The full list of teams that are invited to race at the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans on 14-15 June has been released by the Automobile Club de L’Ouest today.
Unsurprisingly, 62 cars, the maximum permitted for the race, form the entry with a further six cars listed as reserves.
Hypercar: 21 Cars
Le Mans is set to greet at least 21 Hypercars this year. The number is slightly down on the 23 of last year’s race, but this is nevertheless still a stunning top class entry, featuring factory cars from eight different marques.
Departures since last year include the pair of Lamborghinis, the solo Isotta Fraschini and the pair of JOTA-entered Porsches, the squad switching to Cadillac for 2025.
All 18 full-season FIA WEC cars are listed with two-car entries from Toyota, Peugeot, Alpine, BMW and Aston Martin, which will debut the brand-new Valkyrie at Le Mans this year with Heart of Racing.
Ferrari will field three 499Ps, with the two WEC factory cars joined as usual by the full season #83 AF Corse entered ‘privateer’ car.
Porsche will be represented by four examples of the 963 on track. The Porsche Penske Motorsport full-season WEC duo, as expected, is joined by the IMSA Championship-winning car, numbered #4 for 2025 Rolex 24 winners Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy in an auto-invitational car via IMSA.
The third driver slot is currently unfilled, and currently, Formula E ace Pascal Wehrlein is rumoured to be the favoured option to fill the space.
Proton’s full-season #99 963 completes the quartet.
Cadillac too will field four cars in the class with the pair of Cadillac Hertz Team Jota V-Series.Rs joined by a pair of examples invited from the IMSA SportsCar Championship.
The #101 Cadillac WTR effort sees Wayne Taylor Racing make its Le Mans debut. Team owner Wayne Taylor – himself a 13-time starter at Le Mans – will field a car for his two racing sons Jordan and Ricky, who will share a car at Le Sarthe for the first time after 18 appearances between them.
They’ll be joined by Filipe Albuquerque, who is set to start his 12th consecutive Le Mans. It’s a run that includes the 2020 LMP2 class win with United Autosports. He starts in the top class car for the first time since 2015 when he he competed in LMP1 with Audi.
Acton Express Racing completes the Hypercar roster with the third consecutive appearance of its #311 Cadillac. Full-season IMSA driver Jack Aitken is joined by the team’s two endurance drivers in 2025, Felipe Drugovitch and Fred Vesti.
AXR’s other regular IMSA driver, Earl Bamber, is already on Cadillac duties with JOTA.
LMP2: 17 Cars (eight in LMP2, nine in LMP2 Pro/Am)
LMP2 sees 17 cars accepted, one up on the 16 of 2024 and two up on the oft-stated minimum of 15.
Nine of the cars are in the Pro/Am class for cars featuring at least one Bronze-rated driver in their line-up.
All six of the automatically invited entries are entered (though AO by TF’s car is not listed as such).
Notably, the majority of the class entry is formed of teams fielding two cars.
No fewer than six listed teams have a pair of Oreca 07 Gibsons apiece: Proton Competition, United Autosports, Inter Europol Competition, Algarve Pro Racing, IDEC Sport, and TDS/Panis Racing.
Of those only IDEC features a two-car entry in the full LMP2 class. The others have entered both an LMP2 and LMP2 Pro/Am car each.
The field is completed by solo entries from ELMS LMP3 Champions RLR M Sport, Nielsen Racing, AF Corse, AO By TF, and CLX Pure Rxcing.
Amongst the driver line-ups, four of Acura GTP factory drivers from IMSA will race: Renger van der Zande for United, Tom Blomqvist for PureRxcing (Harry King is not yet mentioned), Colin Braun for Nielsen and Nick Yelloly at Inter Europol.
Peugeot reserve driver Theo Pourchaire, the 2023 F2 champion, is with APR for his Le Mans debut as part of his full-season ELMS gig. The team’s Pro/Am car sees George Kurtz return alongside Nicky Catsburg and Alex Quinn.
IDEC sports two entries including the car fielded in 2025 to prepare the Genesis Magma Racing team for its planned FIA WEC Hypercar entry in 2026. W Series double Champion Jamie Chadwick is listed in that car for her Le Mans debut.
