1993 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 1993 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 61st Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 19 and 20 June 1993.
The race was won by Peugeot Talbot Sport, with drivers Geoff Brabham, and Le Mans rookies Éric Hélary and Christophe Bouchut completing 375 laps in their Peugeot 905 Evo 1B. Brabham became just the third Australian to win the French classic after Bernard Rubin in 1928, and Vern Schuppan in 1983.
A class for Grand Touring style cars was included for the first time since the 1986 race. With the extra class, the entry list expanded from 30 cars in 1992 to 48 in 1993.
Regulations and Entries
The 1992 race had seen the lowest number of entries since the iconic race's advent in the 1920s, and in October 1992 the FIA officially cancelled the Sportscar World Championship - a series that had been running, in various guises, continuously since 1953. The idea to run the premier class on F1-derived engines had proved a spectacular failure with negligible interest from the major car manufacturers that had been anticipated, and too high costs for small teams. Soon after the series cancellation, and with no alternative international series proposed, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest took matters into its own hands, drafting up regulations for a new "Le Mans Prototype" category: open-cockpit, flat-bottomed cars powered by regular production or restricted race engines. Early in 1993 the American IMSA federation also announced a new "World Sports Car" category along very similar lines.In March however the ACO only had 21 entrants, but with no formal championship to adhere to, the ACO was now free to set its own invitation list to the great race and so it revised its entry parameters to offer four distinct divisions:
- Category 1 - for the 1991-92 FIA Sportscars
- Category 2 - Group C cars from IMSA or the pre-1991 regulations, now with no fuel restrictions, but engine restrictors instead
- Category 3 - cars in the new IMSA WSC, using 3.0L production or F3000 engines, also balanced by engine restrictors
- Category 4 - the ACO's version of the forthcoming GT regulations still being drafted by FISA
The revision worked and soon a number of Group C and GT teams lined up. When entries closed in April, it had a full field of 58, including the first Ferrari to appear since 1984. They also revived the May Test Day, attracting 32 cars. A number of current and future F1 drivers were in the driver list. A new rule was also included that teams had to qualify the car to be used in the race, to stop abuses with specialised test-cars, and that reserve cars could be qualified in case of accident to the primary cars.
Qualification
Over a sunny race week, unsurprisingly the Category 1 works Peugeots and Toyotas set the pace. In attempting to better their Wednesday times, both teams damaged their chances: Philippe Alliot wrote his Peugeot off in a big accident doing nearly 200 km/h in the Porsche Curves, while Eddie Irvine had a spin at Mulsanne corner with his car using a special qualifying engine. Expecting to have to use their reserve car, Peugeot instead returned a fully repaired car the very next day. People suspected a replacement had been built on a spare monocoque but nothing could be proven. In the end, Alliot's earlier time of 3:24.94 won pole and the six works cars locked out the front rows. The elderly Porsche 962s in Category 2, hampered by engine restrictors were at least 13 seconds slower. In GT, the latest variant of the Porsche 911, the 964-series Turbo S Le Mans from the Porsche works team, was fastest ahead of the three new Jaguar XJ220C of Tom Walkinshaw Racing. 48 cars survived Qualifying however neither the Ferrari nor a new MiG reached the starting grid.The Race
Start
From flagfall, Alliot and Irvine dueled at the front, with the latter's Toyota taking the lead on the eighth lap when the Peugeot spun at Mulsanne corner. Irvine continued to hold the lead through two driving shifts until a slow pitstop handed the lead back to the Peugeot, now driven by Mauro Baldi. At 6.30pm Raphanel brought in the second Toyota, while running third, with an engine misfire. Half an hour later the lead Peugeot lost 35 minutes and 8 laps with a broken oil pipe. The to and fro battle between the works teams was then picked up by Geoff Lees' Toyota and the Peugeot of Boutsen/Dalmas/Fabi. In GT, one of the TWR-Jaguars was out with a blown head-gasket after only half an hour. After the works Porsche was held up for 20 minutes with a sticking throttle, the other two Jaguars dominated the class, around 15th place, mixing it with the Group C cars, ahead of a raft of works and private Porsches. In the works Porsche, Walter Röhrl had driven hard to make back 2 of the 5 laps by 10pm when he rammed the back of the Debora in the Mulsanne chicanes. Losing oil, the engine seized before it could reach the pits.Night
had been closing in on the leader into the night until 11pm when he was hit from behind by Yojiro Terada's Lotus GT missing its braking point at the 2nd Mulsanne chicane. Repairs cost it 35 minutes, dropping it to 10th. Through the night Boutsen and his co-drivers held the lead over the third team car of steady teammates Brabham/Bouchut/Hélary, with a recovering Irvine a lap behind.At 2.30am, Fabi bought his Peugeot into the pit with smoke in the cockpit from faulty wiring. Though fixed in five minutes they lost the lead to their sister-car. When Irvine's Toyota lost more time with electrical problems, the two Peugeots had a comfortable lead, swapping the lead depending on the pit strategy.
In Category 2, brilliant night-time driving by Roland Ratzenberger in the Toyota 93C-V of Shin Kato's SARD team kept them the lead, ahead of the Porsche 962s, that he had got them soon after 5pm.
Morning
At 7am Hélary had his rear wing damaged by debris, losing the lead, then at 8.50am Boutsen lost a lap with a fractured exhaust handing the lead back. Irvine, meanwhile, was driving blisteringly fast, breaking the lap record and making back a lap. But battery and clutch issues affected the Toyotas: Wallace's car came to a stop out at the Dunlop curves at 7.45am with gearbox problems, then Irvine's challenge ended after midday with a 30-minute engine repair, and finally Lees' car, despite all three drivers doing triple stints to save pit-time, needed gearbox repairs dropping it from 4th to 9th. In GT, the private Porsche of Jean-Pierre Jarier's Monaco Média team had been leading for 6 hours, chased by the remaining Jaguar who finally passed it in the 21st hour.Finish and post-race
So with Toyota's problems, Jean Todt's Peugeots finished a convincing 1-2-3, with Alliot's car making its way back up through the field to 3rd. Toyota ended up finishing 4-5-6, with the older Category 2 cars heading the rest of the field home with a big lead over the Porsche 962s, with Roland Ratzenberger and Mauro Martini holding on for the Japanese SARD team. In the battle of the 962s, the Obermeier team's reliability beat its bigger brothers: the Joest and Kremer teams.Sir Jack Brabham had two of his sons on the podiums when David, along with fledgling test-driver David Coulthard and veteran John Nielsen bought the Jaguar XJ220C as the first GT home. However, it had raced under waiver due to scrutineering concerns on its lack of catalytic converters like its production-model had. A month later, they were disqualified on a technicality- Jaguar's evidence and appeal had been filed correctly with the ACO, but not on time with the French motorsport authority. The record thus shows the GT win went to the Porsche 911 of Jürgen Barth that had finished 2 laps behind.
In the small Category 3 field of 3 LMP cars, Gérard Welter's latest WR-Peugeot prototype had started well, staying in the top 20 well ahead of its rivals until delayed by wheel-bearing problems. Didier Bonnet's Debora SP93 took the category lead until the WR overtook it again just before dawn, until delayed again - this time replacing a driveshaft. The Debora took over again until halted the engine broke with just over an hour to go, handing the win to the long-suffering WR drivers.
With consecutive wins, this was the last Le Mans for the works Peugeot team for 14 years. After the race, Jean Todt immediately left Peugeot to manage the Scuderia Ferrari F1 team. Back in Japan, blame was laid at the engine engineering department. A month later, Toyota bought out Anderson Motor Sports, running its rally cars and set up Toyota Motorsport GmbH in Cologne for a European racing programme.
Included in the GT field were seven new Venturi 500LM supercars, coming out of the French one-make race series. Although not on the pace with the Porsche 911s or Jaguars, five of them finished. It was a success for the brand though: Jürgen Barth's German Porsche series joined Patrick Peter and Stéphane Ratel's Venturi series in 1994 to create the BPR Global GT Series - the only major international sports car series running that year, piquing FISA's interest.
Official results
| Pos | Class | No | Team | Drivers | Chassis | Tyre | Laps |
| Pos | Class | No | Team | Drivers | Engine | Tyre | Laps |
| 1 | C1 | 3 |  Peugeot Talbot Sport | Éric Hélary Christophe Bouchut Geoff Brabham | Peugeot 905 Evo 1B | 375 | |
| 1 | C1 | 3 | Peugeot Talbot Sport | Éric Hélary Christophe Bouchut Geoff Brabham | Peugeot SA35 3.5 L V10 | 375 | |
| 2 | C1 | 1 | Peugeot Talbot Sport |  Thierry Boutsen Yannick Dalmas Teo Fabi | Peugeot 905 Evo 1B | 374 | |
| 2 | C1 | 1 | Peugeot Talbot Sport | Thierry Boutsen Yannick Dalmas Teo Fabi | Peugeot SA35 3.5L V10 | 374 | |
| 3 | C1 | 2 | Peugeot Talbot Sport | Philippe Alliot Mauro Baldi Jean-Pierre Jabouille | Peugeot 905 Evo 1B | 367 | |
| 3 | C1 | 2 | Peugeot Talbot Sport | Philippe Alliot Mauro Baldi Jean-Pierre Jabouille | Peugeot SA35 3.5L V10 | 367 | |
| 4 | C1 | 36 |  Toyota Team Tom's |  Eddie Irvine Toshio Suzuki Masanori Sekiya | Toyota TS010 | 364 | |
| 4 | C1 | 36 | Toyota Team Tom's | Eddie Irvine Toshio Suzuki Masanori Sekiya | Toyota RV10 3.5 L V10 | 364 | |
| 5 | C2 | 22 | Y's Racing Team SARD Co. Ltd. |  Roland Ratzenberger Mauro Martini Naoki Nagasaka | Toyota 93C-V | 363 | |
| 5 | C2 | 22 | Y's Racing Team SARD Co. Ltd. | Roland Ratzenberger Mauro Martini Naoki Nagasaka | Toyota R36V 3.6 L Turbo V8 | 363 | |
| 6 | C2 | 25 | Nisso Trust Racing Team |  George Fouché Eje Elgh Steven Andskär | Toyota 93C-V | 358 | |
| 6 | C2 | 25 | Nisso Trust Racing Team | George Fouché Eje Elgh Steven Andskär | Toyota R36V 3.6 L Turbo V8 | 358 | |
| 7 | C2 | 21 |  Obermaier Racing GmbH | Otto Altenbach Jürgen Oppermann Loris Kessel | Porsche 962C | 355 | |
| 7 | C2 | 21 | Obermaier Racing GmbH | Otto Altenbach Jürgen Oppermann Loris Kessel | Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | 355 | |
| 8 | C1 | 38 | Toyota Team Tom's | Geoff Lees Jan Lammers Juan Manuel Fangio II | Toyota TS010 | 353 | |
| 8 | C1 | 38 | Toyota Team Tom's | Geoff Lees Jan Lammers Juan Manuel Fangio II | Toyota RV10 3.5 L V10 | 353 | |
| 9 | C2 | 18 | Joest Porsche Racing | Bob Wollek Henri Pescarolo Ronny Meixner | Porsche 962C | 351 | |
| 9 | C2 | 18 | Joest Porsche Racing | Bob Wollek Henri Pescarolo Ronny Meixner | Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | 351 | |
| 10 | C2 | 14 | Courage Compétition | Derek Bell Lionel Robert Pascal Fabre | Courage C30LM | 347 | |
| 10 | C2 | 14 | Courage Compétition | Derek Bell Lionel Robert Pascal Fabre | Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | 347 | |
| 11 | C2 | 13 | Courage Compétition | Pierre Yver Jean-Louis Ricci Jean-François Yvon | Courage C30LM | 343 | |
| 11 | C2 | 13 | Courage Compétition | Pierre Yver Jean-Louis Ricci Jean-François Yvon | Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 | 343 | |
| 12 | C2 | 10 | Porsche Kremer Racing | Jürgen Lässig Giovanni Lavaggi Wayne Taylor | Porsche 962CK6 | 328 | |
| 12 | C2 | 10 | Porsche Kremer Racing | Jürgen Lässig Giovanni Lavaggi Wayne Taylor | Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | 328 | |
| 13 | C2 | 11 | Porsche Kremer Racing |  Andy Evans Tomás Saldaña François Migault | Porsche 962CK6 | 316 | |
| 13 | C2 | 11 | Porsche Kremer Racing | Andy Evans Tomás Saldaña François Migault | Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | 316 | |
| 14 | C2 | 23 | Team Guy Chotard | Denis Morin Didier Caradec Alain Sturm | Porsche 962C | 308 | |
| 14 | C2 | 23 | Team Guy Chotard | Denis Morin Didier Caradec Alain Sturm | Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | 308 | |
| 15 | GT | 47 | Monaco Media International Larbre Compétition | Joël Gouhier Jürgen Barth Dominique Dupuy | Porsche 911 Carrera RSR | 304 | |
| 15 | GT | 47 | Monaco Media International Larbre Compétition | Joël Gouhier Jürgen Barth Dominique Dupuy | Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6 | 304 | |
| 16 | GT | 78 | Jack Leconte Larbre Compétition | Jesús Pareja Jack Leconte Pierre de Thoisy | Porsche 911 Carrera RSR | 301 | |
| 16 | GT | 78 | Jack Leconte Larbre Compétition | Jesús Pareja Jack Leconte Pierre de Thoisy | Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6 | 301 | |
| 17 | GT | 65 | Heico Dienstleistungen | Ulrich Richter Dirk Rainer Ebeling Karl-Heinz Wlazik | Porsche 911 Carrera RSR | 299 | |
| 17 | GT | 65 | Heico Dienstleistungen | Ulrich Richter Dirk Rainer Ebeling Karl-Heinz Wlazik | Porsche 3.8L Flat-6 | 299 | |
| 18 | GT | 77 | Scuderia Chicco d'Oro | Claude Haldi Olivier Haberthur Charles Margueron | Porsche 911 Carrera RSR | 299 | |
| 18 | GT | 77 | Scuderia Chicco d'Oro | Claude Haldi Olivier Haberthur Charles Margueron | Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6 | 299 | |
| 19 | GT | 62 | Konrad Motorsport | Franz Konrad Jun Harada Antônio Hermann de Azevedo | Porsche 911 Carrera RS | 293 | |
| 19 | GT | 62 | Konrad Motorsport | Franz Konrad Jun Harada Antônio Hermann de Azevedo | Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6 | 293 | |
| 20 | C2 | 24 | Graff Racing | Jean-Bernard Bouvet Richard Balandras Bruno Miot | Spice SE89C | 288 | |
| 20 | C2 | 24 | Graff Racing | Jean-Bernard Bouvet Richard Balandras Bruno Miot | Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 | 288 | |
| 21 | GT | 66 | Mühlbauer Motorsport | Gustl Spreng Sandro Angelastri Fritz Müller | Porsche 911 Carrera RS | 276 | |
| 21 | GT | 66 | Mühlbauer Motorsport | Gustl Spreng Sandro Angelastri Fritz Müller | Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6 | 276 | |
| 22 | GT | 40 | Obermaier Racing GmbH | Philippe Olczyk Josef Prechtl Gerard Dillmann | Porsche 911 Carrera 2 Cup | 274 | |
| 22 | GT | 40 | Obermaier Racing GmbH | Philippe Olczyk Josef Prechtl Gerard Dillmann | Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6 | 274 | |
| 23 | GT | 55 | Agusta Racing | Onofrio Russo Riccardo Agusta Paolo Mondini | Venturi 500LM | 274 | |
| 23 | GT | 55 | Agusta Racing | Onofrio Russo Riccardo Agusta Paolo Mondini | Renault PRV 3.0 L Turbo V6 | 274 | |
| 24 | LMP | 33 | Welter Racing | Patrick Gonin Bernard Santal Alain Lamouille | WR LM93 | 268 | |
| 24 | LMP | 33 | Welter Racing | Patrick Gonin Bernard Santal Alain Lamouille | Peugeot 2.0 L Turbo I4 | 268 | |
| 25 | GT | 57 | Écurie Toison d'Or | Marc Duez Éric Bachelart Philip Verellen | Venturi 500LM | 267 | |
| 25 | GT | 57 | Écurie Toison d'Or | Marc Duez Éric Bachelart Philip Verellen | Renault PRV 3.0 L Turbo V6 | 267 | |
| 26 | GT | 49 | Team Paduwa | Bruno Ilien Alain Gadal Bernard Robin | Porsche 911 Carrera 2 Cup | 266 | |
| 26 | GT | 49 | Team Paduwa | Bruno Ilien Alain Gadal Bernard Robin | Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6 | 266 | |
| 27 | GT | 70 | Éric Graham | Pascal Witmeur Michel Neugarten Jacques Tropenat | Venturi 500LM | 262 | |
| 27 | GT | 70 | Éric Graham | Pascal Witmeur Michel Neugarten Jacques Tropenat | Renault PRV 3.0 L Turbo V6 | 262 | |
| 28 | GT | 91 | Alain Lamouille | Patrice Roussel Édouard Sezionale Hervé Rohée | Venturi 500LM | 246 | |
| 28 | GT | 91 | Alain Lamouille | Patrice Roussel Édouard Sezionale Hervé Rohée | Renault PRV 3.0 L Turbo V6 | 246 | |
| 29 | GT | 92 | BBA Compétition | Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière Michel Krine Patrick Camus | Venturi 500LM | 243 | |
| 29 | GT | 92 | BBA Compétition | Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière Michel Krine Patrick Camus | Renault PRV 3.0 L Turbo V6 | 243 | |
| 30 | LMP | 35 | Sport & Immagine SRL | Fabio Magnani Luigi Taverna Roberto Ragazzi | Lucchini SP91 | 221 | |
| 30 | LMP | 35 | Sport & Immagine SRL | Fabio Magnani Luigi Taverna Roberto Ragazzi | Alfa Romeo 3.0 L V6 | 221 | |
| DNF | C2 | 17 | Joest Porsche Racing | Manuel Reuter Frank Jelinski "John Winter" | Porsche 962C | 282 | |
| DNF | C2 | 17 | Joest Porsche Racing | Manuel Reuter Frank Jelinski "John Winter" | Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | 282 | |
| DNF | LMP | 34 | Didier Bonnet Racing | Yvan Muller Gérard Tremblay Georges Tessier | Debora SP93 | 259 | |
| DNF | LMP | 34 | Didier Bonnet Racing | Yvan Muller Gérard Tremblay Georges Tessier | Alfa Romeo 3.0 L V6 | 259 | |
| DNF | C1 | 37 | Toyota Team Tom's | Pierre-Henri Raphanel Kenny Acheson Andy Wallace | Toyota TS010 | 212 | |
| DNF | C1 | 37 | Toyota Team Tom's | Pierre-Henri Raphanel Kenny Acheson Andy Wallace | Toyota RV10 3.5 L V10 | 212 | |
| DNF | GT | 71 | Jacadi Racing | Jacques Laffite Michel Maisonneuve Christophe Dechavanne | Venturi 500LM | 210 | |
| DNF | GT | 71 | Jacadi Racing | Jacques Laffite Michel Maisonneuve Christophe Dechavanne | Renault PRV 3.0 L Turbo V6 | 210 | |
| DNF | C2 | 15 | Porsche Kremer Racing | Almo Coppelli Robin Donovan Steve Fossett | Porsche 962CK6 | 204 | |
| DNF | C2 | 15 | Porsche Kremer Racing | Almo Coppelli Robin Donovan Steve Fossett | Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | 204 | |
| DNF | GT | 52 | TWR Jaguar Racing | Paul Belmondo Jay Cochran Andreas Fuchs | Jaguar XJ220 | 176 | |
| DNF | GT | 52 | TWR Jaguar Racing | Paul Belmondo Jay Cochran Andreas Fuchs | Jaguar JV6 3.5 L Turbo V6 | 176 | |
| DNF | C2 | 28 | Roland Bassaler | Roland Bassaler Patrick Bourdais Jean-Louis Capette | Sauber SHS C6 | 166 | |
| DNF | C2 | 28 | Roland Bassaler | Roland Bassaler Patrick Bourdais Jean-Louis Capette | BMW M88 3.5 L I6 | 166 | |
| DNF | GT | 44 | Lotus Sport Chamberlain Engineering | Richard Piper Olindo Iacobelli Ferdinand de Lesseps | Lotus Esprit S300 | 162 | |
