2015 24 Hours of Le Mans

Circuit de la Sarthe track

The 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 24 Heures du Mans 2015) will be an automobile endurance race held on 13–14 June 2015 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France. It will be the 83rd running of the 24 Hours organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest as well as the third round of the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship. A test day will be held two weeks prior to the race on 31 May.^[1]

Entries

Automatic invitations

Automatic entry invitations are earned by teams that won their class in the previous running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, or have won championships Le Mans-based series such as the United SportsCar Championship, the European Le Mans Series, and the Asian Le Mans Series. Some championship runner-ups are also granted automatic invitations in certain series. All current FIA World Endurance Championship full-season entries also automatically earn invitations. As invitations are granted to teams they are allowed to change their cars from the previous year to the next, but are not allowed to change their category. In the European Le Mans Series, the LMGTE class champion and runner-up are allowed to choose between the Pro and Am categories, while the GTC class champion is limited solely to an Am entry. The Asian Le Mans Series GTC competitors are also limited to the LMGTE Am class.

The ACO announced its initial list of automatic entries on 15 December 2014.^[2]

Reason invited	LMP1	LMP2	LMGTE Pro	LMGTE Am
1st in the 24 Hours of Le Mans	Audi Sport Team Joest	Jota Sport	AF Corse	Aston Martin Racing
1st in the European Le Mans Series		Signatech Alpine	SMP Racing
2nd in the European Le Mans Series			AF Corse
1st in the European Le Mans Series GTC category				SMP Racing
United SportsCar Championship at-large entries		Wayne Taylor Racing		Scuderia Corsa
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series		OAK Racing Team Total		Team AAI
2nd in the Asian Le Mans Series				Team AAI

Entry list

In conjunction with the announcement of entries for the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship and the European Le Mans Series seasons, the ACO announced the full 56 car entry list for Le Mans, plus 7 reserves.^[3] In addition to the 35 guaranteed entries from the World Endurance Championship, 13 entries come from the European Le Mans Series, 3 from the United SportsCar Championship, 2 from the Asian Le Mans Series, while the rest of the field is filled with one-off entries only competing at Le Mans.

