Inter Europol Competition is a Polish motorsports team that competes in endurance racing . The team contests the 24 Hours of Le Mans , European Le Mans Series , Le Mans Cup and IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2024. They formerly competed in FIA World Endurance Championship , Asian Le Mans Series , BOSS GP , V de V Endurance Series and Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup . As a reference to the focus of its owner and sponsor, the bakery goods producer Inter Europol SA , the team is often referred to as Turbo Piekarze (Turbo Bakers).
186-605: The team was founded in 2010 and grew out of a cooperation between Maurycy Kochański's Kochanski Motorsport and Michael Keese Motorsport. Their joint effort competed first in Formula Ford and Formula Three , then in 2009 in the Italian Formula Renault Championship and in 2010 in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup . At the end of the 2010 season, Kochański ran into financial problems. His share in
372-470: A starter motor problem that required the removal of the rear bodywork covering its engine. The team lost 20 minutes in the garage and four laps to fall to seventh in class. Two lengthy pit stops to rectify braking issues on Berthon's No. 3 Rebellion car dropped him to sixth and elevated the LMP2 leading Signatech car of Lapierre to fifth overall. In LMGTE Pro, diverging strategies for AF Corse's No. 51 Ferrari and
558-455: A Formula Ford chassis. As the production Ford Cortina engine evolved to a new 1600cc crossflow unit, so did the Formula Ford regulations. Increasing costs forced them to relax the £1,000 price ceiling on Formula Ford as Blueprinting of the engine was now allowed. Belgium hosted the first race outside England, in 1967. Formula Ford racing quickly spread across Europe and North America, with
744-512: A Formula One car for Frank Williams . Emerson Fittipaldi impressed during the 1970 Formula One Grand Prix season after a short stint in Formula Ford. In 1970, he became the first Formula Ford graduate to win a Formula One Grand Prix. In 1972, he became the first Formula Ford graduate to win the Formula One world championship. In the United States, starting with a 1983 debut race and victory at
930-511: A Ligier JS P320 were not lucky either – not finishing two races, at Aragon and Algarve, was due to car breakdowns. The team's debut season in the Le Mans Cup saw all three crews finish in last places in the overall standings. The best and most consistent performances came from the drivers of the number 15 car, Bryson Morris and Chris Short, while Santiago Concepción Serrano and Ben Stone of the number 13 Ligier failed to finish as many as five out of
1116-545: A United Autosports car, having to make an extra stop due to a door failure, and a 4-minute penalty for a tire allocation infringement) and fifth , allowing Inter Europol Competition to finish its debut season in the World Endurance Championship in 5th place. The other part of Inter Europol Competition racing programme for 2021 was LMP3 class of European Le Mans Series , in which the team took part running two Ligier JS P320 machineries. Prototype number 13, as in
1302-401: A barrier frontward. Maldonado was unhurt but the damage to the car necessitated its retirement. The safety cars were deployed for more than half an hour. Serra was able to retake the lead of LMGTE Pro with a one-minute lead because the three cars ahead of him made pit stops and were required to stop at the exit of the pit lane. After the safety cars were withdrawn, Ben Keating 's Ford ran into
1488-563: A car number 14 not bearing the usual green and yellow livery as a part of a deal with a driver and businessman Andres Latorre. The season started with a four car effort in Asian Le Mans Series. LMP2 car was very quick throughout the whole season, with blistering pace of Nolan Siegel being one of the most important factors. However, two mechanical failures in last minutes of the first and last races, with Siegel respectively in P3 and P1, stripped
1674-506: A car number 22 claimed 5th overall. The team was represented in BOSS GP again by Walter Seding behind the wheel of Dallara GP2/05 . Steding finished fourth overall. The new season saw Inter Europol Competition branching out into new territory of Asian Le Mans Series with Martin Hippe and Jakub Śmiechowski behind the wheel of a number 13 Ligier JS P3 car. The campaign proved to be successful for
1860-439: A driver and team principal. Van der Zande, busy with Cadillac V-Series.R development, has been replaced by a Mexican former Formula 1 driver Esteban Gutiérrez . The ELMS LMP2 car was driven by a Formula 1 test driver Pietro Fittipaldi , returning to endurance racing after a 2-year hiatus David Heinemeier Hansson and a Swiss Fabio Scherer . LMP3 Ligier number 13 saw Charles Crews, Guilherme de Oliveira and Nico Pino behind
2046-599: A fully adjustable aerodynamic package which includes front and rear wings previously never used in the British championship. Another change for the 2013 season was Duratec class cars being ineligible for the championship, leaving only the EcoBoost class. The series also moved back to supporting the BTCC . In the 2015 the championship was renamed MSA Formula . In 2016, it was rebranded as F4 British Championship . Several former drivers of
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#17330845568652232-500: A gearbox failure in the first race proved to be the harbinger of the whole season, during which Aberdein, Andrade and Caldwell scored just one podium in the seven-team field. The drivers showed mostly average pace as well as kept making mistakes.At Aragon they had to withdraw from the race after an unfaulted crash. The team showed from a better side in the LMP3 class, whose season ended in fourth place overall with two second places. The drivers of
2418-456: A gravel trap and sustained heavy rear-end damage in an impact against the barrier at Indianapolis turn. Safety cars were required for the fourth time and caused the lead of multiple classes to grow. Conway increased his lead over Buemi to more than a minute and Van Uitert's G-Drive car was 1 minute, 21 seconds ahead of Thiriet's Signatech entry. The safety cars separated the LMGTE Pro field, leaving
2604-486: A gravel trap at the first Mulsanne Straight chicane, from which he escaped without damage to the car and retained the lead of LMGTE Am. Menezes' No. 3 Rebellion car incurred a three-minute stop-and-go penalty for a procedural error on the team's usage of tyre compounds, promoting Vandoorne's No. 11 SMP car to third overall. Just after Menezes rejoined the race, he spun into a gravel trap in the Porsche Curves and returned to
2790-557: A gravel trap in the Porsche Curves at the same time. Both incidents promoted the activation of a full course yellow flag procedure. Recovery by track marshals allowed both cars to return to the race. Kobayashi and later López extended the lead over their teammates Alonso and then Buemi to 1 minute and 20 seconds. Calado's LMGTE Pro leading No. 51 car made a scheduled pit stop and ceded the class lead to Lietz's No. 91 Porsche as Serra relieved him. Not long after, Maldonado lost control of DragonSpeed's No. 31 car leaving Tetre Rouge corner and hit
2976-495: A mainly amateur, club-racing series attracting serious enthusiasts using the now rejuvenated 1600 Kent engine with which the formula ran from the mid-1960s to mid-1990s, as Ford restarted production of the Kent engine in 2009 for motorsport reasons. Whatever the engine of the Formula Ford car, it has long provided a relatively inexpensive way for drivers to race purpose-built racecars. There are many Formula Ford 1600 series for drivers of
3162-457: A position to hit the barrier by unexpectedly changing his direction after allowing faster cars to pass him and called for such manoeuvres to be reviewed. Vergne said he felt disappointed due to his car's unreliability and noted that made the race interesting. Estre stated his belief that the No. 92 Porsche team could have challenged for the victory in LMGTE Pro had car issues not intervened. The role of
3348-479: A race series. They felt if they called it “Formula Ford" they could get backing from Ford itself. Webb was on the phone the next day to Ford competition manager Henry Taylor , who agreed to provide Clarke and MRS with 54 Cortina GT engines at £50 each (£15 below retail). Webb also approached the Royal Automobile Club 's competition director, to establish rules for this new class. Late in 1967, Ford announced
3534-469: A row at Le Mans since the 2017 race ; Conway and Kobayashi's second and López's first. Orudzhev led the session with a 3 minutes and 16.159 seconds lap for third. Menezes took fourth and Vandoorne fifth. Senna's engine failed and he stopped at Arnage corner after an hour. In LMP2, Oreca cars took the first six positions as Gommendy gave the Graff team pole position with a 3 minutes, 25.073 seconds lap. Loïc Duval
3720-502: A rubber bladder inside a fuel cell expanded by 0.4 L (0.088 imp gal; 0.11 US gal) during the race and the team's refuelling rig was made more efficient by six-tenths of a second. The stewards deemed Fässler responsible for the accident between the No. 64 Corvette and the No. 88 Dempsey-Proton Porsche in the Porsche Curves and issued a fine of €7,000 and six penalty points were added to his race licence. His co-driver, Oliver Gavin , said that Hoshino put Fässler in
3906-427: A second sequence of pit stops. A full course yellow flag was activated 3 hours, 42 minutes in after the left-front tyre was punctured on de Vries' Racing Team Nederland Dallara car. This moved González's No. 31 DragonSpeed vehicle to third in LMP2 which he later lost to King's No. 37 Jackie Chan car at Mulsanne Corner. Job van Uitert's G-Drive entry, which had taken the lead of LMP2 from Lapierre's Signatech car, incurred
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#17330845568654092-449: A significant impact on the race - what Dillmann called “a disgusting lack of due diligence”. Driving the No. 34 Oreca 07, Ghiotto, Gray and Novalak placed seventh overall, scoring a single podium in Mugello. While they presented a similar pace to their sister car, the overall performance of this crew was not so consistent. The LMP3 car, plagued by issues throughout the season, just as #34 scored
4278-434: A single LMP3 car, driven by James Winslow , returning to the team, and Damian Ciosek. They have finished 6th and 2nd during the weekend at Spa-Francorchamps. The team contested the 24 Hours of Le Mans, FIA World Endurance Championship, European Le Mans Series, Asian Le Mans Series and Le Mans Cup in 2023 with respectively two, one, two, four and three entries. Despite having signed contract for 2023, Alex Brundle has departed
