There are several ways to keep up with the 24 Hours of Le Mans Centenary, the fourth round of the 2023 FIA WEC World Endurance Championship. Fans keen not to miss any of the action can watch it on television, follow it on social media or use the 24H Le Mans app.

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The British manufacturer has chosen Le Mans as the place to unveil the Hypercar that will join the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2027.

Following the announcement of its <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/mclaren-racing-to-join-the-hypercar-fray-in-2027-59502" target="_blank">Hypercar entry</a>, in April, McLaren has taken the wraps off the car and disclosed the overview of its programme. The entry is a collaboration with United Autosports, a leading light of the LMP2 class since 2017. The twin-turbo V6 engine was designed by McLaren Racing and McLaren Automotive. The chassis will be developed and built by Dallara.

James Barclay, currently managing director of JLR Motorsport and Team Principal of Jaguar TCS Racing, is to join the team in September at the end of the Formula E season. McLaren Racing CEO Zac Brown says of Barclay: &ldquo; James&rsquo;s leadership will be crucial in guiding us through the coming months as we prepare for our 2027 entry. We have a rich history in the sport, and with James at the helm, we are confident that McLaren Endurance Racing will quickly establish itself as a competitive and successful team. I&rsquo;m looking forward to seeing the team&rsquo;s future take shape under his leadership.&rdquo;

Take a look at the freshly-released pics of the McLaren Hypercar in the gallery below.

2025 24 Hours of Le Mans: McLaren introduces the world to its Hypercar

Today is finally the day! At precisely 16:00 local time, the start of the 93rd running of Le Mans, fourth round of the 2025 FIA WEC season, will be given. Official starter Roger Federer will wave the French flag, releasing competitors for 24 hours of heart-pounding racing. Will Alpine, Aston Martin, BMW, Cadillac, Ferrari, Peugeot, Porsche or Toyota lift the iconic trophy? Watch the action and find out tomorrow at 16:00.

<h2>24 Hours of Le Mans | Warm-up</h2>

A few hours before&nbsp;the start of the race, teams get one last mini free practice, the&nbsp;Warm-Up, between&nbsp;12:00 and&nbsp;12:15. This&nbsp;is their final opportunity to fine-tune settings and adapt their cars to the day&#39;s weather conditions.

<h2>24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans | Start</h2>

The start of the 93rd 24 Hours will be given at 16:00&nbsp;by world tennis legend Roger Federer this year. Look for the ceremony&nbsp;preceding the start to be&nbsp;even more stunning&nbsp;than usual, thanks to all-new staging, as a&nbsp;helicopter delivers the French&nbsp;flag, La&nbsp;Marseillaise is played and&nbsp;sung in chorus by the crowd, and&nbsp;the cars take their places on the starting grid. The pressure continues to mount until the official starter waves the flag, releasing the&nbsp;62 competitors whose adrenaline immediately goes through the roof as they head into 24 hours of white-knuckle&nbsp;racing!

<h2>Road to Le Mans</h2>

From&nbsp;10:05 to&nbsp;11:05, Road to Le Mans competitors hit the track for Race 2. This support race is the third of six rounds of&nbsp;the&nbsp;2025 Michelin Le Mans Cup reserved for cars in the LMP3 and&nbsp;GT categories.

<h2>Ford Mustang Challenge</h2>

Ford Mustang Challenge teams face off in&nbsp;Race 2 between 08:45 to&nbsp;09:30 when their powerful&nbsp;Ford Mustang Dark Horse Rs equipped with a naturally aspirated 500 hp V8s&nbsp;take the track.