Entry List[3]
No.	Nation	Team	Car	Tyre	Driver 1	Driver 2	Driver 3
LMP1 (14 entries)
1	JPN	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	M	Sébastien Buemi[4]	Anthony Davidson[4]	Kazuki Nakajima[4]
2	JPN	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	M	Alexander Wurz[4]	Stéphane Sarrazin[4]	Mike Conway[4]
4	AUT	Team ByKolles	CLM P1/01-AER	M	Simon Trummer[3]	TBA	TBA
7	DEU	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	M	André Lotterer[5]	Benoît Tréluyer[5]	Marcel Fässler[5]
8	DEU	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	M	Oliver Jarvis[5]	Lucas di Grassi[5]	Loïc Duval[5]
9	DEU	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	M	Marco Bonanomi[5]	Filipe Albuquerque[5]	René Rast[5]
12	CHE	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion R-One-AER	M	Nicolas Prost[3]	Nick Heidfeld[6]	Mathias Beche[6]
13	CHE	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion R-One-AER	M	Alexandre Imperatori[6]	Dominik Kraihamer[6]	Daniel Abt[6]
17	DEU	Porsche Team	Porsche 919 Hybrid	M	Timo Bernhard[7]	Mark Webber[7]	Brendon Hartley[7]
18	DEU	Porsche Team	Porsche 919 Hybrid	M	Romain Dumas[7]	Marc Lieb[7]	Neel Jani[7]
19	DEU	Porsche Team	Porsche 919 Hybrid	M	Nico Hülkenberg[8]	Earl Bamber[9]	Nick Tandy[9]
21	JPN	Nissan Motorsports	Nissan GT-R LM Nismo	M	Tsugio Matsuda[10]	Lucas Ordóñez[11]	Alex Buncombe[12]
22	JPN	Nissan Motorsports	Nissan GT-R LM Nismo	M	Harry Tincknell[13]	Olivier Pla[13]	Michael Krumm[13]
23	JPN	Nissan Motorsports	Nissan GT-R LM Nismo	M	Jann Mardenborough[13]	Marc Gené[13]	Max Chilton[13]
LMP2 (19 entries)
26	RUS	G-Drive Racing	Ligier JS P2-Nissan	D	Roman Rusinov[3]	Julien Canal[14]	Sam Bird[14]
27	RUS	SMP Racing	BR Engineering BR01-Nissan		Maurizio Mediani[3]	TBA	TBA
28	RUS	G-Drive Racing	Ligier JS P2-Nissan	D	Gustavo Yacamán[3]	Ricardo González[14]	Pipo Derani[14]
29	DEU	Pegasus Racing	Morgan LMP2-Nissan	D	Léo Roussel[3]	David Cheng[15]	Adderly Fong[15]
30	USA	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier JS P2-Honda	D	Scott Sharp[16]	Ryan Dalziel[16]	David Heinemeier Hansson[16]
31	USA	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier JS P2-Honda	D	Ed Brown[16]	Johannes van Overbeek[16]	Jon Fogarty[16]
34	FRA	OAK Racing	Ligier JS P2-Honda	D	Chris Cumming[17]	Kévin Estre[17]	Laurens Vanthoor[17]
35	FRA	OAK Racing	Ligier JS P2-Nissan	D	Jacques Nicolet[3]	Jean-Marc Merlin[18]	Erik Maris[18]
36	FRA	Signatech Alpine	Alpine A450b-Nissan	D	Nelson Panciatici[3]	Paul-Loup Chatin[19]	Vincent Capillaire[19]
37	RUS	SMP Racing	BR Engineering BR01-Nissan		Mikhail Aleshin[3]	TBA	TBA
38	GBR	Jota Sport	Gibson 015S-Nissan	D	Simon Dolan[3]	Mitch Evans[20]	TBA
40	USA	Krohn Racing	Ligier JS P2-Judd		Tracy Krohn[3]	Niclas Jönsson[21]	TBA
41	GBR	Greaves Motorsport	Gibson 015S-Nissan	D	Gary Hirsch[3]	Jon Lancaster[22]	Björn Wirdheim[22]
42	GBR	Strakka Racing	Strakka Dome S103-Nissan	M	Nick Leventis[3]	Danny Watts[23]	Jonny Kane[23]
43	CHE	Team SARD-Morand	Morgan LMP2 Evo-SARD	D	Oliver Webb[3]	TBA	TBA
45	SMR	Ibañez Racing	Oreca 03R-Nissan	D	José Ibañez[3]	TBA	TBA
46	FRA	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Oreca 05-Nissan	D	Pierre Thiriet[3]	TBA	TBA
47	HKG	KCMG	Oreca 05-Nissan	D	Matthew Howson[3]	Richard Bradley[24]	Nicolas Lapierre[24]
48	IRL	Murphy Prototypes	Oreca 03R-Nissan	D	Nathanaël Berthon[25]	Karun Chandhok[26]	Mark Patterson[26]
LMGTE-Pro (9 entries)
51	ITA	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	Gianmaria Bruni[27]	Toni Vilander[27]	TBA
63	USA	Corvette Racing-GM	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	M	Jan Magnussen[3]	Antonio García[28]	Ryan Briscoe[28]
64	USA	Corvette Racing-GM	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	M	Oliver Gavin[3]	Tommy Milner[28]	Jordan Taylor[28]
71	ITA	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	Davide Rigon[27]	James Calado[27]	TBA
91	DEU	Porsche Team Manthey	Porsche 911 RSR	M	Richard Lietz[3]	Michael Christensen[9]	Jörg Bergmeister[9]
92	DEU	Porsche Team Manthey	Porsche 911 RSR	M	Patrick Pilet[3]	Frédéric Makowiecki[9]	Wolf Henzler[9]
95	GBR	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	Nicki Thiim[29]	Christoffer Nygaard[29]	Marco Sørensen[29]
97	GBR	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	Darren Turner[3]	Stefan Mücke[30]	Robert Bell[30]
99	GBR	Aston Martin Racing V8	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	Fernando Rees[3]	Alex MacDowall[30]	Richie Stanaway[30]
LMGTE-Am (14 entries)
50	FRA	Larbre Compétition	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	M	Gianluca Roda[31]	Paolo Ruberti[31]	Kristian Poulsen[32]
53	USA	Riley Motorsports-TI Auto	Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R	M	Jeroen Bleekemolen[3]	Ben Keating[33]	Marc Miller[34]
55	ITA	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	Duncan Cameron[3]	Alex Mortimer[35]	Matt Griffin[35]
61	ITA	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	Peter Ashley Mann[3]	TBA	TBA
62	USA	Scuderia Corsa	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		Bill Sweedler[3]	Townsend Bell[36]	TBA
66	GBR	JMW Motorsport	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	D	George Richardson[3]	TBA	TBA
67	TWN	Team AAI[37]	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	M	Jun-San Chen[3]	Xavier Maassen[38]	TBA
68	TWN	Team AAI[37]	Porsche 911 RSR	M	Han-Chen Chen[3]	TBA	TBA
72	RUS	SMP Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2		Viktor Shaitar[3]	Aleksey Basov[39]	Andrea Bertolini[39]
77	DEU	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Porsche 911 RSR	M	Patrick Dempsey[40]	Patrick Long[40]	Marco Seefried[41]
83	ITA	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	François Perrodo[27]	Emmanuel Collard[27]	Rui Águas[27]
88	DEU	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche 911 RSR	M	Christian Ried[3]	TBA	TBA
96	GBR	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	Roald Goethe[3]	Stuart Hall[30]	Francesco Castellacci[30]
98	GBR	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	M	Paul Dalla Lana[42]	Pedro Lamy[42]	Mathias Lauda[42]

Reserves

Reserves (5 entries)[3]
Order	Class	No.	Nation	Team	Car	Designated driver
1	LMP2	49	HKG	KCMG	Oreca 03R-Nissan	TBA
2	LMGTE-Am	60	DNK	Formula Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Johnny Laursen
3	LMGTE-Am	86	GBR	Gulf Racing UK	Porsche 911 RSR	Michael Wainwright
4	LMGTE-Am	65	DEU	Proton Competition	Porsche 911 RSR	TBA
5	LMP2	44	SMR	Ibañez Racing	Oreca 03R-Nissan	Pierre Perret

References