On the reserve list of competitors to participate in the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Viper won in 1998, 1999 and 2000 three consecutive class victories at the 24 Hours.

The administrative and technical checks for the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans begin today on Place de la République in Le Mans city centre. Follow the proceedings live on our YouTube channel.

The administrative and technical checks &ndash; more commonly known as Scrutineering &ndash; is much more than a simple formality for the teams involved. They mark the real starting point in the countdown to the race itself and offer fans a unique glimpse into the world of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. If you can&rsquo;t be there, watch our live broadcast to get a close-up view of the checks in every detail and see some of the brand new liveries adopted for the showcase event of the season!

Bruno Vandestick, the official 24 Hours of Le Mans track commentator, will be in the Place with his microphone to capture the drivers&rsquo; first impressions, dig up some clues about each teams&rsquo; objectives and find out more about their preparations before they take to the track for the fourth round of the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship season.

&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/2025-24-hours-of-le-mans-scrutineering-schedule-59592" target="_blank">Check out the full scrutineering schedule</a>&nbsp;&lt;&lt;&lt;

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Day 1 of 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans scrutineering live!

The administrative and technical checks, first major event of the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans, gets underway today in the Le mans city centre. Here is the official schedule.

Get ready, set, go! In keeping with tradition, the 24 Hours kicks off&nbsp;in the heart of Le&nbsp;Mans with the famous administrative&nbsp;and&nbsp;technical checks,&nbsp;also known as Scrutineering. Today and tomorrow, the&nbsp;62 cars entered in the&nbsp;93rd running of the race will take their turns at the place de la R&eacute;publique submitting to the marshals. Each car is inspected&nbsp;down to the tiniest detail to ensure it completely respects&nbsp;the regulations, while drivers&#39; equipment and licences are fully examined.

This event is a tremendous&nbsp;fan favourite every year! Scrutineering&nbsp;is the perfect opportunity to see the cars up close, meet the 186 drivers and be immersed in the magic of the 24 Hours&hellip;all for free!

Today, 39 cars are on the books, with Proton Competition&#39;s #99&nbsp;Porche 963 opening the festivities and Alpine Endurance Team&#39;s #36 Alpine A424 closing out the day. In the interim, the&nbsp;Hypercars entered by&nbsp;BMW, Peugeot, Cadillac and&nbsp;Aston Martin will have made their appearances to&nbsp;massive cheers from the crowd. The Iron&nbsp;Dames &ndash;&nbsp;Rahel Frey, Michelle Gatting and&nbsp;C&eacute;lia Martin &ndash; are expected at&nbsp;13:00. Mercedes-AMG is marking its return to Le&nbsp;Mans with Iron Lynx&#39;s three&nbsp;Mercedes-AMG LMGT3s between&nbsp;14:20 and&nbsp;14:40.

