The 2024 Le Mans Cup, known as the 2024 Michelin Le Mans Cup under sponsorship, was the ninth season of the Le Mans Cup. The six-event series began at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 13 April and concluded at Algarve International Circuit on 19 October.[1] The series was open to Le Mans Prototypes in the LMP3 class, and grand tourer sports cars in the GT3 class.
The provisional calendar for the 2023 season was announced on 22 September 2022.[1] Mugello Circuit was added to the calendar for the first time, replacing the round at MotorLand Aragón.
Rnd | Circuit | Location | Race Length | Date |
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1 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya | Montmeló, Spain | 1 hour, 50 mins | 13 April |
2 | Circuit Paul Ricard | Le Castellet, France | 1 hour, 50 mins | 4 May |
3 | Circuit de la Sarthe | Le Mans, France | 55 minutes | 14 June |
55 minutes | 15 June | |||
4 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Stavelot, Belgium | 1 hour, 50 mins | 24 August |
5 | Mugello Circuit | Scarperia e San Piero, Italy | 1 hour, 50 mins | 28 September |
6 | Algarve International Circuit | Portimão, Portugal | 1 hour, 50 mins | 19 October |
All cars in the LMP3 class used the 2020 spec Nissan VK56DE 5.6L V8 engine and Michelin tyres.
Entrant/Team | Chassis | No. | Drivers | Rounds | |||
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CD Sport[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 2 | Willyam Gosselin | All | |||
Shahan Sarkissian | All | ||||||
11 | Franck Chappard | All | |||||
Chris Short | All | ||||||
DKR Engineering[3] | Duqueine M30 - D08 | 3 | Xinzhe Xie | 3 | |||
Pengcheng Ye | 3 | ||||||
Nielsen Racing[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 4 | Garett Grist | 3 | |||
Anthony McIntosh | 3 | ||||||
7 | Wayne Boyd[4] | All | |||||
Anthony Wells[4] | All | ||||||
RLR MSport[3] | Ligier JS P320 | 5 | Ian Aguilera | 3 | |||
Garth Walden | 3 | ||||||
ANS Motorsport[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 6 | Nicolas Schatz | 2–6 | |||
Clément Moreno[5] | 2–3 | ||||||
Eric de Doncker[6] | 4–6 | ||||||
84 | Julien Lemoine | All | |||||
Paul Trojani | All | ||||||
Team Virage[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 8 | Bernardo Pinheiro | 3 | |||
Georgios Kolovos[6] | 3 | ||||||
44 | 4–6 | ||||||
Mihnea Ștefan | All | ||||||
Jamie Falvey | 1–3 | ||||||
59 | Oscar Bittar | All | |||||
Ricardo Gracia Filho | All | ||||||
76 | Raphaël Narac | 3 | |||||
Jacek Zielonka | 3 | ||||||
Graff[5] | Ligier JS P320 | 9 | Axel Gnos[5] | 2 | |||
Georgios Kolovos[5] | 2 | ||||||
Haowen Luo | 3 | ||||||
Louis Rossi | 3 | ||||||
Racing Spirit of Léman[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 10 | Marius Fossard[7] | All | |||
Christophe Lapierre[7] | All | ||||||
64 | Michael Doppelmayr | 3 | |||||
Pierre Kaffer | 3 | ||||||
M Racing[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 13 | Alexandre Cougnaud | All | |||
Romano Ricci | All | ||||||
IDEC Sport[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 17 | Patrice Lafargue[8] | 1–3 | |||
Dino Lunardi[8] | 1–3 | ||||||
High Class Racing[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 20 | Tommy Foster[9] | All | |||
Jens Reno Møller[9] | All | ||||||
Team Thor[2] | 77 | Auðunn Guðmundsson[10] | All | ||||
Colin Noble[10] | All | ||||||
EuroInternational[3] | Ligier JS P320 | 21 | Daniel Ali | 3 | |||
Miika Panu | 3 | ||||||
31 | Jean-René de Fournoux | 3 | |||||
Hugo Rosati | 3 | ||||||
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Duqueine M30 - D08 | 22 | Torsten Kratz | 3 | |||
Leonard Weiss | 3 | ||||||
