The rescheduled 24 Hours of Le Mans in September will be condensed into a four-day timetable incorporating free practice, qualifying, warm-up and the race.

In the past, practice and qualifying has started on the Wednesday before the race but the 2020 race has been postponed from June due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This year’s extraordinary circumstances call for an extraordinary programme,” the Automobile Club de l’Ouest said in a statement.

The 62 cars will take to the Sarthe circuit in northwestern France on Thursday, September 17, for practice and first qualifying with more practice and a 24-car ‘Hyperpole’ shoot-out on Friday before the September 19-20 race.

Organisers, who have not ruled out having to run the race behind closed doors, said they will give details about spectator access on June 30.

The sportscar race, now in its 88th edition, was attended by 250,000 people in June 2019.