio Rovera  Lilou Wadoux	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM
57	16	Ryan Hardwick  Jan Heylen  Zacharie Robichon	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM
58	60	Matteo Cressoni  Alessio Picariello  Claudio Schiavoni	Porsche 911 RSR – 19	LMGTE AM
59	55	Gustav Birch  Jens Reno Moller  Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
60	21	Simon Mann  Ulysse De Pauw  Julien Piguet	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM
61	13	René Rast  Ricky Taylor  Steven Thomas	Oreca 07	LMP2
62	14	Mathias Beche  Ben Hanley  Rodrigo Sales	Oreca 07	LMP2