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The 24 Hours of Le Mans is 1 of 3 races successful motorsport's triple crown.
Alongside the Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans is regarded arsenic 1 of the astir prestigious races to triumph anyplace successful the world.
It mightn't person the glitz and glamour of Monaco oregon the pomp of Indianapolis, but it has prima powerfulness attraction for its past and sheer measurement of racing.
Stan Sport is the lone spot to ticker the 24 Hours of Le Mans. All the enactment streaming advertisement free, unrecorded and connected demand
This year, the twice-around-the-clock contention volition diagnostic immoderate of sport's astir celebrated names and iconic actors.
LeBron James volition beryllium the authoritative starter for the centenary solemnisation of racing astatine the Sarthe circuit.
'King James' volition question the French emblem to commencement the 91st moving of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and unleash the 62-car tract connected the 13.6km circuit.
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"There's thing similar seeing and experiencing sports astatine their highest level," said James.
"It's an honour for maine to beryllium portion of this historical infinitesimal successful motorsport and assistance observe the Centenary of 1 of the biggest sporting events successful the world.
"I look guardant to kicking disconnected this iconic contention and watching its world-class drivers vie connected Le Mans' planetary stage."
James isn't the lone celebrated sporting sanction linked to the race.
NFL fable Tom Brady volition beryllium represented connected the grid by mode of Jota Sport, who volition contention a brand-new Porsche 963 driven by Antonio Felix Da Costa, Will Stevens, and Yifei Ye.
The seven-time Super Bowl victor volition person his 'Brady' apparel marque don the golden Hypercar.
Upon revealing their instrumentality earlier this year, Brady said helium has been a "big instrumentality of centrifugal racing for a agelong time"
Most cognize Patrick Dempsey arsenic Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd of Grey's Anatomy fame, possibly not arsenic a 24 Hour of Le Mans winner.
Dempsey has raced since the aboriginal 2000s, piloting sports cars crossed North America and Europe.
He made his 24 Hours of Le Mans debut successful 2009 and by 2013 had his ain squad successful the race, co-owned past by Italian footballer Alessandro Del Piero.
In his 4th and last effort arsenic a driver, Dempsey yet stood connected the podium – finishing 2nd with American countryman Patrick Long and Marco Seefried of Germany.
After vacating the cockpit, his squad yet won the contention successful 2018 with Australian Matt Campbell, Germany's Christian Ried, and Julien Andlauer of France.
Dempsey volition beryllium entered successful this year's contention with Christian Ried (Germany), Mikkel Pedersen (Denmark), and Julien Andlauer (France), successful a Porsche successful the GTE-Am class.
Indeed, it was Dempsey who tipped Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender into a fast-paced beingness connected track.
The prima of X-Men and different celebrated films has raced since 2017 and made his 24 Hours of Le Mans debut successful 2022.
He'll instrumentality this twelvemonth with the aforesaid team, driving a Porsche 911 RSR alongside Martin Rump (Estoneia) and Richard Lietz (Austria).
24 HOURS OF LE MANS CLASSES
There are 3 classes successful the race; Hypercar, LMP2, and GTE-Am.
Hypercar oregon LMH, which replaced LMP1 successful 2022, features the fastest sports car successful the world. Most cars are hybrid-powered and scope speeds upwards of 330km/h.
Toyota, Ferrari, Peugeot, Porsche, and Cadillac (pictured above) are the big-name entries successful Hypercar with lesser-known manufacturers similar Glickenhaus and Vanwall entered too.
The Hypercar tract features 16 cars.
LMP2 is made up wholly of V8-powered sports car built by French shaper Oreca.
The 24-car tract is divided into Pro and Pro-Am of which determination are 15 and 9 entries respectively.
With everyone successful the aforesaid machinery, the playing tract is levelled and provides immoderate of the champion racing successful the event.
GTE-Am features the slowest cars – though 'slow' is simply a escaped term.
While the cars are conscionable implicit 30 seconds slower implicit the people of the 13km lap, they are inactive susceptible of break-neck speeds.
The 21-car grid features iconic cars similar the Porsche 911 and Aston Martin Vantage arsenic good arsenic the caller Ferrari 488 and Corvette C8.
Like LMP2, the combat for GTE-Am honours is 1 of the astir intensely fought.
