2015 24 Hours of Le Mans

The podium for the overall race winners

The 83rd 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 83^e 24 Heures du Mans) was an automobile endurance event held from 10 to 14 June 2015 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France. It was the 83rd running of the 24 Hour race organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest as well as the third round of the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship. A test day was held two weeks prior to the race on 31 May.

The No. 18 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Neel Jani, Romain Dumas, and Marc Lieb started from pole position after Jani broke the circuit's lap record in qualifying. The race was won by the No. 19 Porsche of Nick Tandy and Le Mans rookies Earl Bamber and Nico Hülkenberg, followed a lap behind by the second Porsche of Mark Webber, Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard. Audi's best car, driven by the title defenders Benoît Tréluyer, Marcel Fässler, and André Lotterer, finished third, a further lap behind the two Porsche vehicles. This was the seventeenth overall victory for Porsche, and their first since 1998.

The LMP2 category was won by the KCMG Oreca-Nissan driven by Richard Bradley, Matthew Howson, and Nicolas Lapierre. The trio led all but nine laps of the race but only held a 48-second lead over the Jota Sport Gibson-Nissan at the race's end. Corvette Racing won their first class victory since 2011 despite one of their two cars being withdrawn after an accident in qualifying. Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner, and Jordan Taylor held a five-lap margin in LMGTE Pro over the AF Corse Ferrari in second, after breaking away from the rest of the field in the second half of the race. The LMGTE Am class was led for most of the time by the No. 98 Aston Martin until driver Paul Dalla Lana crashed in the Ford Chicane in the final hour of the race, handing the victory to the SMP Racing Ferrari of Viktor Shaitar, Aleksey Basov, and Andrea Bertolini.

Circuit and regulation changes

Layout of the Circuit de la Sarthe

Following the introduction of slow zones during the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) revised the system for 2015. The limited speed in the zones was increased from 60 km/h (37 mph) to 80 km/h (50 mph). The number of zones around the circuit had also increased from 19 to 35, with a new lighting system to assist marshals added to each zone.^[1] Le Mans Prototype (LMP) teams were also required to carry additional flashing rain lights from Le Mans onward following a collision between two prototype cars in the rain at 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps caused by low visibility.^[2]

Modifications were made to the circuit from Mulsanne Corner to the Corvette Curves. The circuit was widened on the road connecting Mulsanne to Indianapolis, and again from Indianapolis to the Porsche Curves, although the kerbs remained in their previous locations. The first corner of the Porsche Curves had a larger run-off area on the outside while SAFER barriers had been installed on the inside wall. The Corvette corner also now featured a gravel run-off.^[3][4]

Entries

Automatic invitations

Automatic entry invitations were earned by teams that won their class in the previous running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, or won championships in other Le Mans-based series such as the United SportsCar Championship, the European Le Mans Series, and the Asian Le Mans Series. Some championship runner-ups were also granted automatic invitations in certain series. All current FIA World Endurance Championship full-season entries also automatically earned invitations. 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. In the European Le Mans Series, the "Le Mans" Grand Touring Endurance (LMGTE) class champion and runner-up were allowed to choose between the Pro and Am categories, while the GTC class champion was limited solely to an Am entry. The Asian Le Mans Series GTC competitors were also limited to the LMGTE Am class.^[5]

The ACO announced its initial list of automatic entries on 15 December 2014.^[5]

Reason invited	LMP1	LMP2	LMGTE Pro	LMGTE Am
1st in the 24 Hours of Le Mans	Audi Sport Team Joest	Jota Sport	AF Corse	Aston Martin Racing
1st in the European Le Mans Series		Signatech Alpine	SMP Racing
2nd in the European Le Mans Series			AF Corse
1st in the European Le Mans Series GTC category				SMP Racing
United SportsCar Championship at-large entries		Wayne Taylor Racing		Scuderia Corsa
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series		OAK Racing Team Total		Team AAI
2nd in the Asian Le Mans Series				Team AAI

Entry list

In conjunction with the announcement of entries for the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship and the European Le Mans Series seasons, the ACO announced the full 56 car entry list for Le Mans, plus seven reserves.^[6] In addition to the 35 guaranteed entries from the World Endurance Championship, 13 entries came from the European Le Mans Series, three from the United SportsCar Championship, two from the Asian Le Mans Series, while the rest of the field was filled with one-off entries only competing at Le Mans.^[6]

