Ferrari wins third consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans
Ferrari won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the third year in a row on Sunday but with Poland’s Robert Kubica taking the chequered flag for the privately-run AF Corse team ahead of the red factory cars.
The former Formula One driver’s yellow number 83 car, shared with China’s Yifei Yi and Britain’s Phil Hanson, crossed the line after 387 laps of the Sarthe circuit in the 93rd edition of the race.
The number 6 Porsche Penske shared by France’s Kevin Estre, Belgian Laurens Vanthoor and Australian Matt Campbell finished second and 14.084 seconds behind.
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The 51 factory Ferrari of 2023 winners Alessandro Pier Guidi, Antonio Giovinazzi and James Calado completed the podium with last year’s winners Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina fourth in the number 50 Ferrari.
Kubica’s triumph came on the same weekend as the Canadian Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, scene of his only Formula One win with BMW Sauber in 2008 after a huge crash at the same track in 2007.
It also capped an astonishing racing redemption story for the 40-year-old whose Formula One career ended after a near-fatal rally crash in Italy in 2011 that partially severed his right forearm.