Though absent from the FIA World Endurance Championship, the LMP2 class will remain present at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Sixteen entries fill the secondary prototype class meant for gentlemen drivers. Fourteen of the 16 entries come from the European Le Mans Series while the other two cars come from IMSA. All of the entries are Oreca 07 chassis.
#9 Proton Competition Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Macéo Capietto (1st), Jonas Ried (2nd), Bent Viscaal (3rd)
Test Day: 15th
About This Team: While running full-time in ELMS, Viscaal has also sampled IMSA's GTP class this season. At 19 years old, Ried is in his second year of LMP2 competition. Capietto's first two sports car races were earlier this year in ELMS with Ried as his co-driver.
#10 Vector Sport Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Ryan Cullen (6th), Patrick Pilet (16th), Stéphane Richelmi (4th)
Test Day: 8th
About This Team: This is the fifth consecutive year Pilet is competing in LMP2 at Le Mans. Richelmi returns for the first time since 2019. He won in LMP2 in 2016 and he was second in 2019. Cullen's best class finish at Le Mans was seventh last year.
#14 AO by TF Sport Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Louis Delétraz (6th), P.J. Hyett (2nd), Alex Quinn (1st)
Test Day: 3rd
About This Team: Delétraz was one of the best-kept secrets in sports car racing until Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti signed him for a full IMSA season. Deletraz has been second in LMP2 the last two years at Le Mans. Hyett is leaping up from GTE Am competition. He ran a full Asian Le Mans Series season and the first two IMSA races in LMP2. Quinn spent most of 2022 on the sidelines but won all three U.S. F2000 races he started. Last year, he was an IMSA Endurance Cup driver for PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports.
#22 United Autosports Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Bijoy Garg (1st), Oliver Jarvis (12th), Nolan Siegel (1st)
Test Day: 2nd
About This Team: Jarvis ended up second in the ELMS championship last year with three victories. His lone class victory at Le Mans was seven years ago in LMP2 when it also netted an overall runner-up finish. Garg is a rookie in ELMS after winning the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge championship last year. Siegel has been splitting his time between Indy Lights and IndyCar in 2024, but he won two races in IMSA's LMP2 class last year as an Endurance Cup driver for CrowdStrike Racing by APR. Siegel was not at the test day due to his IndyCar start with Juncos Hollinger Racing, but the #22 Oreca was second fastest on the test day.
#23 United Autosports Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Filipe Albuquerque (11th), Ben Hanley (8th), Ben Keating (10th)
Test Day: 6th
About This Team: Albuquerque enters Le Mans as the most recent winner in IMSA at Detroit. Hanley is currently second in the ELMS championship while also running in IMSA while Keating. Keating has won at Le Mans the last two years in GTE Am. This is his first appearance in an LMP2 car since 2017, but he won the IMSA LMP2 championship last year.
#24 Nielsen Racing Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: David Heinemeier Hansson (11th), Fabio Scherer (5th), Kyffin Simpson (1st)
Test Day: 14th
About This Team: Scherer was a part of the Le Mans-winning Inter Europol Competition entry last year. Simpson won the ELMS championship last year and has been having a respectable IndyCar rookie season. Heinemeier Hansson is ten years removed from his Le Mans class win in GTE Am. In LMP2 competition, he has never finished better than tenth in class.
#25 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Olli Caldwell (2nd), Romain De Angelis (1st), Matthias Kaiser (2nd)
Test Day: 9th
About This Team: Caldwell and Kaiser were second in the ELMS round from Barcelona. De Angelis comes over in place of Alex Lynn, who is driving for Cadillac in Hypercar. The Canadian has finished third, first and second in IMSA's GTD championship the previous three years. This is De Angelis' first LMP2 start.
#28 IDEC Sport Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Reshad de Gerus (3rd), Paul Lafargue (8th), Job van Uitert (6th)
Test Day: 1st
About This Team: The #28 IDEC Oreca led the test day at 3:37.044. IDEC has finished fourth in each of the first two ELMS races this year, and it started on pole position for the second race at Circuit Paul Ricard. Lafargue has finished fifth, sixth, sixth, eighth and sixth in his last five Le Mans starts. Van Uitert's best class finish at Le Mans was sixth in LMP2 as a rookie in 2019.
