Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the full 2023 race in stunning HD and without cuts. This milestone edition marked the return of legendary manufacturers like Ferrari, Porsche, and Cadillac to the Hypercar class, delivering an unforgettable showdown of technology, endurance, and passion. Witness every dramatic moment, from night battles to rain-soaked strategy calls, in one of the most historic races ever held at Circuit de la Sarthe.
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00:00Win LMP2 from WRT with Duquesne in third place. A huge result for that small French team.
00:09But look at this. Just can't believe the celebrations.
00:13Toyota Gazoo Racing. Rio Hirocaro will bring the number 8 car to the line in second place.
00:18Ahead of the numbers 2 and 3 Cadillacs.
00:22Corvette Racing will claim victory.
00:26Oh my God, man. I have no words.
00:30Thank you, everyone. After 50 years, we are back.
00:35After 50 years, we are back.
00:38That will be clipped up and across social media while the caption is still on air.
00:45Antonio Giovinazzi, Ferrari have won Le Mans outright.
00:50How does that sound to you? You've all worked so hard.
00:53Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's really emotional.
00:55I have no words, to be honest.
00:57You know, I dream this since I was a kid.
01:01Now I'm here with Ferrari winning Le Mans.
01:03And it's just a special day.
01:04I've got goosebumps, so I just cannot imagine how you feel.
01:08You can go and celebrate with your team now.
01:10Thank you very much.
01:12Luis Beckett there in the throng of a very Italian party.
01:16And Cadillac Racing, what a result for these guys.
01:19Third and fourth for the number two and the number three cars.
01:223-1-1, the Action Express car also running.
01:26They get all three cars to the line.
01:29What a great effort.
01:30And great for GM, great for Corvette racing their final Le Mans in this format.
01:35And great for Ben Keating.
01:37He wins again as Nicky Katzberg brings the car across the line.
01:42Fabulous stuff, isn't it, from this effort.
01:46Third place, by the way, secured after a late run.
01:50Tried to get to the back of the GR Racing team.
01:53Five seconds short, though.
01:54It will be GR Racing behind the ORT by TF.
01:56And this is our L&P 2 Pro-Am winner.
01:58Yeah.
01:59So Pro-Am victory going to Algarve Pro.
02:03Colin Brown bringing your car to the line.
02:06Congratulations to those guys.
02:10Again, small team.
02:14Yeah, Colin coming back after his last appearance here in 2008.
02:19Colin Brown, a week ago, let a lady switch seats with a lady on the airplane
02:25because she was afraid of flying backwards.
02:27And I told him when he did it, I said, you know,
02:29you might get some good karma next weekend.
02:31There you go.
02:33There you go.
02:34What a sight.
02:36This car, when it rolled out at Sebring, looked like a race car.
02:40And boy, has it behaved like one.
02:43Jakovske Mostry 34 is the L&P 2 Le Mans winner.
02:47That is just incredible for you to achieve.
02:51Yeah, I mean, it's just incredible, as you say.
02:55It's a dream come true.
02:56And I think it's all what we've worked for for the past years.
03:02And it's just, I'm just speechless that it happened.
03:05Really speechless.
03:06I'm so happy for you, Albert Costa, joining the team this year.
03:11And, wow, it's paid off.
03:13They called me the oldest rookie of the championship.
03:17I'm a rookie.
03:18I won Le Mans now.
03:20But I can say I'm lost to words.
03:21This is amazing.
03:23Well done.
03:24My dad.
03:26I'll go and let you see your family.
03:28Well done.
03:29It's going to be a huge number of tears here.
03:31That tiny team into Europol, they've barely been racing for 10 years.
03:36They have started in regional sports car racing in Europe.
03:40And it has grown and grown through the entire ACO ladder.
03:44From the Michelin Le Mans Cup in LNP3, they moved into LNP2.
03:48And then they have moved into the world championship.
03:51And Chip Ganassi gets a car on the podium at Le Mans.
03:56And that's something that he will remember a very long time.
04:00And he gets one over on his old friend, Roger.
04:02Yes, he does.
04:04The two Peugeots, by the way.
04:05How much better did they do than we thought they would coming into this race?
04:09Yeah.
04:09The other quick thing, it is the first Polish team to have a winner class.
04:13It's at Le Mans.
04:15And you're right.
04:16Family-owned team.
04:17Very proud indeed.
04:19Quick thought for our friend, Martin Curran of Fleming,
04:21who played a great big part in the development of this team.
04:25And this, by the way, is only their second ever race win in LNP2.
04:30Wow.
04:30The first came only this year in Abu Dhabi.
04:33Yeah.
04:33Fantastic for them.
04:35Hi to Cara and our thoughts as well.
04:37And great thanks for more than a quarter of a century of helping us out,
04:41helping me out, particularly to the great Fiona Miller,
04:45who has just finished, or will finish later this evening, her last Le Mans.
04:50But there, James Collado.
04:52He's been in victory circle.
04:53He's been on the podium.
04:55He's never been the first one out.
04:57Not like this.
04:57Not like this.
04:58Not like this.
04:59Not like this.
04:59And to La Leclerc, the man behind this effort,
05:02the man that's been tasked with delivering this,
05:05and I'm sure for arguing with what's been required to make it tick.
05:08And Charles Leclerc in there somewhere,
05:11enjoying the delights of a very different Ferrari team claiming victory.
05:17What a thing.
05:18And by the way, we also saw the Garage 24, the innovative entry,
05:22Hendrix Motorsports, their NASCAR Generation 7 Camaro.
05:27Le boogity, boogity, boogity made it all the way through.
05:30They might have had to have rebuilt the tranny,
05:32but, you know, what's an American classic car
05:35if you don't have to rebuild the tranny?
05:37There you go.
05:38I may never forgive you for le boogity, boogity, boogity.
