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Le Mans 24 Hours 2018 team by team guide

There may not be much doubt about the identity of the favourite for outright 2018 Le Mans victory, but there's plenty of depth and a lot of uncertainty in the rest of the massive field and the class battles

Toyota is effectively in a class of one at the front of the Le Mans 24 Hours field, but has at least invited a double Formula 1 world champion along to put more eyeballs on a race it really cannot afford to lose again.

In its wake, things look wide open in the privateer LMP1 group, the LMP2 and GTE classes.

REBELLION RACING
Rebellion-Gibson R-13

The top privateer in the first five seasons of the born-again WEC — and one with three top-six finishes at Le Mans to its name — is back at the top table after a title-winning LMP2 campaign.

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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.