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Le Mans 2014 runners and riders

AUTOSPORT's sportscar expert GARY WATKINS is your guide to not only the eagerly awaited LMP1 battle, but every team line-up in the 2014 Le Mans 24 Hours field

Four classes, 13 types of car, 29 race teams, 35 entrants, 55 cars and 165 drivers - the entry for the 82nd running of the Le Mans 24 Hours is as diverse as it has probably ever been.

There are factories and privateers, open and closed cars, turbos and aspirated engines, and entrants from China and Russia. And there's even a car in the race that will attempt to achieve the first all-electric lap of the Circuit de la Sarthe.

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Author Gary Watkins

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.