With his regular number #83 already in the entry on the privateer Ferrari, Francois Perrodo’s LMP2 Pro/Am ORECA is numbered #155. Perrodo is currently the only driver listed with regular co-drivers Alessio Rovera and Nico Varrone both driving elsewhere on the entry.
Matthieu Vaxiviere looks set to be confirmed in the car, with the Frenchman set to blend driving duties with those as reserve driver at Alpine Endurance Team.
Nick Boulle is listed with Inter Europol after winning the Jim Trueman Award in IMSA, despite switching to United for his IMSA campaign in 2025.
LMGT3: 24 Cars
24 cars are listed for the second year for the LMGT3 class at Le Mans.
18 are the full-season FIA WEC contingent with a further four auto-invitations and two additional invitees.
The #13 AWA Racing Corvette is listed with IMSA Bob Akin Awardee Orey Fidani, joined by fellow 2025 Rolex 24 winners Lars Kern and Matt Bell.
Iron Lynx has taken up its invitation for the ELMS LMGT3 title won last year with Lamborghini to put a third Mercedes AMG GT3 Evo on the entry for father and son Aussie combo Stephen and Brenton Grove. They are joined by AMG Performance Driver Luca Stolz.
Success in last month’s Asian Le Mans Series sees Manthey confirm a third Porsche 911 GT3R with series champions Antares Au and Klaus Bachler joined by multiple Porsche one-make Champion Loek Hartog.
And the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe Bronze Cup winner, the now-renamed Ziggo Sport Tempesta team, has entered a Ferrari 296 GT3 for Jonathan Hui, Chris Froggatt and Eddie Cheever III.
The entry is completed by another pair of Ferraris invited via the Selection Committee.
Kessel Racing returns to Le Mans after a year away with ‘Car Guy’ Takeshi Kimura and Daniel Serra listed.
Another full-season ELMS Ferrari completes the list with a Richard Mille AF Corse entered 296 GT3 for Christiano Toledo, Lilou Wadoux and Riccardo Agostini. Wadoux makes it five confirmed female racers on the list at present.
Reserves: (Six Cars)
All six reserve-listed cars/teams have raced at Le Mans before, indeed all six raced there in 2024.
The first reserve, for the second consecutive year, is a second Proton Competition Porsche 963 Hypercar. Tristan Vautier is the listed driver.
The team has a straight choice, as with two LMP2 cars confirmed on the entry, it could theoretically withdraw one to get its second 963 in. The best guess is that this won’t happen though.
Next up is ex-WEC regular and now ELMS squad GR Racing.
Mike Wainwright and co will compete in the full-season ELMS for a second consecutive season in 2025 after a 2024 campaign with its new Ferrari that yielded a pair of second-place finishes and a title run to the final round.
Third reserve is ELMS and Asian LMS LMP2 entrant DKR Engineering with Alexander Mattschull as the named driver. They sit ahead of another ELMS LMP2 outfit, Duqueine Team, which names Mark Patterson on its entry.
Down as the fifth reserve will be a no doubt bitterly disappointed JMW Motorsport. The UK-based ELMS full-season teammates Scott Noble and Jason Hart in their Ferrari, but the team misses out on an entry for just the second time in a 15-year stretch.
Previously just 2016 was missed in its last decade and a half history, a year before it won the GTE AM class in its then brand new Ferrari 488 GTE.
The final reserve entry is UK-based LMP2 squad Vector Sport, which named a driver trio of Ryan Cullen, Vlad Lomko and Pietro Fittipaldi.
Which teams missed out entirely?
No total is given for the number of entries received, though DSC is aware of a number of teams that posted entries that are not listed as a reserve.
They include Romain Dumas’ RD Limited LMP2 effort that scored a race win on debut in the Asian LMS. With the ELMS fully subscribed it means the team, as things stand, ended its season in February!
Inception Racing was believed to have requested a space for its IMSA Ferrari whilst regular service provider Optimum Motorsport was understood to have requested a slot for one of its McLarens in LMGT3.
Earl Bamber told DSC earlier this year that his team had filed an entry request for an Aston Martin, whilst others too from GT3 are believed to have made moves to gain a space on the grid.
And finally, BMW opted not to request a third Hypercar for Team RLL. The brand thought long and hard, but decided against it due to the logistical challenges it would add to a packed June schedule for the brand.