Reserves

Seven reserves were initially nominated by the ACO, limited to the LMP2 and LMGTE Am categories. Algarve Pro Racing withdrew their reserve LMP2 entry, while Riley Motorsports was promoted from the reserve list when the second SARD-Morand entry withdrew from the World Endurance Championship.^[7] Five reserves remained on the list: A second KCMG LMP2, a second Ibañez LMP2, a third Proton Porsche, and the Formula Racing Ferrari and Gulf Racing Porsche.^[6]

Testing and practice

A pre-Le Mans testing day was held at the circuit on 31 May, involving all 56 entries as well as the KCMG Oreca-Nissan, Ibañez Oreca-Nissan, Gulf Racing Porsche, and Formula Racing Ferrari reserve entries. Two LMP3 class Ginetta vehicles and two additional AF Corse Ferrari cars also participated. The two four-hour sessions were held under mixed weather conditions as rain swept through the area several times. Neel Jani set the fastest time in the early session with a 3:21.945 for the No. 18 Porsche,^[8] but Brendon Hartley improved to a 3:21.061 in the sister No. 17 Porsche.^[9] Audi's best time was a 3:22.307 for Marco Bonanomi in the No. 9 car, while Toyota could only muster a 3:25.321 lap.^[8] Laurens Vanthoor was the fastest LMP2 driver in the No. 34 OAK Ligier-Honda. Darren Turner's No. 97 Aston Martin was quickest in LMGTE Pro while Pedro Lamy helped Aston Martin also lead in LMGTE Am.^[9] The session served as the first appearance for the trio of Nissan GT-R LM Nismo amongst its World Endurance Championship competitors, although the cars were not on pace with the LMP1 field.^[9]

Four hours of practice were held for the field on Wednesday afternoon, but again suffered from variable wet conditions throughout. The No. 17 Porsche once again led the session although Mark Webber was the fastest driver to set the 3:21.362 lap time. Audi closed to within half a second with Loïc Duval's 3:21.950 lap.^[10] The LMP2 category had only a single car manage a lap under 3:40 when Richard Bardley set a 3:39.897 lap, a full second ahead of the No. 34 OAK Ligier-Honda. The KCMG car had earlier caused the session to be red flagged when the car came to a stop at the first Mulsanne Straight chicane. The Murphy Prototypes Oreca-Nissan later caused a second stoppage when Mark Patterson spun in the Porsche Curves and heavily impacted the safety barrier. Patterson was unhurt. The LMGTE Pro category was again led by Aston Martin, Richie Stanaway's No. 99 car setting a 3:55.895 lap, followed by the No. 64 Corvette and the No. 97 Aston Martin. Mathias Lauda kept the No. 98 Aston Martin ahead in LMGTE Am, nearly two seconds ahead of the two Proton Porsche cars.^[11]

Qualifying

The first dry session of the week occurred on Wednesday night in the first of three qualifying sessions. The first timed laps of the session immediately saw the qualifying record for the track, in its current configuration, broken. Timo Bernhard's first timed lap of 3:17.767 in the No. 17 Porsche broke the 2008 record by nearly a second, only to be followed by Neel Jani in the No. 18 Porsche with a 3:16.887 lap time. Neither driver improved their times over the rest of the session, giving the No. 18 Porsche provisional pole position, followed in third by the remaining Porsche 919. The Audi trio followed, with Loïc Duval leading the group but nearly three seconds off the pole pace. Toyota's best effort came from Stéphane Sarrazin in the No. 2 car, nearly two seconds adrift of the Audi's lap times. Nissan's lap times improved to a 3:38.468, but were over twenty seconds off the pole position time.^[12]

The fastest LMP2 lap time was also set early in the session, with Richard Bradley recording a 3:38.032 time in the KCMG Oreca-Nissan, nearly a full second ahead of the Greaves Motorsport Gibson-Nissan. The Greaves car, driven by rookie Gaëtan Paletou, later caused the session's only stoppage when it collided with the safety barriers at Mulsanne Corner and had to be towed back to the garage. Aston Martin dominated the LMGTE categories in the first qualifying session, with four of their five entries leading the overall positions in the category. Richie Stanaway set the fastest time of 3:54.928 in the No. 99 car, while Pedro Lamy was the fastest Amateur category entry with a 3:55.102 lap to be second fastest among all LMGTE cars. Gianmaria Bruni's AF Corse Ferrari was third amongst LMGTEs before ACO officials disallowed their fastest lap times for going beyond the track limits, demoting the car down the grid.^[13][14] The two remaining LMGTE Pro Aston Martin drivers followed the dual class pole sitters, with Corvette the first car from another marque.^[15]

