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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, ꩵH🐈yperpole and FP4. 

Wednesdaꦇy saw the opening day of practice and qualifying, with Cadillac leading the way in the latter with the No.12 Jota car.

Toyota suffered a 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 sꦆtart the day's running, before Hyperpole for all classes this evening and a final 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 ha🧸s been hit with a five-minute stop-and-go penalty for track limits abu💫se. 

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 fꦬinish those barrier repairs.

15:29

Just prior to this red flag, there was a a barrier tag for the No.37 CLX LMP2 entღry, which appears to have done some damage to the tyres. 

Race direction said there wa🅠s barrier repair𝔍s being carried out in two places. 

15:23

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

15:20
Red flag

The sessi𝕴on has been stopped due to an of♌f for the No.183 AF Corse LMP2 car has gone off at the Porsche Curves but has managed to reverse out of the barrier.

15:19

About 90 minutes to go. To🍌p five in all thre🐓e 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 Racing 🦄Spirit of Le Mans Aston Martin, currently being driven by Eduardo Barrichello, is being investigated for pitlane speeding. 

His dad, 🅷former F1 driver Rube🌼ns, is sat in the garage watching on this weekend. 

15:07

Interesting look here at the No.7 Toyota following theꦿ No.51 Fer꧃rari. 

Toyota's drivers have said already they feel they don't hav♓e the top speed to match 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 by the looks of it, but nothing major. 

14:57
Engine change for No.101

Cadillac have confirmed a change o꧒f engine for tꦑhe No.101 WTR Cadillac as a preemptive measure. 

Full statement below: 

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

14:55

The💃 s🐻low zone has ended and we're back at green flag running. 

14:54

The No.9 Iron Lynx car has been r♛ecovered 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 Valenti൩no Rossi's second start at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. 

He spoke to the media today following the No.46 WRT BMW toജpping quali🔜fying on Wednesday and we asked him how he feels about racing 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 car just locked up a𝔉nd 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 so𒅌on.

14:46

Hour one of this FP3 session is in the books and the No.51 Ferrari remains fastest with a 3m25.705s.&n🦄bsp;

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

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

14:37

There is a new leader in LMGT3, which is the No. 59 United Autosports McLaren with Gregoire Saucy𓄧 behind the wheel.

14:36

Green running haꦬs be𝐆en ongoing for the last few minutes but no major order shake-ups right now. 

There will be a lot of ꦆused rubber running going on. 

14:31

The No.90 Porsche is ha🐎♒ving some brakes changed in pitlane. 

Incidentally, that car has a Chip Hart Racing livery on it - which is a༒ nod to theꦬ upcoming F1 movie. 

As far as I'm aware, Brad Pitt isn't making anꦺy kind of Le Ma💎ns 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 reꦚcovered. 

14:24

The No.54 Vista AF Corse Ferrari LMGT3 entry has spun off at the last cor𝔉ner.&n💖bsp;

That car has Thomas Flohr behind the wheel. 

Yellow flags are out.

14:23

Big lo𝄹ck-up for the No.7 Toyota a few moments ago, which has now c🦋ome back into pitlane. 

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

With no Hyperpole for that car 🌠this evening, it can focus fully on race set-up. 

14:16

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

The No.51 Ferrari remains fastest with a 3m25.705s🦂. 

14:09

The No.23 United🅘 Autosports en﷽try now leads the LMP2 class with a 3m37.436s.