#30 Duqueine Team Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: James Allen (7th), John Falb (3rd), Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer (1st)
Test Day: 12th
About This Team: Simmenauer is making the step into LMP2 racing after spending the last few years in GT competition. He and Allen are co-drivers in ELMS. Allen is coming off the ELMS championship in 2023, and he has been in the top LMP2 Pro-Am entry the last two years at Le Mans. Falb last ran at Le Mans in 2020. Both of his previous two starts have been in LMP2.
#33 DKR Engineering Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: René Binder (8th), Laurents Hörr (3rd), Alexander Mattschull (1st)
Test Day: 16th
About This Team: Binder was third in LMP2 last year at Le Mans while Hörr is in his second season of ELMS LMP2 competition. Mattschull has run regularly in the 24H Series lately. This was the slowest car on the test day, 6.768 seconds off the #28 IDEC Sport Oreca.
#34 Inter Europol Competition Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Vladislav Lomko (2nd), Clémenet Novalak (1st), Jakub Śmiechowski (6th)
Test Day: 4th
About This Team: Lomko is leading the ELMS championship through two races and won at Circuit Paul Ricard last month. Novalak is in his first season of sports car racing. Šmiechowski won at Le Mans last year in LMP2, his first victory in five seasons of LMP2 competition across ELMS and WEC.
#37 Cool Racing Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Lorenzo Fluxá (1st), Malthe Jakobsen (2nd), Ritomo Miyata (1st)
Test Day: 7th
About This Team: This trio won the ELMS season opener at Barcelona. Miyata has had a trying season in Formula Two with only three points finishes in the first ten races. Jakobsen did win the Asian Le Mans Series LMP2 championship over the winter. Fluxá only started racing sports cars this year.
#45 CrowdStrike Racing by APR Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Colin Braun (3rd), Nicky Catsburg (6th) George Kurtz (2nd)
Test Day: 10th
About This Team: Braun is coming off an exceptional IMSA season in 2023 where he won the 24 Hours of Daytona and Petit Le Mans. He and Kurtz have been paired in GT World Challenge America competition and regularly are competing at the front. They were tenth in LMP2 last year at Le Mans, but were the top Pro-Am entry. Catsburg won last year in GTE Am, but he will be making his LMP2 debut this year.
#47 Cool Racing Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Matt Bell (2nd), Naveen Rao (1st), Frederik Vesti (1st)
Test Day: 13th
About This Team: Vesti was second in the Formula Two championship last year, and along with ELMS competition, he has been keeping busy as a Mercedes-AMG Formula One reserve driver. Bell's only Le Mans start was two years ago. Rao has competed in only five races over the last three years, one GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup race, two Porsche Carrera Cup North America races and two Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America races.
#65 Panis Racing Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Mathias Beche (10th), Scott Huffaker (2nd), Rodrigo Sales (2nd)
Test Day: 5th
About This Team: Beche and Sales are together again and running last year at Le Mans. Unfortunately, they only completed 18 laps in last year's race. They are currently leading the ELMS LMP2 Pro-Am championship standings. Huffaker was a regular winner in IMSA's LMP2 class. He spent last year in GTE competition driving for Kessel Racing.
#183 AF Corse Oreca-Gibson
Drivers: Ben Barnicoat (4th), François Perrodo (12th), Nicolás Varrone (3rd)
Test Day: 11th
About This Team: Barnicoat and Perrodo remain together for another year at Le Mans. This year, Varrone joins the Anglo-Franco duo a year after the Argentine won in GTE Am. Barnicoat has been one of the best drivers in IMSA's GTD Pro category for the last three years. Perrodo won at Le Mans in GTE Am three years ago, but he was third in LMP2 in 2019.
Practice for the 24 Hours of Le Mans will begin today at 8:00 a.m. ET and last for three hours. Qualifying practice will be for one-hour at 1:00 p.m. ET with night practice lasting two hours and beginning at 4:00 p.m. ET.
Thursday begins with a three-hour practice at 9:00 a.m. ET. Hyperpole qualifying will take place at 2:00 p.m. ET before a one-hour night practice at 4:00 p.m. ET.
There will be a 15-minute warm-up at 6:00 a.m. ET on Saturday June 15 with the 92nd 24 Hours of Le Mans beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET.