Initial weather forecasts predicted rain for the Thursday qualifying sessions, but it failed to materialise. The teams had two full sessions of clear but hot and humid conditions.^[16] Nick Tandy's Porsche led the session with a 3:18.862 lap, but remained in third position on the provisional grid. Audi No. 7 was the only other car to put in an improved lap time amongst the top ten cars. TDS Racing was the fastest LMP2 car in the session with a 3:40.441 yet still over two seconds behind the pole time of KCMG. The LMGTE categories also remained much the same, as Aston Martin still occupied the top four qualifying positions. Twice the session was stopped for heavy accidents, first for the No. 55 AF Corse Ferrari of Duncan Cameron who became stuck in a gravel trap for about fifteen minutes.^[17] The second stoppage occurred when Jan Magnussen suffered a mechanical failure in his No. 63 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R and hit the barriers twice in the Porsche Curves.^[18] Repairs to the barriers forced the cancellation of the remainder of the session, although half an hour was added to the final qualifying session.^[17] The Corvette was unable to be repaired and the team was forced to withdraw from the race.^[18]

As temperatures cooled in the final qualifying session, over a third of the field improved their fastest laps, but Jani's pole position time was unchallenged. Audi No. 7 led the session with a 3:20.967 lap time, still over four seconds shy of pole position. Nissan improved all three of their cars during the session, closing to within a second of the closest LMP1 competitor. The No. 26 G-Drive Ligier-Nissan closed to within a second of KCMG to take the second grid position in LMP2, while Greaves remained in third. In LMGTE Pro the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari rebounded from the loss of their qualifying times in the first session to lead the final session and come within a tenth of a second of Aston Martin. The sister AF Corse Ferrari also improved to fourth in the category to split the top of the grid in the class amongst the two manufacturers. The lead in LMGTE Am remained with the No. 98 Aston Martin, a second and a half ahead of the No. 83 AF Corse Ferrari. SMP Racing improved their time by leading both of the day's qualifying sessions to take second place on the grid, splitting the Aston Martin cars. The No. 67 AAI Porsche suffered a fire during the session which halted qualifying for nearly half an hour.^[19]

Porsche's pole position was their sixth consecutive in the FIA World Endurance Championship, extending back to the 2014 6 Hours of Shanghai. It was also the company's first pole position at Le Mans since 1997.^[20]

Qualifying results

Provisional pole positions in each class are denoted in bold. The fastest time set by each entry is denoted with a grey background.

Race

The race-winning No. 19 Porsche 919 Hybrid

The cars took to the circuit on Saturday morning for a 45-minute warm-up session. The No. 9 Audi driven by Filipe Albuquerque set the fastest time with a lap of 3:19.423. The sister Audi cars were second and third overall. Romain Dumas was fourth fastest. Bernhard was fifth quickest and had the fastest lap before Albuquerque set his time. The fastest LMP2 lap was set by Mitch Evans with a time of 3:39.559. Stefan Mücke, driving the No. 97 Aston Martin, was the quickest driver in the LMGTE Pro category with the No. 88 Proton Porsche driven by Klaus Bachler the fastest of the LMGTE Am drivers. Gianluca Roda damaged the front-right quarter of his No. 50 Larbre Compétition Corvette in a crash at the Porsche Curves.^[26]

The conditions on the grid were dry and sunny before the race with an air temperature between 19–22 °C (66–72 °F) and a track temperature which ranged from 23–25 °C (73–77 °F).^[27] A record-breaking 263,500 people attended the race.^[28] The French tricolour was waved at 15:00 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) by the executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company Bill Ford to start the race,^[29] led by starting pole sitter Neel Jani.^[23] Fifty five cars planned to take the start following the withdrawal of the No. 63 Chevrolet Corvette,^[18] but the No. 23 Nissan missed the opening laps while undergoing repairs to its clutch. Bernhard overtook Jani on the first lap while the trio of Audi cars were able to pass the No. 19 Porsche by the end of the second lap. The top six cars remained within a few seconds of each other as the group pulled away from the Toyota drivers. The first hour of the race ended with the first retirement as the No. 92 Manthey Porsche began leaking oil and spun at the first chicane of the Mulsanne Straight. Despite resuming driver Patrick Pilet pulled to the side of the track further down the Mulsanne Straight as the engine compartment soon caught fire. The No. 42 Strakka Dome-Nissan and the No. 13 Rebellion were caught off guard by Pilet's oil and collided with one another in the chicane, stranding the Rebellion in the gravel trap while the Dome returned to the pit lane for repairs.^[30]