05:41That wasn't my fault, but I'm taking that.
05:44That was a great, great addition to the field this year.
05:50Let's hear from Toyota Gazoo Racing.
05:53Kamui Kobayashi, that was one hard Le Mans.
05:58Yep, obviously, yes.
06:00I think we did everything we could do.
06:04I think Ferrari did a great job, amazing job.
06:07Unfortunately, we have not enough pace through the race.
06:12And Micah also had very bad luck during the race.
06:17It was not our day, but definitely we will come back strong.
06:21And I think the team, this time, made really strong.
06:26Everybody beat together.
06:28It's the only one goal to winning.
06:31I'd really thanks all the team, all the effort from Japan, from Cologne.
06:35And, of course, Mr. Toyoda-san, Morizo-san, and our president, Sato-san, back in Japan.
06:45Yeah.
06:46And this time, we have our grandfather, Harvey's grandfather, who came as well.
06:52It's really a shame.
06:54We couldn't win.
06:55But, yeah, I think we have to become strong.
06:59What's it going to be like in Marinello on Tuesday when these guys show up with the trophy?
07:07I was just going to be quite quiet because they'll still be recovering from their hangovers.
07:11Walk into the Formula One shop.
07:13And the deal is, of course, that it's not your standard 24-hour trophy.
07:23It will be a unique trophy.
07:25The Centenary trophy will be very different.
07:28They will get their own personal Le Mans 24-hour replica trophies.
07:35What a wonderful moment for fans of motor racing everywhere.
07:40Ferrari is such an evocative name.
07:42They've been part of the sport.
07:44Really, you know, since the post-war years, they've been just one of the dominant names in the sport.
07:50And to take victory at Le Mans, and not just in a single car field or, you know, with no opposition.
07:58In one of the toughest races in years and years and years.
08:04And actually, to my great delight, that's what the Centenary race will be remembered for.
08:10Yes, all the fun and all the show and the old cars and getting great names back here and all of that.
08:18Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.
08:20But in the end, we will remember this as, wow, do you remember that race when Ferrari came back?
08:26Wow, that was, we said at the beginning, this could be one for the ages.
08:31It was.
08:31I don't think we quite believed it, did we?
08:33I don't think we quite believed how good this could be.
08:35The greatest thing about this race, it's not that Ferrari had won it.
08:39It's that Ferrari had to fight for it.
08:41Yep.
08:41And that we've had great winners in this race, but great losers as well.
08:44And in depth, and what we've seen through the last 24 hours on this fabled track is ample evidence that there's more and better still to come.
08:55And the fact of it, Jim, is that Toyota could have won it easily.
08:59Cadillac could have won it easily.
09:01Horsha on pace could have won it easily.
09:03Horsha could have won it easily.
09:05Jota.
09:05You know, I guess.
09:07Hors team Jota.
09:08Actually, probably Glickenhaus couldn't, probably almost certainly Floyd Vanderbilt didn't have the pace and longevity.
09:15But the five big hitters, they all led, and they could all have been on the top spot.
09:22They all had their chance.
09:23LeMond chose these guys.
09:24That's right.
09:25And you said that at the beginning of the show.
09:27It isn't necessarily on paper who's going to be best.
09:31It's who does LeMond choose.
09:33Yep.
09:33And Lady Luck has shined down, and there's, and don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is a lucky win, but the difference between Hero and second, and possibly third, look at that.
09:46Well, the difference between 51 and 50 is zero, other than Lady Luck, LeMond shows 51.
09:55One problem, that's right.
09:56That's all it is.
09:57In a class that is now dominated by factory entries, you can barely believe them saying that.
10:03All of them have got headlines they can take home and justify this.
10:09All of them.
10:09Yeah.
10:10Glickenhaus bring home a headline that says, we are still 100% top 10 LeMond finishes with every car we've ever entered.
10:18There is one entry and one entry only that ends without a headline they'd like to write, and that is the 7-4 car.
10:24But Hertz Team Jota could have won this race.
10:27Well, they do hold the record, they do hold the record for most starts without finishing in that.
10:32There you go, absolutely right.
10:33And the fastest lap of the race, that went to Antonio Fuoco in the number 50 Ferrari.
10:41The Toyota number 8, that had the fastest time in the first sector of the race, but the fastest time in sector 2 and sector 3 both went to Antonio Fuoco in the 50 car.
10:53But for now, it is all about three men and one car.
10:58Antonio Giovinazzi, you can see.
11:00James Collado will give him the other door.
11:03Take the checkered flag.
11:04Here, Guidi.
11:05How many years do you think he aged while he was busy control-all deleting in the final pit stop in the final half an hour?
11:13Oh, my God.
11:14Look at those images.
11:15Look at the stands.
11:16The shot of Collado just with his face in his hands.
11:20This is back to the absolute zenith of Group C, but there are more grandstand seats and there is more standing area on the straight.
11:30I can remember watching the beginning and the end of the race, Jaguar versus Porsche versus Mercedes, all of that.
11:36It was like that.
11:38It was shoulder to shoulder.
11:39It was elbow to elbow.
11:40But there is more here.
11:42There are more facilities now than ever before.
11:44There's more viewing.
11:45There's more toilet blocks.
11:48There's more showers.
11:49There's more catering.
11:50There's more everything.
11:51It's a better event.
11:52It's a better event.
11:54Yeah, more than 300,000.
11:55It's getting on for 350,000 people watching this.
12:00And that's aside from all the caterers, all the security staff, all the people working in franchises and shops and everything else, and all the VIP guests.
12:11And a worldwide audience.
12:12Yeah.
12:12And that's before we even turn on the TV cameras.
12:17Yeah, just the crowd here alone justifies this as one of the greatest Le Mans races ever.
12:24I just had to check for 10 seconds to just clear up one last thing in the inbox, because there was one last investigation we hadn't called.