4464-414: A single podium in the campaign, which was enough only for 9th, next-to-last, place overall. Second place in championship guaranteed Inter Europol double entry for the 2025 24h Le Mans, with an official invitation handed. Formula Ford Formula Ford , also known as F1600 and Formula F , is an entry-level class of single-seater , open-wheel formula racing . The various championships held across
4650-477: A single practice session with the team before the race. Fittipaldi replaced Clément Novalak the day before the start - due to an injury sustained by the Frenchman. Boulle, Dillmann and Śmiechowski finished the race at Sebring in sixth place. The European part of the season started very well for the team. In Barcelona, Bukhantsov and Koen scored the first podium in the team's short history of Le Mans Cup starts, while
4836-404: A standard 1498cc Ford "Kent" pushrod engine as featured in the recently introduced Cortina GT saloon . The 1500 Cortina, with its reliability and horsepower output fairly close to “F3 proper” proved a resounding success in the school. The earliest experiments with radial tires bore fruit as well: the students of the day did not care that these were not the racing engines or racing tires, just that
5022-470: A ten-second stop-and-go penalty taken at its next pit stop because his co-driver Vergne was observed speeding during the full course yellow flag. Van Uitert recovered the lost time he had lost in the pit lane and retook the lead from the Signatech car, now driven by Pierre Thiriet , into the first Mulsanne Straight chicane. The LMGTE Pro class lead became a multi-car battle between representatives of four of
5208-464: A tendency to self-destruct. All these factors contributed to a steep maintenance and upkeep cost of the schools. In 1963, Geoff Clarke; the owner of Motor Racing Stables, moved his racing school to the Brands Hatch circuit. This brought him in contact with John Webb; managing director of developments at Brands Hatch. At about this time, two of the school's Lotus Formula Junior chassis were fitted with
5394-492: A time of 3 minutes, 28.504 seconds, Ho-Pin Tung improved the fastest time in LMP2, moving Jackie Chan past Maldonado and Nicolas Lapierre 's No. 36 Signatech Alpine car. The No. 63 Corvette continued to lead in LMGTE Pro with a 3 minutes, 54.001 seconds lap from Mike Rockenfeller , three-hundredths of a second faster than Harry Tincknell 's No. 66 Ford and Tommy Milner 's No. 64 Corvette. Toni Vilander 's No. 62 WeatherTech Ferrari
5580-468: A tyre barrier at Indianapolis corner disrupted the session. Buemi was fastest early in the second session with a lap of 3 minutes, 20.068 seconds, which he later improved to a 3 minutes, 19.440 seconds to lead all entries. Conway improved the No. 7 Toyota's best lap for second. The fastest non-hybrid LMP1 entry was André Lotterer 's No. 1 Rebellion in third, followed by Stoffel Vandoorne 's No. 11 SMP BR1 and Nathanaël Berthon 's No. 3 Rebellion cars. With
5766-529: A weight check. The team incurred a €1000 fine and fell from pole position to 14th in LMP2, elevating the IDEC squad to the class pole and the Signatech team to second place. The ACO altered the balance of performance in both of the LMGTE categories. The Aston Martin's turbocharger boost was reduced and its fuel capacity lowered by 2 L (0.44 imp gal; 0.53 US gal) to reduce its performance. Every car bar
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5952-582: Is also a popular choice in the US and Canada. The class provides a venue for Formula Ford 2000 as well as the earlier Formula C (1100 cc pure racing engine) and Formula Super Vee (production-based VW engines) cars. Formula Continental cars employ aerodynamic effects (front and rear wings). In the United States, used Formula Ford racing chassis are also proving to be a popular source of conversion into Formula 1000 cars and their closely related sports car bodied cousins D Sport Racing . Ford Motorsport administers some of
6138-532: Is no overarching point score to declare a series champion. The Australian Formula Ford Series is an Australian motor racing competition for Formula Ford racing cars. It has been held annually since 1970, originally as a national series and from 1993 to 2013 as the Australian Formula Ford Championship. The control engine was changed from the first-generation Kent engine to the third-generation Mazda-sourced Ford Duratec engine in 2006. In 2014
6324-606: Is really hard. When [the mechanical issues] happened to me and Kazuki in '16, it was really hard too. I am really sorry for them. It's motorsport." Alonso likened the No. 7 car's issue to its lost win on the final lap in 2016 and him finishing second in the Formula One World Championship three times, "When you arrive at the last moment and you are unable to finish the job, you feel bad and I feel sad. I feel for my teammates because they are not only teammates but friends as well. They deserve it today." López said that he
6510-453: Is the current incarnation of a pan-European championship for Formula Ford competitors, last held previously in 2001. The 2011 series was aimed at giving drivers experience at European race circuits. Three national Formula Ford championships are involved in the revived championship, these being the British , Benelux and Scandinavian championships. While individual events nominate a winner, there
6696-402: The 2011 season . 2014 marked the beginning of 6-years long team's effort in BOSS GP , which championship was claimed by Jakub Śmiechowski in that year. Śmiechowski also finished as the runner-up in the 2015 season. 2016 marked an important milestone for Inter Europol Competition as the team made its full European Le Mans Series and 2016 V de V Endurance Series entries, taking first steps in
6882-440: The 24 Hours of Le Mans race. Jakub Śmiechowski, Nigel Moore and James Winslow (who replaced Léo Roussel three weeks before the race as the effect of Roussel's back injury), driving a Ligier JS P217 , recorded 45th in the race overall standings and 16th in the LMP2 class standings, after having dealt with a lot of technical issues. In team's last season in BOSS GP the only full-season driver Walter Steding took 9th place in
7068-455: The 4 Hours of Castellet , the team achieved a fifth-place finish in the general LMP3 standings. The team entered the V de V Endurance Series as well, claiming the championship with a car number 22 with Jakub Śmiechowski and Hendrik Still behind the wheel. The best of the car number 33 drivers, Paul Scheuschner, finished eighth. Walter Steding, driving a Dallara GP2/05 for Inter Europol Competition in his first season, claimed 8th position in
7254-480: The 6 Hours of Spa and 8 Hours of Portimão , as well as 4th in the 6 Hours of Monza . The team's third participation in the 24 Hours of Le Mans was the most successful race to date - the team finished 5th in the LMP2 class and 10th overall. Śmiechowski, Brundle and van der Zande, driving a car number 34 avoided major mistakes and bad luck - with the exceptions of a puncture in Brundle's car, an unfaulted collision with
7440-526: The Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Professional (LMGTE Pro) class with James Calado 's, Alessandro Pier Guidi 's and Daniel Serra 's 488 GTE Evo from a Porsche 911 RSR driven by Richard Lietz , Gianmaria Bruni and Frédéric Makowiecki . The Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Amateur (LMGTE Am) category was led for most of the time by Keating Motorsports' Ford GT of Jeroen Bleekemolen , Felipe Fraga and Ben Keating which
7626-631: The Toyota TS050 Hybrid 's unchanged at 80 kg/h (180 lb/h). The Toyota's minimum weight was set at 888 kg (1,958 lb), the turbocharged non-hybrid LMP1 vehicles at 833 kg (1,836 lb) and the non-turbocharged privateer LMP1 cars at 816 kg (1,799 lb). For the LMGTE Pro class, the Porsche 911 RSR and BMW M8 GTE had respective ballast increases of 2 kg (4.4 lb) and 9 kg (20 lb) and less turbocharger boost curve for lower performance. The Ford GT 's weight
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7812-404: The W Series , prior to the series folding. Formula Ford is not a one-make championship. It allows freedom of chassis design, engine build and numerous technical items of specification on the car. This opens the door to many chassis manufacturers, large and small. Many other single-seater formula series impose fixed specifications. Only two other professional single-seater racing formula series in
7998-523: The shortened European Le Mans Series season as well, with one entry in LMP2 and LMP3 classes. LMP2 34 car, the only Ligier on the grid, saw a major lineup overhaul with Rene Binder and Matevos Isaakyan joining Jakub Śmiechowski for the ELMS and Le Mans effort. For its LMP3 bid, the team retained the duo of Martin Hippe and Nigel Moore. The LMP2 crew finished the season 12th overall, while Hippe, Moore and Dino Lunardi, who replaced Moore for last two races of
8184-410: The 1970s to use a Pinto engine and, although it used basically Formula Ford chassis, permitted use of slicks and wings; it was seen as a natural step up from the 1600cc formula and a stepping stone to categories such as Formula Three . Formula Ford 2000 engines and transmissions were married to sports-racing chassis to produce Sports 2000 . Older Formula Fords, with outboard shock absorbers, race in
8370-533: The 1983 SCCA Runoffs the Swift DB-1 became the dominant chassis in North America Formula Ford racing with ten championships between 1983 and 1996. The DB-6 evolution of the chassis won an additional six championships through 2008. During this time Formula Ford was on the decline in the US for several reasons. The rising cost of competition, SCCA's introduction of a spec sports racer, Sports Renault, and
8556-731: The 2010 season. It is sanctioned by the United States Auto Club , and is a part of Road to Indy . The F1600 Championship Series was created by the SCCA in 2011. The series is organized by Formula Race Promotions, the same organization which organizes the F2000 Championship Series . The class operates under the same rules as the SCCA Formula F, with both the Ford Kent and Honda L15A7 engines permitted. Therefore, many drivers from
8742-494: The 2018 and 2019 seasons, recorded better results than its sister crew, scoring three podiums in total, including one win - thanks to the efforts of German Martin Hippe, who has been driving for the team since the 2016 season, young Belgian Ugo de Wilde and their changing partners. This was enough to finish fourth overall, the weakest result since the 2018 season - primarily due to crashes and car's failures at Le Castellet and Spa-Francorchamps . Crew number 14 recorded results in
