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2025 24 Hours of Le Mans: Thursday practice and Hyperpole LIVE UPDATES!

Live coverage of Thursday practice and qualifying at the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans

The 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans continues on Thursday 12 June with FP3, Hyperpole and F🐲P4.&n🍬bsp;

Wednesday saw the opening day of practice and qualify🗹ing, with Cadillac leading the way in the latter with the No.12 Jota car.

Toyota suffered 𝓀a difficult evening as the No.7 car failed to make it into the top 15 cutoff to progress to Q2, while the No.6 Porsche was disqualified for a weight limit infringement. 

Three hours of practice start the day's running, before Hyperpole for all classes this evening and a fin🐬al practice tonight. 

Thursday 2025 Le Mans schedule:

  • FP3 - 14:45 CET
  • Hyperpole 1 LMGT3/LMP2 - 20:00 CET
  • Hyperpole 2 LMGT3/LMP2 - 20:35 CET
  • Hyperpole 1 Hypercar - 21:05 CET
  • Hyperpole 2 Hypercar - 21:40 CET
  • FP4 - 23:00 CET
15:41

The No.95 United Autosports McLaren has been hit ꧑with a five-minute stop-and-go penalty for track limits abuse. 

15:34
Green flag

We're back underway👍 in FP3 with 70 minutes remaining. 

15:29

Race direction has said it 🌺will take another five minutes at least to finish those barrier repairs.

15:29

Just prior to this red flag, there was a a barrier tag for the No.37 CLX LM🍒P2 entry, which appears to have done some damage to the tyres. 

Race direction said there was barrier repairs 🥀being carried out in two places. 

15:23

Teams being told by race direction that there is some barrier repairs going on that it🌞 hopes won't take too long. 

15:20
Red flag

The session has been stopped due to an off for the No.183 AF Corse LMP2 ca𒊎r has gone off at the Porsche Curves༺ but has managed to reverse out of the barrier.

15:19

About 90 minutes ༒to go.🗹 Top five in all three classes looks like this: 

Hypercar:

  1. No.51 Ferrari - 3m25.705s
  2. No.83 AF Corse - 3m26.322s
  3. No.6 Porsche - 3m27.400s
  4. No.5 Porsche - 3m27.470s
  5. No.50 - Ferrari - 3m27.514s

LMP2:

  1. No.22 United Autosports - 3m37.436s
  2. No.43 Inter Europol - 3m37.563s
  3. No.22 United Autosports - 3m38.540s
  4. No.199 AO by TF - 3m38.682s
  5. No.28 IDEC Sport - 3m38.744s

LMGT3:

  1. No.59 United Autosports McLaren - 3m56.932s
  2. No.95 United Autosports McLaren - 3m57.040s
  3. No.78 Akkodis ASP Team Lexus - 3m57.138s
  4. No.46 Team WRT BMW - 3m57. 213s
  5. No.92 Manthey Porsche - 3m57.326s.
15:11

The No.10 Raciܫng Spirit of Le Mans Astonꦕ Martin, currently being driven by Eduardo Barrichello, is being investigated for pitlane speeding. 

His dad, former F1 driver Rubens, is♏ sat in the garage watching on this w🅷eekend. 

15:07

Interesting look here at the Noಞ.7 Toyota following the No.51 Ferrari. 

Toyota's drivers have said already they feel they don't have the top spe𝕴ed to mat🍒ch Ferrari and we're seeing that play out in real time right now. 

14:58

The No.22 United Autosports LMP2 entry had a small moment into Arnage ꦇby the looks of it, but noཧthing major. 

14:57
Engine change for No.101

Cadillac have confirmed a change of engine for the No.101 WTR Cadillac as a p🅷reemptive measure. 

Full statement below: 

"The No.101 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R crew and Cadillac engineers will preempಌtively swap out the 5.5-liter DOHC V8 engine after detecting a potential issue in this free practice sessio🔯n. The No.101 Hypercar, sitting 14th on the time sheet, is among the four Cadillac entries to qualify for Hyperpole 1."

14:55

The slow zone has ended and we're back at 🌸green flag running. 

14:54

ဣThe No.9 Iron Lynx car has been recovered from the gravel and has gotten going again. Not too much damage to the front of that car, by the looks of it. 

14:52
Story - Why Valentino Rossi enjoys Le Mans more than MotoGP

This year is Valentino Ro♔ssi's secoඣnd start at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. 

He spoke to the media today following the No.46 WRT BMW topping qualifying on Wednesday and we asked him how he feels about rꦑacing at Le Mans compared to his days in MotoGP. 

Found out what he had to say 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:here

14:49

The No.9 Iron Lynx LMP2 c🍌ar just locked up an♊d ran into the barrier. 

 

14:48

The No.9 LMP2 entry has gone off at Indianapolis. So, yellow flags are out💜 and the slow zone will be deployed soon.

14:46

Hour one of this FP3 session is in the books and the No.51 Ferrari remains fastest with a 3m25.70💖5s. 

Inℱ LMP2, it's still the No.23 United Autosports car with a 3m37.436s. 

In LMGT3, it's the No.59 United Autꦇosports McLaren leading the way at 3m56.932s. 

14:37

Ther🐼e is a new leader in LMGT3, which is the No. 59 United Autosports M🌱cLaren with Gregoire Saucy behind the wheel.

14:36

Gre𝐆en running has been ongoing for the last fꦍew minutes but no major order shake-ups right now. 

There 🦩wi🦂ll be a lot of used rubber running going on. 

14:31

The No.90 Porsche is having some brakes chang🦄ed in pitlane. 

Incidentally, that car has a Chip Hart Racing livery on it - which is a no♕d to the upcoming F1 movie. 

As far as I'm aware, Brad Pitt isn't making any k♔ind of Le Mans wildcard appearance!

No.90 Manthey Porsche
No.90 Manthey Porsche
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14:25

Slow zones are active while 🏅the No.54 car is recovered. 

14:24

The No.54 Vista AF Corse Ferrari LMGT3 entry has spun off at the last corn﷽er.&nbs𒈔p;

That car has Thomas Flohr behind the wheel. 

Yellow flags are out.

14:23

Big lock-up for the No🦄.7 Toyota a few moments ago, which has now come back into pitlane. 

Mike Conway has just finished a stint. We spoke to hi🍌m earlier today and he feels Toyota is lacking in top speed - which was a surprise to him 🌼- in high-speed corners.

With no Hyperpole for that car this evening, it can focus fully on race set-up.&n🌟bsꦡp;

14:16

Only the No.50 Ferrari is yet to 🥂put a lap on the board in the Hypercar class a✃fter half an hour. 

The No.51 Fe💝rrari 🐭remains fastest with a 3m25.705s. 

14:09

The No.23 United Autosports entꦆry now leads the LMP2 class with꧑ a 3m37.436s.