2025 Le Mans: Kubica seals Ferrari’s third straight win

The #83 AF Corse Ferrari – driven by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Philip Hanson – stormed to victory at the 2025 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, beating out Porsche and both factory Ferrari cars. With this, AF Corse becomes the first customer team to win Le Mans in 20 years. This also hands Ferrari its third consecutive Le Mans victory, with a third different crew.

The #6 Porsche Penske car of Kevin Estre, Laurens Vanthoor and Matt Campbell pulled off an incredible comeback, going from P21 to P2. The #51 factory Ferrari of Antonio Giovinazzi, Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado completed the podium.

1. #83 AF Corse Ferrari wins, 14.084secs ahead of #6 Porsche
2. Inter Europol Competition wins in LMP2
3. Manthey 1ST Phorm Porsche wins in LMGT3

2025 Le Mans Hypercar winner: #83 AF Corse Ferrari

Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Philip Hanson win for Ferrari customer team

Cadillac’s strong qualifying pace never quite translated into race pace. Instead, Ferrari once again emerged as the team to beat, having benefited from the mid-race safety car. The #51 Ferrari initially held the lead, locked in battle with the #83 AF Corse entry, leading to some tense exchanges.

A pivotal moment came with four hours to go, when the #78 Lexus LMGT3 car crashed, triggering a full-course yellow. Guidi spun at the pit-lane entry, briefly beaching his #51 Ferrari in the gravel and handing Kubica the lead in the process. What followed was a faultless drive to victory. In fact, Kubica drove 43 percent of the winning car’s laps, with his last stint stretching to nearly 3.5 hours.

The victory marks several milestones, with both Kubica and Yifei Ye becoming the first Polish and Chinese drivers, respectively, to take overall victory at Le Mans.

“What a great job from everyone,” said Kubica. “It hasn’t been completely smooth, but we deserve the win – we’ve been fast and strong, and we only made a few mistakes. I wasn’t supposed to do five stints at the end, but I managed to control everything and bring the car safely home.”

Porsche was the only team that could get close to the Ferraris. After being disqualified from qualifying for being underweight, the #6 Porsche started from P21 on the grid. Estre battled his way up to P5 within the first hour and, by the end of the race, was running in second place. Porsche ultimately denied Ferrari a clean sweep of the podium, with Estre crossing the chequered flag in second, just 14.084 seconds behind the winning car.

Both Ferrari cars reportedly suffered technical issues in the closing hour, prompting Ferrari to ask both drivers to hold their positions. Giovinazzi nursed the #51 car across the finish line to complete the podium.

The #50 Ferrari was disqualified from the race for failing post-race scrutineering. An official statement shared by the World Endurance Championship says "the rear wing support was not in compliance with the deflection test."

Four bolts were found to be missing from the rear wing support. Additionally, the post-race test recorded a rear wing deflection of 52mm, far beyond the permitted maximum deflection of 15mm.

A statement shared by the World Endurance Championship said, “The Competitor [Ferrari] stated that the excessive deflection was linked to the missing bolts, and claimed no performance gain was achieved.”

“It was further explained that during the last pit-stop at 15:23, a mechanic noticed the absence of only one bolt on the rear wing support, but no corrective action was taken before the end of the race. The Competitor explained this decision was made after reviewing the car telemetry, which allegedly showed no change to the car’s speed. The Stewards noted that Car 50 achieved its highest top speed on lap 380 out of 387.”

Ferrari’s disqualification promotes the pole-sitting #12 Cadillac to fourth place, ahead of the #7 Toyota.

2025 Le Mans LMP2 winner: #43 Inter Europol Competition

#48 VDS Panis Racing, #199 AO by TF on podium

Over in the LMP2 category, it was a closely fought battle between Inter Europol Competition and VDS Panis Racing. With just 32 minutes to go, the #43 Inter Europol Competition car was in the lead when Nick Yelloly was handed a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pit lane. But luck was in his favour.

Over in the #48 VDS Panis Racing car, Esteban Masson suddenly slowed down, allowing Yelloly to catch and pass him to take victory. This hands Inter Europol Competition its second Le Mans triumph in three years. VDS Panis Racing held on to finish second, followed by the #199 AO by TF car.

2025 Le Mans LMGT3 winner: #92 Manthey 1ST Phorm Porsche

#21 Vista AF Corse Ferrari, #81 TF Sport Corvette on podium

Manthey secured back-to-back wins at Le Mans. The #92 Porsche of Ryan Hardwick, Riccardo Pera and Richard Lietz dominated in the LMGT3 class to take victory with a margin of over 30secs. This also marks Lietz’s sixth Le Mans triumph, adding to his GT victories in 2007, 2010, 2013, 2022 and 2024.

The #21 Vista AF Corse Ferrari steered clear of trouble to finish second in the category. The #81 TF Sport Corvette grabbed the final spot on the podium after defeating the #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin.

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi was leading for a long time with the #46 Team WRT BMW, but was forced to retire due to an electrical issue.

2025 Le Mans results

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