WEC: Ferrari completes Le Mans Hypercar hat-trick

WEC: Ferrari completes Le Mans Hypercar hat-trick

  • F1
  • June 18, 2025

Ferrari’s 499p continued his domain in the 24 hours of Le Mans this weekend, claiming a third consecutive victory in the Circuit de la Sarthe, each one alignment of different drivers. This year, Robert Kubica, Philip Hanson and Yifei Ye tok the historical victory, with the three celebrating his first general victory in the race.

Two decades after the last private triumph in the legendary contest twice a day, entry #83 AF Cors overcame the two Ferrari Aph Cors’ works to win the largest race of the season with duplication and how four? Championship campaign.

In 2023, Hypercar #51 499P became the first Ferrari to win Le Mans directly since 1965, while last year, it was #50 who conquered his phenomenal challenge. Both factory cars were firmly in the mixture once again in the 93rd edition of the event, but a series of penalties and a night puncture opened by #83 to steal attention and in front of a record crowd of not enthusiasm of not000

Both Hanson and Ye of Super Bly, but it was Kubica who produced the heroic, since the former winner of the Grand Prix completed 43 percent of the turns of the winning car, including an amazing consecutive exhibition at the end of the race, for the exhibition consumption consumption sattyathly.

The first pole to prevail in Le Mans, the result represented the redemption for Kubica, who was the victory of LMP2 for a problem of the accelerator sensor in the last round in 2021 and then obtained the finalist of the class in the class of the THA-202 and 2020 category. Two teams had previously won from further back.

“What a great job of all” Kubica Enmisus. “It has been completely soft, but we deserve victory: we have fast and strong bone, and we only made some mistakes. It was supposed to make five periods at the end, but I managed to control everything and take the car home.

“I am happy for Ferrari; winning three years in a row with three different equipment and cars is incredible. At this time, it is a mixture of tiredness and adrenaline and I am looking forward to resting a little and e.

Arguffy as impression as the performance of the trio outside the cinema was that of the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963, which stood out from the 21st and lasted on the hypercar network after being disqualified from qualifying to take the checkered flag in second place.

In fact, in the space of only 23 laps, Kévin Estre had uploaded to the second to his teammate Julien Ylaer in the sister #5. The current world champion of the pilots was one of the stars of the show through which he, Laurens Vanthoor and Matt Campbell stubbornly maintained the pressure on the rhythm of Ferraris and the route for comfortable their best result of the season to date.

Despite a late engine related to the engine, the Ferrari #51 leader in the championship of Antonio Giovinazzi, James Carado and Alessandro Lat Guidi completed the tribune in third place, the latter ruined an error of the morning that saw him turn at the entrance to the Pit-Carril and a brief beach the scarlet machine in the gravel. The #50 499p piloted by Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina was behind a nearby company, with the pole establishing the Cadillac Hertz Cadillac Jota team by completing the five best finalists.

The pair of the V series of the American manufacturer. Meanwhile, it was a career to forget, to defend the world champions of Toyota manufacturers, with the sixth place for the GR010 #7 hybrid that he would get for the Japanese brand, which has been five times an absolute winner of the event.

Masters lmgt3 again
Manthey accommodated his undefeated LMGT3 category record in Le Mans when the German team secured consecutive wins in the Sarthe circuit, with crew #92 of Richard Lietz, Riccardo Pera and Ryan Hardwick Largely directing Ferrari and #81 TF Sport Corvette a Glory. For Lietz, the result marked his sixth success in the race in the race.

Multiple Motorcycling World Champion Valentino Rossi led for a long time on the WRTS #46 BMW team, just for the car to be forced by an electrical problem with Kelvin van der Linde behind the wheel.

Late drama and heartbreak in LMP2
The Inter Europol competition seemed to be in the course of victory in the LMP2 category with its prototype #43 Oraca-Gibson, but a penalty for late delay due to the acceleration of Pit-Lano later gave the advantage to the next VDS Panis car.

That seemed to be that, until Esteban Masson suddenly decreased speed in the last 20 minutes, allowing Nick Yelloly to pass and cementing the team of the competition competition of the competition in three years.

The five round of the FIA ​​Wec 2025 campaign, 6 hours Rolex de São Paulo in Brazil-Will, will take place on July 11-13 in the iconic self-demomo José Carlos Pace (Interlagos).