Le Mans 2019: The team by team guide
The grand finale of the World Endurance Championship superseason is imminent. Here is our guide to the entire field, and our predictions for how they might all fare
The long build-up, the official test day, practice and qualifying are over, the 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours is about to begin - and it will be the grand finale of the first World Endurance Championship superseason.
As ever, Le Mans is four races - perhaps now five - in one. While the LMP1 outcome is realistically a foregone conclusion, the fight between the non-hybrid privateers to keep Toyota on its toes will be intense, and LMP2 and the GTE classes will be extraordinarily hard fought.
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Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.
Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.
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