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25 years after BMW's sensational overall victory in 1999, the Munich team returned to the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2024 with two BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh in the top class. While the 20th BMW Art Car with the fitting number 20 attracted lots of attention, the #15 car with Dries Vanthoor, Raffaele Marciello and Marco Wittmann was almost pushed into the background by all the media hype, especially as Valentino Rossi's Le Mans debut in the BMW M4 GT3 also acted like a magnet for journalists and photographers. Public attention changed quickly when the #15 car in BMW Motorsport colours set the fastest lap time in qualifying with 3:24.465 minutes.
As was so often the case, the 92nd edition of the endurance classic at the Sarthe began with capricious weather conditions that threw the hypercar field into turmoil right from the start. And the rest of the race was not really kind to the two BMW hypercars either. Marco Wittmann lost the LMDh in the Esses and had to collect a new front section from the pits. When Robin Frijns had a heavy crash with the Art Car in the Ford chicane, the #15 BMW remained the sole spearhead. But the big bang came on Saturday evening. Dries Vanthoor was sent into the crash barriers in a high-speed contact with Robert Kubica's Ferrari and the fast works BMW M Hybrid V8 ended up a total loss at Le Mans.