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Le Mans, 20 August, 2021
The 89th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the oldest and most prestigious endurance race and the fourth round of the FIA WEC World Championship, was dominated by AF Corse’s 488 GTEs, which triumphed in the LMGTE Pro and LMGTE Am classes. Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Côme Ledogar at the wheel of the #51 Ferrari won the LMGTE Pro class, while Nicklas Nielsen, François Perrodo and Alessio Rovera lorded it over the LMGTE Am class. The Iron Lynx 488 GTE, crewed by Italians Rino Mastronardi and Matteo Cressoni and the Ferrari Driver Academy’s Callum Ilott, completed the podium in this category. A very special starter, Ferrari Chairman John Elkann, sent the cars on their way at 4pm on Saturday.
LMGTE Pro The 2019 winners Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado claimed a brilliant victory, leading the race for most of the 24 hours. On this occasion, the pair were assisted by Côme Ledogar, who, together with Pier Guidi, recently made a name for himself at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. This is the Frenchman’s first triumph at Le Mans, while the two 2017 world champions now have two to their name. The trio battled for most of the race against the Corvette of Garcia-Taylor-Catsburg, gaining a decisive advantage through their superior handling of the race’s neutralisation phases. Once again, AF Corse’s second car, crewed by Miguel Molina, Daniel Serra and Sam Bird, was unlucky. The #52 car was well in contention for the overall win before having to pit due to a suspension problem during the Spaniard’s stint with 10 hours left. Then, a puncture at Tertre Rouge during Sam Bird’s stint led to another long stop for the Ferrari, which then had to settle for fifth. Nevertheless, it earned important championship points in a race with twice the usual number up for grabs. With this win, Pier Guidi and Calado move up to 124 points at the top of the standings. They lie 12 ahead of Estre and Jani, while Serra and Molina are now on 57. This is AF Corse’s fourth victory in the LMGTE Pro class following their wins in 2012, 2014 and 2019. It is the Prancing Horse’s 38th triumph in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with 29 class wins and nine overall. It is also the 488 GTE’s third victory in the French classic. 20 | 1 | 51 | LMGTE PRO | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Côme Ledogar | 345 | 21 | 2 | 63 | LMGTE PRO | Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | | Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg | 345 | 22 | 3 | 92 | LMGTE PRO | Porsche 911 RSR | | Kevin Estre Neel Jani Michael Christensen | 344 | 23 | 4 | 91 | LMGTE PRO | Porsche 911 RSR | | Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki | 343 | 37 | 5 | 52 | LMGTE PRO | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Daniel Serra Miguel Molina Sam Bird | 331 | 44 | 6 | 64 | LMGTE PRO | Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | | Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims | 313 | NC dnf | | 72 | LMGTE PRO | Porsche 911 RSR | | Dries Vanthoor Alvaro Parente Maxime Martin | 227 | NC dnf | | 79 | LMGTE PRO | Porsche 911 RSR | | Cooper MacNeil Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor | 139 | LMGTE Am Nicklas Nielsen, François Perrodo and Alessio Rovera displayed clear-headedness, nerve and talent to claim AF Corse’s first win in the 24 Hours of Le Mans LMGTE Am class. They didn’t allow the drive-through penalty they suffered during the 24 hours to knock them off course. As in other WEC races, the reigning champions confirmed their desire to retain their title. They were helped in this by the speed of Alessio Rovera on his debut in this marathon. Iron Lynx’s 488 GTE #80 with Rino Mastronardi and Matteo Cressoni and the Ferrari Driver Academy’s Callum Ilott completed the podium. On his debut in this race, the Briton grew in speed and confidence, which only experience can provide. The crew of the #60 car lined up by the Italian team, with the experienced Paolo Ruberti and Raffaele Giammaria alongside Claudio Schiavoni, climbed several positions in the championship standings with an excellent fourth position. Ninth place went to the last Iron Lynx Ferrari, crewed by the “Iron Dames” Rahel Frey, Michelle Gatting and Sarah Bovy, who again made it over the finish line. The second AF Corse entry, the #54 car driven by Giancarlo Fisichella (in his twelfth participation), Thomas Flohr and Francesco Castellacci, was unlucky to be kept out of the fight for the podium by a faulty axle shaft. Inception Racing’s 488 GTE crewed by Iribe-Millroy-Barnicoat was also up among the leaders at various stages before being forced to sit in the pits for several laps. The other Ferraris entered in an edition that will go down in the history of the Prancing Horse retired due to accidents or problems during the race.
