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Team Owner Tom Ferrier has gone from a successful national motorsport career as a driver to running a championship winning race team, including lifting the inaugural Michelin Le Mans Cup GT3 teams title in 2016.

Here is what the winning crews from the four classes said after the 88th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

At the end of an adrenaline-fuelled 24 Hours of Le Mans, both FIA Women in Motorsport supported crews with the Richard Mille Racing Team and Iron Lynx in the Iron Dames project impressed and claimed top results in the 88th edition of the world’s greatest endurance race.

The 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans, Round 7 of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship, finished with a third victory in a row for the no8 Toyota Gazoo Racing and for Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi, while Brendon Hartley celebrates his second overall win at La Sarthe, once with Porsche and now with Toyota.

As the sun rose above the Circuit de La Sarthe the big news of the last six hours was the no7 Toyota had to pit for a power issue that forced the team to make a lengthy pitstop to change the turbo. The TS050 Hybrid regained the track in 4th overall but six laps behind the leading no8 Toyota and two adrift of the third placed no3 Rebellion R13. The no1 Rebellion is second two laps behind the no8 Toyota.

Despite gathering storm clouds, and the threat of rain, the 24 Hours of Le Mans has stayed dry for the first 12 hours of the race. The drivers now face the long night with almost 12 hours of running in the dark.

The 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans has begun with 59 cars taking the start of the 88th edition of the world’s greatest endurance race.

The provisional 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship calendar* announced today is aimed at offering the WEC’s manufacturers, teams and partners exposure in key regions while recognising the global economic challenges linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Peugeot Sport has confirmed its commitment to the Le Mans Hypercar category, the incoming the top class of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The French manufacturer’s programme is set to commence in 2022.

The first ever Hyperpole session has been used to decide the formation of the grid for tomorrow’s start of the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans, Round 7 of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship. Toyota, Porsche, United Autosports and Luzich Racing all celebrate claiming the top spot in each of the four classes and an extra world championship point.