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| The GTE Am winning Aston Martin leading the Dempsey Proton on Saturday evening through the Esses. A good consistent drive gave them the top place on the podium. |
Great to see Le Mans regulars Ben Keating and Marco Sorensen take their first Le Mans class win this year. Always nice to see two Aston Martin cars on the podium. They had to beat a multitude of Porsches and Ferraris to get there. GTE Am cars are similar to GTE Pro cars but must be at least one year old and have some Bronze rated drivers in the car.
The LMGTE Am class at Le Mans always gives me some good photos to publish and this year was no exception. A picture of every car in the class can be seen below:
Results of the LM GTE Am class:
1st No.33 TF Sport-Aston Martin (Ben Keating / Henrique Chaves / Marco Sorensen) 343 laps
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| For Ben Keating this year's win was some recompense for when he was disqualified in the Ford GT after crossing the line first in 2019. It was also the first Le Mans win for Marco Sorensen after many years of trying. A nice win for the Aston Martin Vantage AMR as well over stiff competition from the Porsches and Ferraris. Here the car is in the Esses on Sunday morning when running third. |
2nd No.79 WeatherTech Porsche (Cooper Mac Neil / Julien Andlauer / Thomas Merrill) 343 laps, 44 seconds behind
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| The WeatherTech Porsche remained on the same lap as the winner. Here it enters the start finish straight on Sunday morning. It had looked a real contender early on but a few mistakes gave TF Sport the win. |
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| The WeatherTech Porsche is chased by an LMP2 Oreca as it heads up to the Dunlop Bridge on Sunday morning. |
3rd No.98 Northwest AMR Aston Martin (Paul Dalla Lana / David Pittard / Nicki Thiim) 342 laps
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| The second Aston Martin on the podium was the Northwest AMR car, seen here at Tertre Rouge after the sun has gone down. The Aston Martin Vantage has a four-litre, twin-turbo-charged V8 engine. |
4th No.86 GR Racing Porsche (Michael Wainwright / Ricardo Pera / Benjamin Barker) 340 laps
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| Bumping over the kerbs early on Sunday morning is the GR Racing Porsche. |
5th No.88 Dempsey Proton Porsche (Fred Poordad / Maxwell Root / Jan Heylen) 340 laps
The No.88 Dempsey Proto Porsche leading the Spirit of Race Ferrari through the Dunlop Chicane.
6th No.54 AF Corse-Ferrari (Thomas Flohr / Francesco Castellacci / Nick Cassidy) 340 laps
The No.54 AF Corse Ferrari enters the start finish on Sunday morning.
7th No.85 Iron Dames Ferrari (Rahel Frey / Michelle Gatting / Sarah Bovy) 339 laps
The three Iron Dames, Rahel, Michelle and Sarah did very well and finished seventh especially as the Ferrari seemed the car least favoured by the BOP (Balance of Performance).
8th No.21 AF Corse-Ferrari (Simon Mann / Christoph Ulrich / Toni Vilander) 339 laps
As the night starts at Le Mans the No.21 AF Corse Ferrari rounds Tertre Rouge.
9th No.61 AF Corse-Ferrari (Louis Prette / Conrad Grunewald / Vincent Abril) 339 laps
The Ferrari had taken the GTE Am hyperpole but couldn't do as well in the race.
10th No.55 Spirit of Race Ferrari (Duncan Cameron / Matthew Griffin / David Perel) 339 laps
The Spirit of Race Ferrari leads the AF Corse Ferrari through the Esses on Saturday afternoon.
11th No.99 Hardpoint Motorsport Porsche (Andrew Haryanto / Alessio Picariello / Martin Rump) 338 laps
The Hardpoint Porsche in the Esses on Sunday morning. Later it was to lose any hope of a podium when it got stuck in the gravel trap for a number of laps.
12th No.57 Kessel Racing Ferrari (Takeshi Kimura / Mikkel Jensen / Frederik Schanorff) 336 laps
The Kessel Ferrari exiting the Dunlop Chicane on Sunday morning.
13th No.80 Iron Lynx Ferrari (Matteo Cressoni / Giancarlo Fisichella / Richard Heistand) 336 laps
The Iron Lynx Ferrari after sunset in Tertre Rouge.
14th No.77 Dempsey Proton Porsche (Christian Ried / Sebastian Priaulx / Harry Tincknell) 336 laps
We follow the Dempsey Proton Porsche down the pit straight as the visibility begins to get affected by the heat haze as the sun has risen. This car looked set for a podium finish until it suffered broken suspension late in the race.
15th No.66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari (Renger Van der Zande / Mark Kvamme / Jason Hart) 331 laps
Too close for comfort as the Ferrari squeezes the Aston Martin on the entry to the Dunlop Chicane on Sunday morning. 
The resulting light contact sends the Ferrari to the inside of the second past of the chicane. It is still relatively early on Sunday morning and there are not too many people in the Grandstands.
16th No.93 Proton Competition Porsche (Michael Fassbender / Matt Campbell / Zacharie Robichon) 329 laps
It is Saturday evening at the Esses and the No.93 Porsche leads some protoypes. This was the car which had actor Michael Fassbinder as one of its drivers and he had a difficult race with two incidents during the night.
17th No.75 Iron Lynx Ferrari (Pierre Ehret / Christian Hook / Nicolas Varrone) + 19 rounds 324 laps
It is very early on Sunday morning, just before sunrise but after dawn, when the No.75 Ferrari follows a number of GT cars onto the start finish straight.
DNF No.60 Iron Lynx Ferrari (Claudio Schiavoni / Alessandro Balzan / Raffaele Gianmaria) DNF
The Iron Lynx Ferrari in the Dunlop Chicane on Saturday afternoon.
DNF No.56 Project 1 Porsche (Brendan Iribe / Oliver Millroy / Ben Barnicoat) DNF
The No.56 Porsche was still going early on Sunday morning but later retired.
DNF No.59 Inception Racing Ferrari (Alexander West / Come Ledogar / Marvin Klein) DNF
The No.59 Ferrari early in the race at Tertre Rouge but it was destined not to finish.
DNF No.71 Spirit of Race Ferrari (Franck Dezoteux / Pierre Ragues / Gabriel Aubry) DNF
The Spirit of Race Ferrari in the Esses on Saturday afternoon.
DNF No.777 D’station Racing-Aston Martin (Satoshi Hoshino / Tomonobu Fujii / Charles Fagg) DNF
The No.777 Aston Martin in Tertre Rouge late on Saturday evening. They later retired with suspension damage.
DNF No.46 Project 1 Porsche (Matteo Cairoli / Mikkel Pedersen / Nicolas Leutwiler) DNF
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| AS the sun gets low in the sky, the No.46 Porsche leads an LMP2 car and an Aston Martin through the Esses. This was the car at le Mans that completed the least laps this year. |
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| The Marshals at Le Mans did a superb job over the whole week as usual. Here the marshal waves a blue flag as the No.71 Ferrari passes under the Dunlop bridge. |
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