Ferrari will start first and second on its return to the Le Mans 24 Hours as endurance racing's crown jewel event marks its centenary.
The #50 of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen was some eight-tenths up on the sister #51 car in qualifying to take pole at the Circuit de la Sarthe.
Toyota lines up only third and fifth but will be expected to battle for the overall victory by Sunday afternoon given its dominance over the World Endurance Championship in recent years.
IDEC Sport took pole in the LMP2 category, whilst Corvette Racing heads the LMGTE field.
The Hendrick Motorsports Garage 56 entry of Jimmie Johnson and Jenson Button will start behind the LMP2 field after the event organisers changed its rules post-qualifying.
The #24's qualifying effort was good enough to trouble the tail end of the LMP2 cars and therefore has been moved up 21 places from the back of the pack for the race start.
Check out the full starting grid for the 2023 Le Mans 24 Hours below!
2023 Le Mans 24 Hours Grid - Hypercar
| Grid | No. | Team | Drivers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | Ferrari AF Corse | Fuoco/Molina/Nielsen |
| 2 | 51 | Ferrari AF Corse | Pier Guidi/Calado/Giovinazzi |
| 3 | 8 | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Buemi/Hartley/Hirakawa |
| 4 | 75 | Porsche Penske Motorsport | Nasr/Jaminet/Tandy |
| 5 | 7 | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Conway/Kobayashi/Lopez |
| 6 | 2 | Cadillac Racing | Bamber/Lynn/Westbrook |
| 7 | 5 | Porsche Penske Motorsport | Cameron/Christensen/Makowiecki |
| 8 | 3 | Cadillac Racing | Bourdais/Van Der Zande/Dixon |
| 9 | 6 | Porsche Penske Motorsport | Estre/Lotterer/Vanthoor |
| 10 | 93 | Peugeot Totalenergies | di Resta/Jensen/Vergne |
| 11 | 94 | Peugeot Totalenergies | Duval/Menezes/Mueller |
| 12 | 708 | Glickenhaus Racing | Dumas/Pla/Briscoe |
| 13 | 311 | Action Express Racing | Derani/Sims/Aitken |
| 14 | 709 | Glickenhaus Racing | Mailleux/Berthon/Gutierrez |
| 15 | 4 | Floyd Vanwall Racing Team | Dillmann/Guerrieri/Vautier |
| 16 | 38 | Hertz Team JOTA | Da Costa/Stevens/Ye |
2023 Le Mans 24 Hours Grid - LMP2
| Grid | No. | Team | Drivers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 48 | IDEC Sport | Lafargue/Chatin/Horr |
| 18 | 28 | JOTA | Heinemeier Hansson/Rasmussen/Fittipaldi |
| 19 | 41 | Team WRT | Andrade/Deletraz/Kubica |
| 20 | 47 | Cool Racing | De Gerus/Lomlo/Pagenaud |
| 21 | 63 | Prema Racing | Pin/Kvyat/Bortolotti |
| 22 | 14 | Nielsen Racing [Pro/Am] | Sales/Beche/Hanley |
| 23 | 9 | Prema Racing | Viscaal/Correa/Ugran |
| 24 | 10 | Vector Sport | Cullen/Aubry/Kaiser |
| 25 | 45 | Algarve Pro Racing [Pro/Am] | Kurtz/Allen/Braun |
| 26 | 22 | United Autosports | Hanson/Alberquerque/Lubin |
| 27 | 923 | Racing Team Turkey [Pro/Am] | Yoluc/Gamble/Vanthoor |
| 28 | 65 | Panis Racing | Maldonado/van der Helm/van Uitert |
| 29 | 34 | Inter Europol Competition | Smiechowski/Costa/Scherer |
| 30 | 23 | United Autosports | Pierson/Blomqvist/Jarvis |
| 31 | 31 | Team WRT | Gelael/Habsburg/Frijns |
| 32 | 37 | Cool Racing [Pro/Am] | Lapierre/Coigny/Jakobsen |
| 33 | 80 | AF Corse [Pro/Am] | Perrodo/Barnicoat/Nato |
| 34 | 43 | DKR Engineering [Pro/Am] | Van Rompuy/de Wilde/Martin |
| 35 | 35 | Alpine Elf Team | Negrão/Caldwell/Rojas |
| 36 | 30 | Duqueine Team | Jani/Binder/Pino |
| 37 | 32 | Inter Europol Competition [Pro/Am] | Kvamme/Magnussen/Fjordbach |
| 38 | 39 | Graff Racing [Pro/Am] | Lacorte/van der Garde/Pilet |
| 39 | 36 | Alpine Elf Team | Vaxiviere/Milesi/Canal |
| 40 | 13 | Tower Motorsports [Pro/Am] | Thomas/Taylor/Rast |
2023 Le Mans 24 Hours Grid - Competitor Demonstrating New Technology
| Grid | No. | Team | Drivers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 24 | Hendrick Motorsports | Johnson/Rockenfeller/Button |
2023 Le Mans 24 Hours Grid - LMGTE
| Grid | No. | Team | Driver |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 33 | Corvette Racing | Catsburg/Keating/Varrone |
| 43 | 25 | ORT by TF | Al Harthy/Dinan/Eastwood |
| 44 | 54 | AF Corse | Flohr/Castellacci/Rigon |
| 45 | 21 | AF Corse | Mann/Piguet/de Pauw |
| 46 | 83 | Richard Mille AF Corse | Companc/Rovera/Wadoux |
| 47 | 57 | Kessel Racing | Kimura/Huffaker/Serra |
| 48 | 55 | GMB Motorsport | Dahlmann Birch/Sorensen/Reno Moller |
| 49 | 74 | Kessel Racing | Cozzolino/Tsujiko/Yokomizo |
| 50 | 77 | Dempsey-Proton Racing | Ried C/Pedersen/Andlauer |
| 51 | 86 | GR Racing | Wainwright/Barker/Pera |
| 52 | 100 | Walkenhorst Motorsport | Hull/Haryanto/Segal |
| 53 | 85 | Iron Dames | Bovy/Gatting/Frey |
| 54 | 60 | Iron Lynx | Schiavoni/Cressoni/Picariello |
| 55 | 72 | TF Sport | Robin A/Robin M/Hasse-Clot |
| 56 | 56 | Project 1 - AO | Hyett/Jeannette/Cairolo |
| 57 | 911 | Proton Competition | Fassbender/Rump/Lietz |
| 58 | 16 | Proton Competition | Hardwick/Robichon/Heylen |
| 59 | 98 | Northwest AMR | James/Mancinelli/Riberas |
| 60 | 66 | JMW Motorsport | Neubauer/Prette/Petrobelli |
| 61 | 88 | Proton Competition | Tincknell/Yount/Ried J |
| 62 | 777 | D'Station Racing | Hoshino/Stevenson/Fujii |
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