The 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours was one of the closest and hardest fought races of recent years and performance lubricant specialist Motul contributed to two victories. 

Motul-lubricated partner teams, using the brand’s legendary 300V engine oil, took victory in both the LMP2 category, with the number 22 United Autosports car of Oliver Jarvis, Nolan Siegal and Bijoy Garg and the new LMGTE category, with the Manthey EMA Porsche of Yasser Shahin, Morris Schuring and Richard Lietz.

Motul says its flagship 300V lubricant continues to be the standard by which other competition lubricants measure themselves. Inspired by aviation technology, Motul used  vegetable esters to produce 300V – named in honour of the brand’s 300 race victories. 

In this year’s Le Mans, the removal of tyre warmers to heat tyres meant that all the of the cars struggled periodically for grip at what was a colder than usual, and often wet, track during the race. Long Safety Car periods meant that most of the cars ran incredibly close across all the categories, so it was a flat-out race to the chequered flag. 

Motul’s long standing support of United Autosports bore fruit again this year as the team took its second Le Mans 24 hour LMP2 category victory. It was followed home by another Motul partner team, Inter Europol Racing. All the LMP2 cars are powered by the same 600 BHP 4.2 litre V8 Gibson GK428 engines. As longtime technology partners of Gibson, and this means that 300V is the oil that all the LMP2 cars leave the factory with.

LMGT3, with its wide selection of manufacturers saw the Motul lubricated #91 Porsche 911 GT3R LMGT3 of Manthey EMA racing take the honours, as it had done at the previous round of the WEC, in Spa.

Motul UK Sales and Marketing Manager, Andy Wait commented, “Le Mans is an incredible test of man and machine every year, but this year’s 24 Hours was so incredibly competitive, it was really going to take something special to win. Huge congratulations, therefore, to all our Motul teams who won, made the podium, or indeed made it to the finish. To have come away with victories in both LMP2 and GTE is more than we could have hoped for and is testimony to the huge efforts of our partner teams and their drivers in writing another chapter in the long history of Motul motorsport success.”

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