8928-721: The 2019 edition. Automatic entry invitations were earned by teams that won their class in the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans. Teams who won championships in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), Asian Le Mans Series (ALMS), and the Michelin Le Mans Cup (MLMC) were also invited. The second-place finisher in the 2018 ELMS LMGTE championship also earned an automatic invitation. The ACO chose two IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA) teams to be automatic entries regardless of their performance or category. As invitations were granted to teams, they were allowed to change their cars from
9114-599: The ACO announced the initial list of automatic entries. Driver Misha Goikhberg , who was invited to the race by winning the Jim Trueman Award for being "the top-placed gentleman driver" in IMSA 's Daytona Prototype International category, transferred his automatic entry to WeatherTech Racing per an agreement. For the 2019 event, the list of race entries was revealed in two stages: the first 42 cars were announced on 11 February with
9300-860: The Alexis car and a deal was struck to jointly produce the Russell-Alexis. This car had a Hewland racing gearbox which made the car more expensive (£999), but was more reliable and allowed interchangeable ratios. The first standalone Formula Ford race took place at Brands Hatch on July 2, 1967. Of the 20 cars that competed, 10 were MRS Lotus 51s, including the eventual winner, Ray Allen. The Russell-Alexis car won its debut race in August 1967, and by 1968 54 Russell-Alexis had been sold. Based on this success Russell opened two more racing schools in Britain, another in Canada, and another in
9486-632: The Australian-built Spectrum , but smaller manufacturers such as Ray Race Cars and Vector have had some success. Historical designers who have made a mark on the series have included: Titan, Lotus , Merlyn, Hawke, Citation, Swift , Euroswift, Elden , Reynard , Crosslé , Lola , Zink, Bowin , Royale, and Cooper Racing . Top speeds in the National Class are easily as high as in the other junior formulae of BMW and Renault , but cornering speeds tend to be lower as Formula Ford cars lack
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#17330845568659672-525: The British championship have become successful in Formula One, including Eddie Irvine and Anthony Davidson , while Formula Ford champions Ayrton Senna and Jenson Button also went on to win the Formula One Drivers' Championship . For many years the highlight of the Formula Ford season was the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch , England. Entries of several hundred cars from all over
9858-659: The Chevrolet Corvette received a weight decrease of 5 kg (11 lb). In LMGTE Am Porsche had 10 kg (22 lb) of ballast added to their cars and the same amount removed from the Fords. The Ferrari and Aston Martin LMGTE Am cars had no performance changes. Pole positions in each class are denoted in bold . The fastest time set by each entry is denoted with a gray background. A 45-minute warm-up session on Saturday morning took place in dry and sunny weather. Kobayashi set
10044-555: The DragonSpeed team in LMP2 with a 3 minutes, 26.804 seconds lap. Lapierre and Albuquerque were second and third in class. With 46 minutes to go, Roberto González spun the DragonSpeed car at the entry to the Ford Chicane. As he restarted the car to return to the pit lane, he and the left-hand side of Conway's unsighted Toyota collided, sending Conway airborne and over González's front bodywork. Both drivers were unhurt as debris littered
10230-406: The ELMS cars finished in the middle of the pack. The results of the crews in the race at Circuit Paul Ricard were completely different. This time it was the drivers, competing in the Le Mans Cup, who finished in the middle of the pack, while in the ELMS both the #88 and #34 cars failed to reach the finish line due to technical problems. Novalak, driving the #34, withdrew from the race 20 minutes before
10416-505: The Formula Ford world were common into the 1990s, with racers competing in knockout heats to decide the grid for a grand final. Entries later declined, and later festivals struggled to attract more than 40-50 cars, enough for two heats and a final. More "historic" FF1600 cars had been turning up for the supporting races than contemporary Zetecs, however in 2006 the Festival saw the Duratec engine for
10602-586: The GTE World Drivers' Championship. The Keating Ford of Bleekemoen, Felipe Fraga and Ben Keating led for 273 consecutive laps in LMGTE Am to finish first in the category. Project 1's Bergmeister, Patrick Lindsey and Egidio Perfetti followed 44 seconds later to finish second in class and win the Endurance Trophy for LMGTE Am Drivers and Teams. JMW's Ferrari completed the class podium in third. There were eleven outright lead changes amongst two cars during
10788-494: The Graff of Tristan Gommendy and Nyck de Vries ' Racing Team Nederland Dallara P217 cars. Billy Johnson 's No. 66 Ford led LMGTE Pro for most of the session until Antonio García 's No. 63 Corvette overtook him. Francesco Castellacci 's Spirit of Race Ferrari was the fastest car in LMGTE Am from Jeff Segal's JMW Motorsport Ferrari. Mechanical issues on Jordan King 's No. 37 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca and Marco Sørensen 's No. 95 Aston Martin and Paul-Loup Chatin 's crash into
10974-496: The LMGTE Pro lead during the ninth hour. Wei Lu lost control of the No. 84 JMW Ferrari at the second Mulsanne Straight chicane but continued without losing second position in LMGTE Am. During hour ten, Lynn damaged the No. 97 Aston Martin's spoiler in the Porsche Curves and a local slow zone was employed to check for damage to the barriers. Lynn returned to the pit lane and the car rejoined the race after half an hour of repairs. Not long after, Sørensen's No. 95 Aston Martin spun across
11160-499: The LMP1 ( Le Mans Prototype 1), LMP2 (Le Mans Prototype 2), LMGTE Pro and LMGTE Am (Le Mans Grand Touring Amateur) categories from 20 December 2018 to 30 January 2019. The automotive group initially planned to accept 60 cars into the race but wishing to not exclude applications of a "high standard" they allowed 62 to race. The ten-panel Selection Committee took steps to ensure that the two additional required pits would be operational in time for
11346-499: The No. 11 SMP car to third and Neel Jani set a lap that put the No. 1 Rebellion car fourth after its best time from the first session was deleted due to an incorrect fuel flow meter. Sarrazin could not improve and SMP's No. 17 car fell to fifth. Early in the session, Laurent's engine failed on the Mulsanne Straight and laid a large amount of oil on the track. The session was stopped for 20 minutes for track marshals to extricate
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#173308455686511532-419: The No. 3 Rebellion car from the side of the exit to Mulsanne corner and dry the oil. Maldonado improved his best lap to 3 minutes, 26.490 seconds to keep the DragonSpeed team ahead in LMP2. Jackie Chan's No. 38 car of Stéphane Richelmi went faster to go second and Lapierre fell to third after his electrical system was repaired. In LMGTE Pro, Christensen's lap of 3 minutes, 49.388 in the final ten minutes moved
11718-419: The No. 51 Ferrari and the No. 92 Porsche one minute ahead of the No. 93 Porsche, which passed the No. 63 Corvette for third in class. Orudzhev's third-placed SMP BR1 lost control on the exit to the Porsche Curves and crashed rearward into an outside tyre barrier at high speed. He was unhurt; the accident necessitated the car's retirement and a fifth safety car period. During the slow period, Conway relinquished
11904-417: The No. 63 Corvette created a difference of around five laps between both cars and changed the category lead several times. De Vries' Racing Team Nederland Dallara car had a straightline crash against a barrier on the entry to Indianapolis corner due to a possible broken right-front suspension arm. It damaged the car's front bodywork and de Vries required repairs in the garage. The safety cars were deployed for
12090-425: The No. 7 Toyota and a faster pit stop than Buemi returned him to the overall lead. Henning Enqvist went wide at Indianapolis corner and crashed the No. 49 ARC Bratislava Ligier car against a tyre barrier. The car was extricated from a gravel trap by a crane before he crashed for a second time, against an outside barrier entering the Porsche Curves. The damage to the car's front-right bodywork forced its retirement and
12276-488: The No. 7 Toyota's lead over Alonso to more than a minute due to minor underbody damage to the No. 8 car. The two lead Porsche cars in LMGTE Pro drew to near half a minute behind Pier Guidi's Ferrari. In the early morning, some LMGTE cars took the opportunity to change brake discs to ensure that they completed the race. Michael Wainwright crashed the No. 86 Gulf Porsche against a wall at Indianapolis corner and Sergio Pianezzola's No. 60 Kessel Racing Ferrari got beached in
12462-486: The No. 7 car. SMP, unable to equal Toyota's pace, were six laps behind in third position with its No. 11 car. The Rebellion team were fourth and fifth with the No. 1 and No. 3 entries. It was Alonso, Buemi, Nakajima and Toyota's second successive Le Mans win. The trio won the LMP Drivers' Championship; it was Buemi's second endurance championship since 2014 , Alonso's third motor racing world championship and Nakajima became
12648-404: The No. 86 Gulf car to third in class. Lamy's No. 98 Aston Martin's got beached in a Mulsanne Straight chicane gravel trap and stopped the session for 25 minutes as it was extricated. Following qualifying, the stewards deleted all of the Graff team's fastest lap times from the third session after driver Vincent Capillaire failed to stop at the scrutineering stand at the entry to the pit lane for
12834-471: The No. 92 Porsche to the class lead. García moved the No. 63 Corvette to second as Ticknell fell to third. Cairoli and Bergmeister retained the first two positions in LMGTE Am as Fisichella moved the Spirit of Racing team to third place. As temperatures cooled in the final session, over half of the field improved their fastest laps, but Kobayashi's pole position lap went unchallenged. It was Toyota's third pole in
