The best-known endurance test in the automotive world has already begun in France. Learn everything you need to know about this event.
The historic career of 24 hours of Le Mans It is already developing its 92nd edition on the Sarthe circuit, which is a semi-permanent track of more than 13.5 kilometers with 38 curves. It has an Argentine presence, since Pechito López and Nicolás Varrone participate. Follow it live.
First abandonment in the 24 hours of Le Mans
Thomas Flohr He was involved in an accident when he lost control of the car and collided with the retaining wall aboard the #54 Ferrari in the GT3 category. In this way it becomes the first abandonment of the race, which has been less than two hours since his start.
The Thomas Flohr crash
Format and how the 24 hours of Le Mans are run
There is no set number of laps to complete the race.given that is for time and distance traveled by team, Last year Ferrari completed just 342 laps, the lowest total in this century.
This year 62 vehicles compete, so there will be 186 driversand they will be divided into the following three categories:
- Hypercars (23 cars)
- LMP2 (16 cars)
- LMGT3 (23 cars)
Teams must rotate their car with at least three driverswithout anyone being able to stay on top of the vehicle for more than 4 hours at a time, and no more than 14 total hours in the race. For more than 80% of the circuit the cars go flat out reaching speeds of up to 350 km/h.
Which Argentines compete in the 24 hours of Le Mans
This year the same Argentine drivers as last year are racing on the French circuit:
- José María “Pechito” Lópezit is the Cordoban’s eighth participation in Le Mans, he races with Toyota Gazoo Racing in the Hypercar along with Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries.
- Nicolas Varronewith elOreca of the LMP2 together with Francois Perrodo and Ben Barnicoat.
As always there are great drivers present. This year on the Le Mans circuit they are competing: Jenson Button, Romain Grosjean, Mick Schumacher, Valentino Rossi, Antonio Giovinazzi either Alex Palou.
The start of the race
24 hours of Le Mans, LIVE: which channel shows it on TV and how to watch ONLINE
The race can be followed live in Argentina through D Sports Motor:
- Channel 614 (SD) and 1614 (HD) on DirecTV
At the same time, it can be followed online through the website of DirecTV what is DGOthe virtual platform of the service.
What time does the 24 Hours of Le Mans end, country by country:
The race will end on Sunday at the following times:
- Argentina: 11:00 a.m.
- Brazil: 11.00 hours
- Uruguay: 11.00 hours
- Chili: 10.00 hours
- Paraguay: 10.00 hours
- Bolivia: 10.00 hours
- Venezuela: 10.00 hours
- Ecuador: 9.00 hours
- Peru: 9.00 hours
- Colombia: 9.00 hours
- Mexico: 8.00 hours
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