Ferrari have been the team to beat so far at the 2024 24h of Le Mans race as Robert Kubica leads for the #83 car.

12th to start the race, Kubica made quick 🎉progress up fifth as he benefited from his soft✃ tyres.

After making the right decision when rain fell a coup✨le of hours into the race, Kubica leapfrogged the leading #50 Ferrari and the #6 Porsche which started on pole.

The #50 then began to close in as pit stops and driver changes came into effect, however, the #83 managed t꧑o remain in the lead as heavy rain came six hours into the race.

Both factory Ferrari’s stayed out while Kubica and the #83 pitted for wets, which again proved to be the right call as he lapped the #51 whic🉐h had been fifth before dropping to 13th.

Battling Ferrari for top spot was the #5 Porsche Penske car, which like the #83 car, made the right 🌼cꦗalls at the right time to move up the order.

Toyota were not sh▨y in making progress either, as Brendon Hartley was able to claw b꧋ack a lot of time on the leading trio.

Alpine suffered a disastrous opening few hours as the #35 reitred before Mick Schumacher was also out of༺ the race just after the six-hour mark.

Des𒀰pite early pace, Cadillac’s challenge faded as both full factory V-Series R machines went backwards.

In 🌟LMGT3, the highly-anticipated #46 BMW was a constant presence at the front before taking the lead after a few hours.

Valentino Rossi spent much of his first stint leading the way before handi♛ng back over to Maxime Martin, who made a mistake when꧒ getting back underway following the latest full course yellow when he spun round an LMP2 car.

As a result, Martin was under 🎐investigation for him part ꦇin the incident.

After big problems for the #20 BMW early on, the #15 was forced to retire when Dries Vanthoor suffered a big 🐟crash after contact 🌼with race leader Kubica.

As a result of th🔯e incident the s♑afety car was deployed for the first time today.