The safety cars were deployed to slow the race as marshals worked for twenty-two minutes to dry the spilled oil along the Mulsanne Straight.^[31] As the safety cars were recalled, André Lotterer in the No. 7 Audi used slower traffic to pass both Porsche drivers in front of him and take over the race lead, just as Nico Hülkenberg moved to fourth place by passing the remaining Audi cars.^[32] In the LMP2 the safety car had split the field up, leaving the TDS Racing and KCMG Oreca-Nissan cars forty seconds ahead of their class rivals. Richard Bradley for KCMG was able to fight with TDS Racing's Tristan Gommendy on the restart and eventually retake the class lead it had lost at the race start.^[32] Lotterer was later forced to give up the race lead as a puncture on one of the No. 7's tyres required an extra pit stop, allowing Brendon Hartley's No. 17 Porsche to the front of the race. Loïc Duval was caught on an approach to a slow zone in Indianapolis by a group of slowed LMGTE cars and took avoiding action in the grass off track. The No. 8 Audi clipped the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari and was thrown back across the track, impacting the barriers head on and ripping the car's front bodywork off. Safety cars were required once again as the barriers needed lengthy repairs, while Duval was able to drive the damaged Audi back to the garage. Repairs took less than five minutes and the car resumed in eighth place.^[33]

Several cars suffered issues during the second safety car period. Nicki Thiim brought the No. 95 Aston Martin from the LMGTE Pro lead straight to the team's garage with a leaking power steering system,^[34] handing the class lead to its sister No. 99 Aston Martin. The No. 88 Proton Porsche suffered an engine fire in the second Mulsanne Straight chicane, extending the safety car period as it was tended to.^[35] KCMG retained their LMP2 class lead ahead of the TDS Racing car while behind the safety car, while the sole Corvette, No. 71 AF Corse Ferrari, and two circulating Aston Martin vehicles were nose to tail in LMGTE Pro, continuing their battle after the safety car period ended. Oliver Gavin's Corvette eventually pulled away from the rest of the LMGTE Pro field.^[36] The Riley Viper relinquished its lead in LMGTE Am to the No. 98 Aston Martin and the SMP Ferrari.^[37] As the safety car period ended the No. 17 Porsche of Hartley held the race lead, but Albuquerque was in pursuit in the No. 9 Audi, breaking the Le Mans lap record with a time of 3:17.647.^[38] The No. 9 Audi was able to mount a better challenge to the leading Porsche, and René Rast was able to take the race lead after pit stops.^[27]

During the sixth hour of the race Gary Hirsch lost power in his Greaves Gibson-Nissan through the Esses and came to a halt; the car would later be abandoned after Hirsch was unable to repair a broken battery terminal.^[39] The No. 71 Ferrari was forced to the garage to fix starter motor problems, bowing out of its battle with Corvette and Aston Martin in LMGTE Pro.^[39] As dusk settled on the circuit, the No. 18 Porsche of Romain Dumas braked too late for Mulsanne Corner and hit a tire barrier. The car was able to return to the pit lane, only requiring new front bodywork, but the car fell to fifth position. Not long after Paul-Loup Chatin crashed his Signatech Alpine at Mulsanne Corner, bringing the safety cars out for the third time of the race.^[40] During this slow period Rob Bell pulled the No. 97 Aston Martin off course and retired.^[41] When racing resumed, Hülkenberg was able to attack the leaders, first overtaking Webber's Porsche on the opening lap then passing Rast when he made a scheduled pit stop. Webber was later given a one-minute stop and go penalty for passing in a yellow flag zone, dropping him to fourth place.^[41] Nissan lost one of their three LMP1 entries when Tsugio Matsuda's No. 21 car stopped at Arnage and was unable to continue.^[42] The No. 22 Nissan also suffered a setback when it hit debris out on the racetrack and required a lengthy repair to its front-end.^[42]

