The first entry list for the 89th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans has been released, with a total of 62 cars set to take part.
The entries are made up of five cars in the new Hypercar class, 25 entries in LMP2, seven in GTE Pro and 24 in GTE Am, with an additional Garage 56 entry rounding out the grid.
Five cars will be on the grid for the first Le Mans held under Hypercar regulations, with two entries from Toyota Gazoo Racing and two from Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus joined by the lone Alpine A480-Gibson.
LMP2 is the largest class of the race, with 23 teams entering an ORECA 07-Gibson and just two fielding a Ligier JS P217-Gibson.
The full season WEC entries from Richard Mille Racing Team, High Class Racing, Dragonspeed, United Autosports (entering three cars), JOTA, Racing Team Nederland, Team WRT, Inter Europol Competition, Realteam Racing and ARC Bratislava are all represented.
Several of these teams are fielding multiple entries, including United Autosports, High Class Racing andTeam WRT.
Several teams are coming in from the European Le Mans Series, including G-Drive Racing with two entries, Duqueine Team, SO24-Dirob by Graff and Panis Racing.
IDEC Sport is entering a pair of cars, with the #17 car crewed by the Daytona-winning trio of Kyle Tilley, Dwight Merriman and Ryan Dalziel alongside the full-season #48 ELMS entry.
IMSA squad PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports is making its Le Mans debut entering a lone ORECA for Patrick Kelly.
Two notable additions to the LMP2 grid include Risi Competizione, fielding an ORECA for Ryan Cullen and Oliver Jarvis, and Racing Team India Eurasia.
GTE Pro features seven cars, with the two full-season efforts from Ferrari and Porsche joined by a pair of cars from Corvette Racing and a lone privateer Porsche entered by WeatherTech Racing.
Corvette will field two of its C8.Rs for their delayed Le Mans debut, which was originally supposed to take place last year. Antonio Garcia, Jordan Taylor and Nicky Catsburg will drive the #63 car, while Tommy Milner, Nick Tandy and Alexander Sims team up aboard the #64 car.
In GTE Am, 24 cars have been entered. Roughly half of those entries come from the full-season WEC teams: TF Sport, Team Project 1, Cetilar Racing, Iron Lynx, Dempsey-Proton Racing, AF Corse, GR Racing, Aston Martin Racing and D’Station Racing.
Several teams have been entered through invitations gained from the Asian Le Mans Series. These include Herberth Motorsport, Inception Racing and Rinaldi Racing.
The field is completed by entries from Absolute Racing, Spirit of Race, Kessel Racing, JMW Motorsport, Hubauto Racing and Proton Competition.
Finally, Garage 56 will once again host an entry for the first time since 2016. Association SRT41, the team from Frederic Sausset who raced from Garage 56 five years ago, originally aimed to enter last year’s race before the pandemic struck.
They will now field an ORECA 07-Gibson with a driver squad made up entirely of disabled drivers.
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