By: Justin Garn
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is a race that has been going since 1923. Every year it takes place on June 16-17. In the le men all the racers drive for 24 hours no matter how many laps or pit stops you have. Currently, the most amount of wins by a single driver is Tom Kristensen. The most amount of wins to a team is Joest racing. The Le Mans is split up into 4 racing categories. LM P1, LM P2, LM GTE PRO, and LM GTE AM. All of those categories are split up into many different groups depending on the car they are using. Naming all of those would take forever though. The highest racing group in LM P1 is Toyota Gazoo Racing using the Toyota TS050 Hybrid. The best racers in that category were Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima, and Fernando Alonso. The best car group in LM P2 placing 5th was Signatech Alpine Matmut using the Alpine A470 Gibson. Their racers were Nicolas Lapierre, Andre Negrao, and Pierre Thiriet. The best car group in LM GTE PRO was Porsche GT Team placing 15th with drivers Michael Christensen, Kevin Estre, and Laurens Vanthoor. The best car group in LM GTE AM was Dempsey Proton Racing placing 25th in the race with drivers Matt Campbell, Christian Ried, and Julien Andlauer. Some of these teams including Toyota Gazoo Racing and Porsche GT Team had big enough and good enough teams to take the top 2 places in their category. In total there were 60 racers, close to 1/3 racers did not even finish the race. This race is the most extreme race because it is the longest race in the world, not only testing the racers speed but endurance and maintaining the race car.
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