As the race approached its halfway point, Lotterer gained on the No. 9 Audi and moved into second place, becoming Audi's lead challenger to Porsche.^[43] Several LMGTE cars took the opportunity to change brake discs at this point in the morning, including Fernando Rees in the No. 99 Aston Martin. Returning to the track Rees' car failed to stop in time for the first Mulsanne Straight chicane and hit the rear of the TDS Racing Oreca-Nissan. The Oreca, which had held second place in the LMP2 category, was abandoned in the gravel at the chicane while Rees limped the damaged Aston Martin back to the garage for repairs. The No. 26 G-Drive Ligier took over second place in LMP2, although still a lap behind the leading KCMG Oreca while the lead in LMGTE Pro was now left to the No. 64 Corvette and the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari on the same lap.^[44] In the early morning the No. 7 Audi's hold on second place was relinquished when the right-rear bodywork of the car came apart on the circuit, requiring a seven-minute stop for repairs and dropping the car down the race order.^[45]

Roald Goethe was caught off guard as Hülkenberg lapped his No. 96 Aston Martin in Corvette Corner, causing Goethe to spin and impact a concrete barrier. Goethe was conscious but needed aid in getting out of the Aston Martin requiring the intervention of a fourth safety car period. Oliver Turvey had been the fastest driver in LMP2 at the time, bringing the Jota Gibson-Nissan into third place.^[46] The No. 64 Corvette came to the pit lane during the safety car period to change brakes, but was unable to get back out of pit lane in time before the exit was closed, forfeiting the class lead to the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari.^[47] When racing resumed Mark Webber was able to attack the No. 9 Audi and take second position.^[48] The No. 42 Strakka Dome pulled off the track on the front stretch with gearbox issues, requiring a local slow zone. The No. 7 Audi of Lotterer made contact with Tandy's leading Porsche while both cars were in the slow zone, earning Lotterer a penalty.^[49] Viktor Shaitar overran the Indianapolis corner and became stuck in the gravel, losing two laps as it was extracted but remaining in second place in LMGTE Am.^[50]

The No. 9 Audi began to fall off the race pace after multiple visits to the garage for repairs to its hybrid system,^[51] but the No. 7 Audi kept fighting as Lotterer reset the fastest lap of the race with a 3:17.476 time.^[52] KCMG had an anxious moment when Nicolas Lapierre missed the Indianapolis corner, but recovered without losing the class lead.^[51] The No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari slowed on course and came to the garage with gearbox issues, handing the LMGTE Pro lead back to Corvette and allowing the No. 71 AF Corse Ferrari to climb to second place after recovering from its earlier issues.^[53] Jann Mardenborough's Nissan came to a halt at the Porsche Curves after smoke bellowed out of the front of the car as the gearbox failed, leaving Nissan with a single car left circulating.^[54] Light rain began to fall on portions of the circuit in the final hour, but it was not heavy enough to affect the race.^[53] Paul Dalla Lana, having led the previous 125 laps in LMGTE Am^[55] and within forty five minutes of the race finish, went straight on at the Ford Chicane and crashed heavily into an outside tyre barrier, ending the car's run and promoting the SMP Ferrari to the class lead which it held to the finish. Dalla Lana was unhurt.^[56]

Unhindered in the final hours of the race, Nico Hülkenberg took the chequered flag for the No. 19 Porsche, a lap ahead of Hartley's No. 17 Porsche. Audi, in only their third defeat at Le Mans since 2000, were a further lap behind in third place with the No. 7 car. Toyota, unable to match the pace of Audi and Porsche, were twelve laps behind for a seventh-place finish, while debutants Nissan successfully finished the race with one of their cars, although it failed to complete enough laps for classification.^[57] Hülkenberg became the first active Formula One driver to win the event since Johnny Herbert and Bertrand Gachot achieved the feat in 1991 and was the first rookie since Laurent Aïello in 1998 to clinch overall victory.^[58] It was also Porsche's seventeenth overall victory in the 24 hour race.^[58] KCMG, unchallenged since the early hours of the race, were victorious in the LMP2 class, while Jota Sport was able to take second place from G-Drive Racing in the final hours.^[56] Corvette Racing held their five lap lead in LMGTE Pro, earning Oliver Gavin his fifth class victory,^[59] while AF Corse completed the class podium with the No. 71 ahead of No. 51. Following the loss of the No. 98 Aston Martin in the final hour, actor Patrick Dempsey's team moved into second place behind the winning SMP Ferrari, while Scuderia Corsa, in their first appearance at Le Mans, finished third.^[59]

