Ferrari win 24 Hours of Le Mans for second year in a row

Ferrari won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the second year in a row after a tight and tense battle with Toyota to the finish of the 92nd edition of the endurance race.

Ferrari won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the second year in a row on June 16 after a tight and tense battle with Toyota to the finish of the 92nd edition of the endurance race.

Almost out of fuel and on a wet track, Denmark's Nicklas Nielsen took the chequered flag in the number 50 499P hypercar shared with Italian Antonio Fuoco and Spaniard Miguel Molina over 311 laps of the Sarthe circuit.

The car's fuel gauge was registering around 2% at the finish.

The seven Toyota GR010 hybrid of Argentine Jose Maria Lopez -- a late stand-in after Briton Mike Conway was injured in a cycling accident -- Japan's Kamui Kobayashi and Dutch driver Nyck de Vries finished 14.221 seconds behind after starting 23rd.

Ferrari's winning crew from a year ago — Italians Alessandro Pier Guidi, Antonio Giovinazzi and Britain's James Calado — finished third in the 51 car on a day of drizzle and overcast skies.

Last year's comeback win was the Italian marque's first overall victory at Le Mans in 58 years.

"The worst for me was when they asked me to go slower because that's usually where the mistakes happen," Nielsen told Eurosport television after saving fuel to the finish.