21 Hypercar entries are listed on the Provisional Entry List for the 2025 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, comprising eight manufacturers and ten teams. 18 of the entries are FIA World Endurance Championship full-season competitors with three additional invitations being extended to the top three teams from the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
The #4 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porshe 963 will be driven by Felipe Nasr, Nick Tandy and Pascal Wehrlein. Tandy and Nasr, joined by Laurens Vanthoor, won the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, the opening two rounds of the 2025 IMSA calendar, and currently head the standings in the GTP Drivers Championship.
Porsche Penske Motorsport pilot Nick Tandy is the only driver to have won the Grand Slam of major 24-hour races with wins at Le Mans in 2015, The Nürburgring 24 in 2018, the Spa 24 in 2020 and Dayton this year.
Pascal Wehrlein was part of the #6 WEC alongside Kévin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor at the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and the trio brought the car home for a 9th-place finish in the Ardennes. The German-Mauritian driver switches to the #4 car for Le Mans.
The #101 Cadillac WTR Cadillac V-Series.R will be driven by brothers Ricky and Jordan Taylor alongside Felipe Albuquerque. Despite numerous appearances at La Sarthe, 2025 marks the first year that the Taylor brothers have driven in the same team at Le Mans. Ricky Taylor and Felipe Albuquerque drive the #10 Cadillac V-Series.R to 5th place in the opening IMSA round alongside Cadillac hertz Team Jota’s Will Stevens and Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Brendon Hartley. Stevens also joined Taylor and Albuquerque for Sebring where the trio finished 7th.
The #311 Cadillac Whelen entry will see Jack Aitken, Felipe Drugovich and Frederik Vesti. Aitken, Drugovich and Vesti were joined by Cadillac Hertz Team Jota’s Earl Bamber for Daytona where they finished 9th in class.
Looking at the full-season WEC entries, Ross Gunn joins the #007 Aston Martin THOR team alongside Harry Tincknell and Tom Gamble. Gunn drove with Roman De Angelis and Alex Riberas in the #10 Aston Martin Valkyrie in the Sebring round of the IMSA championship, finishing 9th on the car’s US racing debut.
For Le Mans, De Angelis joins Riberas and Marco Sørenson in the #8 Valkyrie.
In the #5 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963, Matt Campbell joins Kévin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor while Vanthoor’s brother Dries re-joins Kevin Magnussen and Raffaele Marciello in the #15 BMW M Team WRT BMW M Hybrid after missing the Spa WEC round due to a clash with his IMSA commitments where Vanthoor, with teammate Philipp Eng, drove the #3 BMW M Team RLL car to a 3rd-place finish.
Sheldon van der Linde also rejoins the #20 BMW crew alongside René Rast and Robin Frijns after driving the #25 BMW to a 5th-place finish at Long Beach with teammate Marco Wittmann.
Track action for 2025 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans gets underway on Sunday June 8th with Test Day Free Practice with the lights going out for the race at 4.00pm local time on Saturday June 14th.
