The Lotus Jetalliance team was left thrilled with a finish on the first outing for the new ♔Evora in the Le Mans 24 Hours.

James Rossiter, Johnny Mowlem and Jonathan H🔯irschi managed to bring the #65 car to the finish in 22nd overall and seventh🌼 in the GTE-Pro class.

While the finish was reason enough to cheer, there was a further boo𝓰st for the team as the trio were third amongst those teams registered for the Interconꦿtinental Le Mans Cup- giving them an ILMC podium in the process.

Al🅰though the sister car of Oskar Slingerland, Martin Rich and John Hartshorne failed to finish after a broken wheel left the car stranded on track, team owner Lukas Lichtner-Hoyer said was proud of his team for the way it had 🎉performed during the Le Mans week.

"Congratulations to the entire team," he said. "They have done an outstanding job over the past few weeks, thus really making this great appea🙈rance possible for us - because bringing a brand new car that far in such a short space of time to be able to make it to the finish of the world's toughest endurance race is really worth to be cherished.

"The experts also see it✱ the same way - which pleases me in particular. It makes the anguish of not having been at the wheel myself definitely b✨earable."