12:31That was the Inter-Europol investigation.
12:34And that's for the pit board reprimand.
12:37Yeah.
12:37It would have been beyond reckless, cruel, and heartless to have done anything other than say, guys, we know why you did it.
12:49You can see all the other pit boards.
12:50They're all firmly fixed.
12:51They can't be dropped in the track.
12:53They can't be.
12:54They can't come out and hit a car.
12:56Something handheld and loose and wobbly could do.
12:58So for safety reasons, that's why it's not done any longer the old manual way.
13:03And probably that's not a bad thing, but yes, we understand why it happened in the same way that when you go off track to avoid a much slower car and avoid an accident.
13:13Now, it's not legal, but we know why you did it.
13:16So you only get a reprimand.
13:18And there is Batty Pregliasco, a man who has been instrumental in so much success for AF Corsa and Ferrari in the GT categories.
13:28And now, good Lord, wins Le Mans outright with this team of young men and this car.
13:37Yeah, a Ferrari race driver himself back at the beginning of the century, Batty.
13:41And I'm sure he could not be more proud of what he's been a part of here.
13:47Extraordinary scene.
13:48Now then, three-time GT Pro World Champions, James Collado and Alessandro Puert-Guidi.
13:55And they have just added 50 fat points to their championship.
14:00Could they also win the title?
14:03OK, that's a long way away.
14:08We've got three more long races to go.
14:10And right now, they don't care.
14:13But when they rock up to Monza, and by the way, if you can get a ticket for Monza still, come to Monza.
14:20Can you just imagine?
14:22Question for Graham.
14:24What is the status of the 33 in the championship?
14:27The victory here.
14:28I need to crunch the points, but they're very close.
14:33They can certainly clinch it at Monza.
14:35And they came pretty close to doing it here.
14:37They have got a massive, massive lead.
14:40325,000 people were here to watch this.
14:43That is the official crowd figure.
14:46And again, 3,000 marshals around the circuit.
14:51Thank you to every single one of them.
14:52And thank you to all of the organizing staff, the security staff, the people who checked us in and out when we were coming in and out of the circuit.
15:01The people who looked after everybody on the campsites.
15:03The people who have been supplying food and drinks to everybody, to our caterers.
15:08And actually, closer to home, just want to say so much as ever, thanks to AMP Visual, without whom, this would have been a radio show that only we would have heard.
15:21There would have been no pictures, no video, no audio.
15:24And to Alchemel Systems as well.
15:27Alchemel celebrating their 20th anniversary.
15:30They provided graphics for the World Endurance Championship and for the ACO all the way through.
15:35And they work constantly to improve what we can show you at home.
15:41And we will continue to do that.
15:43Everything at the moment, everybody is looking to improve.
15:48And they do year by year.
15:50And we will try and keep pace with that and do the same.
15:54So thanks to all of our partners, to the championship partners as well, the tire suppliers like Michelin and Goodyear, to Total Energies, who have supplied the renewable fuels, not just for all the cars racing here, but also for all the tire heaters here as well.
16:10That fuel has been supplied, sustainable fuel, free of charge.
16:14There's Nicky Katzberg, may possibly wear a cowboy hat with pride again, I think, as he celebrates victory in the 33 car.
16:24There you go.
16:25And the shades.
16:27There are your overall winners.
16:28And you can see in the green and yellow overalls, the guys from Inter-Europol as well.
16:35There have been many men who have proudly waved the prancing horse of the Scuderia on the top step of the podium.
16:43And these are just the latest three to be able to do that.
16:47And in this particular branch of the sport, it's been a 50-year hiatus.
16:52That's a long wait by anybody's standards.
16:54As for LNP2, Manly's first year in LNP2, Albert Koster moving over from his Lamborghini GT3 career,
17:04a man who had his foot run over by another class winner, and a baker from Poland.
17:08That is quite the fairytale story.
17:12Kubis-Muchowski, the baker's boy.
17:14And there are the marshals applauding the fans, the fans applauding the marshals, and rightly so.
17:19And again, every time we've been out and about in the paddock and in the village and around the circuit, it's just been joyful.
17:28It's been beautiful weather, really scorching hot weather all week, actually, until race weekend.
17:33So the fans have had the best of everything here.
17:36An exciting race, fantastic atmosphere, and a few really, really astonishing results.
17:44Got to spare a thought for the crew of the Iron Dames.
17:47Porsche, how far behind in the end?
17:51Just five seconds.
17:52Five seconds after 24 hours off the podium, and that is a tough, tough one to take.
17:57They will come back, and they will win.
18:00They are good enough.
18:02They will do it.
18:02Ferrari victorious in a Centine-Ri-Lemont.
18:05Tour de Gazou Racing, car number eight.
18:07The defending champions take second, Cadillac third and fourth, and then a second Ferrari ahead of the pair of Glickenhauses, the better of the Peugeots, in eighth position.
18:19And in the end, we only lost permanently two of our hypercar entries.
18:24Of our 62 starters, 40 made it to the finish line, including much delayed Hertz Team Jyotica, the final car to be classified in the Centine-Ri-Lemont.
18:35Well, there will be a very great deal of high-fiving, hugging, celebrating going on.
18:44Forward rolls in the gravel traps, yeah, why not?
18:46Kids running wild, yeah, why not?
18:48All the gates have been open.
18:50What the organisers want, more than anything else, is for a sea of humanity that can't be beaten underneath the podium.
18:58That's the joy they're going to get it.
19:00And we've missed that, haven't we, through the COVID years?
19:03I was going to say, that's the, that you took the words right out of my mouth, that sea of humanity is the classic Le Mans shot.
19:10And this is what it's all about.
19:13As Don Peno said, when he founded the American Le Mans series in a quarter of a century ago, for the fans.
19:20That's why they do it.
19:21That's why the teams come.
