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Following a rain hit second 4-hour session at the official test day in La Sarthe, Porsche heads into the 2015 24 Heures du Mans with the fastest cars. The red, no17 Porsche 919 hybrid topped the time sheets this afternoon, leading a 1-2 for the German marque.

On Sunday 31 May the 56 entries taking part in the 83rd edition of the 24 Heures du Mans will gather in La Sarthe for the official pre event test, with the 34 World Endurance Championship full season entries forming over 50% of the eligible cars. They will be joined by some of the reserve entries and two LMP3 Ginetta-Nissans from the European Le Mans Series, making a total of 64 cars on track on the 31 May.

In 2014, endurance racing adopted radical new LMP1 technical regulations that limited fuel consumption so that no competitor could gain a performance advantage by consuming more fuel than any other. The result has been a reduction in fuel consumption of around 25-30% for the same performance. So far in 2015 lap times have lowered significantly, with new lap records set at Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps, and the expectation is that new records will be set at the 24 Heures du Mans on the 13/14 June.

Since 2012 the world’s most famous endurance race has been part of the World Endurance Championship with double championship points awarded making the race an important part of a team and drivers world title bid. In addition every driver and team taking part wants to be part of the Roll of Honour that stretches back to the first race in 1923.

There will be 56 cars at the start the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours