Porsche endured a difficult 2016 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with two retirements in the LMGTE Pro class before mid-race. This year, the German marque will hit the track with a new Porsche 911 RSR to secure the class win that has eluded it since 2013!

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AF Corse's #83 Ferrari 499P shared by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Phil Hanson has won the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans. Here are their reactions to this historic win!

<h2>Robert Kubica: The Culmination of a Love Story</h2>

<p><em>Winning Le Mans is a special feeling. Since the 2021 edition, when I lost the victory due to a technical problem on the last lap, I fell in love with this race, which reawakened feelings I hadn&#39;t felt since my karting days. Now I&#39;m very excited, full of adrenaline but physically tired at the same time.</em></p>

<h2>Yifei Ye: The realisation of a Dream</h2>

<p><em>The 499P was fantastic, we were in a position to fight for the win right from the start. We also made up for last year&#39;s bad luck, when we led the race for 83 laps, the same number as the car, but a technical problem forced us to retire. Winning Le Mans with Ferrari is something unique.&nbsp;</em></p>

<h2>Phil Hanson: Relief at the Chequered Flag</h2>

<p><em>The last few laps weren&rsquo;t easy. They seemed to go on forever. Only when our 499P crossed the finish line did I breathe a sigh of relief and realise that we had actually won. You can never relax at Le Mans. In the past, it has always thrown up surprises right up to the end.</em></p>

<p>With this win, AF Corse has reinforced its lead to 57 points on&nbsp;Proton Competition in the 2025 FIA Hypercar World Endurance Teams&#39; Championship classification.</p>

<p>In the 2025 FIA Hypercar World Endurance&nbsp;Manufacturers&#39; Championship standings, Ferrari is ahead of&nbsp;Toyota by&nbsp;111 points trailed by&nbsp;Porsche in third.</p>

<p>Relive&nbsp;AF Corse&#39;s race and victory with the #83&nbsp;Ferrari 499P through the photo gallery below.</p>

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<p>The 93rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans ended in <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/af-corse-team-take-ferrari-into-the-history-books-at-le-mans-59792">victory for the AF Corse #83 Ferrari 499P</a>. The bad news is, it&rsquo;s all over for this year.</p>

<p>The good news is, we can start looking forward to next year&rsquo;s race. As we recover from the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans, we are already looking to the 94th, from <strong>10&ndash;14 June 2026</strong>.</p>

<p>The 332,000 spectators in attendance this weekend were treated to an exciting, close-run race. This year&rsquo;s winning car was the #83 Ferrari 499P, entered by private team AF Corse and driven by <strong>Robert Kubica</strong>, <strong>Yifei Ye</strong> and <strong>Phil Hanson</strong>. It was Ferrari&rsquo;s 12th outright win, and the 3rd in a row, confirming the 499P Hypercar as a force to be reckoned with.<br />
Even after 24 hours, the sprint to the chequered flag was hard-fought. There was only 29.666 seconds between the first and the fourth car to cross the finish line.</p>

<p><strong>The 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship season continues</strong> with the Rolex 6 Hours of S&atilde;o Paulo (13 July), Lone Star Le Mans at COTA (7 September), the 6 Hours of Fuji (28 September) and finally, the Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain (8 November).</p>

<p>Next season is sure to be captivating. The 24 Hours of Le Mans remains the fourth round of the <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/fia-wec-confirms-2026-calendar-59757">next FIA WEC season</a> and Alpine, Aston Martin, BMW, Cadillac, Ferrari, Peugeot, Porsche and Toyota will be joined by Genesis in the Hypercar class.</p>

<p>In the meantime, sit back and enjoy the highlights of the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans:</p>

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The 24 Hours of Le Mans once again delivered an impressive set of data this weekend. We crunched the numbers for this 93rd running which ended in triumph for the AF Corse #83 Ferrari 499P.

<h2>12</h2>

<p>The win for the AF Corse #83 Ferrari 499P is the twelfth for the Italian manufacturer. Ferrari is the third-highest ranking marque in terms of race wins at Le Mans behind Porsche (19) and Audi (13).</p>

<h2>1</h2>

<p>It was the first win for all three drivers: Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Phil Hanson. Kubica is the first Polish driver, and Yifei Ye the first Chinese driver ever to win the race.</p>

<h2>14.084</h2>

<p>The #83 finished with a gap of 14.084 over the #6 Porsche 963.</p>

<h2>5 272.54</h2>

<p>The distance covered by the winning car, at an average speed of 219.3 kph. The distance equates to 387 laps &ndash; 76 more than last year. The distance record stands at 5,410.713 kilometres, set by the Audi R15+ TDi driven by Romain Dumas, Timo Bernhard and Mike Rockenfeller.</p>

