2020 24 Hours of Le Mans

Automatic entry invitations were earned by teams that won their class in the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, or won championships in the European Le Mans Series, Asian Le Mans Series, and the Michelin Le Mans Cup. The second-place finishers in the European Le Mans Series in LMP2 and LMGTE championships also earned an automatic invitation each.[3] Two participants from the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship were chosen by the series to be automatic entries by the ACO regardless of their performance or category. As invitations were granted to teams, they were allowed to change their cars from the previous year to the next, but not allowed to change their category. The LMGTE class invitations from the European and Asian Le Mans Series were allowed to choose between the Pro and Am categories. European Le Mans Series' LMP3 (Le Mans Prototype 3) champion is required to field an entry in LMP2 while the Asian Le Mans Series LMP3 champion were permitted to choose between LMP2 or LMGTE Am. The Michelin Le Mans Cup Group GT3 (GT3) champion was limited to the LMGTE Am category.

Reason invited	LMP1	LMP2	LMGTE Pro	LMGTE Am
1st in the 24 Hours of Le Mans	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Signatech Alpine Matmut	AF Corse	Team Project 1
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 and LMGTE)		IDEC Sport	Luzich Racing
2nd in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2 and LMGTE)		G-Drive Racing	Dempsey-Proton Racing
1st in the European Le Mans Series (LMP3)		EuroInternational
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at-large entries		Cameron Cassels		Richard Heistand
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP2 and GT)		G-Drive Racing with Algarve	HubAuto Corsa
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP2 Am)		Rick Ware Racing
1st in the Asian Le Mans Series (LMP3)		Nielsen Racing	– or –	Nielsen Racing
1st in the Michelin Le Mans Cup (GT3)				Kessel Racing

In addition to the sixty-two entries given invitations for the race, ten entries were put on a reserve list to potentially replace any invitations that were not accepted or withdrawn. Reserve entries are ordered with the first reserve replacing the first withdrawal from the race, regardless of the class of either entry.

Reserve	Class	No.	Entrant	Car	Tyre	Series	Driver 1	Driver 2	Driver 3
1st	LMP2	27	DragonSpeed USA	Oreca 07-Gibson	M	WTSC	Ben Hanley	Henrik Hedman	Felix Rosenqvist
2nd	LMGTE Am	60	Iron Lynx	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	M	ELMS	Sergio Pianezzola	Andrea Piccini	Claudio Schiavoni
3rd	LMGTE Am	89	Team Project 1	Porsche 911 RSR	M	24LM	David Kolkmann	TBA	TBA
4th	LMGTE Am	96	D'station Racing	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	M	ALMS	Tomonobu Fujii	Satoshi Hoshino	TBA

The new qualifying format for the Le Mans event, which had been three qualifying sessions, will reduce qualifying to one single session. The 45-minute Thursday late afternoon qualifying session will determine the field, except for 24 cars, the top six cars in each category.

The top six cars in each class participate in a 30-minute shootout on Friday morning, known as "Le Mans Hyperpole". The shootout will determine the top six in each category. [6]

Cars will be placed on the starting grid, first by category / class order:

1. LMP1
2. LMP2
3. LMGTE Pro
4. LMGTE Am

Then, within each of the categories above, the cars will be placed in following order: the 6 cars that qualified for Hyperpole by best Hyperpole session lap time, and then followed by the rest of the cars in the class that did not qualify for Hyperpole by best lap time set during first qualifying session.[7]