Road to Le Mans – Facts and Figures

Here are some facts and figures about the previous Road to Le Mans races –

1. There have been 13 Road to Le Mans races, one in 2016 and two in each event from 2017 to 2022.
2. The current race lap records are –

LMP3 - Laurents HORR – 3m46.374 (216.7kph) – Duqueine M30-D08-Nissan - 19/8/2021

GT3 – Charles WEERTS – 3m54.340 (209.3kph) – Audi R8 LMS – 21/8/2021

1. French drivers have taken the most wins, with ten (seven LMP3 and three GT3), the UK is second with eight (six LMP3 and two GT3), with Denmark and Italy on five wins, Germany on four wins and Belgium, Switzerland and USA on three each.
2. Other nationalities that have won the Road to Le Mans are -

Japan (2 wins)

Monaco (2 wins)

Oman (2 wins)

Russia (2 wins)

Finland (1 win)

Netherlands (1 win)

Spain (1 win)

1. Four drivers have won the Road to Le Mans twice in different years.

Jean Glorieux won in 2017 and again in 2020. Laurents Hörr won in 2019 and again in 2020 with Jean Glorieux. Glorieux and Hörr took their wins with DKR Engineering.

Michael Benham and Duncan Tappy won with Lanan Racing in 2018 and again in 2022 with Cool Racing.

1. Six drivers have won two Road to Le Mans races at the same event.

Ahmad Al Harthy and Tom Jackson won both GT3 races in 2017 with TF Sport in an Aston Martin Vantage.

Mikkel Mac and Fabien Lavergne won both GT3 races in 2019 for Luzich Racing in a Ferrari 488 GT3.

Andrea Caldarelli and Hiroshi Hamaguchi won both GT3 races in 2020 with FFF Racing Team by ACM in a Lamborghini Huracan GT3.

1. DKR Engineering have won the most races with three wins in 2017, 2019 and 2020.

Five teams have won twice. AF Corse (2016/2018), TF Sport (2017 x2), Luzich Racing (2019 x2), FFF Racing Team by ACM (2020 x2) and Cool Racing (2020 and 2022).

Other teams that have won Road to Le Mans – DC Racing, United Autosports, Eurointernational, Lanan Racing, Spirit of Race, Graff, Iron Lynx, Nielsen Racing, Pzoberer Zürichsee by TFT, Muehlner Motorsport, Ebimotors, Racing Spirit of Leman and GMB Motorsport.

1. In LMP3 Ligier has secured the most podium finishes with 24 podiums (7 x 1^st/ 9 x 2^nd/ 8 x 3^rd). Norma has secured 10 podiums (3/2/5) and Duqueine 4 (2/2/0)

1. Ferrari has won more times in GT3 with six wins (18 podiums in total), Aston Martin and Lamborghini have taken two each (four podiums each in total) and Porsche have two wins (three podium finishes in total). Honda has one win (two podiums in total) while Audi, McLaren and Mercedes have two podium finishes each.
2. There will be four former winners taking part in the 2023 Road to Le Mans

Tony Wells (no7 Nielsen Racing)

Colin Noble (no77 Thor Racing)

Kristian Poulsen (no95 GMB Motorsport)

Hiroshi Hamaguchi (no63 Iron Lynx)

1. Former World Champions Valentino Rossi and Yvan Muller will be taking part in the 2023 event, as will 24 Hours of Le Mans winners Guy Smith and Jan Magnussen. For the very first Road to Le Mans in 2016, 1998 World Sportscar Champion, and 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Martin Brundle took part in Road to Le Mans and finished second for United Autosports.
2. The 2023 grid of 58 cars will feature the largest entry for the event. In 2016 there were 37 cars, 2017 49 cars, 2018 50 cars, 2019 49 cars, 2020 34 cars, 2021 31 cars, 2022 50 cars.

The 2023 Road To Le Mans will feature two 55-minute races on the full 13.6km La Sarthe Circuit with a grid of 58 cars entered in this year’s event. Race one will be held on Thursday 8^thJune, with the second on Friday 9^thJune.