Who is the youngest driver to win Le Mans?

Alexander Wurz is the youngest driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The Austrian was 22 when he won the 1996 race on his Le Mans debut. He shared a Joest Racing-entered TWR Porsche WSC-95 with Manuel Reuter and Davy Jones, defeating the factory Porsche team by a lap. Wurz’s victory remains one of the quickest breakthroughs in the event’s history.

His route to the result was unusual. Before becoming a Formula 1 driver, Wurz had won the BMX World Championship in 1986 and progressed through karting, Formula Ford and Formula 3. Reinhold Joest gave him a late opportunity to test and race the prototype, and the young driver helped deliver a remarkably clean run.

The record concerns the youngest overall race winner, not the youngest person ever to start at Le Mans. It also does not mean Wurz was the youngest member of every winning crew; it identifies his age at the time of the overall victory. He later won again in 2009 with Peugeot.