<h2>DJ Loran, Kool &amp; The Gang and&nbsp;The Avener Concerts</h2>

Kool &amp; the Gang, formed in&nbsp;1969, is an emblematic band known for classic hits like Celebration, Cherish, Jungle Boogie, Summer Madness and&nbsp;Open Sesame. They have won two Grammy Awards, seven&nbsp;American Music Awards and have released&nbsp;31 certified gold or platinum albums. Their longevity set&nbsp;the&nbsp;record for the longest active R&amp;B group and their music has heavily influenced hip-hop as&nbsp;one of the most sampled groups, second only to James Brown.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Tristan Casara, a.k.a.&nbsp;The Avener, is no ordinary&nbsp;DJ/producer. Trained in classical piano from the age of five at the Conservatory of Nice, he is first and foremost a musician and composer.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Avener already performed an exclusive night set during the 2020 Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans. This time, he will perform on the main stage of the Le Mans classic!&nbsp;

<h2>The&nbsp;24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans Show</h2>

Kicking off at midnight, the 24 Hours of Le Mans&nbsp;Show promises to be an unforgettable experience as always.&nbsp;With the theme &quot;24H&nbsp;On Board&quot;,&nbsp;spectators are&nbsp;plunged into the heart of the race via&nbsp;a 20-minute immersive show. Fireworks, and a drone and laser show, enhance this exceptional evening spectacle. As the drivers push their limits on the track, this thrilling moment will thrill young and old alike.&nbsp;

<h4>Saturday 14 June Programme</h4>

08:00 &ndash; 02:00&nbsp;: 24 Hours Museum open 
08:45 &ndash; 09:30&nbsp;: Ford Mustang Challenge | Race 2 
09:00 &ndash; 01:00&nbsp;: Fan Zones and&nbsp;Kids Zone open 
10:00 &ndash; 00:00&nbsp;: Constructors Village and ACO H2 Hydrogen Village open 
10:05 &ndash; 11:05&nbsp;: Road To Le Mans | Race 2 
12:00 &ndash; 12:15&nbsp;: 24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans | Warm-Up 
13:35 &ndash; 14:35&nbsp;: Gridwalk 
15:25 &ndash; 15:50&nbsp;: Official starting ceremony 
16:00&nbsp;: 24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans | Start 
20:00 &ndash; 23:00&nbsp;: DJ Loran, Kool &amp; The Gang and&nbsp;The Avener concerts 
00:00 &ndash; 00:20&nbsp;: 24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans Show

Watch the&nbsp;<a href="http://fiawec.tv/page/679a56921229db49627128a6">FIA WEC live</a>&nbsp;or on demand on the official&nbsp;FIA WEC TV app, your all-access pass to the FIA World Endurance&nbsp;Championship including the&nbsp;24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans. Don&#39;t miss a second of the action! For more info, go to the app.

2025 24 Hours of Le Mans – Saturday 14 June programme

The American marque divulged on Friday at the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans several aspects of its future involvement in Hypercar, namely that it will rely on ORECA for its chassis.

As announced in January, <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/ford-in-the-top-class-at-the-24-hours-of-le-mans-in-2027-59293">Ford will return&nbsp;to Le Mans and the FIA WEC in 2027</a>. We have all been waiting for&nbsp;more details to emerge, including who is&nbsp;involved in the programme aimed to add a fifth win to Ford&#39;s list of accolades. Just a short distance from the Ford Chicane,&nbsp;and in front of a large audience of journalists, the American carmaker&nbsp;revealed more.

<h2>Oreca, Much More Than a Chassis Supplier</h2>

Dan Sayers was hand-picked to lead Ford&#39;s Hypercar efforts in the FIA WEC.&nbsp;Already a project&nbsp;director at Red Bull Ford Powertrains, he worked at Prodrive (Aston Martin Racing at the time) and at Ricardo where he helped design and develop transmissions, notably for LMP1. Sayer is the first&nbsp;key player&nbsp;in the organisational chart that will be completed in the coming months.

The principal&nbsp;announcement today addressed&nbsp;the American manufacturer&#39;s&nbsp;partnership&nbsp;with ORECA.&nbsp;Ford&nbsp;chairman and CEO&nbsp;Jim Farley and Ford Performance Director&nbsp;Mark Rushbrook were in attendance for the occasion, along with ORECA founder&nbsp;Hugues de Chaunac.&nbsp;The Frenchman was clearly&nbsp;moved and excited to contribute&nbsp;to Ford&#39;s return. Hughes de Chaunac: You don&#39;t say no to&nbsp;Ford!&nbsp;They are extremely hands-on and are very open to collaboration. They want to win. If something goes wrong, we have to say so. It&nbsp;gives us real responsibility. This is not always the case: some constructors do not ask us for this much involvement. With them, we have the closest possible connection. They want us to share everything.

