The Automobile Club de L’Ouest have revealed a 62-car entry list for the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans which commences on the 21 August 2021. The entry includes all 33 full-season entries from the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship plus a number of teams who are making use of their automatic invitations after 2020 racing success.
This year’s race will see the debut of the new Hypercar class with Toyota Gazoo Racing and Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus being two of the teams entering, the latter fielding their GR010 Hybrid and the former fielding the SCG 007 LMH. These four will compete alongside the Signatech Alpine team, making up a five car lineup, in the premier prototype category in the race.
On top of the 11 strong WEC entries, who are automatically entered into the race with the race being part of the Endurance Series, are the automatically invited pair from United Autosports and single entries from G-Drive Racing and PR1 Mathiesen.
Also, there are entries granted by the ACO Selection Committee to IDEC Sport, a second G-Drive Racing Aurus, Team WRT and High Class Racing with solo cars for SO24 by Graff, Duqueine and Panis Racing. Racing Team India, who will be racing in one of two Ligier’s in the field the team switching from the Algarve Pro-operated Oreca it raced with in the 2020/2021 Asian Le Mans Series. In a surprise move, Risi Competizione will be making their Le Mans debut with Ryan Cullen and Oliver Jarvis driving for the team.
Elsewhere in the field, the GTE Pro category both the Ferrari and Porsche teams who are featured as part of their taking part in the whole WEC series, but they will be joined by the pair of IMSA factory Corvette C8.R’s who are making their delayed debuts after initially intending to feature in 2020 and the WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 RSR from IMSA’s GTLM class makes up the final car in the category.
GTE AM sees 24 cars racing with the 13-car full-season WEC entries joined by automatic invitations for TF Sport, another Porsche for Proton Competition; and five additional Ferraris from Kessel Racing, Inception Racing, Iron Lynx, Rinaldi Racing and, surprisingly, ALMS GT Champions (with Porsche) Herberth Motorsport. On top of this, there are entries granted by the ACO Selection Committee to Absolute Racing and a Porsche of Taiwanese Hub Auto Corse. Regulars in the ELMS series JMW Racing and Spirit of Race will also be at the race.
For the first time since 2016 there is set to be a Garage 56 entry for an innovative team: The La Filiere Frederic SAUSSET BY SRT41 is listed in the entry list with at least two of the drivers set to come from the Academy set up by quad-amputee for other drivers with physical impairments following his successful appearance and finish at the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours.
Unusually compared to previous years lists, today’s announcement does not include a reserve list, it has been reported that entries are still being accepted for inclusion as reserves to the race.
| # | Team | Car | Confirmed drivers |
| Hypercar – 5 cars | |||
| 7 | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Toyota GR010 Hybrid | Mike Conway / Kamui Kobayashi / Jose Maria Lopez |
| 8 | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Toyota GR010 Hybrid | Sebastien Buemi / Kazuki Nakajima / Brendon Hartley |
| 36 | Alpine Elf Matmut | Alpine A480-Gibson | Andre Negrao / Nicolas Lapierre / Matthieu Vaxiviere |
| 708 | Glickenhaus Racing | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | Gustavo Menezes / TBA / TBA |
| 709 | Glickenhaus Racing | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | Ryan Briscoe / TBA / TBA |
| LMP2 – 25 cars | |||
| 1 | Richard Mille Racing | Oreca 07-Gibson | Sophia Floersch / Tatiana Calderon / Beitske Visser |
| 17 | IDEC Sport | Oreca 07-Gibson | Kyle Tilley/ Dwight Merriman/ Ryan Dalziel |
| 20 | High Class Racing | Oreca 07-Gibson | Dennis Andersen / Jan Magnussen / TBA |
| 21 | DragonSpeed | Oreca 07-Gibson | Ben Hanley / Henrik Hedman / Juan Pablo Montoya |
| 22 | United Autosports | Oreca 07-Gibson | Phil Hanson / Filipe Albuquerque / Fabio Scherer |
| 23 | United Autosports | Oreca 07-Gibson | Paul di Resta / TBA / TBA |
| 24 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Oreca 07-Gibson | Patrick Kelly / TBA / TBA |
| 25 | G-Drive Racing | Aurus 01-Gibson | John Falb / Pietro Fittipaldi / Rui Andrade |
| 26 | G-Drive Racing | Aurus 01-Gibson | Roman Rusinov / Franco Colapinto / TBA |