13020-440: The Porsche Curves. Fässler veered into an outside concrete barrier and his car was retired due to heavy damage. Hoshino brought his car into the garage for repairs to its front but it was later retired for safety reasons. Fässler was unhurt and FIA personnel performed a precautionary CT scan on him at the circuit's medical centre. The safety cars were required once again as track marshals worked for 16 minutes to clear debris. As
13206-532: The Pro-am subclass). The crew of the second car ended its participation in the race during the night after Magnussen's accident. Śmiechowski, Scherer and Costa showed excellent pace, which second-place finisher Robert Kubica described as "in a league of its own" and avoided mistakes other than Costa's minor exit in a gravel trap in the Mulsanne's corner in the final hours of the race and a safety car infringement, for which
13392-476: The Racing Team India Eurasia car and problems with the refuelling machine. The team's drivers expressed their great satisfaction with the weekend at Circuit de la Sarthe , describing it as "an amazing result for such a small team" and claiming that "this brilliant team have a huge future." The team finished the two WEC season-ending races at Bahrain in ninth (after incidents such as a collision with
13578-760: The Rebellion duo of Neel Jani and André Lotterer in fifth. Porsche's Michael Christensen and Kévin Estre finished tenth in LMGTE Pro to claim the GTE Drivers' Championship with 155 points. LMGTE Pro class race winners Calado and Pier Guidi passed Bruni and Lietz to end the season in second place. The dates for the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans were confirmed at a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in its headquarters in Geneva , Switzerland on 19 June 2017. It
13764-584: The United States as Club Formula Fords in SCCA and other club racing series. Formula F100 was an unsuccessful attempt in the late 1960s to create a sportscar category related to Formula Ford but using a 1300 cc Ford engine; the cars were heavy and slow. The proposed Formula Turbo Ford , an attempt to update FF2000, of the mid-1980s was limited to one Reynard that ran a few demonstration laps. Formula Ford remains popular in its 1600 cc form—the cars are widely raced , sprinted and hillclimbed. Formula Continental
13950-507: The United States. Chapman and his Lotus 51 did recover, replacing the troublesome Renault gearbox with the Hewland unit, even claiming Russell as a customer in 1968. Also in 1968, Meryln debuted as a Formula Ford constructor, dominating sales for that year. Other new manufactures included Crosslé Car Company , Dulon, Elden Racing Cars , Hawke Racing Cars and Royale Racing Cars, together with existing constructors such as Brabham choosing to build
14136-469: The balance of performance to dictate all LMGTE vehicles have a fuel tank 1 L (0.22 imp gal; 0.26 US gal) larger than in testing. A single, four-hour free practice session on 13 June was available to the teams and saw variable weather throughout as several cars spun. Vandoorne led from the final half-hour before Kobayashi went fastest with a lap of 3 minutes, 18.091 seconds with less than two minutes left of practice. The Rebellion team
14322-425: The car is its compliance with Formula Three safety standards, which involves mandatory crash structures, side-impact panels running the full height and length of the cockpit, an FIA -specified headrest and an extricable safety seat. In addition to the safety enhancements, some mandatory elements of bodywork shape have also been introduced. These will define the shape, size and orientation of the sidepod air intakes and
14508-662: The car to the LMGTE Pro class with Krohn's co-drivers Patrick Long and Niclas Jönsson as a duo. The first of three qualifying sessions to set the race's starting order with the quickest lap times set by each team's fastest driver began late on Wednesday night under clear conditions and on a dry track. Toyota again led early on with a 3 minutes, 17.161 seconds lap from Kobayashi. The fastest two non-hybrid LMP1 vehicles were Egor Orudzhev 's No. 17 SMP and Thomas Laurent 's No. 3 Rebellion car in second and third. Alonso's No. 8 Toyota and Ben Hanley 's No. 10 DragonSpeed car were fourth and fifth. Maldonado took provisional pole position for
14694-522: The car was left to PR1, while the engineers working on it came from both teams. The selection of drivers - including Tom Dillmann and Jakub Śmiechowski - was down to the team from Poland. As part of the team's European programme, the only driver remaining from the 2023 season was Kai Askey, who was joined in the LMP3 class of the ELMS series by Alexander Bukhantsov and Pedro Perino , with the team's car numbered 88. The LMP2 cars were driven by Luca Ghiotto , Clement Novalak and Oliver Gray (number 34), with
14880-518: The cars were equal. At an informal meeting at the December 1966 racing car show day at Olympia, Webb and Clarke were discussing the possibility of building a fleet of identical open wheel race cars based on the success of combining the Ford power plant and road wheels, radial tires, and Formula Junior style chassis. Not only would they make ideal school cars, but would also provide a new entry level formula for
15066-406: The championship standings. A new entry from the team, car number 14, hosted a total of six drivers in six races, resulting in 15th place in the final LMP3 classification. 2018 marked the final run of Inter Europol Competition in the V de V Endurance series . Paul Scheuschner, driving a car number 33, finished 3rd in the general standings, while the pair of Jakub Śmiechowski and Pontus Fredriksson in
15252-462: The championship was downgraded to a national series with Duratec-engined cars and Kent-engined cars both eligible to compete alongside each other. Currently, the winner wins a ticket to a scouting combine for INDYCAR at the end of the calendar year. The USF2000 Championship is an American racing series using the American variation of the Formula Ford formula, Formula Ford 2000, that resumed operation for
15438-452: The close of the hour, García, in Corvette's No. 63 car, took the lead of LMGTE Pro from Nicki Thiim 's No. 95 Aston Martin on the inside before Indianapolis corner, as Lapierre and Fisichella moved to the front of LMP2 and LMGTE Am on pit stop rotation respectively. Senna's No. 1 Rebellion was forced to drive slowly to the pit lane to replace a puncture and the car fell down the race order. In
15624-535: The dominance of the Swift chassis helped to collapse the class in the US. Currently, Formula Ford racing exists in two main forms in Europe: National Series for aspiring 'career' drivers run around the world which have used the 1600 Duratec engine , (which replaced the heavier but not significantly more powerful Zetec engine in 2006), and for 2012 are beginning to adopt the new EcoBoost 1600 turbo engine; and
15810-677: The downforce-producing aerodynamic aids on the other cars; handling is therefore entirely down to mechanical grip, and the lack of wings ensures that cars following another are not aerodynamically disadvantaged, allowing some of the closest racing with plenty of overtaking. Series' rules may permit slick or treaded tires, generally supplied either by Dunlop or Avon . As the rules limit engine modifications, all cars are relatively equal and racing results tend to be close. Formula Fords allow suspension, damping, gearing and braking bias changes, but not aerodynamic options such as winged cars. In 2012, new specifications and regulations were introduced, allowing
15996-493: The driver line-up, technical problems and drivers' mistakes. For the 2022 season the team expanded their programme, which included two LMP2 entries in total - one in the World Endurance Championship and the other in the European Le Mans Series , as well as two LMP3 cars in the ELMS. The WEC project continued with Alex Brundle , who has renewed contract with the team, and Jakub Śmiechowski, who once again acted as
16182-415: The eighth hour when he ran wide into the Mulsanne corner gravel trap. García's No. 63 Corvette took second place in LMGTE Pro with successive passes on Tincknell's No. 67 Ford and Per Guidi's No. 51 Ferrari on the outside at Indianapolis corner. Conway's No. 7 Toyota retook the race lead from Buemi's No. 8 after pit stops. James Calado moved the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari past Christensen's No. 92 Porsche for
16368-426: The eighth time as track marshals took 25 minutes to clear debris. In LMGTE Pro, the safety cars had again separated the field, leaving Calado's No. 51 Ferrari three minutes ahead of Jan Magnussen 's No. 63 Corvette after the latter made a pit stop and had to stop at the exit to the pit lane. After the safety cars were recalled, Magnussen spun and damaged the left-front corner of his car in the Porsche Curves. Repairs in
16554-407: The end while in the lead position, depriving the team of the 1-2 result. However, the race was won by the #43 car, which was in second place until Novalak's breakdown, marking the team's first win in the LMP2 class of the series. In the 92nd edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans , the team came very close to defending last year's victory. Śmiechowski, Lomko and Novalak finished second, 18 seconds behind
16740-455: The endurance racing. The maiden LMP3 campaign in the ELMS with Jakub Śmiechowski and Jens Petersen driving the Ligier JS P3 brought the team 10th place overall. The effort in the V de V was more successful, as Śmiechowski paired with Martin Hippe claimed the championship of the series. Third season of Inter Europol Competition in the BOSS GP and the first one without Jakub Śmiechowski behind
16926-488: The event of an accident were implemented for the first time at Le Mans. The system became the preferred method of slowing the race as opposed to deploying three safety cars and enforcing slow zones. The ACO also permitted drivers to enter the pit lane during safety car conditions and exit it before a second safety car passed by so that they could remain in the same group of vehicles when racing resumed. The ACO Selection Committee received 75 applications for entries between
17112-471: The event. The French tricolour was waved at 15:00 Central European Summer Time ( UTC+02:00 ) by Charlene, Princess of Monaco to start the race, led by the starting pole sitter Conway. Menezes overtook Buemi and Petrov to move into second place on the first lap and held it until Buemi demoted him to third soon after. Conway reset the race track lap record on the fourth lap with a 3 minutes, 17.297 seconds time to lead his teammate Buemi by 15.5 seconds. At