19:24That's why the manufacturers come.
19:25They come for the glory, but the glory helps them sell cars.
19:29It helps boost their image.
19:30That's why they're here.
19:32For some manufacturers, they've been doing it since day one.
19:35You think of Porsche.
19:36For some, they've been doing it for more than most of them can remember.
19:40You think of Toyota.
19:42The Ferrari?
19:43Well, they haven't done this for a while.
19:45There you go.
19:46There come the gates.
19:47Come on in, kids.
19:48Bring the flags.
19:49Fans of all ages here.
19:54So great to see so many.
19:56And again, because of the centenary, I'm sure even more people made even more effort to make it a family holiday.
20:02To bring friends, to bring new friends, to convert more to this glorious, slightly crazy, what am I talking about?
20:11Utterly bonkers form of motorsport.
20:13I've been here with my kid.
20:15I'm here this year with my kid.
20:16And close to 30 years difference between when we turned up here in 1995 and this centenary year.
20:25And the emotions are still the same.
20:27It is still and always will be an absolutely world-class motor race and a world-class event.
20:35An event on a scale not very easily matched around the planet.
20:41And the storylines, they start now.
20:43They're going to take a while for the ladies and gentlemen, the press room, and then the broadcast edit suites to put together.
20:51But they include, of course, that's a win for Ferrari.
20:54Two of the men that have taken this win are now winners in two separate classes, including the overall, Tom Christensen and Charles Leclerc there.
21:03Again, you can see our guys filming for the all-access programmes, which will be out in around 10 days.
21:11Boy, if you thought Le Mans was sleepless, wait till you try editing Le Mans and all of the different background footage you get into 40 minutes.
21:21That's a sleepless 10 days, my friends.
21:23That's a sleepless 10 days.
21:24Before we forget, because we're going to get into the ceremonials of this quite correctly very soon, if you're a first-timer watching the Le Mans 24 hours and you've enjoyed this racing, guess what?
21:34We do a lot more of it and we'll be racing again next month.
21:38And it's a big quiet provincial circuit where there's going to be no excitement whatsoever.
21:43And just outside Milan, Monza greeting their Le Mans winners.
21:48Oh, my gosh, what is that going to be like?
21:51Well, we said in qualifying that pole position surely would have put another 25,000 on the ticket sales.
21:57I don't even want to think about it, Martin.
21:59No, I know.
22:00Ferrari told us that the ticket sales are up five-fold on last year.
22:06That was before qualifying.
22:07And that was before qualifying.
22:08I, I, yeah, it's, it's going to be a sea of humanity and most of it wearing red.
22:16I cannot wait.
22:19Melty Jakobsen there with Ben Keating in the middle.
22:22Nicole Lapierre with his back to us at that point.
22:25Yeah, Martin the second place car in the Pro-Am category.
22:29Yeah.
22:29So we have four podiums to get through.
22:32GTE Am and LMP2 Pro-Am.
22:37LMP2 and Hypercar.
22:40I'm afraid the invitational car does not get a podium.
22:43What they do get, though, is 325,000 big, broad smiles.
22:49And a huge thank you for bringing that Chevy Camaro Gen 7 Cup car to a whole different audience.
23:00There will be people here, of course, who know about NASCAR, who probably are passionate about NASCAR, about many other forms of motorsport.
23:07There will be a whole bunch who never really gave it a second thought and who have been noisily and excitingly converted to the possibility that going round on an oval in a pack of 40-plus cars might actually be really quite entertaining and dead hard work and all that.
23:26And the president of the ACO, Pierre Fion, on the right-hand side there.
23:31Fred Lacan in the blazer, who runs the FIA World Endurance Championship.
23:37I saw Charles Leclerc there as well greeting fellow Marinello representatives in that podium room.
23:45And one of the great joys about Le Mans, because it's a team sport, is you don't get that staircase of awkwardness and the pre-podium room of awkwardness that you see so often in Formula One.
23:59With two or three drivers who may not necessarily want to be that close to each other after perhaps a Francis race.
24:07Here, even if the race is very, very, very tight, in the end, when you get into that room, you're united by one thing.
24:16You conquered Le Mans.
24:19Le Mans did not beat you.
24:21And that is a tough thing to say.
24:24It's a tough thing to achieve.
24:25There's an awful lot of cars that came here.
24:28Fully a third of our grid didn't make the checkered flag.
24:32And that is a high attrition rate.
24:34It is an extraordinary, I think, for the modern era.
24:37And it wasn't cars breaking down and falling apart and catching fire and blowing turbos.
24:45Generally, the scenery had more effect on the shape of the cars than any other item.
24:50Did Yarnik tell us that we'd be fighting for the podium?
24:53They did.
24:53They've got there.
24:55Yep.
24:55Third place finish.
24:57Absolutely.
24:58Neil with Renny Binder and Jan Nico Pinho, a Chilean racer on the podium at Le Mans.
25:03Yet another nation.
25:04It's got to be a first, hasn't it?
25:06Even without checking, you think that must be a first.
25:08Let's take a look at our overall classification then.
25:11Ferrari Air Corsa, Victorios over Toyota Gazoo Racing.
25:14Cadillacs finishing in third and fourth places ahead of the delayed second Ferrari.
25:20Glickenhaus, sixth and seventh.
25:21Again, 100% top ten finishing record ahead of the better of the Peugeots.
25:26Interimpole, Team WRT and Duquesne fill the podium in the LMP2.
25:30And in LMP2 Pro-Am, Algar Pro's number 45 crew take victory from 37 Cool Racing and the third Pro-Am car, DKR Engineering car number 15.
25:42Corvette Racing, ORT by TF and GR Racing are our podium finishers.
25:48GR taking the third spot in GTE and by just five seconds ahead of the Iron Dames.
25:55And you can see, again, the agony and the ecstasy, the tears of joy and defeat in that pre-podium room.