<h4>Scrutineering | Friday 6 June programme</h4>

10:00&nbsp;: Porsche 963 #99 Proton Competition 
10:10&nbsp;: Ford Mustang LMGT3 #77 Proton Competition 
10:20&nbsp;: Ford Mustang LMGT3 #88 Proton Competition 
10:30&nbsp;: ORECA&nbsp;07-Gibson #34 Inter Europol Competition 
10:40&nbsp;: ORECA 07-Gibson #43 Inter Europol Competition 
10:50&nbsp;: Ferrari 296 LMGT3 #150 Richard Mille AF Corse 
11:00&nbsp;: Ferrari 296 LMGT3 #196 Ziggo Sport Tempesta 
11:10&nbsp;: ORECA 07-Gibson #24 Nielsen Racing 
11:20&nbsp;: ORECA 07-Gibson #37 Cool Racing 
11:30&nbsp;: BMW M Hybrid V8 #15 BMW M Team WRT 
11:40&nbsp;: BMW M Hybrid V8 #20 BMW M Team WRT 
11:50&nbsp;: ORECA 07-Gibson #14 AO by TF 
12:00&nbsp;: Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R #13 Awa Racing 
12:10&nbsp;: Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R #33 TF Sport 
12:20&nbsp;: Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R #81 TF Sport 
13:30&nbsp;: Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3 #91 Manthey 
13:40&nbsp;: Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3 #92 Manthey 1ST Phorm 
13:50&nbsp;: Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3 #85 Iron Dames 
14:00&nbsp;: Peugeot 9X8 #93 Peugeot TotalEnergies 
14:10&nbsp;: Peugeot 9X8 #94 Peugeot TotalEnergies 
14:20&nbsp;: Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 #60 Iron Lynx 
14:30&nbsp;: Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 #61 Iron Lynx 
14:40&nbsp;: Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 #63 Iron Lynx 
14:50&nbsp;: Cadillac V-Series.R #12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA 
15:00&nbsp;: Cadillac V-Series.R #38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA 
15:10&nbsp;: Cadillac V-Series.R #101 Cadillac WTR 
15:20&nbsp;: Cadillac V-Series.R #311 Cadillac Whelen 
15:30&nbsp;: ORECA 07-Gibson #29 TDS Racing 
15:40&nbsp;: ORECA 07-Gibson #48 Panis Racing 
15:50&nbsp;: Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3 #10 Racing Spirit Of Leman 
16:00&nbsp;: Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3 #27 Heart Of Racing 
16:10&nbsp;: Aston Martin Valkyrie #007 Aston Martin THOR Team 
16:20&nbsp;: Aston Martin Valkyrie #009 Aston Martin THOR Team 
16:30&nbsp;: McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo #59 United Autosports 
16:40&nbsp;: McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo #95 United Autosports 
16:50&nbsp;: ORECA 07-Gibson #22 United Autosports 
17:00&nbsp;: ORECA 07-Gibson #23 United Autosports 
17:10&nbsp;: Alpine A424 #35 Alpine Endurance Team 
17:20&nbsp;: Alpine A424 #36 Alpine Endurance Team

Follow day 1 of Scrutineering on the official&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@24heuresdumans/streams" target="_blank">24 Hours of Le Mans&nbsp;YouTube channel</a>.

2025 24 Hours of Le Mans Scrutineering – Friday 6 June programme

Alpine, Aston Martin, BMW, Cadillac, Ferrari, Peugeot, Porsche and Toyota will all hit the track to fight for the overall win at the upcoming 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans (11-15 June). Learn more about the Hypercars entered, driver line-ups and team goals in our presentation below.

<h2>What Is a Hypercar?</h2>

Hypercar has served as&nbsp;the head category in endurance racing, including at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and in the FIA Word Endurance Championship (WEC), since&nbsp;2021. Two types of cars are allowed: LMHs (Le Mans Hypercar) and&nbsp;LMDhs (Le Mans Daytona h).&nbsp;

Both Hypercars can compete in the WEC and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (in the&nbsp;24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans and&nbsp;Rolex&nbsp;24 at&nbsp;Daytona alike).&nbsp;

The two types of Hypercar:&nbsp;

<ul>
	<li>LMH: permits&nbsp;a wide variety of architectures and&nbsp;notably authorises the presence of a hybrid system on the front axle 
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	<li>LMDh: the base&nbsp;of the car &ndash;&nbsp;corresponding to the complete car without the thermal engine, bodywork or hybrid system &ndash;&nbsp;is supplied by four chassis manufacturers: Dallara, Multimatic, Ligier and ORECA</li>
</ul>

FIA WEC Hypercar Regulations&nbsp;

<ul>
	<li>Closed body prototype&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Professional driver line-ups&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Hybrid and non-hybrid cars&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Lap time at the 24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans =&nbsp;3:30&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Cost control: budget reduced by&nbsp;80%&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Sole tyre manufacturer: Michelin&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Minimum weight: 1,030 kg&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Balance of Performance: sporting fairness guarantee&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Maximum power:&nbsp;500 kW&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

<h2>ASTON MARTIN THOR TEAM</h2>

#007 &ndash; Aston Martin Valkyrie &ndash; Harry Tincknell / Tom Gamble / Ross Gun 
#009 &ndash; Aston Martin Valkyrie &ndash; Alex Riberas / Marco S&oslash;rensen / Roman De Angelis