<h2>3:23.063</h2>

<p>The fastest time recorded for a lap of the course during the race. It was set by S&eacute;bastien Bourdais, driver of the #38 Cadillac V-Series.R entered by Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA. The local man achieved the feat on the car&rsquo;s 310th lap.</p>

<h2>67</h2>

<p>The number of outright leader changes during the race. The #83 Ferrari 499P was in the lead for a total 140 laps, compared to 95 for #51 Ferrari 499P and 65 for the #6 Porsche 963. The #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid led for six laps and the #94 Peugeot 9X8 for two.</p>

<h2>349 kPh</h2>

<p>The highest peak speed recorded during this 93rd edition, clocked by Antonio Giovinazzi in the #51 Ferrari 499P on the 64th lap.<br />
In LMP2, the top speed of 326.8 kph was attained by the United Autosports #22 Oreca 07-Gibson.</p>

<ul>
	<li>In LMP2,&nbsp;the top speed of 326.8 kph was attained by the United Autosports #22 Oreca 07-Gibson.</li>
	<li>In LMGT3, the Vista AF Corse #54 Ferrari 296 LMGT3 hit 301.3 kph.</li>
</ul>

<h2>42 minutes and 6 seconds</h2>

<p>The shortest time spent in the pit lane. The Porsche Penske Motorsport #6 Porsche 963 owns this record.</p>

<h2>6</h2>

<p>Richard Lietz&rsquo;s LMGT3 victory with the Manthey 1st Phorm Porsche 911 GT3 R is his sixth class win (2007, 2010, 2013, 2022 and 2024) and the most ever for a Porsche driver.</p>

<h2>34</h2>

<p>The #83 Ferrari 499P&rsquo;s victory is also the 34th triumph for Michelin and the 28th in a row (starting in 1998). Michelin is therefore on a par with Goodyear in terms of tyre manufacturer wins.</p>

<h2>12</h2>

<p>The number of retirements from the race. The United Autosports #59 McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo was not classified</p>

<h2>332,000</h2>

<p>The number of spectators at the track. Yet another increase on last year!</p>

<p>The 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans will take place from 10&ndash;14 June. Alpine, Aston Martin, BMW, Cadillac, Ferrari, Peugeot, Porsche and Toyota will be joined by Genesis in the Hypercar class. The race will be the fourth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship once again. In the meantime, watch the highlights of this year&rsquo;s race below.</p>

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The #83 AF Corse team led by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Philip Hanson have fended off the pressure of the factory Ferrari AF Corse cars and seven other manufacturers to win the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans and in the process have become the first customer team to win the legendary endurance race in 20 years.

<p>The 93rd edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans has come to an end. A thrilling contest with amazing on-track duels, tactical and strategic battles on the pit wall, with thousands around the circuit and millions at home watching history in the making as Ferrari took a hat-trick of wins at Le Mans - repeating the success they achieved 60 years ago in 1965.</p>

<h2>Hypercar</h2>

<p>The #83 AF Corse - bright yellow Ferrari 499P has shone brightly in multiple sessions throughout Le Mans week, but they did it when it mattered the most - on race day. Moving into the fight within the first few hours, the customer Ferrari team had to take on the might of the finest from Maranello and Porsche - going toe-to-toe twice around the clock.&nbsp;</p>

<p>While drama hit the rapid #51 car, the #83 stayed out of trouble to become the first customer team since Champion Racing in 2005 to take the biggest prize in sports car racing. Robert Kubica drove the car home to the delight of the passionate crowd, and as he took the chequered flag, the history didn&rsquo;t stop with AF Corse and Ferrari. Kubica became the first Pole to ever win Le Mans outright. Teammate Yifei Ye became the first driver from China to win the great race, while British driver Philip Hanson in only his second drive in a Hypercar at Le Mans added another win for the British, now taking Great Britain to 46 wins over the last 93 years - the most successful country by driver wins.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Porsche Penske Motorsport were the only outfit to get close to the prancing horses and kept on the coattails all race long, which kept them in with a shout should a mistake come about. That came when the #51 parked itself in the gravel, and a superb job by K&eacute;vin Estre, Laurens Vanthoor and in particular Matt Campbell, who triple-stinted the tyres towards the end of the race, which gave Estre a chance of second place. Driving his heart out - the Frenchman brought the car home just 14 seconds behind the leader after 5,361 miles.</p>