| DNF | GT | 44 | Lotus Sport Chamberlain Engineering | Richard Piper Olindo Iacobelli Ferdinand de Lesseps | Lotus 2.2 L Turbo I4 | 162 | |
| DNF | C2 | 27 | Chamberlain Engineering | Andy Petery Nick Adams Hervé Regout | Spice SE89C | 137 | |
| DNF | C2 | 27 | Chamberlain Engineering | Andy Petery Nick Adams Hervé Regout | Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5 L V8 | 137 | |
| DNF | C2 | 12 | Courage Compétition | Tomiko Yoshikawa Carlos Moran Alessandro Gini | Courage C30LM | 108 | |
| DNF | C2 | 12 | Courage Compétition | Tomiko Yoshikawa Carlos Moran Alessandro Gini | Porsche Type-935 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 | 108 | |
| DNF | GT | 45 | Lotus Sport Chamberlain Engineering | Yojiro Terada Peter Hardman Thorkild Thyrring | Lotus Esprit S300 | 92 | |
| DNF | GT | 45 | Lotus Sport Chamberlain Engineering | Yojiro Terada Peter Hardman Thorkild Thyrring | Lotus 2.2L Turbo I4 | 92 | |
| DNF | GT | 56 | Stéphane Ratel |  Costas Los Johannes Bardutt Claude Brana | Venturi 500LM | 80 | |
| DNF | GT | 56 | Stéphane Ratel | Costas Los Johannes Bardutt Claude Brana | Renault PRV 3.0 L Turbo V6 | 80 | |
| DNF | GT | 46 | Le Mans Porsche Team | Walter Röhrl Hans-Joachim Stuck Hurley Haywood | Porsche 911 Turbo S LM-GT | 79 | |
| DNF | GT | 46 | Le Mans Porsche Team | Walter Röhrl Hans-Joachim Stuck Hurley Haywood | Porsche 3.2 L Turbo Flat-6 | 79 | |
| DNF | GT | 76 | Cartronic Motorsport | Enzo Calderari Luigino Pagotto Lilian Bryner | Porsche 911 Carrera 2 Cup | 64 | |
| DNF | GT | 76 | Cartronic Motorsport | Enzo Calderari Luigino Pagotto Lilian Bryner | Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6 | 64 | |
| DNF | GT | 48 | Team Paduwa | Harald Grohs Jean-Paul Libert Didier Theys | Porsche 911 Carrera 2 Cup | 8 | |
| DNF | GT | 48 | Team Paduwa | Harald Grohs Jean-Paul Libert Didier Theys | Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6 | 8 | |
| DNF | GT | 51 | TWR Jaguar Racing | Armin Hahne Win Percy David Leslie | Jaguar XJ220 | 6 | |
| DNF | GT | 51 | TWR Jaguar Racing | Armin Hahne Win Percy David Leslie | Jaguar JV6 3.5 L Turbo V6 | 6 | |
| DSQ† | GT | 50 | TWR Jaguar Racing | John Nielsen David Brabham David Coulthard | Jaguar XJ220 | 306 | |
| DSQ† | GT | 50 | TWR Jaguar Racing | John Nielsen David Brabham David Coulthard | Jaguar JV6 3.5 L Turbo V6 | 306 | |
| DNS | GT | 72 | Simpson Engineering | Robin Smith Stefano Sebastiani Tetsuya Ota | Ferrari 348 LM | - | |
| DNS | GT | 72 | Simpson Engineering | Robin Smith Stefano Sebastiani Tetsuya Ota | Ferrari 3.4 L V8 | - |
† - #50 finished first in the GT category but was disqualified a month after the race for failing to utilize catalytic converters on the XJ220C.
Statistics
- Pole Position - Philippe Alliot, #2 Peugeot Talbot Sport - 3:24.940
- Fastest Lap - Eddie Irvine, #36 Toyota Team Tom's - 3:27.470
- Distance - 5100.0 km - a record distance: from Le Mans to Maine - crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 24 hours
- Average Speed - 213.358 km/h
- Highest Trap Speed — Peugeot 905 – 346 km/h, Porsche 962C - 366 km/h
- Attendance - 110000