86 Stats in 86 Days Until 86th 24 Hours of Le Mans – Day 54, Most Disqualifications Per Race (May 14, 2018)

The 86th annual 24 Hours of Le Mans is 33 days away! This is the 54th day of the 86 Stats in 86 Days Until the 86th 24 Hours of Le Mans blog.

Each day from now until the Friday before the 24 Hours of Le Mans, we’ll post a list of stats related to the race. Some are well-known statistics, while others are a little more in-depth.

Just over half of all of the 24 Hours of Le Mans – 44 of the 85 previous races – has had at least one disqualification, with reasons ranging from unapproved help to mechanical violations and illegal fuel tanks to total abandonments. The race with the most disqualifications was the 1968 race, in which eight cars were disqualified for various reasons.

Here is a list of every race that has seen at least three qualifications. The last time three or more cars were disqualified in a single race was the 1964 race, in which three cars were excluded. Below that are the number of races a certain number of cars were disqualified.

Most Disqualifications Per Race

- 1968 race: 8 DSQs

- 1927 race: 5 DSQs

- 1951 race: 5 DSQs

- 1960 race: 5 DSQs

- 1933 race: 4 DSQs

- 1949 race: 4 DSQs

- 1954 race: 4 DSQs

- 1963 race: 4 DSQs

- 1979 race: 4 DSQs

- 1931 race: 3 DSQs

- 1934 race: 3 DSQs

- 1935 race: 3 DSQs

- 1955 race: 3 DSQs

- 1956 race: 3 DSQs

- 1958 race: 3 DSQs

- 1964 race: 3 DSQs

Number of Races With Specific Number of Disqualified Cars

- 8 DSQs: 1 race

- 5 DSQs: 3 races

- 4 DSQs: 4 races

- 3 DSQs: 7 races

- 2 DSQs: 6 races

- 1 DSQ: 21 races