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Endurance
Porsche holds 19 overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans — more than any other manufacturer. The first came in 1970 with the 917 KH; the most recent era of outright wins belongs to the 919 Hybrid, which won in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Endurance racing since 1951
Motorsport
Nineteenoverall wins
More outright victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans than any other manufacturer — and one that got away by 14.084 seconds.
19
Overall victories at Le Mans
More than any other manufacturer.
112
Class wins at Le Mans
Count as reported by Porsche after the 2025 race.
1970
First overall Le Mans win
917 KH, Herrmann / Attwood.
2023
963 race debut
GTP class, 24 Hours of Daytona.
Programme
Four chapters
Endurance racing is the through-line: the 917 in 1970, the 919 Hybrid in the mid-2010s, and the 963 today.
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The 963
The current LMDh prototype debuted at the 24 Hours of Daytona in January 2023 in the GTP class. Porsche Penske Motorsport campaigns it in the FIA World Endurance Championship from Mannheim and in IMSA from Mooresville, North Carolina. The car arrived after more than 30,000 km of testing across Europe and North America.
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Recent seasons
At the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans, Porsche finished second overall — 14.084 seconds short of a twentieth outright win — while taking what Porsche recorded as its 112th class victory at the circuit. In 2026 the overall win went to Ferrari; the Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 of Kevin Estre, Laurens Vanthoor and André Lotterer finished third.
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Transfer
Racing has repeatedly reached the road: the 919 Hybrid programme ran in parallel with production hybrid development, and mechanisms such as Push-to-Pass — a driver-triggered power boost with a fixed duration — now appear on a production SUV.
14 June 1970
343 laps
in the rain
Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood won the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright in the Porsche Salzburg 917 KH, start number 23, after 4,607.811 kilometres. Heavy rain turned the race into attrition: of 57 starters, seven were classified at the finish.
It was Porsche's first overall victory at the circuit, and Herrmann's last race as a professional driver.
Road
Where the racing
reaches the road
Hybrid energy recovery, Push-to-Pass, brake cooling, thermal management — the transfer is gradual and specific rather than total.