2015 LM24 Entry List Released

The 56 entries revealed Thursday for the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans will feature 14 LMP1, 20 LMP2, 9 GTE-Pro and 13 GTE-Am entries.

That number of 56 includes the full field of 35 cars competing in the full FIA World Endurance Championship, leaving only 21 at-large spots. Upwards of 70 cars were anticipated to file entry requests in December.

READ: 35 Full Season Entries for FIA WEC

LMP1 will fill a quarter of the field for the first time in years. The 14-car LMP1 field includes the 11 full-season entries plus an extra third car apiece from Audi, Porsche and Nissan. This leaves Toyota the only factory entry running just two.

Defending race winners Jota Sport are back to bolster the LMP2 numbers, now with the updated Zytek Z11SN Nissan revised and renamed as the Gibson 015S Nissan.

Other additional LMP2 entries in the 20-car class include Thiriet by TDS Racing, now with an Oreca 05 Nissan, SMP Racing’s two BR01 Nissans, Krohn Racing (Ligier JS P2 Judd), Ibanez Racing (Oreca 03R Nissan), Pegasus Racing (Morgan Nissan), Greaves Motorsport (Gibson 015S Nissan) and Murphy Prototypes (Oreca 03R Nissan).

In GTE-Pro, Corvette Racing makes its annual appearance at Le Mans with two cars to go alongside the seven full-season cars. Risi Competizione, meanwhile, will forego a run at Le Mans this year.

GTE-Am sees the full-season WEC entries joined by a number of extras, including the Scuderia Corsa effort that takes up its at-large bid from IMSA for the class.

Riley Motorsports-TI Auto is listed as the first reserve with Jeroen Bleekemolen in the Dodge Viper GTS-R.

In a change from past years, the reserve list is a single list rather than separate prototype and GTE lists. Six others are listed besides the Viper, which will move up to a grid spot if any of the 56 currently entered withdraw.

The other key piece of news from Pierre Fillon, ACO President, was that at some point in the near future the field will go from 56 cars up to 60. The new pits are expected to be built at pit out.

“We can’t do it in a few months. But the project is underway,” he said. “Very soon we will have 60 pits. There seems to be a bigger field at Le Mans every year.”

LMP1 (14 Entries)
1 – Toyota Racing – Toyota TS040 Hybrid – Anthony Davidson*
2 – Toyota Racing – Toyota TS040 Hybrid – Alexander Wurz*
7 – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R18 e-tron quattro – Marcel Fassler*
8 – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R18 e-tron quattro – Lucas di Grassi*
9 – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R18 e-tron quattro – Filipe Albuquerque
17 – Porsche Team – Porsche 919 Hybrid – Timo Bernhard*
18 – Porsche Team – Porsche 919 Hybrid – Romain Dumas*
19 – Porsche Team – Porsche 919 Hybrid – Nico Hulkenberg
21 – Nissan Motorsports – Nissan GT-R LM NISMO – Tsugio Matsuda
22 – Nissan Motorsports – Nissan GT-R LM NISMO – Harry Tincknell*
23 – Nissan Motorsports – Nissan GT-R LM NISMO – Olivier Pla*

4 – Team ByKolles – CLM P1/01 AER – Simon Trummer*
12 – Rebellion Racing – Rebellion R-One AER – Nicolas Prost*
13 – Rebellion Racing – Rebellion R-One AER – Mathias Beche*

LMP2 (20 Entries)
26 – G-Drive Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Roman Rusinov*
27 – SMP Racing – BR01 Nissan – Mikhail Aleshin
28 – G-Drive Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Gustavo Yacaman*
29 – Pegasus Racing – Morgan Nissan – Leo Roussel
30 – Extreme Speed Motorsports – HPD ARX-04b – Scott Sharp*
31 – Extreme Speed Motorsports – HPD ARX-04b – Ed Brown*
34 – OAK Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Ho-Pin Tung
35 – OAK Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Jacques Nicolet*
36 – Signatech-Alpine – Alpine A450b Nissan – Nelson Panciatici*
37 – SMP Racing – BR01 Nissan – Maurizio Mediani
38 – Jota Sport – Gibson 015S Nissan – Simon Dolan
39 – Team SARD-Morand – Morgan Evo SARD – Christian Klien*
40 – Krohn Racing – Ligier JS P2 Judd – Tracy Krohn
41 – Greaves Motorsport – Gibson 015S Nissan – Johnny Mowlem
42 – Strakka Racing – Strakka-Dome S103 Nissan – Nick Leventis*
43 – Team SARD-Morand – Morgan Evo SARD – Pierre Ragues*
45 – Ibanez Racing – Oreca 03R Nissan – Jose Ibanez
46 – Thiriet by TDS Racing – Oreca 05 Nissan – Pierre Thiriet
47 – KCMG – Oreca 05 Nissan – Matthew Howson*
48 – Murphy Prototypes – Oreca 03R Nissan – Greg Murphy

GTE-Pro (9 Entries)
51 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Gianmaria Bruni*
63 – Corvette Racing-GM – Corvette C7.R – Jan Magnussen
64 – Corvette Racing-GM – Corvette C7.R – Oliver Gavin
71 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Davide Rigon*
91 – Porsche Team Manthey – Porsche 911 RSR – Richard Lietz*
92 – Porsche Team Manthey – Porsche 911 RSR – Patrick Pilet*
95 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Marco Sorensen*
97 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Darren Turner*
99 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Fernando Rees*

GTE-Am (13 Entries)
50 – Larbre Competition – Corvette C7.R – Gianluca Roda*
55 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Duncan Cameron
61 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Peter Mann
62 – Scuderia Corsa – Ferrari F458 Italia – William Sweedler
66 – JMW Motorsports – Ferrari F458 Italia – George Richardson
67 – Team AAI – Porsche 911 GTE RSR (997) – Jun-san Chen
68 – Team AAI – Porsche 911 GTE RSR (997) – Han-chen Chen
72 – SMP Racing – Ferrari F458 Italia – Victor Shaitar*
77 – Dempsey Proton Racing – Porsche 911 RSR – Patrick Dempsey*
83 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Francois Perrodo*
88 – Abu Dhabi Proton Racing – Porsche 911 RSR – Christian Ried*
96 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Roald Goethe*
98 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Paul Dalla Lana*

*Denotes full-season FIA World Endurance Championship entrant.

RESERVES (7 Reserves)
53 – Riley Motorsports-TI Auto – Dodge Viper GTS-R – Jeroen Bleekemolen
49 – KCMG – Oreca 03R Nissan – Alexandre Imperatori
60 – Formula Racing – Ferrari F458 Italia – Johnny Laursen
86 – Gulf Racing UK – Porsche 911 RSR – Michael Wainwright
25 – Algarve Pro Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Rudolf Munemann
65 – Proton Competition – Porsche 911 RSR – Wolf Henzler
44 – Ibanez Racing – Oreca 03R Nissan – Pierre Perret