Toyota Wins Le Mans 2026, Ending Ferrari's Five-Year Hypercar Streak
Conway, Kobayashi, and de Vries brought the #7 GR010 home first after 381 laps — Toyota's sixth overall win at the Circuit de la Sarthe.
Toyota's #7 GR010, shared by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, and Nyck de Vries, won the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans outright — completing 381 laps of the Circuit de la Sarthe in 24 hours, 3 minutes, and 1.030 seconds. It's Toyota's sixth overall Le Mans win, and it ends a run in which Ferrari had taken the Hypercar class win in each of the previous five years.
BMW M Team WRT's #20 entry, driven by Robin Frijns, Rene Rast, and Sheldon van der Linde, finished second, just 10.913 seconds behind after a full day of racing. Toyota's sister #8 car — Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, and Ryo Hirakawa — completed the podium in third, 20.417 seconds back. Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA's #12 took fourth, with a Ferrari AF Corse entry rounding out the top five more than two minutes behind the winner.
In LMP2, Inter Europol Competition's #43 car — Jakub Śmiechowski, Tom Dillmann, and Nick Yelloly — won after 361 laps, ahead of the team's own sister car. For a Hypercar era built specifically to invite in multiple manufacturers rather than let one dominate, this year's result reads exactly like the class was designed to produce: a genuinely open race, decided on the day rather than settled months in advance.
Portland Reopened IndyCar's Oldest Argument: What a Lapped Car Owes the Leader
Felix Rosenqvist and Will Power came off the podium asking for a real blue-flag rule. Alex Palou, who won the race, and his strategist made the case that the rule is fine as long as everyone lives under the same one.
Two Digger Engines and 406 MPH: Andy Green Has a Third Record
The JCB Hydromax averaged 406.320 mph at Bonneville on a pair of hydrogen-burning excavator engines, more than doubling a hydrogen combustion mark that had stood since 2004.
Ty Gibbs Waited 131 Starts for a First Cup Win. The Second One Took Four Months.
At Iowa, Gibbs took the final stage and held off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell, turning a career that had produced nothing into two wins in one season.