26:05For every winner, there will be a whole host of teams that could have, would have, should have.
26:10And that's what makes them come back.
26:14Because whether it's Le Mans that defeats you or a rival, either way, you've taken on the challenge and you don't want to stop until you succeed.
26:26Smiles for Sebastian Buemi and Brendan Hartley.
26:28Brendan just really looking after Rio Hirocaro.
26:31He probably feels a degree of responsibility for the fact they're not on the top step of the podium.
26:39In the end, again, it sounds slightly trite, but win as a team, lose as a team.
26:45And that is so much a part of this sport.
26:48And the Toyota crew, Kaz Nakajima there in the centre, there to greet the winners.
26:54Tom Christensen there to present the trophy as well.
26:57James Collado, Antonio Giovinazzi.
27:02I know Sancho Pierguidi didn't go grey during that final refusal to fire up.
27:08But I tell you what, I bet his heart rate spikes to a rate that he's previously almost never seen.
27:14This is the point where everybody's waiting for the podium.
27:17And then everybody doesn't want to go home, but they know they've got to.
27:21Well, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
27:24Well, you can overnight, but you need to kind of shuffle off tomorrow.
27:27What we're looking at is what is going to be one of the photographs of the year.
27:33Because you've got Ferrari winning Le Mans, a sea of humanity and beautiful sunshine and beautiful weather.
27:42And these photographs will go around the world and around the world and around the world.
27:47They'll be on social media for days, if not weeks, if not months.
27:50By the way, Alessio Salazar from Chile, but never got on the podium, remember, because he was taken out of the car and switched between two Jaguars.
28:00Here for Martin Brundle.
28:01Brundle was switched into the second car before LSAO managed to start the car.
28:05You're absolutely right, Stuart Dent.
28:08I'm sure you were shouting at the TV to remind me I was here.
28:12We were both here.
28:13I should have remembered.
28:15Well, there you can see the slightly different look to the 24-hour trophies below the Centenary trophy.
28:22Still on the four pillars, but without the standard Le Mans 24 logo, they've got a Centenary logo as well.
28:28So those drivers will get an exceptional trophy as well.
28:33Just on the right-hand side there, you saw, I didn't see that before, the number 14 Nielsen pit board.
28:38The number 14 Nielsen car was gold with a whole series of images from the history of Le Mans.
28:43On the pit board, the famous shot of Michael Delaney saluting one of his rivals in Steve McQueen's film Le Mans.
28:51Great.
28:51I had not spotted that before.
28:54If you didn't see it, you'll have to look back and get it there.
28:57There's Gilles Duquesne, the game arch enthusiast.
29:01On the podium.
29:02Mm, absolutely.
29:04You think of another French arch enthusiast, the man with most race entries here at Le Mans.
29:1033 entries as a driver and then a dozen more and more than that as a team owner and facilitator.
29:17Henri Pescarone, our very best wishes go to him and best thoughts, I'm sure, from everybody in the booth.
29:2211 around the world.
29:24Henri Pescarone, one of the great names of racing at Le Mans.
29:28By the way, 12 podium positions up for grabs in these four classes.
29:3311 nations across those 12.
29:35Oh, that's good.
29:36One repeated with two is going to be the United States of America, plus the innovative car, Corvette racing, of course, winning GTM, Cadillac racing in hypercar.
29:46Every other nation is a unique nation on this podium.
29:49And the tiniest to some of the very biggest and most powerful in this sport.
29:55First time in a very long while that the overall trophy will be awarded and followed by the National Anthem of Motorsport, the Italian National Anthem.
30:04And that, they're all looking quite happy now, that will bring on the floods of tears.
30:11Oh, yes.
30:11I'm sorry, it just absolutely will.
30:14Not from me, if not from them.
30:16So, here come in third place.
30:19Leading the team out is Richard Westbrook.
30:23There is Westy.
30:26He wasn't.
30:26I thought he was going to be the first out the door.
30:28He wasn't.
30:30So, the team of the number two Cadillac, they had the least misfortune of the three caddies.
30:37They came home in third place.
30:40The number two car, Earl Bamber, Alex Lin and Richard Westbrook.
30:52Earl Bamber on the left knows the view down from this podium.
30:55He's been an overall winner before, of course, with Porsche, Alex Lin and Richard Westbrook.
31:00Alex Lin carrying the colors of five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell on his helmet
31:05as his little tribute to the centenary of this great race.
31:10Is this going to be the first time, Martin, that two schoolmates have stood on the same overall podium?
31:15Brendan Hartley and Earl Bamber.
31:17Yeah.
31:17Both from...
31:18We're up together.
31:19Near Wanganui.
31:20In fact, Earl, from Wanganui.
31:22Good morning.
31:23Good Monday morning to my friend, Don and Don Pointner, who are also from Wanganui.
31:30And there is the crew of the number eight Toyota.
31:33Sebastian Burme, Brendan Hartley and Rio Hirokawa.
31:40And for the first time in 50 years, Ferrari wins Le Mans.
31:50Not in duty.
31:51The overall winners of the Le Mans 24 Hours, the centenary Le Mans 2023.
32:02It is the crew of Ferrari number 51.
32:06Al Sanjay Pierguidi, James Collado and Antonio Giovinazzi.
32:10They came, they saw, they conquered.
32:16And fittingly enough, those were the words of Junior Caesar in the opening of his Tales of the Gallic Wars.
32:30And Veni, Vidi, Vici, 50 years since the last time it was done by Ferrari here.
32:3858 years since Ferrari have triumphed at Le Mans.
32:4350 years since there's been a factory entry in the 24 Hours.
32:47And the centenary trophy will be lifted by the crew of the number 51 Ferrari 499 P.
32:57To present the trophies is Pierre Fion.