Aston Martin is making its first appearance in the Hypercar category this season with two&nbsp;Valkyries. The British&nbsp;constructor is entering the only&nbsp;Hypercar initially designed for the road.&nbsp;The&nbsp;inimitable sound of the Valkyrie&#39;s V12 should make it a&nbsp;crowd favourite at the&nbsp;93rd&nbsp;24 Hours.&nbsp;But facing off against the best marques in the world and immediately rising to the level of contender is&nbsp;no easy feat.&nbsp;The other manufacturers have several years of experience to draw upon while&nbsp;Aston Martin is a category rookie. The team is stepping into&nbsp;a long learning process at the highest level of endurance racing, and as such,&nbsp;seeing both Valkyries cross the finish line would already make for&nbsp;a very satisfying result.&nbsp;Aston Martin Thor Team is currently eighth in the Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers&#39; Championship trophy.

<h2>ALPINE ENDURANCE RACING</h2>

#35 &ndash; Alpine A424 &ndash; Paul-Loup Chatin / Ferdinand Habsburg / Charles Milesi 
#36 &ndash; Alpine A424 &ndash; Mick Schumacher / Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Makowiecki / Jules Gounon

Alpine joined the Hypercar category with the A424 last season. Though 2024 was mainly a year to&nbsp;gain&nbsp;experience, the French marque finished fourth in the Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers&#39; Championship trophy behind Toyota, Porsche and&nbsp;Ferrari. The team has gotten stronger this season with two third place finishes at the 6 Hours of Imola and&nbsp;TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps for the&nbsp;#36.&nbsp;Alpine Endurance Racing is currently fourth in the championship rankings.&nbsp;

<h2>BMW M TEAM WRT</h2>

#15 &ndash; BMW M Hybrid V8 &ndash; Dries Vanthoor / Raffaele Marciello / Kevin Magnussen 
#20 &ndash; BMW M Hybrid V8 &ndash; Ren&eacute; Rast / Robin Frijns / Sheldon van der Linde

BMW M Team WRT definitely impressed last year during its first WEC season in Hypercar. The&nbsp;BMW M Hybrid V8 quickly improved, going from rookie to serious conetender for the top spots. The German&nbsp;constructor feels more confident now and&nbsp;is ready to battle for the&nbsp;podium and write a new chapter in BMW&#39;s endurance racing legacy. The #15 finished fourth at the Qatar&nbsp;1812 km and the&nbsp;#20 reached the second step on the podium at the 6 Hours of Imola. BMW M TEAM WRT figures in third place in the Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers&#39; Championship trophy.

<h2>CADILLAC HERTZ TEAM JOTA</h2>

#12 &ndash; Cadillac V-Series.R &ndash; Will Stevens / Norman Nato / Alex Lynn 
#38 &ndash; Cadillac V-Series.R &ndash; Earl Bamber / S&eacute;bastien Bourdais / Jenson Button

Cadillac&#39;s&nbsp;2024 season turned out as&nbsp;a mixed bag of highs and lows. The team opted to overhaul its&nbsp;strategy&nbsp;for 2025 through&nbsp;a technical partnership with Hertz Team JOTA and the commitment of two V-Series.Rs.&nbsp;The road to victory is always peppered&nbsp;with challenges, but Cadillac now seems better equipped to go all the way. The team&nbsp;finished fifth and sixth overall at the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of&nbsp;Spa-Francorchampsclass&eacute;es, its best result since the beginning of the season. Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA is fifth in the Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers&#39; Championship trophy.&nbsp;

<h2>CADILLAC WTR&nbsp;</h2>

#101 &ndash; Cadillac V-Series.R &ndash; Ricky Taylor / Jordan Taylor / Filipe Albuquerque

Wayne Taylor Racing is gearing up for a new challenge after receiving an invitation to take the start in the 24 Hours with its&nbsp;Cadillac V-Series.R. This long-awaited&nbsp;dream is finally coming true for Wayne Taylor who has participated in the race a staggering 13 times (three with&nbsp;Cadillac between&nbsp;2000 and&nbsp;2002). And the cherry on top: his sons Ricky and Jordan are joining their dad on the adventure, teaming up with Filipe Albuquerque.&nbsp;

<h2>CADILLAC WHELEN</h2>

#311 &ndash; Cadillac V-Series.R &ndash; Jack Aitken / Felipe Drugovich / Frederik Vesti

This American team has secured an invitation to Le Mans for the past three years in a row and is a major contender in the&nbsp;IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. In 2024, the team finished 28th in the championship classification, certainly not an accurate reflection of&nbsp;its true potential.

