2026 FIA World Endurance Championship

2026 FIA World Endurance Championship
OrganizerAutomobile Club de l'Ouest
DisciplineSports car endurance racing
Number of races8
Champions
Hypercar Manufacturer
LMGT3 Team

The 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship will be the fourteenth season of the FIA World Endurance Championship, a sports car racing series organised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). The series will be open to Hypercars (built under Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) or Le Mans Daytona h (LMDh) regulations) and LMGT3 racing cars.

Ferrari AF Corse and their No. 51 drivers are the reigning Hypercar Manufacturers' and Drivers' champions.

Calendar

The calendar was announced on 13 June 2025, during the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans weekend. The calendar is unchanged from 2025, with the only notable change that the Qatar race moves from February to March.[1]

Locations of the 2026 races
Rnd Race Circuit Location Date
Prologue Losail International Circuit Qatar Lusail 22/23 March
1 Qatar 1812 km 28 March
2 6 Hours of Imola Imola Circuit Italy Imola 19 April
3 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Belgium Stavelot 9 May
4 24 Hours of Le Mans Circuit de la Sarthe France Le Mans 13–14 June
5 6 Hours of São Paulo Interlagos Circuit Brazil São Paulo 12 July
6 Lone Star Le Mans Circuit of the Americas United States Austin, Texas 6 September
7 6 Hours of Fuji Fuji Speedway Japan Oyama, Shizuoka 27 September
8 8 Hours of Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit Bahrain Sakhir 7 November

Entries

Hypercar

Entrant Car Engine Hybrid Tyre No. Drivers Rounds
United States Aston Martin THOR Team[2] Aston Martin Valkyrie Aston Martin RA 6.5 L V12 M 007 United Kingdom Tom Gamble[3] TBC
United Kingdom Ross Gunn[3] TBC
United Kingdom Harry Tincknell[3] TBC
009 Canada Roman De Angelis[3] TBC
Spain Alex Riberas[3] TBC
Denmark Marco Sørensen[3] TBC
Japan Toyota Racing[4] Toyota TR010 Hybrid[5] Toyota H8909 3.5 L Turbo V6 Hybrid M 7 United Kingdom Mike Conway[6] TBC
Japan Kamui Kobayashi[6] TBC
Netherlands Nyck de Vries[6] TBC
8 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi[6] TBC
New Zealand Brendon Hartley[6] TBC
Japan Ryō Hirakawa[6] TBC
United States Cadillac Hertz Team Jota[7] Cadillac V-Series.R Cadillac LMC55R 5.5 L V8 Hybrid M 12 United Kingdom Alex Lynn[7] TBC
France Norman Nato[7] TBC
United Kingdom Will Stevens[7] TBC
38 United Kingdom Jack Aitken[7] TBC
New Zealand Earl Bamber[7] TBC
France Sébastien Bourdais[7] TBC
Germany BMW M Team WRT[8] BMW M Hybrid V8 BMW P66/3 4.0 L Turbo V8 Hybrid M 15 Denmark Kevin Magnussen[9] TBC
Switzerland Raffaele Marciello[9] TBC
Belgium Dries Vanthoor[9] TBC
20 Netherlands Robin Frijns[9] TBC
Germany René Rast[9] TBC
South Africa Sheldon van der Linde[9] TBC
South Korea Genesis Magma Racing[10] Genesis GMR-001 Genesis G8MR 3.2 L Turbo V8 Hybrid M 17 Brazil Pipo Derani[10] TBC
France Mathys Jaubert[11] TBC
Germany André Lotterer[10] TBC
19 France Paul-Loup Chatin[12] TBC
France Mathieu Jaminet[12] TBC
Spain Daniel Juncadella[11] TBC
France Alpine Endurance Team[13] Alpine A424 Alpine V634 3.4 L Turbo V6 Hybrid M 35 Portugal António Félix da Costa[13] TBC
Austria Ferdinand Habsburg[14] TBC
France Charles Milesi[15] TBC
36 France Jules Gounon[15] TBC
France Frédéric Makowiecki[2] TBC
France Victor Martins[16] TBC
Italy Ferrari AF Corse[17] Ferrari 499P Ferrari F163CG 3.0 L Turbo V6 Hybrid M 50 Italy Antonio Fuoco[18] TBC
Spain Miguel Molina[18] TBC
Denmark Nicklas Nielsen[18] TBC
51 United Kingdom James Calado[18] TBC
Italy Antonio Giovinazzi[18] TBC
Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi[18] TBC
Italy AF Corse[19] 83 United Kingdom Phil Hanson[20] TBC
Poland Robert Kubica[20] TBC
China Yifei Ye[20] TBC
France Peugeot TotalEnergies[21] Peugeot 9X8 Peugeot X6H 2.6 L Turbo V6 Hybrid M 93 New Zealand Nick Cassidy[21] TBC
United Kingdom Paul di Resta[22] TBC
Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne[22] TBC
94 France Loïc Duval[22] TBC
Denmark Malthe Jakobsen[22] TBC
France Théo Pourchaire[23] TBC
Hypercar team changes
  • 2024 World Endurance Drivers' Champions Porsche Penske Motorsport withdrew from Hypercar amid a shift in focus to IMSA and Formula E.[24] Despite plans from Roger Penske, Christian Ried and FAT International's Ferdi Porsche to keep the 963 in WEC,[25] the customer No. 99 Proton Competition car was a casualty of Porsche's exit.[26]
    Porsche (left) pulled the plug on its Hypercar programme, as Genesis (right) entered WEC for the first time.
  • Genesis Magma Racing, the racing division of Hyundai luxury brand Genesis, made its prototype debut with an Oreca-built LMDh.[27][28]
  • Toyota Gazoo Racing reverted to the Toyota Racing name, last used in 2015, and renamed its GR010 Hybrid as TR010 Hybrid as part of a bodywork update.[5][29]
Hypercar driver changes

