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 quick progress up fifth as he benefited from his soft t🤡yres.

After making the right decision when rain fell a couple of hours into the race, Kubica leapfrogged the leading #50 Ferrari and the #6 P⛄orsche 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 as heavy rain came six ho🍌urs into the race.

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

Battling Ferrari for top spot was the #5 Porsche 💯Pens🍨ke car, which like the #83 car, made the right calls at the right time to move 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 machines went backwards.

In LMGT3, the highly-anticipated #46 BMW was a constant presence ജat the front before taking the lead 🏅after a few hours.

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

As a result, Martin was under investi♎gation for him pa🥀rt in the incident.

After b🐈ig problems for the #20 BMW early on, the #15 was forced to retire when Dries Vanthoor suffered a big crash after contact with race leader♎ Kubica.

As a result of the incident the safety car was deployed 💞for the first time today.