2024 24 Hours of Le Mans

The Automobile Club de l'Ouest's 92nd 24-hour race drew 329,000 spectators and was the fourth round of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship.

Nyck de Vries, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López finished second in a Toyota GR010 Hybrid, duelling with the race winners in the final two hours.

United Autosports's Bijoy Garg, Oliver Jarvis and Nolan Siegel shared an Oreca 07-Gibson car and led the last two hours of the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class, giving the team its second category victory after 2020.

Lietz, Shahin, Schuring became the joint leaders of the FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGT3 Drivers with Manthey PureRxcing's Klaus Bachler, Alex Malykhin and Joel Sturm.

The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), the promoter of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance motor race, announced the 2024 dates in June 2023.

[11] Following criticism that race restarts were too protracted following the end of a safety car procedure in 2023, the system was slightly modified to remove the "drop-back" feature that combined all three classes.

[18] Algarve Pro Racing declined their automatic invitation as winners of the 2023–24 ALMS LMP2 category because they wanted to focus on running two cars at Le Mans and not risk compromising quality with three entries.

[23] Entries were selected for their sporting quality, technical, fan, media and public interest and commitment, loyalty to other ACO-administered series and entrant's performance.

[25][30] Scott Dixon, Romain Grosjean, Álex Palou, Nolan Siegel and Kyffin Simpson missed testing to compete in the IndyCar Series race at Road America.

[30][31] Midway through the opening session, Jack Aitken, Mirko Bortolotti, René Rast, Kelvin van der Linde, Sheldon van der Linde and Marco Wittmann completed their running and left Le Mans to compete in the second Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters race at Circuit Zandvoort.

37 Cool Racing entry near the exit of the Porsche Curves, possibly due to a bump in the track surface in that area, with two minutes left.

65 Panis car paced LMP2 with a 3:37.217 lap despite his co-drivers Sales spinning into the tyre barrier at the exit of the Ford chicane and Huffaker got stuck in the gravel trap at Indianapolis corner.

59 United Autosports McLaren led LMGT3 at 3:57.558 despite co-driver James Cottingham going backwards into the barrier at Tertre Rouge corner after entering the grass.

[54] The last hour-long session began 30 minutes later than planned that evening owing to an accident in the Road to Le Mans support race.

7 Toyota's lap times after he spun into the gravel trap at the exit of the last Porsche Curves turn (Karting) with two minutes remaining, causing qualifying to be stopped and prevented teams from doing a final run.

[61][66] The Hyperpole session began 35 minutes late due to an accident in the first Road to Le Mans support race, which damaged the Armco barrier between the Mulsanne and Indianapolis turns.

15 BMW heavily into the tyre wall at Indianapolis corner and Hyperpole was stopped with 7 minutes and 41 seconds left as the car needed extricating.

2 Cadillac was demoted five places on the grid due to a penalty imposed when driver Earl Bamber collided with an LMGT3-category BMW at the previous 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

[83] At 16:00 Central European Summer Time, FIFA World Cup winning footballer Zinedine Zidane waved the French tricolour to begin the race,[84] which was led by the pole-sitting Laurens Vanthoor.

50 and 83 Ferraris battled for the race lead, exchanging places until Nielsen was able to go ahead when Kubica was delayed by slower cars leaving Tertre Rouge corner.

34 Inter Europol car was forced to enter the pit lane slowly due to a detached left front wheel, and it dropped off the LMP2 lead lap during the fourth hour.

35 Alpine to the side of the track in the run-off area near the exit of Arnage corner in the fifth hour, with smoke billowing from the car's rear.

[107][108] Race control dispatched the safety cars for the first time in the event to clean up debris, repair the barrier and recover the damaged BMW.

[108] Just as the safety cars were recalled after more than 90 minutes, rain returned to the circuit, prompting some teams to pit for wet-weather tyres in the ninth hour.

[112][115][116] Rain returned to the circuit during the 12th hour, and its increasing intensity prompted the deployment of safety cars for the second time, closing the fields in all three categories.

83 Ferrari into the pit lane and moved it into the garage with smoke coming from the brakes due to a motor–generator unit malfunction on the front axle in the 21st hour, forcing the car to retire.

The race director and black-and-white warning flags directed Nielsen to make a pit stop to repair the broken door, promoting López's No.

"[146] Calado confessed Ferrari underperformed in the wet compared to the dry, adding that strategy errors put his team "on the back foot through the race.

"[83] Siegel compared his failure to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 to winning the LMP2 class at Le Mans, "Pretty cool to have had the opportunity to compete in the two biggest races in the world in the same year and for the first time for both of them.

[153] According to Porsche LMDh factory director Urs Kuratle, the German marque lacked top speed compared to their rivals and made strategy errors with regards what tyres to use in the changing conditions.