25 | 1 | 83 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera | 340 | 26 | 2 | 33 | LMGTE AM | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | | Ben Keating Dylan Pereira Felipe Fraga | 339 | 27 | 3 | 80 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Matteo Cressoni Rino Mastronardi Callum Ilott | 338 | 30 | 4 | 60 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Claudio Schiavoni Paolo Ruberti Raffaele Giammaria | 335 | 31 | 5 | 77 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Christian Ried Jaxon Evans Matt Campbell | 335 | 33 | 6 | 777 | LMGTE AM | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | | Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Andrew Watson | 333 | 34 | 7 | 18 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Andrew Haryanto Alessio Picariello Marco Seefried | 332 | 35 | 8 | 95 | LMGTE AM | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | | John Hartshorne Ollie Hancock Ross Gunn | 332 | 36 | 9 | 85 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting | 332 | 38 | 10 | 69 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Robert Renauer Ralf Bohn Rolf Ineichen | 330 | 39 | 11 | 54 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Thomas Flohr Giancarlo Fisichella Francesco Castellacci | 329 | 41 | 12 | 71 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat | 327 | 42 | 13 | 88 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Julien Andlauer Dominique Bastien Lance David Arnold | 327 | 43 | 14 | 86 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Tom Gamble | 322 | NC dnf | | 388 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Jeroen Bleekemolen | 271 | NC dnf | | 46 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Dennis Olsen Anders Buchardt Robby Foley | 138 | NC dnf | | 57 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Takeshi Kimura Scott Andrews Mikkel Jensen | 128 | NC dnf | | 66 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Thomas Neubauer Rodrigo Sales Jody Fannin | 117 | NC dnf | | 55 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Duncan Cameron David Perel Matthew Griffin | 109 | NC dnf | | 47 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco | 90 | NC dnf | | 56 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Egidio Perfetti Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera | 84 | NC dnf | | 99 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Harry Tincknell Vutthikorn Inthrapuvasak Florian Latorre | 66 | NC dnf | | 98 | LMGTE AM | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | | Paul Dalla Lana Nicki Thiim Marcos Gomes | 45 |
Overall Results
OA | IC | r# | Class | Car | Chassis | Drivers | Laps | 1 | 1 | 7 | HYPERCAR | Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | | Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez | 371 | 2 | 2 | 8 | HYPERCAR | Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | | Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Brendon Hartley | 369 | 3 | 3 | 36 | HYPERCAR | Alpine A480 | | Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere | 367 | 4 | 4 | 708 | HYPERCAR | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | | Pipo Derani Franck Mailleux Olivier Pla | 367 | 5 | 5 | 709 | HYPERCAR | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Romain Dumas | 364 | 6 | 1 | 31 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Robin Frijns Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi | 363 | 7 | 2 | 28 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Sean Gelael Stoffel Vandoorne Tom Blomqvist | 363 | 8 | 3 | 65 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Julien Canal Will Stevens James Allen | 362 | 9 | 4 | 23 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Paul di Resta Alex Lynn Wayne Boyd | 361 | 10 | 5 | 34 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Jakub Smiechowski Renger van der Zande Alex Brundle | 360 | 11 | 6 | 48 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet | 359 | 12 | 7 | 26 | LMP2 | Aurus 01 | | Roman Rusinov Franco Colapinto Nyck de Vries | 358 | 13 | 8 | 38 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson | 358 | 14 | 9 | 30 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Rene Binder Memo Rojas Tristan Gommendy | 357 | 15 | 10 | 21 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley Juan Pablo Montoya | 356 | 16 | 11 | 29 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Job Van Uitert | 356 | 17 | 12 | 70 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Esteban Garcia Loic Duval Norman Nato | 356 | 18 | 13 | 20 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Dennis Andersen Ricky Taylor Marco Sorensen | 353 | 19 | 14 | 39 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Vincent Capillaire Arnold Robin Maxime Robin | 352 | 20 | 1 | 51 | LMGTE PRO | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Côme Ledogar | 345 | 21 | 2 | 63 | LMGTE PRO | Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | | Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg | 345 | 22 | 3 | 92 | LMGTE PRO | Porsche 911 RSR | | Kevin Estre Neel Jani Michael Christensen | 344 | 23 | 4 | 91 | LMGTE PRO | Porsche 911 RSR | | Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki | 343 | 24 | 15 | 44 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Miro Konopka Oliver Webb Matej Konopka | 342 | 25 | 1 | 83 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera | 340 | 26 | 2 | 33 | LMGTE AM | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | | Ben Keating Dylan Pereira Felipe Fraga | 339 | 27 | 3 | 80 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Matteo Cressoni Rino Mastronardi Callum Ilott | 338 | 28 | 16 | 74 | LMP2 | Ligier JSP 217 | | James Winslow John Corbett Tom Cloet | 338 | 29 | 17 | 49 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Anders Fjordbach Jan Magnussen Kevin Magnussen | 336 | 30 | 4 | 60 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Claudio Schiavoni Paolo Ruberti Raffaele Giammaria | 335 | 31 | 5 | 77 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Christian Ried Jaxon Evans Matt Campbell | 335 | 32 | | 84 | INNOVATIVE CAR | Oreca 07 | | Takuma Aoki Nigel Bailly Matthieu Lahaye | 334 | 33 | 6 | 777 | LMGTE AM | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | | Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Andrew Watson | 333 | 34 | 7 | 18 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Andrew Haryanto Alessio Picariello Marco Seefried | 332 | 35 | 8 | 95 | LMGTE AM | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | | John Hartshorne Ollie Hancock Ross Gunn | 332 | 36 | 9 | 85 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting | 332 | 37 | 5 | 52 | LMGTE PRO | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Daniel Serra Miguel Molina Sam Bird | 331 | 38 | 10 | 69 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Robert Renauer Ralf Bohn Rolf Ineichen | 330 | 39 | 11 | 54 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Thomas Flohr Giancarlo Fisichella Francesco Castellacci | 329 | 40 | 18 | 22 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Philip Hanson Fabio Scherer Filipe Albuquerque | 328 | 41 | 12 | 71 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat | 327 | 42 | 13 | 88 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Julien Andlauer Dominique Bastien Lance David Arnold | 327 | 43 | 14 | 86 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Tom Gamble | 322 | 44 | 6 | 64 | LMGTE PRO | Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | | Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims | 313 | NC dnf | | 41 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Ye Yifei | 362 | NC dnf | | 82 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Ryan Cullen Oliver Jarvis Felipe Nasr | 275 | NC dnf | | 388 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Jeroen Bleekemolen | 271 | NC dnf | | 24 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Patrick Kelly Gabriel Aubry Simon Trummer | 261 | NC dnf | | 72 | LMGTE PRO | Porsche 911 RSR | | Dries Vanthoor Alvaro Parente Maxime Martin | 227 | NC dnf | | 79 | LMGTE PRO | Porsche 911 RSR | | Cooper MacNeil Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor | 139 | NC dnf | | 46 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Dennis Olsen Anders Buchardt Robby Foley | 138 | NC dnf | | 57 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Takeshi Kimura Scott Andrews Mikkel Jensen | 128 | NC dnf | | 66 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Thomas Neubauer Rodrigo Sales Jody Fannin | 117 | NC dnf | | 55 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Duncan Cameron David Perel Matthew Griffin | 109 | NC dnf | | 25 | LMP2 | Aurus 01 | | John Falb Roberto Merhi Rui Andrade | 108 | NC dnf | | 47 | LMGTE AM | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | | Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco | 90 | NC dnf | | 56 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Egidio Perfetti Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera | 84 | NC dnf | | 32 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Nico Jamin Jonathan Aberdein Manuel Maldonado | 75 | NC dnf | | 1 | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | | Tatiana Calderon Sophia Flörsch Beitske Visser | 74 | NC dnf | | 99 | LMGTE AM | Porsche 911 RSR | | Harry Tincknell Vutthikorn Inthrapuvasak Florian Latorre | 66 | NC dnf | | 98 | LMGTE AM | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | | Paul Dalla Lana Nicki Thiim Marcos Gomes | 45 |
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