24 Hours of Le Mans LIVE: Race updates

Harry Tincknell is reporting "no power" in his No.007 Aston Martin. He's 15th just now.

In Hypercar on lap two, it's the No.20 BMW from the No.12 Caddy, the No.15 BMW, the No.35 Alpine and the No.101 Caddy. 

The No.27 Aston of Mattia Drudi leads LMGT3. 

In LMP2, the No.28 IDEC Sport entry with Job Van Utert at the wheel leads. 

The No.20 BMW with Rene Rast leads over the line to start the second lap from the No.12 Caddy and the No.15 BMW.

Toyota hasn't made much progress, nor has the No.83 AF Corse Ferrari. 

The No.51 Ferrari is up to seventh and the No.50 is now ninth. 

The two factory Ferraris are battling hard down the Mulsanne. 

The No.20 BMW now takes the lead into the first chicane!

The No.12 Cadillac jumps the polesitting BMW into the lead, while the No.20 BMW gets past Magnussen into the Dunlop chicane.

The cars are pulling away from the grid now. This is it!

Cycling legend Mark Cavdendish has just asked for the engines to be fired up. 

The drivers are in their cars now. We're just moments away from the warm-up lap.

One story to watch this weekend will be in LMGT3 and with the Manthey Porsche team. That is Porsche's only representative at Le Mans this year, after it pulled its Hypercar project. 

Richard Lietz will be gunning for a seventh class win. He's in the No.92 Manthey car. That car starts 15th in class.

20 minutes to go.

Ferrari is going for its fourth successive overall win this weekend. But it's cars are down in the pack. 

The No.51 car starts ninth, the No.50 is 12th and the No.83 AF Corse entry that won last year, is 17th. 

But, it's worth noting, that the No.83 won from 13th on the grid last year. And quite a few drivers have warned of Ferrari's race pace.

Kevin Magnussen, who will start on pole in the No.15 BMW, has just spoken on the grid and he is fired up: "Hopefully we can do something special; I really want this."

Doesn't that just look absolutely magical? 

35 minutes to go till the race is underway. Got a feeling this is going to be a special one.

It's packed out there and the sun is shining. 

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The No.38 Cadillac lost its pole position due to a pitlane infringement at the start of Hyperpole 2. That car will now start 10th. 

BMW will start on pole for the first time at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the top class after a dramatic Hyperpole on Thursday evening. 

Catch up with what happened with our report ⬇️

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The clock has just hit 3pm local time, which means we're only an hour away from the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans!

And, finally, the LMGT3 class entry.