<h2>A True Ford Hypercar</h2>

The selected engine block &ndash; already defined &ndash; was not revealed and there are no further details on the design of the future Hypercar. De Chaunac: It will truly be a Ford. Can we expect a V8, the type of engine that allowed the marque&nbsp;to earn&nbsp;its four consecutive wins from 1966 to 1969? Or could it be&nbsp;a V6 like in the Ford GT that won the 2016 LMGTE Pro championship? Anything is possible.&nbsp;De Chaunac:&nbsp;As for the engine architecture, there&#39;s no problem. We designed our chassis from the start to be adaptable to several configurations.

For the overall design of the future Hypercar, perhaps it will modelled on...the Mustang. Jim Farley: We&#39;ve always wanted to run production cars, as close as possible to production cars. In 2016, we created the Ford GT, but we originally wanted to enter a Mustang.&nbsp;So, while the Mustang LMGT3 is a major player&nbsp;in the category, and is clearly looking to win on&nbsp;Sunday, it seems plausible the future Hypercar will feature some of the same aesthetic elements. It&#39;s impossible to convert a road car into a Hypercar, but there will be a connection.

As a curtain-opener for the 2025 24 Hours, Mustangs will take the track for the&nbsp;Ford Mustang Challenge and even&nbsp;Farley himself is racing this weekend:&nbsp;I think it&#39;s great that we are racing at Le Mans the way an American brand should. During the first couple of laps, when we were all together, seeing the others on the Mulsanne Straight after Tertre Rouge &mdash; more than 30 cars &mdash; it was really an emotional moment for me. Seeing those Mustangs built in Flat Rock, Michigan, with manual transmissions, drivers warming up their tyres, it made us proud. We are doing something just the right way.&nbsp;

<h2>A Legacy to Carry On</h2>

Ford currently boasts four overall wins at Le Mans, and remains the only American carmaker to win the race.&nbsp;This is a&nbsp;phenomenal achievement&nbsp;given the number of top-tier constructors&nbsp;from the U.S. to&nbsp;have competed&nbsp;over the decades. Chrysler and General Motors have made their mark in GT&nbsp;since the 2000s, with the occasional involvement in&nbsp;prototypes, and Briggs Cunningham was a pioneer, just as was Don Panoz&nbsp;in his time, adopting&nbsp;a disruptive approach and&nbsp;attempting to bring down Audi.&nbsp;

Ford&#39;s Hypercar programme leaders refer to the legacy of the 1966 and 1967 wins in particular. They&nbsp;were secured&nbsp;by&nbsp;Carroll Shelby&#39;s team, including&nbsp;the&nbsp;addition of the all-American driver line-up of Dan Gurney and A. J. Foyt in 1967. The two subsequent&nbsp;wins in 1968 and 1969 with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Brit&nbsp;John Wyer at the helm, though legendary, will never have quite the same resonance.&nbsp;Farley: Bringing Ford back to the top class at Le Mans has always been a dream for many of us, including our Executive Chair Bill Ford.&nbsp;Dakar, Daytona 500, Daytona 24, Le Mans 24 &mdash; all those races are the pinnacle for us.

Ford partners with ORECA for Hypercar programme launching in 2027

People reveal their greatness in times of uncertainty. And the 24 Hours of Le Mans is certainly unpredictable. In the face of advancing technology, will intuition continue to be the secret weapon of great champions?

To win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, everything has to fall into place &ndash; driving, tactics, car, and pit stop execution. Teams employ all the science of the sport to optimise performance. Fortunately, however, racing is not an exact science, and the human factor plays a role in the most famous of endurance races. Our decision-making is based on knowledge, experience and... feeling.