Race result

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of the overall winning car's race distance) was 276 laps. Class winners are denoted in bold.^[60]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps
					Engine
1	LMP1	19	Porsche Team	Earl Bamber Nick Tandy Nico Hülkenberg	Porsche 919 Hybrid	M	395
					Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4
2	LMP1	17	Porsche Team	Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley Mark Webber	Porsche 919 Hybrid	M	394
					Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4
3	LMP1	7	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Marcel Fässler Benoît Tréluyer	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	M	393
					Audi 4.0 L Turbo Diesel V6
4	LMP1	8	Audi Sport Team Joest	Loïc Duval Lucas di Grassi Oliver Jarvis	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	M	392
					Audi 4.0 L Turbo Diesel V6
5	LMP1	18	Porsche Team	Marc Lieb Romain Dumas Neel Jani	Porsche 919 Hybrid	M	391
					Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4
6	LMP1	2	Toyota Racing	Alexander Wurz Stéphane Sarrazin Mike Conway	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	M	387
					Toyota 3.7 L V8
7	LMP1	9	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marco Bonanomi Filipe Albuquerque René Rast	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	M	387
					Audi 4.0 L Turbo Diesel V6
8	LMP1	1	Toyota Racing	Anthony Davidson Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	M	386
					Toyota 3.7 L V8
9	LMP2	47	KCMG	Matthew Howson Richard Bradley Nicolas Lapierre	Oreca 05	D	358
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
10	LMP2	38	Jota Sport	Simon Dolan Oliver Turvey Mitch Evans	Gibson 015S	D	358
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
11	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	Roman Rusinov Julien Canal Sam Bird	Ligier JS P2	D	358
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
12	LMP2	28	G-Drive Racing	Gustavo Yacamán Ricardo González Pipo Derani	Ligier JS P2	D	354
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
13	LMP2	48	Murphy Prototypes	Nathanaël Berthon Karun Chandhok Mark Patterson	Oreca 03R	D	347
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
14	LMP2	27	SMP Racing	Maurizio Mediani David Markozov Nicolas Minassian	BR Engineering BR01	M	340
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
15	LMP2	31	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ed Brown Johannes van Overbeek Jon Fogarty	Ligier JS P2	D	339
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
16	LMP2	45	Ibañez Racing	José Ibañez Pierre Perret Ivan Bellarosa	Oreca 03R	D	337
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
17	LMGTE Pro	64	Corvette Racing-GM	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Jordan Taylor	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	M	337
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
18	LMP1	13	Rebellion Racing	Alexandre Imperatori Dominik Kraihamer Daniel Abt	Rebellion R-One	M	336
					AER P60 2.4 L Turbo V6
19	LMP2	29	Pegasus Racing	Léo Roussel Ho-Pin Tung David Cheng	Morgan LMP2	M	334
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
20	LMGTE Am	72	SMP Racing	Viktor Shaitar Aleksey Basov Andrea Bertolini	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	332
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
21	LMGTE Pro	71	AF Corse	Davide Rigon James Calado Olivier Beretta	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	332
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
22	LMGTE Am	77	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Patrick Dempsey Patrick Long Marco Seefried	Porsche 911 RSR	M	331
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
23	LMP1	12	Rebellion Racing	Nicolas Prost Nick Heidfeld Mathias Beche	Rebellion R-One	M	330
					AER P60 2.4 L Turbo V6
24	LMGTE Am	62	Scuderia Corsa	Bill Sweedler Townsend Bell Jeff Segal	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	330
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
25	LMGTE Pro	51	AF Corse	Gianmaria Bruni Giancarlo Fisichella Toni Vilander	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	330
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
26	LMGTE Am	83	AF Corse	François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Rui Águas	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	330
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
27	LMGTE Pro	95	Aston Martin Racing	Christoffer Nygaard Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE	M	330
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
28	LMP2	30	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel David Heinemeier Hansson	Ligier JS P2	D	329