Ligier JS P320 | 66 | Steve Parrow[11] | All | ||||
Daniel Keilwitz[11] | 1–4 | ||||||
Wyatt Brichacek | 5–6 | ||||||
71 | Stefan Aust[11] | All | |||||
Felipe Fernández Laser[11] | All | ||||||
Bretton Racing[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 26 | Dan Skočdopole | 1–3, 5 | |||
Jamie Falvey[6] | 4–6 | ||||||
Sacha Lehmann | 4 | ||||||
Teddy Wilson | 6 | ||||||
Ben Stone[12][6] | 1–3 | ||||||
62 | 4–6 | ||||||
Axel Gnos | 1 | ||||||
Georgios Kolovos | 1 | ||||||
Romain Iannetta | 2 | ||||||
Szymon Ładniak | 2–3 | ||||||
Ace Robey | 3 | ||||||
Theodor Jensen | 4–6 | ||||||
P4 Racing[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 27 | Andrew Ferguson | All | |||
Louis Hamilton-Smith | All | ||||||
MV2S Racing[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 28 | Kenzie Beecroft | 1 | |||
Romain Iannetta | 1 | ||||||
Maxence Maurice | 3 | ||||||
Viacheslav Gutak[N 2] | 3–6 | ||||||
Terrence Woodward[6] | 4–6 | ||||||
29 | Maximus Mayer[12] | All | |||||
Clément Moreno[12] | 1 | ||||||
Christophe Cresp | 2–3 | ||||||
Jacek Zielonka[6] | 4–6 | ||||||
Inter Europol Competition[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 34 | Alexander Bukhanstov[13][N 2] | All | |||
Rik Koen[13] | All | ||||||
43 | Tim Creswick[13] | All | |||||
Sebastian Gravlund[13] | 1–4, 6 | ||||||
Daniel Ali[14] | 5 | ||||||
Steller Motorsport[2] | Duqueine M30 - D08 | 42 | Sennan Fielding[15] | 1–4, 6 | |||
Sylvain Guintoli[15] | 1–3 | ||||||
Josh Caygill[6] | 4 | ||||||
Andrew Bentley[16] | 6 | ||||||
Reiter Engineering[17] | Ligier JS P320 | 50 | Horst Felbermayr Jr. | All | |||
Moritz Löhner | 1 | ||||||
Miklas Born | 2–6 | ||||||
GG Classics[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 58 | George Nakas | All | |||
Fraser Ross | All | ||||||
Haegeli by T2 Racing[2] | Duqueine M30 - D08 | 67 | Pieder Decurtins | All | |||
Samir Ben | All | ||||||
68 | Marcel Oosenbrugh | 3 | |||||
Dominik Schraml | 3 | ||||||
R-ace GP[2] | Duqueine M30 - D08 | 85 | Hadrien David[18] | All | |||
Fabien Michal[18] | All | ||||||
Cool Racing[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 87 | Adrien Closmenil | All | |||
James Sweetnam | All | ||||||
97 | Adrien Chila | All | |||||
David Droux | All | ||||||
More Motorsport[2] | Ligier JS P320 | 99 | Mark van der Snel | All | |||
Max van der Snel | All | ||||||
Source:[19][20][21][22][23][24] |
Bold indicates the overall winner.
Round | Circuit | LMP3 Winners | GT3 Winners | |
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1 | Catalunya | No. 20 High Class Racing | No. 51 AF Corse | |
Tommy Foster Jens Reno Møller |
Alessandro Balzan Matt Kurzejewski | |||
2 | Le Castellet | No. 97 Cool Racing | No. 51 AF Corse | |
Adrien Chila David Droux |
Alessandro Balzan Matt Kurzejewski | |||
3 | R1 | Le Mans | No. 22 WTM by Rinaldi Racing | No. 12 Kessel Racing |
Torsten Kratz Leonard Weiss |
David Fumanelli Frédéric Jousset | |||
R2 | No. 29 MV2S Racing | No. 90 Blackthorn | ||
Christophe Cresp Maximus Mayer |
Martin Berry Lorcan Hanafin | |||
4 | Spa-Francorchamps | No. 62 Bretton Racing | No. 88 AF Corse | |
Theodor Jensen Ben Stone |
Riccardo Agostini Custodio Toledo | |||
5 | Mugello | No. 85 R-ace GP | No. 51 AF Corse | |
Hadrien David Fabien Michal |
Alessandro Balzan Matt Kurzejewski | |||
6 | Portimão | No. 77 Team Thor | No. 51 AF Corse | |
Auðunn Guðmundsson Colin Noble |
Alessandro Balzan Matt Kurzejewski |
Points are awarded according to the following structure:
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Le Mans | 15 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
LMP3 Teams Championship[edit]
GT3 Teams Championship[edit]
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