In each class, drivers indispensable implicit astatine slightest six hours of the contention but nary much than 14 hours, each told.
Drivers indispensable besides not thrust for much than 4 hours wrong immoderate six-hour period, otherwise, they volition beryllium penalised.
WHAT IS NASCAR DOING AT LE MANS?
Each twelvemonth since 2012, a spot is kept bare connected the grid for an "innovative car" that takes Garage 56.
In years past, determination person been innovations similar the Deltawing and a car with manus controls for a quadriplegic.
Now, NASCAR is seeing if a car tin implicit the afloat 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Hendrick Motorsport has been tasked with gathering and processing a Chevrolet Camaro, which volition beryllium raced by 2009 F1 champion Jenson Button, seven-time NASCAR victor Jimmie Johnson, and 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans victor Mike Rockenfeller.
Although an unprecedented determination successful the modern era, it's not the archetypal clip NASCAR has had a beingness astatine Le Mans, however.
In 1976, a Dodge Challenger and Ford Torino contested the contention arsenic portion of the solemnisation of the bicentenary of the American Declaration of Independence.
It's been 47 years since then, and connected the centenary of the 24 Hour of Le Mans, NASCAR is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
24 HOUR OF LE MANS LAP RECORDS
All-time LMP1 qualifying record: Kamui Kobayashi – 3:14.791s – Toyota TS050 Hybrid – 2017
All-time LMP1 contention record: Mike Conway – 3:17.297s – Toyota TS050 Hybrid – 2019
LMH: Brendon Hartley – 3:27.607s – Toyota GR010 Hybrid – 2021
LMP2: Nathanael Berthon – 3:27.200s – Oreca 07 – 2018
GTE: Alexander Sims – 3:47.501s – Porsche 911 RSR – 2021
WHEN IS THE 24 HOURS OF LE MANS
The lawsuit takes spot crossed June 7-11.
HOW CAN I WATCH THE 24 HOURS OF LE MANS?
Live, ad-free, and exclusive sum of the adjacent is connected Stan Sport.
WEDNESDAY STAN SPORT SCHEDULE
9:45pm – Practice 1 – 2 hours
THURSDAY STAN SPORT SCHEDULE
2:45am – Qualifying – 2 hours
5:45am – Practice 2 – 2 hours
10:45pm – Practice 3 – 3 hours
FRIDAY STAN SPORT SCHEDULE
3:45am – Hyperpole – 30 minutes
5:45am – Practice 4 – 60 minutes
SATURDAY STAN SPORT SCHEDULE
7:45pm – Warm up – 15 minutes
11:00pm – Race – 24 hours
EX-F1 DRIVERS IN THE 24 HOURS OF LE MANS
(LMH) Sebastien Bourdais – No.2 Cadillac (with Renger Van Der Zande and Scott Dixon)
(LMH) Andre Lotterer – No.6 Porsche (with Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor)
(LMH) Kamui Kobayashi – No.7 Toyota (with Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez)
(LMH) Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley – No.8 Toyota (with Ryo Hirawaka)
(LMH) William Stevens – No.38 Porsche (with Antonio Felix Da Costa and Yifei Ye)
(LMH) Antonio Giovanazzi – No.51 Ferrari (with Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado)
(LMH) Felipe Nasr – No.75 Porsche (with Mathieu Jaminet and Nicholas Tandy)
(LMH) Paul Di Resta and Jean-Eric Vergen – No.93 Peugeot (with Mikkel Jensen)
(LMH) Jack Aitken – No.311 Cadillac (with Luis Felipe Derani and Alexander Sims)
(LMP2) Pietro Fittipaldi – No.28 Oreca (with David Heinemeier Hansson and Oliver Rasmussen)
(LMP2) Jan Magnussen – No.32 Oreca (with Mark Kvamme and Anders Fjordbach)
(LMP2) Giedo van der Garde – No.39 Oreca (with Roberto Lacorte and Patrick Pilet)
(LMP2) Robert Kubica – No.41 Oreca (with Rui Andrade and Louis Deletraz)
(LMP2) Daniil Kvyat – No.63 Oreca (with Doriane Pin and Mirko Bortolotti)
(GARAGE 56) Jenson Button – No.24 Chevrolet (with Jimmie Johnson and Mike Rockenfeller)
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