<h2>FERRARI AF CORSE</h2>

#50 &ndash; Ferrari 499P &ndash; Antonio Fuoco / Nicklas Nielsen / Miguel Molina 
#51 &ndash; Ferrari 499P &ndash; Alessandro Pier Guidi / James Calado / Antonio Giovinazzi

The highlights of AF Corse&#39;s&nbsp;2024&nbsp;WEC season were winning Le Mans&nbsp;and finishing third in the Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers&#39; Championship trophy. Thanks to a finessed&nbsp;499P and experience gained by the team over the last two years, Ferrari AF Corse seems ready to clinch its&nbsp;third consecutive victory in the 24 Hours. The Italian&nbsp;marque has dominated this season with wins at the Qatar&nbsp;1812 km, 6 Hours of Imola and&nbsp;TotalEnergies 6 Hours of&nbsp;Spa-Francorchamps. The outfit tops the rankings in the 2025&nbsp;Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers&#39; Championship trophy.

<h2>AF CORSE</h2>

#83 &ndash; Ferrari 499P &ndash; Robert Kubica / Yifei Ye / Philip Hanson

AF Corse competes in the FIA World Cup for Hypercar Teams. Last year, it&nbsp;won Lone Star Le Mans at the circuit in Austin,&nbsp;Texas, giving&nbsp;Ferrari its very first victory in the WEC outside of the&nbsp;24 Hours. Though entered by a private team, the&nbsp;499P is fully capable of reaching the top step on the overall podium at Le Mans. AF Corse finished second at the Qatar&nbsp;1812 km,&nbsp;fourth at the&nbsp;6 Hours of Imola and figures first in the FIA World Cup for Hypercar Teams.

<h2>PEUGEOT TOTAL ENERGIES</h2>

#93 &ndash; Peugeot 9X8 &ndash; Paul di Resta / Mikkel Jensen / Jean-Eric Vergne 
#94 &ndash; Peugeot 9X8 &ndash; Lo&iuml;c Duval / Malthe Jakobsen / Stoffel Vandoorne

In the wake of an improved&nbsp;2024 season with a podium near the end, Team Peugeot TotalEnergies is determined to succeed&nbsp;this year. Could the&nbsp;Peugeot 9X8, fine-tuned across the races, achieve a podium finish at the&nbsp;24 Hours?&nbsp;The engineers and drivers are looking&nbsp;to give the top&nbsp;teams a run for their money. The best result secured by a&nbsp;9X8 this year is ninth place at the Qatar 1812 km and 6 Hours of Imola for the&nbsp;#93. Peugeot TotalEnergies is seventh in the Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers&#39; Championship trophy.

<h2>PORSCHE PENSKE MOTORSPORT</h2>

#4 &ndash; Porsche 963 &ndash; Felipe Nasr / Nick Tandy / Pascal Wehrlein 
#5 &ndash; Porsche 963 &ndash; Julien Andlauer / Michael Christensen / Mathieu Jaminet 
#6 &ndash; Porsche 963 &ndash; K&eacute;vin Estre / Laurens Vanthoor / Matt Campbell

With two decisive wins and remarkable reliability, Porsche showed significant progress in&nbsp;2024 while facing some major challenges. On the back of its win at the Rolex 24 at Daytona and 12 Hours of&nbsp;Sebring, the German constructor is a favourite heading into the 93rd 24 Hours to clinch its&nbsp;20th victory at Le Mans.&nbsp;Porsche Penske Motorsport figures sixth in the Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers&#39; Championship trophy.

<h2>PROTON COMPETITION</h2>

#99 &ndash; Porsche 963 &ndash; Neel Jani / Nicolas Pino / Nicolas Varrone

Proton Competition is the only team to field a private Porsche 963 in the&nbsp;WEC this year. Neel Jani (2016 24 Hours winner with Porsche) should be able to place the car in the top 10 overall. This German outfit, like AF Corse, competes in the FIA World Cup for Hypercar Teams, currently figuring second in the rankings.

