14 ELMS entries at the 24 Hours of Le Mans

In the LMP2 class, 11 cars that are taking part in the ELMS championship will take the start of the 24 Hours of Le Mans on the 18^th of June. Three French teams will race in their home race: the So24!By Lombard Racing Ligier #22, the Thiriet by TDS Racing Oreca 05 #46 and, finally, the Panis Barthez Competition Ligier #23. Former French goalkeeper and world cup winner Fabien Barthez will be at Le Mans to race in the world’s greatest motorsport event for the first time in a Le Mans Prototype with his co-drivers Paul Loup Chatin and Timothé Buret.

After their victory last weekend in Imola, the second round of the ELMS, Thiriet by TDS Racing will be looking to maintain the same level of performance in order to finish on the LMP2 podium in Le Mans with the same driver line up of Pierre Thiriet, Mathias Beche and Ryo Hirakawa.

 The 24 Hours of Le Mans will also be a ‘dream come true’ for Sir Chris Hoy who will race in the Algarve Pro Racing Ligier #25. After two races at Silverstone and Imola, the multiple Olympic champion is now ready to race on the famous track at Le Mans with Michael Munemann and Andrea Pizzitola.  

After a win in Silverstone and a 2^nd position in Imola, the current championship leaders in the #38 G-Drive Racing Gibson 015S will be looking to return to the top step of the podium as they did in the JOTA Sport colours at the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans.  This year’s driver line up is ELMS regulars Simon Dolan and Giedo Van Der Garde, with Jake Dennis standing in for Harry Tincknell who is racing for Ford in the LMGTE Pro class.

After a good start in the ELMS season, German team Pegasus Racing will take the start of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with one of the two female drivers in the this year’s race, Inès Taittinger with Rémy Striebig and Léo Roussel.

For the second year, the American team Krohn Racing will take part to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 class with their Ligier JS P2 and with driver and team owner Tracy Krohn, Nicolas Jönsson and Joao Barbosa, who is replacing Olivier Pla as the French driver will be racing the Ford GT in the LMGTE Pro class.

After a fifth place last year in the Le Mans race the Irish team Murphy Prototype is determined to do the same this year with its Oreca 03R and Ben Keating, Jeroen Bleekemolen and Marc Goosens as the drivers line-up.

Finally, unlucky last year, reigning LMP2 champions Greaves Motorsport will be hoping that this year they will be at the forefront of the class with Daytona 24 and 12 Hours of Sebring race winner Memo Rojas looking to add the Le Mans winner’s trophy to his racing CV.

The LMGTE AM grid will feature three cars from the European Le Mans Series Championship. The Ferrari F458 Italia #55 of AF Corse and the reigning ELMS LMGTE Champions, the all Danish driver line up in the #60 Formula Racing F458 of Johnny Larsen, Mikkel Mac and the second female driver on the grid Christina Nielsen.

The final ELMS entry on the 24 Hours of Le Mans grid is the Beechdean Ice Cream liveried #99 Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage which has also received an entry for the famous race in the “La Sarthe” track and will be driven by regular driver and team owner Andrew Howard who will be joined by  Liam Griffin and Gary Hirsch as Darren Turner and Alex MacDowall will be racing in the LMGTE Pro class for Aston Martin Racing.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans will take part on the 18^th and 19th of June.  CLICK HERE for the entry list of the 24 Hours of le Mans.

The next round of the European Le Mans Series will be held in the Red Bull Ring on the 17^th of July, CLICK HERE for all the information.