24 Hours of Le Mans 2025: Update on invitations

As the start of the 2025 season looms,Endurance with the 24 Hours of Daytona (January 25-26), here is an update on the invitations for the next 24 Hours of Le Mans (June 14-15). A total of 11 will be distributed to drivers and teams who must meet certain conditions.

To date, 9 of them have already found buyers. On the other side of the Atlantic, the last round of the 2024 campaign of theIMSA in October, allowed us to know the first three lucky winners: Porsche Penske Motorsport, the IMSA champion team in the GTP category, Boulle (Inter Europol by PR1/Mathiasen), winner of the Jim Trueman Award (for drivers who have built a career outside of racing), and Orey Fidani (AWA Racing – Corvette), winner of the Bob Akin Award (for the best Bronze driver in GT competing under the same parameters as those of drivers eligible for the Jim Trueman Award).

THEELMS awarded 5 more while the GT World Challenge Europe, whose final took place last November in Saudi Arabia, rewarded Sky Tempesta Racing, winner of the Bronze Cup.

Regarding the last two invitations, these are played out during the 2024/2025 ALMS campaign (which started in Malaysia, at the beginning of December) at the end of which the champion teams in LMP2 and LMGT3 will be the lucky ones. At the moment, RD Limited leads the debates in LMP2, and Winward Racing in GT3.

Guests for the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2025

• Hypercar : Porsche Penske Motorsport, champion team in IMSA in the GTP category
• LM P2 : Nick Boulle (Inter Europol by PR1/Mathiasen), Jim Trueman Award Winner
• LM P2 : AO by TF, champion team of the LM P2 category of the European Le Mans Series 2024
• LM P2 : Inter Europol Competition, vice-champion team in the LM P2 category of the 2024 European Le Mans Series
• LM P2 : AF Corsica, champion team of the LM P2 Pro-Am category of the European Le Mans Series 2024
• LM P2 : RLR MSport, champion team in the LM P3 category of the 2024 European Le Mans Series
• LMGT3 : Orey Fidani (AWA Racing – Corvette), winner of the Bob Akin Award
• LMGT3 : Iron Lynx, champion team of the LMGT3 category of the 2024 European Le Mans Series
• LMGT3 : Sky Tempesta Racing, winner of the Bronze Cup in GT World Challenge Europe

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