With eight manufacturers competing in the premier class, the spectacle offered by the 2025 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans promised to be epic – and it was! The 332,000 spectators present – a record – were not mistaken, with the highlight being a Ferrari v. Porsche duel that kept them on the edge of their seats until the very end. Ultimately, the Italian manufacturer secured its twelfth victory at Le Mans, the third on the bounce. But after the no. 51 in 2023 and the no. 50 in 2024, it was the no. 83 499P entered privately by AF Corse that won thanks to Briton Phil Hanson, Chinese driver Yifei Ye and Pole Robert Kubica. Hero of this 93rd edition, the latter has come the full circle as he was on the verge of joining Ferrari in Formula 1 before being the victim of a terrible rally accident, which left him with a seriously-damaged right arm/hand. An exploit that will remain in the annals. Second overall, Porsche consoled itself with a second consecutive success in LMGT3 thanks to the 911 GT3 R entered by Manthey 1st Phorm for Richard Lietz, Ryan Hardwick and Riccardo Pera. In LMP2, Inter Europol Competition regained its title thanks to Jakub Śmiechowski, Tom Dillmann and Nick Yelloly, while AO Racing by TF swept the board on the LMP2 Pro/Am podium with its trio of PJ Hyett, Louis Delétraz and Dane Cameron. A raft of stories told to you in the 304 pages and over 700 photos in this book.

DPPI, 60 years of history linked to the 24 Hours of Le Mans

Setting the scene

Entries

Test day

Off-track

Practice

The calm before the storm

Pre-race

The race

The 25th Hour

Results

Thibaut Villemant has been a car buff ever since he was a kid and attended his first 24 Hours of Le Mans aged five! After studying at Nanterre University in the Parisian region, he joined AutoHebdo in 2009. He became a leading reporter and assistant chief editor up until June 2021. During those years Jean-Marc Teissedre took him under his wing and in 2014 asked him to join the team of writers working on the official annual of the Sarthe twice-round-the-clock race. Today, Thibaut works as a consultant for the L’Équipe TV channel on the WEC races – Including the 24 Hours of Le Mans – while collaborating with the benchmark sites Endurance-Info.com and The-Race.com.

Scale-models led Jean-Marc Teissedre to discover his true vocation and he became one of the best – if not the best – endurance racing specialists. His new calling coincided – and it was no coincidence – with the launch of AutoHebdo in 1976! He remained faithful to the magazine throughout his career and it made him into a major figure in the milieu. However, his day job didn’t prevent him from investing his talent and enthusiasm in all the major books dedicated to his speciality, including this annual since 1978 on which he’s worked with the late Christian Moity, Alain Bienvenue and Thibaut Villemant. In addition to his rigour as a true professional he brings the meticulousness of a model maker, which he’s always been, to his work, as he also created the monthly revue Auto Modelisme and only relinquished the role of its chief editor a short time ago.

EAN	9782385140984
Dimensions	23,5 × 31,5 cm
Pages	304
Nombre d'illustrations	700
Préface	Roger Federer
Éditeurs	Sophia Éditions