• This is the first time that the No. 19 car has won the race. No. 1 is still the most successful number with 12 victories.

• Porsche’s 17th victory, seventeen years after its last win in 1998 (including the TWR-Porsche and Dauer-Porsche wins).

• Corvette is a class winner for the tenth time.

• Nico Hülkenberg wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans at the first time of asking. The last rookie to clinch overall victory was Laurent Aiello (FRA) at the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT1, in 1998.

• The 2015 edition attracted 263,500 spectators to the circuit.

• 2,670,599 fans logged onto www.24h-lemans.com to follow the race

• The www.facebook.com/24heuresdumans page attracted 378,700 views

• 215,350 tweeps followed the race via Twitter.

• André Lotterer in the No.7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro produced the fastest race lap in 3:17.476 on lap 337.

• This is the fourth time that Lotterer has achieved this feat at Le Mans, and the third in succession (2011-2013-2014-2015).

• This is just the second time that the car starting in third place has won the race.

• This is the fourth time that the polesitter has finished fifth.

• The winning Porsche led the race from the ninth hour.

• KCMG, with Nicolas Lapierre (FRA)/Richard Bradley (GBR)/Matthew Howson (GBR) at the wheel of the Oreca 05-Nissan, is the first Chinese team to win the LM P2 class.

• This is the first Le Mans win for the Oreca 05-Nissan (LM P2 class).

• The LM P1 winner covered 395 laps.

• The LM P2 winner covered 358 laps.

• This is Porsche’s 65th Le Mans 24 Hours – a record.

• 32nd win for a closed-cockpit car.

• 52nd win for a mid-engined car.

• 37th win for a turbocharged car.

• 74th win for a petrol-engined car.

• 24th winning car to run on Michelin tyres.