2013 24 Hours of Le Mans

The 90th anniversary Le Mans 24 Hours race was a race packed with action, incident and emotion. Indeed, the highs were high and the lows were very, very low.

We would like to remember the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours as a fine race, one where a great champion won once more, where home favourites finally achieved their promise in class and the drama in the GTE class was enthralling and unforgettable. Sadly, though, it is likely this year’s Le Mans will be remembered for the events of the fourth lap, where one of the most respected and liked people in the paddock lost his life.

A lot has been written about Allan Simonsen’s death and there is nothing constructive that can be added here. Suffice to say that everyone here will remember him for a wonderful attacking driving style, a never-say-never attitude and superb racecraft.

But there are positives to take out of this race – Tom Kristensen won his ninth Le Mans 24 Hours, the race was not the Audi romp that some had predicted and, if we count Matt Griffin (which we certainly do, if only by association), then there was British interest on every single podium. Not only that, but one of Henri Pescarolo’s chassis (ish) finally achieved success at Le Mans, as a Morgan, with Oak Racing.

It was a dramatic week, with a few pretty sizeable incidents before the race even started, and inclement weather that did its best to disrupt every track session.

But it wasn’t a bad race and it was wide open in every class for just about the entire race. Read the larger recap here.

There is a great recap video of the race on YouTube

Below is a 5 lap AI race with grid pack

Important note! Is this grid a 100% accurate representation of the 2013 Le Mans Race? No .. it is unfortunately not. We are bound by the restrictions of what mods are available for Assetto Corsa and also their quality. We either left these cars out, or swapped them to different mods that closely represent their real life performance in the race. It still gives you a good idea of what this race was however.

This grid needs paid mods to make it worthwile

Some mods are also not free and thus left out of the downloads. Be respectful of their designers. A few dollars or Euros pays respect to their efforts and is worth it, especially with this grid as it covers a big part of the grid. You won’t get an as good experience without them.

Installation

To recreate the race you will need to individually download and install in the following order:

Track
Cars
Liveries
Grid Preset
CSP to fix the slow AI grid start issue
Pure if you want rain
Custom Shaders Patch as some of the cars require this

Track

The FM7 conversion works a lot better with this larger grid, proper functioning AI line for the larger grid, and has a much more realistic road surface.

Download Le Mans FM7 – performance mod for Assetto Corsa | other (assettocorsamods.io)

24 hour extension (optional)
https://www.racedepartment.com/media/assetto-corsa-24-hours-le-mans-2022-extension-1-0.4262/

Gridfiles

Grid file preset without paid mods

Grid file preset if you paid for the mods needed ( highly recommended)

Liveries

Most liveries are included in the zip file. Missing liveries are:

Lola B12 #12 #13 #30
Morgan LMP2 #24 #45 #47
HPD #33
Aston Martin #96 #97 #98
Ferrari #54 #55 #61 #81
997 RSR #67 #75 #76 #77 #88

Cars

Single download of cars without the paid mods

As long as you download the cars the grid file preload will load the grid with the appropriate amount of each of the cars required, in the position they qualified in the real 2013 Le Mans.

A few of the cars are Kunos originals so only the liveries are in the download

Audi R18 e-tron (Kunos)