Ferrari have been the team to beat so far at the 2024 24h of Le Mans race as Robert Kubica leads for the #83 car.

12th to start the race, Kubica made quiꦆck progress up fifth as he benefited fro𒆙m his soft tyres.

After making the right decision when rain fell a couple of h🦹ours into the race, Kubica leapfrogged the leading #50 Ferrari and the #6 Porsche which started on pole.

The #50 then began to close in as pit stops and driver changes came into effect, however, the #83 managed to remain in the lead aꦕs heavy rain came six hours into the race.

Both factory Ferrari’s stayed out while Kubica and the #83 pitted for wets, which again proved to be thꦏe right call as he lapped the #51 which had been fifth before dropping to 13th.

Battling Ferrari for top spot was the 🗹#5 Porsche Penske car, which like the #83 car, made the right calls at the right time to ꦅmove up the order.

Toyota were not shy in ⛎making progress either, as Brendon Hartley was able to claw back a lot of time on the leading trio.

Alpine suffered a disastrous💦 opening few hours as the #35 reitred before 🍸Mick Schumacher was also out of the race just after the six-hour mark.

Despite early pace, Cadillac’s challenge faded as both full factory V-Series R ꦚmachines went b🐠ackwards.

In LMGT3, the highly-anticipated #46 BMW was a constant presence at the fr꧒ont before t๊aking the lead after a few hours.

Valentino Rossi spent much of his first stint leading the way before handing back ove♐r to Maximeꦑ Martin, who made a mistake when getting back underway following the latest full course yellow when he spun round an LMP2 car.

As a result, 𝓀Martin was under investigation for him part in the💮 incident.

After big problems for the #20 BMW early on, the #15 was🐷 forced to retire when Dries Vanthoor suffered a big crash after contac🙈t with race leader Kubica.

As a result of the incident the♒ safety car was deployed for the first time tod⛄ay.