LMGT3

Entrant Car Engine Tyre No. Drivers Rounds
United Kingdom Garage 59[38] McLaren 720S GT3 Evo McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8 G 10 Hong Kong Antares Au[39] TBC
United Kingdom Tom Fleming[39] TBC
Germany Marvin Kirchhöfer[39] TBC
58 Germany Finn Gehrsitz[39] TBC
Germany Benjamin Goethe[39] TBC
Sweden Alexander West[39] TBC
Italy Vista AF Corse[40] Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6 G 21 France François Heriau[2] TBC
United States Simon Mann[2] TBC
Italy Alessio Rovera[2] TBC
54 Italy Francesco Castellacci[2] TBC
Switzerland Thomas Flohr[2] TBC
Italy Davide Rigon[2] TBC
United States Heart of Racing Team[40] Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo Aston Martin M177 4.0 L Turbo V8 G 23 United States Gray Newell[3] TBC
TBA TBC
TBA TBC
27 United Kingdom Ian James[3] TBC
TBA TBC
TBA TBC
Belgium Team WRT[40] BMW M4 GT3 Evo BMW P58 3.0 L Turbo I6 G 32 Brazil Augusto Farfus[41] TBC
Indonesia Sean Gelael[41] TBC
United Kingdom Darren Leung[41] TBC
69 United Kingdom Dan Harper[41] TBC
United States Anthony McIntosh[42] TBC
Canada Parker Thompson[42] TBC
United Kingdom TF Sport[43] Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R Chevrolet LT6.R 5.5 L V8 G 33 Netherlands Nicky Catsburg[44] TBC
United Kingdom Jonny Edgar[45] TBC
United States Ben Keating[45] TBC
Turkey Racing Team Turkey by TF[2] 34 Republic of Ireland Peter Dempsey[45] TBC
Republic of Ireland Charlie Eastwood[44] TBC
Turkey Salih Yoluç[45] TBC
Italy Iron Lynx[46] Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 G 61 Angola Rui Andrade[47] TBC
Australia Martin Berry[47] TBC
Belgium Maxime Martin[47] TBC
79 Italy Matteo Cressoni[47] TBC
Netherlands Lin Hodenius[47] TBC
Italy Johannes Zelger[47] TBC
Germany Proton Competition[40] Ford Mustang GT3 Evo Ford Coyote 5.4 L V8 G 77 United States Eric Powell[48] TBC
United Kingdom Sebastian Priaulx[48] TBC
United Kingdom Ben Tuck[49] TBC
88 Italy Stefano Gattuso[48] TBC
Italy Giammarco Levorato[49] TBC
United States Logan Sargeant[48] TBC
France Akkodis ASP Team[40] Lexus RC F GT3 Lexus 2UR-GSE 5.4 L V8 G 78 France Hadrien David[50] TBC
France Esteban Masson[51] TBC
Belgium Tom Van Rompuy[52] TBC
87 Argentina José María López[51] TBC
Austria Clemens Schmid[50] TBC
Romania Răzvan Umbrărescu[52] TBC
Germany Manthey DK Engineering[2][53] Porsche 911 GT3 R (992.2) Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6 G 91 Timur Boguslavskiy[54][N 1] TBC
United Kingdom James Cottingham[54] TBC
Turkey Ayhancan Güven[55] TBC
Germany The Bend Manthey[2][53] 92 Austria Richard Lietz[55] TBC
Italy Riccardo Pera[54] TBC
Australia Yasser Shahin[54] TBC
LMGT3 team changes

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Boguslavskiy is Russian, but he competes as a neutral competitor as Russian national emblems were banned by the FIA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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