| 28 | JOTA | Oreca 07-Gibson | Stoffel Vandoorne / Sean Gelael / Tom Blomqvist |
| 29 | Racing Team Nederland | Oreca 07-Gibson | Giedo van der Garde / Job van Uitert / Frits van Eerd |
| 30 | Duqueine Team | Oreca 07-Gibson | Tristan Gommendy / Memo Rojas / Rene Binder |
| 31 | Team WRT | Oreca 07-Gibson | Robin Frijns / Charles Milesi / Ferdinand Habsburg |
| 32 | United Autosports | Oreca 07-Gibson | Nico Jamin / TBA / TBA |
| 34 | Inter Europol Competition | Oreca 07-Gibson | Jakub Smiechowski / Renger van der Zande / Alex Brundle |
| 38 | JOTA | Oreca 07-Gibson | Roberto Gonzalez / Antonio Felix da Costa / Anthony Davidson |
| 39 | Graff | Oreca 07-Gibson | Vincent Capillaire / TBA / TBA |
| 41 | Team WRT | Oreca 07-Gibson | Robert Kubica / Louis Deletraz/ Yifei Ye |
| 44 | ARC Bratislava | Ligier JS P217-Gibson | Miro Konopka / TBA / TBA |
| 48 | IDEC Sport | Oreca 07-Gibson | Paul Lafargue / Paul-Loup Chatin / Patrick Pilet |
| 49 | High Class Racing | Oreca 07-Gibson | Anders Fjordbach / TBA / TBA |
| 65 | Panis Racing | Oreca 07-Gibson | Julien Canal / TBA / TBA |
| 70 | Realteam Racing | Oreca 07-Gibson | Loic Duval / Norman Nato / Esteban Garcia |
| 74 | Racing Team India | Ligier JS P217-Gibson | Narain Karthikeyan / Arjun Maini / TBA |
| 82 | Risi Competizione | Oreca 07-Gibson | Ryan Cullen / Oliver Jarvis / TBA |
| GTE Pro – 7 cars | |||
| 51 | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GTE | James Calado / Alessandro Pier Guidi / TBA |
| 52 | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GTE | Daniel Serra / Miguel Molina / TBA |
| 63 | Corvette Racing | Corvette C8.R | Antonio Garcia / Jordan Taylor / Nicky Catsburg |
| 64 | Corvette Racing | Corvette C8.R | Nick Tandy / Tommy Milner / Alexander Sims |
| 79 | WeatherTech Racing | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Cooper MacNeil / TBA / TBA |
| 91 | Porsche GT Team | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Gianmaria Bruni / Richard Lietz / TBA |
| 92 | Porsche GT Team | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Neel Jani / Kevin Estre / TBA |
| GTE Am – 24 cars | |||
| 18 | Absolute Racing | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Andrew Haryanto / Alessio Picariello / TBA |
| 33 | TF Sport | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Ben Keating / Felipe Fraga / Dylan Pereira |
| 46 | Team Project 1 | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Dennis Olsen / TBA / TBA |
| 47 | Cetilar Racing | Ferrari 488 GTE | Roberto Lacorte / TBA / TBA |
| 54 | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GTE | Giancarlo Fisichella / Francesco Castellacci / Thomas Flohr |
| 55 | Spirit of Race | Ferrari 488 GTE | Duncan Cameron / Matt Griffin/ Aaron Scott |
| 56 | Team Project 1 | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Matteo Cairoli / Egidio Perfetti / TBA |
| 57 | Kessel Racing | Ferrari 488 GTE | Takeshi Kimura / TBA / TBA |
| 60 | Iron Lynx | Ferrari 488 GTE | Claudio Schiavoni / Paolo Ruberti / Raffaele Giammaria |
| 66 | JMW Motorsport | Ferrari 488 GTE | Thomas Neubauer / TBA / TBA |
| 69 | Herberth Motorsport | Ferrari 488 GTE | Alfred Renauer / TBA / TBA |
| 71 | Inception Racing | Ferrari 488 GTE | Brendon Iribe / Ollie Millroy / TBA |
| 72 | HubAuto Racing | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Liam Talbot / TBA / TBA |
| 77 | Dempsey-Proton Racing | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Christian Ried / Jaxon Evans / Matt Campbell |
| 80 | Iron Lynx | Ferrari 488 GTE | Andrea Piccini / Matteo Cressoni / Rino Mastronardi |
| 83 | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GTE | Francois Perrodo / Nicklas Nielsen / Alessio Rovera |
| 85 | Iron Lynx | Ferrari 488 GTE | Rahel Frey / Manuela Gostner / Michelle Gatting |
| 86 | GR Racing | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Michael Wainwright / Ben Barker / TBA |
| 88 | Dempsey-Proton Racing | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Julien Andlauer / TBA / TBA |
| 95 | TF Sport | Aston Martin Vantage | John Hartshorne / TBA / TBA |
| 98 | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin Vantage | Paul Dalla Lana / TBA / TBA |
| 99 | Proton Competition | Porsche 911 RSR | Pat Long / TBA / TBA |
| 388 | Rinaldi Racing | Ferrari 488 GTE | Pierre Ehret / TBA / TBA |
| 777 | D’station Racing | Aston Martin Vantage | Satoshi Hoshino / Tomonobu Fujii / Andrew Watson |
| Innovative car | |||
| 84 | Association SRT41 | Oreca 07-Gibson | Takuma Aoki / Nigel Bailly / TBA |