&ldquo;If an idea crosses your mind and makes you quiver, its worth looking into. It&rsquo;s worth taking seriously in any case. It&rsquo;s always a good idea to listen to the voice in your head, without necessarily being able to back up a hunch.&rdquo; Those are the words of &ndash; not a 24 Hours of Le Mans driver &ndash; but a Doctor of Psychology, Emeric Lebreton (Philosophie Magazine, 16 April 2025). According to the Collins dictionary, intuition is &ldquo;instinctive knowledge of or belief about something without conscious reasoning&rdquo; &ndash; a presentiment, hunch or sixth sense. Mathieu Jaminet&rsquo;s intuition is made up of indicators, almost imperceptible signs.

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s that gut feeling. Sometimes it&rsquo;s right, sometimes not. You don&rsquo;t always have the same feeling as your teammate. I think it comes with experience. And I think some people have better intuition than others. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, it kicks in during the race, it&rsquo;s the way you roll with the punches: take safety car periods, slow zones, any incidents. All your experience, all those little things you&rsquo;ve seen before give you clues as to how things might go this time.&quot;

The Frenchman readily admits that &ldquo;although in this facts-based sport we try to think through everything, you can sometimes tip the balance with a bit of intuition. It&rsquo;s important to control the parameters, of course, but you win thanks to that little extra.&rdquo;

To many racers, there&rsquo;s little difference between intuition, experience, reflex, instinct and ingrained habit. Jos&eacute; Mar&iacute;a L&oacute;pez (Akkodis ASP Team #87 Lexus RC F LMGT3 #87): &ldquo;When the going gets tough, intuition takes a front seat. You can&rsquo;t react like a machine when track conditions change all the time. So, you need a mixture of technique and instinct. That&rsquo;s how you adapt.&rdquo; To C&eacute;lia Martin (Iron Dames #85 Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3) it&rsquo;s a feeling. &ldquo;First you learn by heart on the simulator &ndash; the braking points, the turning points &ndash; and then you get to the actual circuit at Le Mans, where you can play some of it by ear. It&rsquo;s a mixture of technique and instinct. When you find the right blend, you&rsquo;ve got it made.&rdquo;

Somewhere between deliberate action and pure reflex, intuition is important for all the drivers we spoke to. Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Makowiecki, driver of the #36 Alpine A424, believes it&rsquo;s fundamental. &ldquo;Very often we barely have time to respond to a situation. We do what we feel is best, without thinking. When we tell our engineers that, they have trouble understanding, but at 340 kph, anything unexpected can become an issue.&rdquo; The Frenchman says that&rsquo;s when intuition comes into play in his decision-making. Engineers&rsquo; and drivers&rsquo; brains are put to the test during a race. They need to process information in an instant and make the right decision. Driving a Hypercar, LMP2 or LMGT3 or choosing their race tactics requires technique, experience and intelligence. But it&rsquo;s not all smooth running. So much doesn&rsquo;t go to plan and intuition helps competitors adapt to circumstances. David Floury (technical director of Toyota Gazoo Racing in the FIA WEC): &ldquo;In the race, we often have to make decisions without having all the parameters to hand. There&rsquo;s an element of guesswork involved. Intuition plays a role in racing, but new technology such as Artificial Intelligence is going to reduce that.&rdquo;

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<h2>TV</h2>

&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;L&#39;&Eacute;quipe TV channel is broadcasting the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France. It will show the race live, for free, on Saturday 10 June from 9:30 am&nbsp;to 9:00 pm, then from 10:55 pm&nbsp;to 1:30 am&nbsp;in the morning. On Sunday 11 June, it will broadcast the race from 5:00 am&nbsp;to&nbsp;4:00 pm.&nbsp; 
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The race, along with Free Practice 1, 2, 3, 4 and the Hyperpole session, will also be shown live, in full, on Eurosport 2.&nbsp;

See the full <a href="http://assets.lemans.org/explorer/pdf/courses/2023/24-heures-du-mans/programme-distribution-tv-24-heures-du-mans-2023.pdf">broadcasting schedule</a>.&nbsp;

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Keep track of the standings, pinpoint the whereabouts of your favourite cars and get nerdy with the stats. Or simply watch the race with the official commentary!

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