<p>2023 winners - the #51 Ferrari AF Corse team had a disaster of a final four hours with a spin coming into the pitlane for Alessandro Pier Guidi dropping&nbsp;them out the lead before Antonio Giovinazzi radioed the team with 45 minutes left on the clock -&nbsp;trying to get to the bottom of a problem with the car. The message from the team - keep driving, keep pushing and destroy the tyres if you need to. This bold call paid off&nbsp;as they were able to fight and pass the sister #50 car to take the final spot on the podium.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Cadillac had high hopes coming into Le Mans this year, and the #12 Hertz Team JOTA effort managed pole position&nbsp;on Thursday evening, but couldn&rsquo;t convert that single lap raw speed into efficient longer runs with the V8 car struggling to maximise the life of the tyres as well as getting them up to temperature quickly. With cooler conditions in the second half of the race - the golden Cadillac fought hard and smart and finished the race a credible fifth.</p>

<p>Recent legends - Toyota Gazoo Racing last won this event in 2022 and will have another year to wait until another trophy can be taken back to Japan. The GR010 - Hybrid was a long shot for the win, but that effort got a little more serious overnight when the #8 managed its fuel load and tyres to perfection to drag them into&nbsp;podium contention&nbsp;as the sun rose this morning. Disaster struck the team in black however, as less than four hours on the clock saw a wheel nut shear off on the front left. With a puncture as well, the car limped back to the pits, stayed in the garage for repairs and 17 minutes later was out again&nbsp;and raced&nbsp;to finish in a lowly 16th.</p>

<h2>LMP2</h2>

<p>Having won the 2023 LMP2 class, the yellow and green Inter Europol Competition team were back on the top step in France. The #43 ORECA&nbsp;was embroiled in a titanic tussle with VDS Panis Racing in their number #48 version from yesterday evening when the pole sitter, the #29 TDS Racing outfit were to fall by the wayside early on in the race. The Polish #43 team picked up the baton, an honour they grabbed with both hands, but they weren&#39;t going to have it all their own way - as drivers Jakub Smiechowski, Tom Dillmann and Nick Yelloly had to fight for it as they were locked into a battle with the #48 throughout the night and into Sunday morning.</p>

<p>To try and get ahead, Panis Racing undercut the Inter Europol Competition squad and in the process were able to slash the deficit with each stint.&nbsp;There was only a handful of seconds between them until drama struck, with 32 minutes left on the clock. The #43 driven by Nick Yelloly was caught speeding in the pit lane and received a drive-through penalty. Yelloly, despite the drive-through, sensed an opportunity with a poor lap from Panis Racing - the British driver passed the #48 with 15 minutes left on the clock and raced to the flag given the Polish fans even more to cheer about!<br />
<br />
The #9 Iron Lynx outfit were fighting tooth and nail with the #28 IDEC Sport car until 3 hours and 30 minutes were left on the clock, when the right rear wheel nut sheared off the back of the #28 ORECA, and helpless Job Van Uitert was a passenger, as the car went straight into the gravel trap at Chapelle corner on the descent from the Dunlop Bridge. Heartbreak for the whole team - so near, yet so far. The #9 Iron Lynx struggled on Sunday afternoon and were tactically passed by the #199 AO by TF car affectionately known as Spike. Not only did the crew in the purple car stand on the outright LMP2 podium - they also won the LMP2 Pro/AM category following a stellar job by PJ Hyett, Dane Cameron and Louis Deletraz throughout the 24 hours.</p>

<h2>LMGT3</h2>

<p><br />
The #92 Manthey 1ST Phorm Porsche was the car to beat for the majority of the race in thr GT category. Superlatives are not enough to describe their dominance, as they held the lead of the class to the very end - with drivers Ryan Hardwick, Riccardo Pera and Richard Lietz etching their names into the history books.</p>

<p>In second, the #21 Vista AF Corse Ferrari 296 LMGT3 had a quiet yet effective race - steering clear of trouble, and keeping their heads down. They couldn&rsquo;t quite match their FIA World Endurance Championship LMGT3 class win last time out at&nbsp;Spa - but second here will help them in the championship chase.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>#81 TF Sport with their yellow Corvette turned on the afterburners this afternoon to wrestle back the final podium spot from the #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin, a battle they enjoyed all morning long. Meawhile, the dominant #87 Akoddis ASP Lexus - the team and car that topped many of the sessions during the week will be pleased with fifth despite all their race dramas, but at the same time there will be some head scratching to do regarding the one that maybe got away!</p>

<p>Elsewhere, just ahead of the final hour mark, the sole remaining #59 United Autosports McLaren came to a grinding halt - almost a carbon copy of the issue the sister car faced last night. This time, the electric orange GT car stopped between Aranage and the Porsche Curves, bringing out a Full Course Yellow to recover the 720S safely.&nbsp;</p>