<h2>TOTOTA GAZOO RACING</h2>

#7 &ndash; Toyota GR010 Hybrid &ndash; Mike Conway / Kamui Kobayashi / Nyck de Vries 
#8 &ndash; Toyota GR010 Hybrid &ndash; S&eacute;bastien Buemi / Brendon Hartley / Ryo Hirakawa

With&nbsp;five wins in a row at the 24 Hours between&nbsp;2018 and&nbsp;2022, TOYOTA GAZOO&nbsp;Racing is determined to add a sixth.&nbsp;Aware that luck can play a role, the Japanese constructors prefers to focus on&nbsp;hard work to give itself every chance of triumphing.&nbsp;Toyota is building on the mindset that saw it clinch the manufacturers&#39; title at the 8 Hours of Bahrain&nbsp;and is approaching&nbsp;the 2025 Le Mans classic with the same fighting spirit. The&nbsp;#7 has been given&nbsp;a livery in honour of&nbsp;the&nbsp;1998 TS020 (a.k.a. the&nbsp;GT-One).&nbsp;TOYOTA GAZOO Racing is second in the Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers&#39; Championship trophy.

2025 24 Hours of Le Mans – Presentation of the Hypercar category

Our spotter guide is your vital aid to identifying the 62 cars competing in the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans (11-15 June 2025),  the fourth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship season.

The 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans kicks off tomorrow with the administrative and technical checks &ndash; better known as Scrutineering &ndash; to be held on Place de la R&eacute;publique in Le Mans city centre.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Track action gets underway on Sunday&rsquo;s Test Day when the teams get two free practice sessions to find their bearings on the challenging circuit. There is still time, therefore, to download the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans spotter guide. Created by Archim&egrave;de, these charts are an essential&nbsp;companion to help spectators &ldquo;spot&rdquo; the 21 Hypercars, 17 LMP2s and 24 LMGT3s invited to compete in the race.&nbsp;Especially as many teams choose to paint their machines in a new livery for the showcase event of the season. Among them will be the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid fielded by Toyota Gazoo Racing which will pay <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/toyota-celebrates-40-years-at-the-24-hours-with-standout-liveries-59575" target="_blank">tribute to the TS020, aka &ldquo;GT-One&rdquo;</a>. AF Corse&rsquo;s Oreca 07-Gibson (#182) should also not go unnoticed! United Autosports has opted to use the #59 McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo as a vehicle for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/24-hours-of-le-mans-2025-the-59-mclaren-sports-a-livery-committed-to-fighting-meningitis-59554" target="_blank">meningitis awareness</a>. Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/2025-24-hours-of-le-mans-a-new-livery-for-the-iron-dames-59652" target="_blank">the #85 Porsche 911 GT3 LMGT3 will convey the values supported by the Iron Dames</a>&nbsp;in a new paint scheme.

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	The road version &ndash;&nbsp;Created in 1992, the Viper very quickly joined the Ford Mustang and the Corvette in the pantheon of American sports cars. Commissioned by Bob Lutz, a big boss at Chrysler at the time, it benefitted from the trained eye of former driver Carroll Shelby, winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1959. The production of the Viper started up again in 2012 under a subsidiary called SRT (Street &amp; Racing Technologies).

	The 2014 season &ndash;&nbsp;The Viper GTS-R was one of the standout players of the first Tudor United SportsCar Championship (TUSC) season, the new American endurance series. It beat its big national rival Corvette to the punch for the Driver and Team titles in the GT LM class.

	En route for 2015 &ndash; After the official team SRT Motorsports retired in the wake of its dual TUSC titles in 2014, the Riley Motorsport team will enter the only Viper present this year. It is the one that figures on the reserve list for the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans.

	The 83rd edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans will take place Saturday and Sunday June 13-14, 2014.

	Jean-Philippe Doret / ACO - Translation by Nikki Ehrhardt / ACO 
	 
	Photo: LE MANS (SARTHE, FRANCE), CIRCUIT DES 24 HEURES, 24 HOURS OF LE MANS, SATURDAY JUNE 22 2013, RACE. For their return to the 24-hour model, the two Vipers entered in the LM GTE Pro class passed under the checkered flag.

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