The 24 Hours of Le Mans is a race that has been defined by highs and lows. As recently as 2016, the race featured competition for the overall win from three manufacturers, all providing their own innovative solution to a hybrid racing car with unbelievable total power meant to last for a full 24 hour race. Since 2018, Toyota's TS050s have run more or less uncontested, not even having to fully push to stay ahead of private entries from the likes of Rebellion Racing.

The last three years of the 24 Hours of Le Mans have been anticlimactic. The combination of Toyota's standalone factory LMP1 and a waning GTE-Pro field made this year's race perhaps the least climactic yet; The majority of today's 59-car grid was filled by pro-am entries, all in two classes that were defined more by their significant attrition than by their on-track performance. This race, however, was the last of its kind.

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