Classes and machinery
Garage 56
The ACO's invitational grid slot at Le Mans for experimental cars racing outside the classes.
Garage 56 is an additional entry the ACO can grant at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for a car that showcases innovative technology and fits no existing class. It races the full 24 hours, unclassified, from the garage numbered 56, one beyond the traditional 55 entries.
The slot debuted in 2012 with the DeltaWing and has since hosted Nissan's electric-hybrid ZEOD RC, a car engineered so that a crew including a quadruple-amputee driver could race it, and in 2023 a NASCAR Cup car run by Hendrick Motorsports that became one of the race's most popular entries in years. Garage 56 cars appear in our archive as classless entries.
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