17298-411: The fastest lap late on at 3 minutes, 19.647 seconds with his teammate Buemi in second. Laurent's No. 3 Rebellion was the fastest non-hybrid LMP1 car in third. SMP's two cars of Petrov and Sarrazin were fourth and fifth. Vergne recorded the fastest LMP2 lap at 3 minutes, 28.763 seconds, which was 1.4 seconds faster than Duval. Estre's No. 92 Porsche was the quickest car in LMGTE Pro while Ben Barker helped
17484-423: The final race, which meant Conway, Kobayashi and López could win the LMP Drivers' Championship if they won and Alonso, Buemi and Nakajima finished eighth or lower. With 140 points, Porsche 's Michael Christensen and Kévin Estre led the GTE Drivers' Championship by 36 points over their second-placed teammates Gianmaria Bruni and Richard Lietz . Christensen and Estre needed to finish eighth or better to claim
17670-803: The first Japanese driver to win an FIA-sanctioned world title. Signatech's Lapierre, Negrão and Thiriet was unchallenged for the rest of the race to win in LMP2, earning the team and drivers the LMP2 Championships and Lapierre his fourth class win. The No. 38 Jackie Chan car finished 2 minutes, 22 seconds later in second position and the TDS team were third. On the 70th anniversary of Ferrari's first overall Le Mans victory, AF Corse won in LMGTE Pro, giving Calado and Guidi their first class victories and Serra's second. The car finished 49 seconds ahead of Porsche's No. 91 entry and its No. 93 car took third in class. Porsche's Christensen and Estre finished tenth in class to win
17856-456: The first official Formula Ford race in the United States on March 23, 1969, and was included in the SCCA Runoffs that same year. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, Formula Ford had established itself as a direct path to a seat on a Formula One car, the highest level in open wheel motorsport. Australian Tim Schenken won over two dozen Formula Ford races in 1968, two years later he was driving
18042-401: The first time thereby having a final for all three marques at one meeting for the first time. The Walter Hayes Trophy now recognises the continuing interest in 1600cc 'Kent' Formula Ford and attracted over 150 entries in 2006, including several drivers who more commonly compete in much more senior formulae. The Formula Ford EuroCup, known originally as the "European Formula Ford Championship",
18228-475: The five manufacturers, with the first five positions separated by less than ten seconds. During the fifth hour, Berthon's No. 3 car fell behind the SMP duo of Aleshin and Sergey Sirotkin because of a two-minute pit stop. Further down the field, Daniel Serra's No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari passed Rockenfeller's LMGTE Pro class-leading No. 63 Corvette. Porsche sought to conserve tyre wear and fuel usage rather than challenge for
18414-406: The garage after vehicular assistance. 17 hours and 25 minutes in, Tung's No. 38 Jackie Chan car slowed with a puncture and returned to the pit lane to retain third position in LMP2 from François Perrodo 's No. 28 TDS car. The G-Drive team continued to lead in LMP2 until Rusinov relinquished the position it had held for 171 consecutive laps to the Signatech car, when he could not start the car due to
18600-432: The garage lasted six minutes and he returned to the circuit eighth in LMGTE Pro. The crash elevated the No. 91 and No. 93 Porsche cars of Lietz and Tandy to second and third in class and provided Calado with a 1 1 ⁄ 2 minute lead. Almost 23 hours into the event, the race leading No. 7 Toyota of López slowed on course due to a wiring fault with the antenna on the car's tyre pressure sensor system, which indicated to
18786-566: The general standings. Inter Europol Competition again started the year with Asian Le Mans Series bid, claiming 4th with car 33 and 5th with car 34 in the LMP2 standings. The cars were driven by John Corbett, Nathan Kumar, Mitchell Neilson and Danial Frost , as well as Mathias Beche , Jakub Śmiechowski and James Winslow respectively. The team ran also one full season entry in the LMP3 class with car 13, raced by Martin Hippe and Nigel Moore , who finished 3rd overall, and two part season entries with cars 14 and 18. Inter Europol Competition contested
18972-402: The gravel trap at the exit to the Porsche Curves and hit a tyre barrier. Recovery vehicles extricated the car and Pla drove slowly to the pit lane. Porsches took the first three places in LMGTE Am, with Matteo Cairoli's No. 77 Dempsey-Proton vehicle fastest from Jörg Bergmeister 's No. 56 Project 1 and Julien Andlauer's sister Dempsey-Proton cars. After the session, the No. 7 Toyota's monocoque
19158-553: The hope of learning the craft and also looking the part. However, although there was no shortage of aspiring drivers, these schools had much trouble avoiding bankruptcy. The 1-litre Formula Three engines, the 1.1-litre Coventry Climax FJ and later the "Kent" engine from the Ford Anglia 105E , cost around £3,000 at the time in addition to the Dunlop racing tires which cost £80 a set. Furthermore, these engines were incredibly fragile and had
19344-463: The lead in LMGTE Pro, promoting Laurens Vanthoor 's No. 92 Porsche to the class lead from Serra on pit stop strategy. Felipe Fraga 's No. 85 Keating car overtook Christian Ried's No. 77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche to lead LMGTE Am. Not long after, John Farano crashed the No. 43 RLR MSport car at Tetre Rouge corner and the safety cars were deployed to slow the race. When racing resumed, André Negrão 's Signatech car overtook Roman Rusinov 's G-Drive car into
19530-413: The lead of LMGTE Pro 90 seconds ahead of the No. 93 and No. 91 Porsches of Tandy and Bruni. The No. 4 ByKolles CLM P1/01 car of Tom Dillmann stopped after Arnage corner with a broken gear selection mechanism that necessitated its retirement, requiring a slow zone extending to the exit of the Porsche Curves as the car was extricated by recovery vehicles to behind a trackside wall. Kobayashi increased
19716-423: The lead on several occasions. Eventually the Frenchman brought the car to the finish in second position. The American outings of the team in the second half of the season brought them IMSA LMP2 champions title in the debut year. Victory at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park , podiums at Watkins Glen and Indianapolis and overall consistent performance from Inter Europol by PR1/Mathiasen, with 7th at Road America being
19902-413: The lead that the No. 7 car had held for 191 consecutive laps to Nakajima. Toyota had discussed and decided against invoking team orders to switch the positions of both vehicles. López entered the pit lane for a second time to replace all four tyres. It transpired that the left-rear tyre was the punctured wheel. Nakajima achieved victory for the No. 8 Toyota, completing 385 laps, 16.972 seconds ahead of
20088-417: The lead to his teammate Buemi because he made a pit stop and was required to stop at the exit of the pit lane until the nearest safety car passed by. After the safety cars were withdrawn, Berthon's No. 3 Rebellion vehicle took third overall, while the lead of LMGTE Pro switched from Serra's No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari to Vanthoor's No. 92 Porsche. As the race approached its halfway point, Kobayashi relieved Conway in
20274-473: The local club racing scene make their appearance in the national series. The Southern Formula 1600 Championship was created by Right Turn Promotions and Primus Racing Parts for 2018. The series races on SCCA event weekends, alongside the Southern Formula 2000 Championship. The class operates under the same rules as the SCCA Formula F. Racing at traditional road race tracks in the southern United States,
20460-496: The main entry level class in the mid-2000s; the demise of Formula BMW in Europe after only a few years of operation caused somewhat of a resurgence in support for the Ford grids. In the UK there are many club-level regional series aimed at the amateur enthusiast, as well as championships for older Fords. Since 2009, Ford officials in the United States has begun active production of Kent engines in
20646-412: The marque to be fastest in LMGTE Am. While the session passed without a major incident, a brief full course yellow flag procedure was used to clear debris on the circuit. The weather was dry and sunny before the race; the air temperature was between 14.5 to 21.2 °C (58.1 to 70.2 °F) and the track temperature 18.8 to 25.5 °C (65.8 to 77.9 °F). Approximately 252,500 spectators attended
20832-481: The middle of the ELMS stakes, finishing 6th overall - the best result ever for the #14. A total of nine drivers drove a second Ligier, including a former Italian motorcycle road racer Mattia Pasini and a Pole Mateusz Kaprzyk. Inter Europol Competition began their season with a single LMP3 entry in the Asian Le Mans Series , finishing 7th despite showing a race-winning pace - after a sudden and forced change to
21018-442: The morning session with a lap of 3 minutes, 21.875 seconds from Buemi. His teammate López was second and led until Buemi's lap. Gustavo Menezes ' No. 3 Rebellion R13 car followed in third, with Vitaly Petrov and Stéphane Sarrazin 's SMP Racing BR1 cars fourth and fifth. Filipe Albuquerque 's No. 22 United Autosports Ligier car led in LMP2 with a 3 minutes, 32.245 seconds lap, ahead of Pastor Maldonado 's No. 31 DragonSpeed ,
21204-431: The national Formula Ford championships around the world, and continue to control the technical regulations for all cars globally. The older Kent-engined cars are very popular with club racers, providing the ground for several organizations to run their own series. Many racing schools offer driver training in Formula Ford cars. However, in many countries, Formula BMW and Formula Renault Campus had superseded Formula Ford as
21390-511: The new Formula Ford class to the world. Clarke then set about approaching existing race car constructors to build the first Formula Fords. Both Bruce McLaren and Jack Brabham turned down the idea; Colin Chapman however dusted off the obsolete Lotus 31 Chassis and reinvented it as the Lotus 51 . He agreed to provide the first of two 25 car batches at £850 per car. The only stipulation Chapman had
21576-507: The number 43 Oreca driven by prototype-experienced Sebastián Álvarez , Tom Dillmann and Vladislav Lomko . In the Le Mans Cup, two Ligier JS P320s were fielded - with numbers 34 and 43. Thus, for the first time since the start of the endurance programme, the team has dropped the number 13 from its cars. The team has also received an invitation to compete in the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans, in which it fielded one car, driven by Lomko, Novalak and Śmiechowski. The second requested entry has been put on
