The 1972 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 40th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on June 10th and 11th. It was the ninth round of the World Sportscar Championship.
The track layout was changed yet again for 1972, with a new section of turns being built between Arnage and the Ford chicane for the purposes of bypassing the dangerously fast Maison Blanche. The five new turns installed would later become known as the Porsche curves, while at the same time a second chicane was added to the Ford chicane to help with the creation of a new pit lane entrance.
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