Who is racing at Le Mans in 2022?
As usual, the entry list is somewhat of a who’s who of motorsport. Ex-F1 drivers litter the grid, with Kamui Kobayashi, Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley all racing in LMH with Toyota. Also in LMH are Goodwood Hill outright record holder Romain Dumas as well as IndyCar race winners Ryan Briscoe and Mike Conway.
There are former F1 stars in the LMP2 category too, including Robert Kubica, Esteban Gutierrez, Sebastien Bourdais, Felipe Nasr and Will Stevens. Other star drivers include Alex Brundle, Alex Lynn, Antonio Felix Da Costa, Sophie Floersch and Pietro Fittipaldi. Meanwhile, seven-time WRC champion Sebastien Ogier will make his Le Mans debut.
The star drivers aren’t just clustered in the prototype categories though. Nick Tandy, James Calado, Alexander Sims, Sam Bird and Shane Van Gisbergen are all racing in GTE Pro, while pros jumping into the GTE Am class include Nick Cassidy, Renger Van der Zande and Giancarlo Fissichella. Alongside them, racing a Porsche 911 for his Le Mans debut, will be Hollywood A-lister Michael Fassbender.