2022

This 90th event of the Le Mans 24 Hours is bringing things back to normal following two very special years for the organisation of the event. The public is once again allowed and turned up in their numbers (244,200 spectators). It also included all of the popular and festive events, weighing and parade of the drivers of those in the lead before returning to the city centre. American Joshua Pierson becomes the youngest driver to take part in the race at the age of just 16.

Toyota, who were big favourites, had its two cars on the front row of the starting grid. The race ran smoothly for the Japanese team which won for the fifth consecutive time and achieved its fourth double. American manufacturer Glickenhaus completed the podium in just their second race.

62 cars started, and 53 finished: this is the lowest number of retirements in the history of the Le Mans 24 Hours. The 2022 event was already a party a year before the long-awaited centenary race!

A car equipped with tyres from the French manufacturer Michelin won for the twentieth-fifth consecutive time in 2022. This sequence began in 1998.

The equipment manufacturer had only won the Le Mans event six times since 1923 prior to this. Today there is a total monopoly, but the firm continues to innovate. Tyre 53, for example, is 53% developed using bio sourced, renewable or recycled materials.