33:00So he presents the trophies to the crew of the number two Cadillac.
33:07The president of the automobile club de l'Ouest, whose predecessors came up with this crazy idea.
33:13Back in the late autumn of 1922.
33:17Team boss, Batty Bregliasco, looking rightly happy.
33:21Whatever else happens in the remainder of the season, this is the one, this is it.
33:26This is the whole shooting match.
33:28This is the big ball game.
33:31The second place trophies go to the team who could so easy bar one tiny twist of fate,
33:39one turn of the cards have been on the top step.
33:42President of the Department of the South, of the South.
33:48They are the local governing body.
33:53They are also the owners of property.
33:59Maintain all the public roads around this region.
34:02In a state in which they can become one of the world's most famous racetracks.
34:07The crew of the number eight Toyota, Sebastian Buemi, Brendan Hartley, Rio Hirokawa, so close.
34:18They fought like tigers throughout.
34:22It was an epic battle for victory in all three classes.
34:28The Grand Marshal, the most successful race winner here at Le Mans, Tom Christensen, presents the victor's trophies.
34:35Unique victor's trophies with the centenary logo on the top.
34:41To Alessandro Pierguidi, to James Collado, and to Antonio Giovinazzi.
34:49Team boss gets the big one for Maranello.
34:53And the centenary trophy is going to need some lifting.
35:02I think that is best left on its plinth.
35:04Joy pretty much unlimited.
35:15And you can see the looks of relief on many of the crew's faces, can't you, down in the pit lane?
35:22Yep.
35:23What are we going to fill this with?
35:29Well, the obvious answer is champagne.
35:34Because we are, of course, in France.
35:38Look at that.
35:38Yeah, that's fantastic.
35:41That's exactly what every photographer has been hoping for.
35:44Just an absolute sea of colour and humanity.
35:49And I see that gives you a pretty good indication of what the pit walk looked like in the autograph session.
35:54Put a few driver's tables out there, and there you have it.
35:57The Rolex watch is handed, and a new deal signed between this famous brand and this great race.
36:04Long-term deal will mean the winners will continue to get one of the most prized of their prizes.
36:12Come on, it's Tom.
36:12Don't leave him hanging.
36:14Antonio Giovinazzi leaving Tom Christensen hanging with a fist bump.
36:21Congratulations to all of them.
36:23And to everybody who brought cars here, who brought teams here, who brought drivers here, who brought hopes and dreams here.
36:35The combination of every single one of them, all 62 teams, has created quite a remarkable event.
36:43Not going to be many faces in the photos when the trophies go up.
36:54They're such enormous things, aren't they?
36:55Particularly for the winners.
36:59Photoshop's going to be taking a beating tonight at Media Room.
37:02Overwhelmed, I think, is the overwhelming emotion that you're looking at in the faces of those three Ferrari drivers.
37:13I don't think they can quite believe it.
37:15I'm not sure what the Italian for it hasn't really sunk in yet is, but that's going to get bandied around an awful lot, I think, amongst our drivers.
37:23And, of course, the winners' selfie.
37:28That's as much a tradition now on the podium as almost anything else.
37:35Chikidori floated in.
37:38As is the Japanese flag.
37:42And now everybody gets to smell like a winner.
37:45Our bandsmen down below, thanking the lucky stars that somebody placed them down the wind behind a firm object.
38:01Otherwise, they undoubtedly would be the subjects of some very sticky champagne showers.
38:09Doesn't do well for your trumpet, does it?
38:13It really doesn't.
38:14I don't think a trombone slide would work particularly well, full of sticky champagne in this temperature.
38:20However, this is the beginning now of a long round of interviews and press calls and meet and greets.
38:32That can only extend all the way, you should think, to Monza in a month's time.
38:38Because everybody will want to talk to the Ferrari drivers that won Le Mans.
38:47In the white shirt, Bruno Vendistique.
38:50He has been the speaker here at the Circuit de la Sarte since 1992.
38:55For anybody who's ever been to Le Mans, his voice is instantly recognisable.
39:01For anybody who's ever been to Le Mans, his voice is instantly recognisable.
39:01For anybody who's ever been to Le Mans, his voice is the driver's voice is the driver's voice.
39:07For anybody who's ever been to Le Mans, his voice is the driver's voice, the driver's voice, the driver's voice, the driver's voice, the driver's voice, the driver's voice.
39:13For everybody who's ever been to Le Mans, his voice is the driver's voice, the driver's voice.