21762-479: The older Kent-powered cars. A Formula Ford car is one of the more distinctive-looking open-wheel race cars because it does not have wings to create aerodynamic downforce. In order to reduce cost and allow smaller manufacturers to produce their own design of chassis without prohibitive tooling costs, chassis are steel space frame , unlike the monocoques found in other types of single-seater racing. The more popular marques as of 2012 were Van Diemen , Mygale and
21948-411: The overall classification of the BOSS GP . In 2018 Inter Europol Competition once again entered the LMP3 class of the European Le Mans Series , this time with two Ligier JS P3 cars. 2018 was a breakthrough for a car number 13, as Martin Hippe and Jakub Śmiechowski scored a race win in 4 Hours of Portimão and a third place in 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring – two podiums in total - to finish runners-up in
22134-441: The overall classification. The effort of Martin Hippe pairing up with Nigel Moore , who replaced Jakub Śmiechowski behind the wheel of a car number 13 in the LMP3 class, turned out to be much more fruitful with the team claiming the back-to-back 2nd place overall after a penalty in the last race of the season and rejection of the team's appeal. Car number 14 finished 12th overall. In June Inter Europol Competition made their debut in
22320-621: The overall fastest lap time in the second qualifying session. The race was won by the Toyota trio of Fernando Alonso , Sébastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima after López slowed in the 23rd hour due to a wired tyre pressure sensor system, which incorrectly indicated a puncture on a tyre that was later found not to have any issues. It was Alonso, Buemi, Nakajima and Toyota's second consecutive Le Mans win. The No. 7 Toyota finished almost 17 seconds behind in second position. The No. 11 SMP Racing BR1 of Mikhail Aleshin , Vitaly Petrov and Stoffel Vandoorne
22506-420: The pile, and 4th in the season finale at Portimao, finishing the year in 8th place. In the LMP3 class, Inter Europol Competition recorded its fourth runner-up finish in the past five years. After three wins in a row at Monza, Circuit de Catalunya and Spa-Francorchamps, the championship was lost an hour before the finish of the 4 Hours of Portimao - as a result of a collision between Nico Pino and Mathias Beche and
22692-476: The pit lane. Tracy Krohn had an accident in the sister No. 99 car on the Mulsanne Straight and stopped the session for ¾ of an hour to clear debris and repair a barrier. Krohn was transported to The Centre Hospitalier Du Mans for observation and FIA medical personnel advised him to desist from racing for one week. The No. 99 Dempsey-Proton Porsche was later withdrawn because the team did not wish to elevate
22878-478: The previous year to the next, but not their category. The LMGTE class invitations from the ELMS and ALMS were allowed to choose between the Pro and Am categories. ELMS' 2018 LMP3 (Le Mans Prototype 3) champion was required to field an entry in LMP2 while the 2018–19 ALMS LMP3 champion was permitted to choose between LMP2 or LMGTE Am. The 2018 MLMC GT3 champion was limited to the LMGTE Am category. On 11 February 2019,
23064-763: The race at Le Mans. Inter Europol also entered its cars in the less prestigious series - a Ligier JS P4 in the Ligier European Series and the Ligier JS P320 in the Ultimate Cup . In the IMSA series the team's management decided to partner with the American PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports team, due to lack of familiarity with the specifics of car racing in the USA and logistical issues. The day-to-day running of
23250-415: The race, 10 were put on a reserve list to replace any withdrawn or ungranted invitations. Reserve entries were ordered with the first replacing the first withdrawal from the race, regardless of the class and entry. The Spirit of Race team announced the withdrawal of their Ferrari 488 GTE Evo on 21 March, citing "an unavoidable family commitment" as the reason. Duqueine Engineering's Oreca 07 - Gibson car
23436-455: The race, and other lesser issues. Car number 43 (loaned from the DragonSpeed team, as Oreca due to worldwide supply chain issues wasn't able to deliver the purchased car on time) has been climbing up the ranks up till early morning, when the ignition coil failure forced Heinemeier Hansson to come to the pits for repairs, which eliminated the crew from the podium contention. The second part of
23622-422: The race. The No. 7 Toyota's 339 laps led was the most of any car. The No. 8 Toyota led six times for a total of 46 laps. The top three teams in each of the four classes appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Alonso and Buemi agreed that the No. 7 crew deserved to win the race. Buemi added, "I was really happy to finish second but what happened to them
23808-481: The reserve list. The season was started with two racess in America - the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring . The first race was completed in 4th place, less than 3 tenths of a second off the podium. The team's fourth driver at Daytona, in addition to Dillmann, Śmiechowski and American jewellery company owner Nick Boulle , was Pietro Fittipaldi, returning to the team after a year's break, who had not driven
23994-510: The rest of the field and 10 reserve cars in the LMP2 class and the two LMGTE categories announced on 1 March. The ACO attributed the 2018–19 FIA WEC's format as a reason for the alteration. In addition from the 34 guaranteed entries from the FIA WEC, 15 came from the ELMS, nine from IMSA, five from the ALMS and a solitary one-off Le Mans specific entry. In addition to the 62 entries given invitations for
24180-428: The resulting suspension damage. The damage, originally resulting in a significant pace drop, soon proved to be terminal and eliminated the car from the race 12 minutes before the end of the season. Car No. 14, meanwhile, finished last, 13th overall, mainly as a result of slow runs and numerous mistakes by James Dayson. The last part of the team's 2022 effort was a guest start in the new Prototype Cup Germany series - with
24366-596: The results on the basis of a report from the FIA and ACO technical delegates, who 'after deep analysis' found all cars - including the Polish team's Oreca - in compliance with their respective regulations. In the second part of the WEC season, the team finished in the middle of the pack three times, including sixth place in the season finale in Bahrain (despite two electronics failures that stripped
24552-583: The roll-hoop cover. By mandating these the frontal areas will be equalised between different manufacturers, removing the potential for significant aerodynamic advantage, making driving ability and the skills of engineers and designers in car set-up the major factors. In the United States Formula Ford continues to use the earlier Ford Kent engines. For 2010 the Honda L15A7 engine used in the Honda Fit
24738-666: The safety car periods were correctly deployed for safety reasons. The Corvette Racing team manager, Ben Johnson, said he was unsure why some safety car periods were deployed in lieu of full course yellow flags to slow the race and called for clarity on when to use the procedure. Alonso, Buemi and Nakajima took the LMP Drivers' Championship with 198 points. They were 41 points ahead of their teammates Conway, Kobayashi and López in second position. Laurent and Menezes followed in third place with 114 points, ahead of Aleshin and Petrov in fourth with 94 points and Neel Jani and Lotterer in fifth with 91 points. With 155 points, Estre and Christensen won
24924-488: The safety cars affecting LMGTE Pro received a mixed response. Andy Priaulx of the Ford team stated that the safety cars should have been used to close up the field, "If you've just pitted, which we needed to pit, it just messes it up so much. It just neutralizes the race and then you end up with this huge separation. For the second year in a row, it's kind of taken away the spectacle at the end." Lietz stated his belief that all of
25110-423: The safety cars were recalled, the gap to López and Nakajima had fallen to ten seconds and Bleekemolen had extended the lead over Jeff Segal 's No. 84 JMW Ferrari in LMGTE Am to three minutes. At the start of the seventh hour, Laurent's No. 3 Rebellion overtook Aleshin's No. 11 SMP car on the outside in the Porsche Curves for third. Light rain began to fall soon after, catching out Laurent who spun after braking for
25296-473: The same rules and regulations, with minor variations for local conditions. The British series is the main Formula Ford championship in the world . Created in 1976, the championship has run to all four generations of regulations and specifications. In 2013, the series adopted the Formula Ford EcoBoost 200 specification, which include an increase in the EcoBoost engine's power, along with the addition of
25482-406: The season went more successfully for the team. The WEC season was completed by Brundle, Gutierrez and Śmiechowski in 11th place. The team showed itself from a particularly good side at Monza, taking 4th place there, even holding on to the lead less than an hour before the finish. The ELMS also saw significant progress, with the #43 crew placing 2nd at Spa-Francorchamps after starting from the bottom of
25668-462: The season, but just as in IMSA consistency (7th similarly being worst result) was the deciding factor on the way to second position in overall classification for the informal captain of the #43 car Dillmann, as well as Lomko and Alvarez. The crew finished the final race of the season in Portimao in fourth place, after a 10-second penalty was imposed, correctly served, only to be finally reversed, all having
25854-538: The season, claimed the third consecutive ELMS LMP3 vice champion title for the Inter Europol Competition. The team appeared on the grid of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race for the second time, struggling with technical and regulatory issues, finishing 17th in class and 45th overall. Inter Europol Competition wrapped the 2020 season up with two races of the IMSA SportsCar Championship , in which