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
29	LMP2	35	OAK Racing	Jacques Nicolet Jean-Marc Merlin Erik Maris	Ligier JS P2	D	328
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
30	LMGTE Pro	91	Porsche Team Manthey	Richard Lietz Michael Christensen Jörg Bergmeister	Porsche 911 RSR	M	327
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
31	LMGTE Am	61	AF Corse	Peter Ashley Mann Raffaele Giammaria Matteo Cressoni	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	326
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
32	LMP2	40	Krohn Racing	Tracy Krohn Niclas Jönsson João Barbosa	Ligier JS P2	M	323
					Judd HK 3.6 L V8
33	LMP2	37	SMP Racing	Mikhail Aleshin Kirill Ladygin Anton Ladygin	BR Engineering BR01	M	322
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
34	LMGTE Pro	99	Aston Martin Racing V8	Fernando Rees Alex MacDowall Richie Stanaway	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE	M	320
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
35	LMGTE Am	68	Team AAI	Han-Chen Chen Gilles Vannelet Mike Parisy	Porsche 911 RSR	M	320
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
36	LMGTE Am	66	JMW Motorsport	Kuba Giermaziak Michael Avenatti Abdulaziz al Faisal	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	D	320
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
37	LMGTE Am	67	Team AAI	Jun-San Chen Xavier Maassen Alex Kapadia	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	M	316
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
NC[N 4]	LMGTE Am	98	Aston Martin Racing	Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE	M	321
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
NC[N 5]	LMP1	22	Nissan Motorsports	Harry Tincknell Alex Buncombe Michael Krumm	Nissan GT-R LM Nismo	M	242
					Nissan VRX30A 3.0 L Turbo V6
DNF	LMP2	34	OAK Racing	Chris Cumming Kévin Estre Laurens Vanthoor	Ligier JS P2	D	329
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
DNF	LMGTE Am	53	Riley Motorsports-TI Auto	Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Marc Miller	Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R	M	304
					Dodge 8.0 L V10
DNF	LMP2	42	Strakka Racing	Nick Leventis Jonny Kane Danny Watts	Strakka Dome S103	M	264
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMGTE Am	55	AF Corse	Duncan Cameron Alex Mortimer Matt Griffin	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	241
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMP1	23	Nissan Motorsports	Max Chilton Jann Mardenborough Olivier Pla	Nissan GT-R LM Nismo	M	234
					Nissan VRX30A 3.0 L Turbo V6
DNF	LMP2	46	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Pierre Thiriet Ludovic Badey Tristan Gommendy	Oreca 05	D	204
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMGTE Am	96	Aston Martin Racing	Roald Goethe Stuart Hall Francesco Castellacci	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE	M	187
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMP2	43	Team SARD Morand	Pierre Ragues Oliver Webb Zoël Amberg	Morgan LMP2 Evo	D	162
					SARD 3.6 L V8
DNF	LMP1	21	Nissan Motorsports	Tsugio Matsuda Lucas Ordóñez Mark Shulzhitskiy	Nissan GT-R LM Nismo	M	115
					Nissan VRX30A 3.0 L Turbo V6
DNF	LMP2	36	Signatech Alpine	Nelson Panciatici Paul-Loup Chatin Vincent Capillaire	Alpine A450b	D	110
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMGTE Pro	97	Aston Martin Racing	Darren Turner Stefan Mücke Rob Bell	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE	M	110
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMGTE Am	50	Larbre Compétition	Gianluca Roda Paolo Ruberti Kristian Poulsen	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	M	94
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
DNF	LMP2	41	Greaves Motorsport	Gary Hirsch Jon Lancaster Gaëtan Paletou	Gibson 015S	D	71
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
DNF	LMGTE Am	88	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Christian Ried Klaus Bachler Khalid Al Qubaisi	Porsche 911 RSR	M	44
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
DNF	LMGTE Pro	92	Porsche Team Manthey	Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki Wolf Henzler	Porsche 911 RSR	M	14
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
EX[N 6]	LMP1	4	Team ByKolles	Simon Trummer Pierre Kaffer Tiago Monteiro	CLM P1/01	M	260
					AER P60 2.4 L Turbo V6
WD[N 7]	LMGTE Pro	63	Corvette Racing-GM	Jan Magnussen Antonio García Ryan Briscoe	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	M	–
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8

Footnotes

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans.

• Official website