Le Mans, France – Ferrari has claimed back-to-back 24 Hours of Le Mans wins in the 92nd running of the classic.

The shortest race since 2001 saw the winner complete just 311 laps and a quarter of the race behind the safety car.

The Prancing Horse marque’s #50 Ferrari 499P, driven by Nicklas Nielsen, finished 14.221 seconds ahead of the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Jose Maria.

Neilsen almost saw the win disappear with less than two hours remaining. The #50 Ferrari relinquished the lead and took to the pit lane with an open right door with 1 hour and 42 minutes left in the race.

With a superb energy-saving drive, the off-sequence pit stop allowed Nielsen to take the chequered flag without needing another pit stop to finish ahead of Lopez’s #7 Toyota.

The victory was Nielsen and co-drivers Antonio Fuoco and Miguel Molina’s first Le Mans overall win.

The sister #51 Ferrari, last year’s winner, of Alessandro Pier Guidi rounded out the overall podium in third.

The #51 saw a second consecutive win disappear after receiving a five-second time penalty for contact with the #8 Toyota of Brendon Hartley at the 22 hour mark.

Hartley, Sebastien Buemi, and Ryo Hirakawa finished fifth behind Laurens Vanthoor, Kevin Estre, and Andre Lotterer in the pole-winning #6 Penske Porsche 963.

Australian Matt Campbell finished sixth in the #5 Penske Porsche 963.

New Zealander Earl Bamber’s #2 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R finished seventh after leading laps late in the race.

In the #2 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R, Kiwi Scott Dixon completed only 223 laps after retiring with a broken oil pan.

The #22 United Autosports Oreca of Oliver Jarvis, Bijoy Garg, and Nolan Siegel took the LMP2 victory.

In the #91 Manthey EMA Porsche 911 GT3 R with Morris Schuring and Richard Lietz, Aussie Yasser Shahin brought home the first-ever LMGT3 class victory.