26040-444: The second Mulsanne Straight chicane and veered right into a barrier. The impact removed the front bodywork from the No. 3 Rebellion and a small chunk landed on the No. 11 SMP vehicle. The accident led to a third safety car intervention to clear debris, during which repairs to the No. 3 Rebellion car took 3 minutes, 38 seconds, later rejoining in fifth position, behind the SMP entries. After racing resumed, López used slower traffic through
26226-404: The second Mulsanne Straight chicane for the LMP2 lead. Serra duelled Vanthoor and retook the lead of LMGTE Pro into Indianapolis corner. Earl Bamber moved the No. 93 Porsche past Rockenfeller for third in class. Shortly after, the right-rear corner of Marcel Fässler 's No. 64 Corvette and the left-front corner of Satoshi Hoshino's No. 88 Dempsey-Proton Porsche made contact in slower traffic in
26412-403: The second Mulsanne Straight chicane to pass his teammate Nakajima for the overall lead. The lead of LMGTE Pro changed to Estre's No. 92 Porsche from Alessandro Pier Guidi 's No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari after a sequence of pit stops. In LMP2, Vergne used his newer tyres to reclaim the lead of the class from Negrão into Indianapolis corner. López was forced to relinquish the overall lead to Nakajima in
26598-402: The second hour, Conway continued to pull away from his teammate Buemi. Vergne ran in clear air to be less than a second behind Lapierre's LMP2 leading No. 36 Signatech car. Spirit of Race's No. 54 Ferrari, now driven by Thomas Flohr in lieu of Fisichella, relinquished its lead of LMGTE Am to Andlauer's No. 77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche and was behind Jeroen Bleekemolen 's No. 85 Keating Ford after
26784-474: The series attracts drivers from across all forms of club and pro racing. The SCCA National Championship Runoffs is the end-of-year championship race meeting for Sports Car Club of America Club Racing competitors. Divisional champions and other top drivers from the SCCA's 116 regions are invited to participate at the Runoffs. National championships are awarded to the winners of each class. Formula Ford (now Formula F)
26970-471: The seven races of the season. The team's programme for the 2024 season included 24 Hours of Le Mans - with one LMP2 car, European Le Mans Series - with two LMP2s and one LMP3, Le Mans Cup - with two cars in the LMP3 class and the IMSA SportsCar Championship with one entry in the LMP2 class. As a result of the withdrawal of the LMP2 class from the FIA WEC, the team's only start in this series was
27156-460: The sixth deployment of the safety cars until the close of the 12th hour. When racing resumed, the two Toyota cars were less than two seconds from each other and Estre's lead over Serra in LMGTE Pro fell to 2.2 seconds. The No. 92 Porsche subsequently entered the garage for repairs to a defective exhaust system and a change of brakes. Repairs took 20 minutes to complete and Estre resumed in ninth position in LMGTE Pro. Serra's No. 51 Ferrari retook
27342-457: The team from the championship. LMP3 crews finished 7th, 12th and 15th (last) in the general standings. During the next stage of the season, the team continued to demonstrate significant progress in the LMP2 racing. In all three WEC races preceding the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the pace of the 'Bakers' allowed them to fight for top places, resulting in 4th place at Sebring and their first podium in the world championship - 3rd place at Spa. Before Le Mans,
27528-475: The team had to serve a drive-through penalty. Widely recognized was Scherer's drive, who got hit in the leg by a Corvette Racing machinery when exiting the car in the first hour of the race and suffered ligament and heel damage and an incomplete fracture to his mid-left foot with three bones broken. After being cared for by the team's physiotherapists, the Swiss maintained a good pace and spent more than eight hours behind
27714-458: The team of a podium place). The 114 points allowed Śmiechowski, Scherer and Costa to finish the season in second place in the overall world championship standings. This was how the team ended its three-year stint in the WEC, following the removal of the LMP2 class from the series (with the exception of the 24 Hours of Le Mans). The ELMS season was not particularly successful for the IEC. In the LMP2 class,
27900-469: The team that the front-right tyre had a puncture. As it occurred late on the track, he was able to make a pit stop; Toyota switched only one tyre to lessen the time lost in the pit lane. López rejoined the track ahead of Nakajima's No. 8 car. However, the sensors on his car continued to notify Toyota that its front-right tyre was punctured, prompting the team to ask a tyre engineer from Michelin , to check its pressure; no issues were discovered. López yielded
28086-405: The team to second place in the WEC general classification. After the race, the team's rivals, notably the driver of the second-placed car at the finish, Louis Deletraz, accused the team of breaching the technical regulations, citing short refuelling times, low fuel consumption and high acceleration of the car. After a procedure that lasted more than a month, the race organisers officially confirmed
28272-567: The team used the Oreca 07 prototype for the first time. They finished 3rd in LMP2 class and 9th overall in the Petit Le Mans . 12 Hours of Sebring proved to be a more difficult challenge; after Śmiechowski's spin in the 4th hour of the race and subsequent repairs car 51 finished 4th in class and 17th overall. With a single Oreca 07 the team contested the LMP2 class of World Endurance Championship , moving up there from European Le Mans Series. Car 34
28458-431: The team was in 5th place in the WEC overall standings, with a 5 point loss to 3rd place. The team's progress was ultimately confirmed at the victorious 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans . The team again fielded two cars - a regular car competing in the WEC and a car numbered 32, crewed by Jan Magnussen , for whom this was his 24th participation in the classic, Anders Fjordbach and amateur driver Mark Kvamme (the crew started in
28644-519: The team was taken over by Wojciech Śmiechowski, father of its driver Jakub Śmiechowski and owner of the Inter Europol SA bakery. The new team was named Inter Europol Competition after its new owner-sponsor. Inter Europol Competition started as a single-seater team. Inter Europol's drivers competed in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup in the 2010–2016 seasons, with team's drivers' best overall result being 12th by Jakub Śmiechowski in
28830-424: The team's poor performance were the sudden departure of Rafał Pokora - team's technical director, the need to restructure the team and significant turnover among the staff. Both LMP2 cars took part in the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans and crossed the finish line in 13th (number 34) and 14th (number 43) place in class. The WEC car struggled with maximum speed, which was partially resolved by the engine change hours before
29016-410: The team, as did Esteban Gutierrez. In the WEC Śmiechowski was joined by Fabio Scherer, moving up from the ELMS crew, and Albert Costa , former Lamborghini factory driver. ELMS effort, scaled down to two cars, saw 6 new drivers, amongst them former Formula 2 driver Olli Caldwell . The second LMP3 car, having been denied the ELMS entry, has been moved to the brand-new three car Le Mans Cup effort, with
29202-423: The team, which claimed the overall victory and an invitation for the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans race. In the European Le Mans Series the team stepped up to the LMP2 class after purchasing a Ligier JS P217 in addition to fielding two LMP3 Ligier JS P3 cars for the second consecutive year. The LMP2 campaign didn't bring good results and after frequent lineup changes Inter Europol Competition claimed 17th place in
29388-670: The title as Bruni and Lietz needed to win at Le Mans and their teammates to attain a sub-par result. The LMP1 Teams' Championship and the GTE Manufacturers' Championship had already been won by Toyota and Porsche, respectively. Following a two-lap victory for Porsche in the Le Mans Grand Touring Professional (LMGTE Pro) category in 2018 , the ACO revised Le Mans' safety implementation system after team managers raised procedural concerns. Full course yellow flags mandating cars to slow to 80 km/h (50 mph) in
29574-464: The track. Repairs to the Toyota in the garage took 20 minutes to complete. Tincknell's No. 66 Ford led LMGTE Pro with a 3 minutes, 49.530 seconds time after a faster lap from García's No. 64 Corvette was disallowed because he improved it under yellow flag conditions. Nick Tandy 's No. 93 Porsche was 0.028 seconds slower in second and Alex Lynn 's No. 97 Aston Martin was third. The No. 66 Ford had an earlier excursion when driver Olivier Pla spun into
29760-749: The two cars promoted from the reserve list to the race entry. With the subsequent withdrawal of the Ebimotors LMGTE Am car from the reserve entries, five reserves remained on the list: the Eurasia Motorsport, Panis-Barthez Compétition, IDEC Sport, Team Project 1 and TF Sport teams. The FIA Endurance Committee altered the LMP equivalence of technology and the LMGTE balance of performance to try to create parity within each category. All non-hybrid LMP1 cars had their maximum fuel flow increased from 108 kg/h (240 lb/h) to 115 kg/h (250 lb/h) with
29946-490: The use of the new Ford EcoBoost engine along with improvements in chassis design. Unlike its predecessors, that used naturally aspirated engines and manual gearboxes, the EcoBoost car utilises power from a turbocharged engine and a sequential gearbox . The new car has 121 kW (165 PS; 162 hp), with identical engine calibration for every competitor's car. The chassis remains a steel spaceframe construction, with free chassis design open to all manufacturers. New to
30132-534: The wake of the United States rules allowing Honda engines. Ford officials have noted the US-made Kent blocks are based on modern stamping, and shows how well-established the formula has become. Championships for Formula Fords are run in many countries around the world. The major series is the British Formula Ford Championship , however there are many other thriving series. Each run to essentially
30318-489: The wheel brought 8th place for the Dane Jens Renstrup, who drove a Dallara GP2/05 . In their second year in the endurance racing Inter Europol Competition continued their effort in the European Le Mans Series , bringing to the field a single LMP3 car, Ligier JS P3 number 13. Jens Petersen has been replaced by Martin Hippe, who became team's regular ELMS driver in the years to come. After scoring their maiden podium in
