FOUR AUSSIES AT LE MANS

Yasser Shahin and Matt Campbell will be joined by Stephen and Brenton Grove to fly the Australian flag in France during the most competitive 24-Hour contest in modern history.

Aston Martin is back in action as eight contenders – Alpine, Aston, BMW, Cadillac, Ferrari, Peugeot, Porsche, Toyota – fight for superiority in the Hypercar class.

The official entry list covers the usual 62-car capacity field for the 93rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with another six crews on the reserve list.

Shahin heads the Aussies as the defending race winner in what is now the LMGT3 category, with Campbell continuing as a Porsche factory driver in one of its 963 prototypes, and the father-and-son Grove pairing racing a Mercedes-AMG at their first attempt.

There is a big change for Shahin as he switches from Porsche to BMW.

He won last year in a 911 but in 2025 he will be racing a BMW M4, entered as #31 under The Bend Team WRT. His hook-up with WRT, which fields factory-supported BMWs in global GT3 racing, comes after the Belgian squad scored a 1-2 sweep of the Bathurst 12-Hour earlier this year.

The Groves will race under #63 as one of three Iron Lynx entries, sharing their Mercedes-AMG with German factory driver Luca Stolz.

For Campbell, Le Mans has been a regular stop on his season program and he was the GT class winner with Porsche in 2018.

This time he will be driving in the #5 car for Penske Porsche Motorsport, sharing with Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthor, hoping to improve on his third place finish at the Daytona 24-Hour at the start of this year.1