<h4><u>2025 24 Hours of Le Mans Top 5 overall:</u></h4>

<p>1. #83 Ferrari 499P - AF Corse &ndash; Robert Kubica / Yifei Ye / Philip Hanson - 387 Laps<br />
2. #6 Porsche 963 - Porsche Penske Motorsport &ndash; K&eacute;vin Estre / Laurens Vanthoor / Matt Campbell +14.084<br />
3. #51 Ferrari 499P - Ferrari-AF Corse &ndash; Alessandro Pier Guidi / James Calado / Antonio Giovinazzi +28.487<br />
4.&nbsp;#12 Cadillac V-Series.R - Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA &ndash; Will Stevens / Norman Nato / Alex Lynn +2:18.639<br />
5. #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid -&nbsp;Toyota Gazoo Racing - Mike Conway / Kamui Kobayashi / Nyck de Vries +1 lap</p>

<h4><u>Leaders in the other categories:</u></h4>

<ul>
	<li>
	<p>LMP2: #43 Oreca 07-Gibson #43 Inter Europol Competition &ndash; Jakub Smiechowski / Tom Dillmann / Nick Yelloly</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>LMGT3: #92 Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3 of Manthey 1ST Phorm &ndash; Ryan Hardwick / Riccardo Pera / Richard Lietz</p>
	</li>
</ul>

<h4><u>Retirements&nbsp;</u></h4>

<ul>
	<li>#28 Oreca 07-Gibson - IDEC Sport &ndash; Paul Lafargue / Job Van Uitert / Sebastian Alvarez</li>
	<li>#78 - Lexus RC F LMGT3 - Akkodis ASP Team &ndash; Arnold Robin / Jack Hawksworth / Finn Gehrsitz - Accident</li>
	<li>#311 Cadillac V-Series.R - Cadillac Whelen &ndash; Jack Aitken / Felipe Drugovich / Frederik Vesti - Mechanical&nbsp;</li>
	<li>#18 Oreca 07-Gibson - IDEC Sport &ndash; Jamie Chadwick / Mathys Jaubert / Andr&eacute; Lotterer - Lost a wheel</li>
	<li>#54 Ferrari 296 LMGT3 - Vista AF Corse &ndash; Thomas Flohr / Francesco Castellacci / Davide Rigon - Mechanical</li>
	<li>#101 Cadillac V-Series.R - Cadillac WTR &ndash; Ricky Taylor / Jordan Taylor / Filipe Albuquerque -&nbsp; Engine</li>
	<li>#24 ORECA 07-Gibson of Nielsen Racing &ndash; Naveen Rao / Cem Bolukbasi / Colin Braun (LMP2 Pro/Am) &ndash; Incident</li>
	<li>#46 BMW M4 LMGT3 of Team WRT &ndash; Ahmad Al Harthy / Valentino Rossi / Kelvin van der Linde &ndash; Mechanical Problem</li>
	<li>#60 Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 of Iron Lynx &ndash; Andrew Gilbert / Fran Rueda / Lorcan Hanafin &ndash; 22:24 &ndash; Engine Breakdown</li>
	<li>#95 McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo of United Autosports &ndash; Darren Leung / Sean Gelael / Marino Sato &ndash; 22:23 &ndash; Powertrain Failure</li>
	<li>#88 Ford Mustang LMGT3 of Proton Competition &ndash; Stefano Gattuso / Giammarco Levorato / Dennis Olsen &ndash; 19:53 &ndash; Incident and Loss of a Wheel Nut</li>
</ul>

<h4><u>Fastest Lap</u></h4>

<p>#38 S&eacute;bastien Bourdais, Cadillac V Series - Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA. 03:26.063 (Lap 310)</p>

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<p>This year&nbsp;Porsche GT Team has entered two new&nbsp;911 RSRs with top-notch driver line-ups. The #91 will be shared by&nbsp;Richard Lietz and French drivers&nbsp;Patrick Pilet and&nbsp;Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Makowiecki. The wheel of the #92 sister car will be taken by&nbsp;Michael Christensen,&nbsp;K&eacute;vin Estre&nbsp;(see <a href="http://www.lemans.org/en/News/kevin-estre-porsche-it-would-really-be-something-for-porsche-to-win-in-gt-at-le-mans/46273">article</a>) and&nbsp;Dirk Werner.</p>

<p>In this video, learn about the 2017 Porsche 911 RSR project from&nbsp;Patrick Pilet and&nbsp;Richard Lietz. They explain the modifications completed on the car...which in the end turned it into an all-new model!</p>

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