39:34in this sort of manner
39:40for those of us that were both lucky enough and unlucky enough to be with 2020
39:46lucky enough because we know a lot of you wanted to be here and unlucky enough because it was
39:49beyond weird um this does your heart good that just does amazing to see you here and uh thank
39:56you and there is no word to to describe emotion i'm feeling now just look at this group of amazing
40:02people and uh thank you thank you and for the ferrari
40:09there's a lot of red in that crowd isn't there
40:16see the photographers there as you look down from above there above the podium
40:20getting those shots of the drivers the trophies and the crowd below
40:27there is the car the image of that car will go around the world already has
40:32yes and we'll keep doing it and then on the left three winning drivers in front of a
40:39goodly proportion of the 325 000 people we're here to watch this astonishing race this amazing trials
40:48for ferrari aircorsa and the number 51 ferrari 499p once again martin there's the result yep ferrari
40:58toyota gazoo racing and cadillac racing completing the podium in lmp2 victors into europole ahead of
41:05team wrt and duquesne what a result for two very small and very dedicated teams in gcm corvette racing
41:14bar ahead of ort by tf and by five seconds gr racing snatching the final podium spot from the iron dames
41:22and the garage 56 car coming home 39th spot the penultimate car running at the flag jimmy johnson
41:31fittingly bringing the hendrix motorsport car to the line rick hendrick and his crew spent nearly two
41:38years developing that car chad canals jimmy johnson and uh rocker michael rockenfeller and jenson button
41:46bringing the car through we're going to take a look at our lmp2 pro-am category in a moment or two
41:54toyota still lead the world championship from ferrari that battle will tighten up and as you can see
42:00there is a 25 point spread one win between the crew of the number eight car and the number 51 car
42:08that makes life very entertaining look who's in third it's the crew of the number two cattle and
42:14there you go it's ferrari up to second place in the world championship now and cadillac up to third
42:19it's game on or two are undefeated so far in the fia world endurance championship this season
42:26but it could happen and again the way i think the thing that's impressed me most about le mans to differ
42:34they've just been defeated yeah up to now uh the way that's impressed me most about le mans and the
42:41way that ferrari have taken it as on as it's as if they were never not here yes it just has been the
42:47most natural thing they've not been tetchy or tight-lipped or or closed-doored or or nervous or
42:58or overthinking or second guessing they've just come in relaxed and flowing and gone and done it
43:06of course now coming back and doing it again that's another whole thing but i have been singularly
43:12impressed by the the genuine relaxed and almost carefree attitude with which not unprepared not
43:22serious not professional but not stressed way in which they have dealt with the entire thing
43:30the history element of it the expectations the hopes all of that yeah they know it's there
43:37it's not stressing them out inside the team it's a little oasis of happiness and zen calm and that's
43:44a remarkable thing to achieve in a team that has not raced as a team until the beginning of this season
43:50so we've had already an italian team of course winning overall japanese team toyota kazoo racing in
43:57second and a us team in third overall we wait now i think it's mmp2 we're going to be seeing next
44:05well the band down below who are playing the anthems have got a couple of good choices okay uh italian
44:13anthem pretty standard stuff uh in gtm star spangled banner okay most bands are going to know that
44:20our lmp2 pro-am winner a portuguese flagged team a little bit less of a familiar anthem and our
44:30overall lmp2 winners a polish flagged team that might be one that they may not play very frequently so
44:39the kane team's number 30 squad come to the podium iliani has been on this podium before on the top step of
44:46course
44:46the kane and uh chilian racer nick opinion is 2022 season finished with despair
44:58it's uh he'll stand on the third step on the other side the number 41 team wrt crew they fought hard for
45:07this yeah first angolan driver on the podium at leman
45:13it's uh and louis de la tras
45:23but the winners extraordinary story this yeah absolutely extraordinary story in the sense of
45:29their ruy andras the first angolan angolan angolan driver to finish on the podium and on there is
45:35kuba chmichowski the most unassuming racing driver i think you will probably ever meet
45:41albert costa whose career is just going to start getting vaulted into the stratosphere and fabio
45:50sharer apparently ben keating has been down to apologize to him uh it seems he has broken a
45:58toe probably his big toe actually uh so uh nikki katzberg i beg your pardon apologize to fabio
46:04sharer there he is in the center well luckily he didn't have to hop onto the podium he can stand
46:10our lmp2 winners the polish anthem wonderful stuff and by the way we didn't get michael fassbender on
46:17the podium we did get sasha fassbender team manager of inter-europort competition on the podium there
46:23his younger brother the you can see the state of the cars there underneath the the battle scars on
46:29these cars even the ones that have been damaged it is covered in filth road filth dirt from all the
46:36cars and lorries and trucks that use the public highways that gets thrown up in the rain and all
46:42the little black marks black smears all over the car from their marbles from the rubber that gets thrown
46:48off by the tires of the race cars poland's biggest name in motorsport on the second step at the podium
46:55but tomorrow morning the biggest name in poland in the newspapers will be the team on the top step
47:02yeah into europe hall our thanks again as we have mentioned a couple of times to total energy the
47:10energy and fuel supplying partner of the fia world endurance championship and of remont their 100
47:16percent sustainable fuel used not just in every racing car but in all the tire heaters in the
47:22paddock robert kujic on the left rui andrade in the center angola's rui andrade and louis de la
47:29traz one of many second generation racers in this field we had a third generation as well with young jonas
47:38reed whose grandfather and father both raced here at the mon whose dad was also in the race christian reed
47:45and the mayor of le mans presents our winners the inter-europol trio with their trophy closest to us
47:51with the glasses is kuba schmierhovski fabio scherer in the middle and albert costa with the beard and the
47:59biggest smile amazing yeah what a remarkable achievement it is a very small family operation
48:11and inter-europol for those who don't know is not a european wide police operation that's interpol
48:20inter-europol is a europe-wide polish-based bakery concern so the racing bakers have done it
48:33a while before fabio scherer goes for a jog i reckon yeah and actually if he's broken his big toe
48:46that's going to be hurting him a long while hopefully it's not too bad little
48:53pain for the next few weeks every time it hurts he can look at his leman winners trophy and then
48:59they can feel just a little bit better they can feel a heck of a lot better not many people get
49:04to win them on in such exclusive company and very few do it without able being able to even walk to their
49:11car great stuff those images will be played in 20 years time of the driver hopping around to get into a
49:21race car we go i've forgotten that even happened who was that it is it is going to be one of the
49:29those images that will come back time after time you'll think by the way this is dramatically
