He joined Aston Martin Racing in the LMP1 car number 008 for the final races on the 2009 Le Mans Series where the Team scored an Aston Martin 1-2-3 at the ADAC 1000 km of Nürburgring, 50 years on from Aston Martin's 1959 win at the classic German endurance race in the DBR1.
In 2005, Giovanni Lavaggi built a LMP1 sports prototype, and named it the Lavaggi LS1; the car was the first Le Mans Prototype to have been built and designed in Monte Carlo.
For the 2007 season, Intersport would move to the LMP1 class with a new chassis, while Fernández Racing would join the series with an upgraded B05/40 for use with the Acura Le Mans project.
On November 28, 1998 Porsche announced that they would not continue their development of the open-cockpit LMP1-98 for the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.
During the 2013 WEC season, Toyota announced that it would continue racing in the 2014 WEC and would thus develop a new LMP1 car for the 2014 Le Mans Prototype regulations.