30504-451: The wheel of the Oreca 07, despite having to change his braking method and limping on one leg when getting in and out of the car. Scherer also had to deal with a radio malfunction at the end of the race. A big improvement was made by Jakub Śmiechowski, who showed the pace of a quality silver-category driver, and Albert Costa was, as usual, the team's fastest driver. The 24 Hours of Le Mans win lifted
30690-452: The wheel, while Noam Abramczyk, James Dayson and Mateusz Kaprzyk drove the #14. The first part of the season was extremely difficult for the team. In every race Inter Europol Competition was struggling with all kinds of problems - from drivers' mistakes, to technical problems, to the car not complying with the regulations. As a result, after the first two races the team was at the end of WEC and ELMS general classifications. The main reasons for
30876-452: The winners from United Autosports , which included former team driver Nolan Siegel. In the fourth hour of the race, Novalak again found himself in an unfortunate situation, losing his left front wheel and returning to the pits on three wheels, soon coming down for another enforced stop to change the front of the car. In the final hours of the classic, the gaps between the top six of the LMP2 remained very small, with Lomko and Novalak moving into
31062-459: The world form an important step for many prospective Formula One drivers. Formula Ford has traditionally been regarded as the first major stepping stone into formula racing after karting . The series typically sees career-minded drivers enter alongside amateurs and enthusiasts. Success in Formula Ford can lead directly to other junior formula series such as a Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Three , or F1 Academy for female drivers, and previously
31248-482: The world offer the same freedom of chassis and engine build: Formula Three and Formula One . The origins of Formula Ford began in the early 1960s, where motor racing schools such as the Jim Russell school and Motor Racing Stables featured single-seat Formula Junior and Formula Three -like machines from world-class constructors like Cooper and Lotus . Many aspiring Formula One stars looked to these schools in
31434-524: The worst result of the season, not only brought the Polish-American project the champions’ crown, but also an invitation for team’s bronze driver Nick Boulle to 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans – with Boulle intending to choose Inter Europol Competition as his team for the race. The European side of the program went almost just as well for Turbo Bakers. Victory at the Paul Ricard turned out to be the only one of
31620-479: Was Sam Bird 's third-placed No. 71 AF Corse car. Matt Campbell of the Dempsey-Proton team helped Porsche to be fastest in LMGTE Am ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella 's Spirit of Race Ferrari and Pedro Lamy 's No. 98 Aston Martin. Satoshi Hoshino slid through a gravel trap in the Porsche Curves and crashed the No. 88 Dempsey-Proton car against a barrier, which necessitated a full course yellow flag to recover it to
31806-504: Was 0.282 seconds slower in second as Maldonado fell to third. Porsche, and later Ford, led in LMGTE Pro before Sørensen earned the 2018 Aston Martin Vantage its second class pole with a 3 minutes, 48 seconds lap. Tincknell and García were second and third in class, respectively. Cairoli improved the No. 88 Dempsey-Proton Porsche's provisional pole lap in LMGTE Am to a 3 minutes, 51.439 seconds ahead of his teammate Campbell. Thomas Preining moved
31992-448: Was driven by Jakub Śmiechowski, Renger van der Zande and Alex Brundle . Hélio Castroneves was to drive for the team in 1000 Miles of Sebring as a substitute for van der Zande due to Dutchman's IMSA SportsCar Championship commitments, but the race has been cancelled . Louis Delétraz replaced van der Zande in the race at Portimão . In their first races in WEC, the "Turbo Bakers" have steadily improved their results, placing 5th in
32178-488: Was emotional driving to the pit lane to replace the Toyota's supposed puncture and that it was painful. One day after the event, the FIA imposed a penalty of 55.2 seconds on the LMGTE Am winning No. 85 Keating Ford after ACO scrutineers discovered that the car's refuelling pit stops were completed in 44.4 seconds, under the 45-second minimum. The penalty was calculated by multiplying the total advantage gained (0.6 seconds per pit stop, times 23 pit stops made) by four. The car
32364-403: Was fastest in LMGTE Am. Following testing, the ACO again altered the LMP1 equivalence of technology. All normally aspirated cars had a maximum fuel level per stint of 50.8 kg (112 lb) and a limit of 48.4 kg (107 lb) for turbocharged cars. Toyota had a one-lap per stint advantage of fuel load from the 2018 race reinstated with pit stop fuel flow rate changes. The FIA changed
32550-472: Was first included in the Runoffs in 1969. 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans The 87th 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 87 24 Heures du Mans ) was an 24-hour automobile endurance race for Le Mans Prototype and Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance cars entered by teams of three drivers each held from 15 to 16 June 2019 at the Circuit de la Sarthe , close to Le Mans, France before approximately 252,500 people. It
32736-846: Was increased by 12 kg (26 lb) and its turbocharger boost curve altered to raise its top speed. Conversely, the Aston Martin Vantage , the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R , and the Ferrari 488 Evo had 7 kg (15 lb) of ballast removed and the Ferrari's turbocharger boost curve was made more powerful. In LMGTE Am, the Ford was made 13 kg (29 lb) heavier than the Ferrari 488 GTE. The 2017-specification Aston Martin Vantage had 4 kg (8.8 lb) of weight deducted while Porsche had no performance changes. A test day held on 2 June required all race entrants to participate in eight hours of driving divided into two sessions. Toyota led
32922-500: Was introduced as an alternative engine. The Honda engine was developed in partnership with Quicksilver RacEngines with the intent of providing power similar to the existing Kent motor. Honda developed an install kit around the Swift DB-1 chassis. With the introduction of the Honda motor SCCA changed the class name from Formula Ford to Formula F. Formula Ford has given birth to several other categories of racing: Formula Ford 2000 evolved in
33108-458: Was later disqualified because its fuel tank was discovered to be 0.1 L (0.022 imp gal; 0.026 US gal) larger than the LMGTE Am maximum mandated capacity of 96 L (21 imp gal; 25 US gal). Keating Motorsports did not appeal the disqualification. The No. 59 Project 1 Porsche was promoted to the class victory, the No. 84 JMW Ferrari to second and the No. 62 WeatherTech Ferrari to third. Keating stated that
33294-457: Was promoted to the race entry as a result. That same day, Michael Shank Racing withdrew its Algarve Pro Racing-run Oreca 07 car from the reserve list because the team was ninth in that list. On 16 April, on the day that the ACO announced that two additional temporary pit garages would be constructed to raise the number of cars for the event to 62, the No. 32 United Autosports Ligier JS P217 -Gibson and High Class Racing's No. 20 Oreca 07 were
33480-415: Was replaced due to a deep crack discovered during an inspection; Conway and González shared responsibility for the crash and the former incurred a suspended three-minute stop-and-go penalty. Thursday's first qualifying session saw faster lap times in every class. Kobayashi improved provisional pole position to a 3 minutes, 15.497 seconds lap and his teammate Nakajima moved to second. Mikhail Aleshin moved
33666-498: Was that a Renault gearbox was used. This proved to be fundamental weak point in the drive train. Difficulty with the Renault transmission resulted in a failure to continue with the second batch of cars for MRS. Russell approached Chapman to supply Formula Ford cars for his own school. Chapman insisted Russell match Clarke's 50 car order; Russell would only commit to 10 cars so the deal fell through. Russell then approached Taylor who built
33852-542: Was the 87th Le Mans race, the final automobile endurance event of the 2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC), and was the second visit to Le Mans during the season. After winning the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps , Toyota drivers Fernando Alonso , Sébastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima led the LMP Drivers' Championship with 160 points, 31 ahead of their teammates Mike Conway , Kamui Kobayashi and José María López in second. 38 points were available for
34038-531: Was the 87th running of the event, as organised by the automotive group, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) since 1923 . The round was the last race in the 2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship and the second time in the season that the series had visited Le Mans. A test day was held two weeks prior to the race on 2 June. A Toyota TS050 Hybrid shared by Mike Conway , Kamui Kobayashi and José María López started from pole position after Kobayashi set
34224-515: Was the first to finish the race. It was later disqualified for an oversized fuel tank and Project 1 Racing 's Porsche of Jörg Bergmeister , Patrick Lindsey and Egidio Perfetti inherited the class win. The result won Alonso, Buemi and Nakajima the LMP Drivers' Championship by 41 points over Conway, Kobayashi and López. Thomas Laurent and Gustavo Menezes of the Rebellion Racing team finished third ahead of Aleshin and Petrov in fourth and
34410-579: Was the highest-placed non-hybrid LMP1 car in third place. The Signatech Alpine team of Nicolas Lapierre , André Negrão and Pierre Thiriet won the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) category with the Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca 07 car of Ho-Pin Tung , Gabriel Aubry and Stéphane Richelmi second. On the 70th anniversary of Ferrari 's first overall Le Mans victory the AF Corse team won
34596-416: Was third with a lap from Menezes, Alonso was fourth and Bruno Senna 's No. 1 car fifth. Four Oreca vehicles led in LMP2, with Chatin's IDEC entry ahead of Maldonado's No. 31 DragonSpeed and Jean-Éric Vergne 's No. 26 G-Drive cars. Two Porsches led in LMGTE Pro; Christensen's No. 92 911 RSR was fastest with a lap of 3 minutes, 52.149 seconds. Mathieu Jaminet 's No. 94 car was second and the fastest Ferrari
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