49:35alters the points in the fi world of jones championship and uh inter-europol competition
49:40won the few teams in lmp2 which is a class that will leave the wc at the end of this year that does not
49:46have a as yet a clear path forward this isn't going to hurt is it no absolutely not
49:54you can see our class winning cars down there the oval winning ferrari front and center
50:04the lmp2 lmp2 pro-am and gtm class winners well that wrt they fought for that and uh yep at two or
50:13three points i thought they got that one but the spirits in this little team from poland amazing well
50:20lmp2 was a mirror of hypercar you could go almost literally from first to last with a little
50:28incident or sometimes even a pit stop it was so close and so tight for most of the race none of
50:34these really even looked like being partly resolved until we were pretty much at lunch time on sunday
50:40incredible i i think most of the race i was looking to the spanish flags some people saying
50:50thank you thank you so much for all the super to all the people around these days it's been amazing
50:55thank you beaucoup bye merci beaucoup jody fabio how is the left foot let's speak tomorrow about it today
51:02i don't feel it it's unbelievable merci beaucoup jacob congratulations i think it is the most beautiful
51:12day of your life yes of course i mean my racing life at least it's the most amazing experience
51:20and i'm just so proud to have the polish flag waving here on the top set of the podium
51:24it's uh it's a dream come true and i think it's it's just amazing i'm speechless
51:34alba costa came up the single seater ladder thankfully for all the commentators at exactly
51:39the same as antonio felix da costa no confusion there whatsoever when they're in the same categories
51:45and in the same races is the chosen uh monica for alba costa but as you can see massive enthusiasm
51:52as martin said earlier in the broadcast kuba uh a very understated and private individual but uh
51:59you can see the emotion on his face that is the result through 20 laps 28 laps completed
52:05by the 34 car and it was eventually 21 seconds the good head of the second place team wrt car with the
52:13third place going to decaying team after winning a bit of a duel with the number 31 team wrt that actually
52:20eventually fell behind the uh the rpnl 36 team wrt lead the world championship or the world cup rather
52:28four points just now ahead of inter-europole competition in the two united cars who did not
52:34have the best of them on this year well that is a really tough battle and inter-europole claiming victory
52:41with team wrt's 41 car in second place that makes that a super car tight battle with half the season
52:50almost left to go so just four point spreads between those two crews well this race in lmp2 was never a
52:58two-horse affair there were not yawning chasms in it nor were there in gtem the final podium spot decided
53:06for the crew of gr racing by just five seconds they're jubilant the crew of the iron dames porsche
53:15will be crushed so gr racing mike wainwright the tall figure of ben barker and ricardo perra who did
53:25the anchor leg there in the center go one better the last year fourth last year for this team
53:31and indeed this exact driving crew second for ort by tf sports ort for oman racing team if you're
53:41listening and looking in from oman i'm sure this is a very happy day for your proud nation as well
53:47that's come courtesy of armand el harti a massive flag carrier for this country or is louise almost
53:55re-named them omg by tf sport there is tf tom ferrier himself former racer raised up to form the three
54:04standards in the uk then started running cars brothers and has never stopped since so amada
54:11harti michael dinan of the usa and charlie eastward and our winners in the corvette racing c8r
54:19nicki katzberg the very slightly taller figure of nico veroni and the ebullient ben keating i mean daily
54:29by the way the team manager on the other side of the podium for gr racing and great to see
54:39so ben keating once more on the top step at leman in a gt car built in america
54:47the win in the winds for gt didn't last long this one hopefully will stick around
54:55indeed nine years eight different cars he's won with well in fact one across the line with three
55:01of them he's kept the wind with two of them the four gt very popular car back in the day
55:07unfortunately losing its win to a technical infringement the day after and uh
55:11geor racing how important might this be for their future in the fi world endurance championship
55:19again another team that punches above its weight
55:23can't argue with a podium at leman a huge result for them
55:27very big day indeed in gamal head of bosch motorsports and again one of the key suppliers to the fia world
55:38endurance championship and tom ferrier receives the ort by tm sport
55:47trophy from amad el harti on the left hand side you've shot there the first
55:51racing driver from omar to claim an fia world championship pole position and now he claims
55:57his nation's first leman trophy is there a better ambassador for sports car racing than ben keating
56:05anywhere in the world i'm not sure there is the enthusiasm and the application the talent the drive
56:12fantastic looking for only a new star the katzberger established star and ben keating frankly just a
56:20sports car racing icon just a star star and he was the man who brought all the cowboy hats from texas
56:26for the crew so if you find their photo their team photo at uh scusineering le paisage in the center of town
56:34they're proudly sporting those means you can't see any of them but uh a whole bunch of people in race suits
56:40and hats could be anybody frankly and a thank you to prep miller and all the ladies and gentlemen
56:46that have entertained us so royally through two decades or more of corvette racing in gts gt1
56:55in gte pro and in gtem well jim and i can both remember back to the early days american le mans series
57:02when they were running corvettes with opposition wanted written down the side of them and opposition
57:08came and they have been part of the sports car firmament ever since
57:14wonderful congratulations to the crew and to the teams and drivers
57:21in fact again as we say always of every team and every crew that gets an entry here and comes here
57:28it's a it's an illustrious deal to have a car entered for le mans any year never mind the centenary
57:35year and to get the wretched thing to the finish line after and 10 days of of toil and trouble and
57:45quite often 24 hours of extreme reluctance on the car's part is a is a huge deal
57:50uh at the passage place de la republic you said it's an american car so of course a very important
57:57victory at le mans with the chevrolet corvette ah the 25th anniversary of corvette racing
58:04uh the uh 100th anniversary for le mans the last gte uh race in le mans uh to be an american car
58:23uh an american team as an american driver is um just incredible thank you to all the fans
58:32you made a special
58:33they really do they really really do on behalf of the fans jim i think we'd say same to the teams
58:42and getting some coaching
58:48there you go how do i say
58:54before i forget this class victory for a corvette wow before i forget by the way with nikki katzberg on
59:01the podium uh we've already welcomed to the podium two drivers who since the 21st of may have won two
59:08international 24-hour races because both nikki katzberg and earl bamber took the overall win at the 24
59:15hours in the neighborhood just last month astonishing they are multi-faceted
59:24a very very popular
59:30so our final podium should be for the lmp2 pro-am but corvette racing ort by tf and gr gr by 5.3 seconds
59:48over the iron dames that's a a tough blow for that crew of the pink porsche but their time will come they
59:56will win
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