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Discover the analysis of the 87th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans carried out by our special correspondents in issue 2221 of AUTOhebdo, available from Monday evening in digital version on all platforms, and from Wednesday on newsstands.

Keating Motorsports achieved its first category victory at Le Mans by winning the GTE Am category with the already famous Ford GT in purple livery from Keating-Bleekemolen-Fraga. However, it was Team Project 1 which won the title in the category as well as its crew made up of Perfetti-Bergmeister-Lindsey.

At the end of a thrilling race in GTE Pro where the lead was fought out between Ferrari, Porsche, Ford and Corvette, it was the No. 488 AF Corse F51 of Pier Guidi-Calado-Serra which won the victory by competing a race free of errors. The Porsches of Bruni-Lietz-Makowiecki and Pilet-Bamber-Tandy completed the category podium. The No. 911 92 RSR of Christensen-Estre-Vanthoor finished 10th in GTE Pro following an exhaust problem, but Michael Christensen and Kévin Estre still won the title.

Corvette was not successful. After Marcel Fässler's crash in the #64, Magnussen-Garcia-Rockenfeller's car led the category until being trapped by the safety car. The exit of Jan Magnussen finally ruined the last hopes of the C7R.

If the Aurus 01 G-Drive of Rusinov-Van Uitert-Vergne took the lead in LMP2 thanks to the safety cars, it isAlpine of Lapierre-Negrao-Thiriet who won the victory and the category title when the Russian team's prototype lost several laps following a starter problem. The podium is completed by the No. 07 Oreca 38 of Jackie Chan DC Racing of Tung-Richelmi-Aubry and that of TDS Racing of Perrodo-Vaxivière-Duval. The Dragonspeed of Gonzalez-Maldonado-Davidson was fighting for the top three before Pastor Maldonado went off the track at Tertre Rouge early in the morning.

United Autosports takes the first Ligier JSP217 to the foot of the LMP2 podium with Hanson-Albuquerque-Di Resta. Cetilar Villorba Corse offers the best result in Dallara by finishing outside the Top 12 in the category with Lacorte-Sernagiotto-Belicchi.

The Toyotas remained untouchable throughout the 24 Hours of Le Mans. However, it was the No. 050 TS8 Hybrid of Buemi-Nakajima-Alonso which won for the second time in a row and won the Drivers' title after the puncture that occurred on the No. 7 sister car of Conway-Kobayashi-Lopez.

It is SMP Racing which completes the podium in the general classification with the #1 BR11 of Petrov-Aleshin-Vandorne ahead of the two Rebellions.

It's finish ! Kazuki Nakajima, Fernando Alonso and Sébastien Buemi win the 24 2019 Hours of Le Mans!

It's the last round!

In GTE Am, the mass has probably been said because the #85 Ford is 17″ ahead of the #56 Porsche.

Toyota no. 7 stops. The No. 8 Toyota is back in the lead!

As it stands, Kevin Estre and Michael Christensen would be titled in GTE Pro with their 10th place.

José Maria Lopez (Toyota n°7) takes the lead in the general classification and is 15″ ahead of Kazuki Nakajima (Toyota n°8) 25 minutes from the finish.

The No. 8 Toyota comes to the pits.

Jeroen Bleekemolen (Ford no. 85) does the job by building a lead of 8″6 over Jörg Bergmeister (Porsche no. 56) at the head of GTE Am.

The No. 63 Corvette changes a wishbone and drops to ninth place in GTE Pro, five laps behind the leader.

Steering problems on Antonio Garcia's No. 63 Corvette. The car is in the pits.

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