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Which circuit has hosted the most WEC events?

Spa-Francorchamps has hosted the most WEC races in WEC Engine's archive, with 15. Le Mans has 14 races in the archive, which leaves out the 2016 24 Hours, a WEC round that has not been ingested. Counting that race, Le Mans has hosted one more WEC race than the archive shows. Bahrain has 14, including two races in 2021, and Fuji 13. Spa and Le Mans are the only circuits that hosted a WEC race in every season from 2012 to 2026.

Races per circuit

The archive holds 107 WEC races from 2012 to the 2026 Barcelona round. This is how they divide by circuit:

- Spa-Francorchamps: 15 - Le Mans: 14 in the archive (2016 missing) - Bahrain: 14 - Fuji: 13 - Circuit of the Americas: 9 - Silverstone: 8 - Shanghai: 8 - São Paulo (Interlagos): 6 - Sebring: 4 - Imola: 3 - Monza: 3 - Nürburgring: 3 - Mexico City: 2 - Portimão: 2 - Qatar (Lusail): 2

Spa and Le Mans have each appeared once in every season, and twice in the 2018-19 super season, which ran from May 2018 to June 2019 and included two editions of each race. Spa came before Le Mans on the calendar in every year from 2012 to 2026.

The calendar regulars

Fuji has held a WEC race in every calendar year from 2012 to 2026 except 2020 and 2021, when the round was not run during the Covid-19 pandemic. Bahrain missed the 2018-19 season and made up for it in 2021, when it held a six-hour and an eight-hour race on consecutive weekends.

The Circuit of the Americas hosted the championship from 2013 to 2017, again in February 2020, and every year from 2024 to 2026. São Paulo hosted three races from 2012 to 2014 and returned in 2024.

How the calendar has changed

The 2012 season had eight races at eight circuits: Sebring, Spa, Le Mans, Silverstone, São Paulo, Bahrain, Fuji and Shanghai. The 2025 season also had eight: Qatar, Imola, Spa, Le Mans, São Paulo, the Circuit of the Americas, Fuji and Bahrain. Five venues appear on both lists: Spa, Le Mans, São Paulo, Fuji and Bahrain.

Several circuits came and went in between. Silverstone and Shanghai each hosted eight races from 2012 to 2019, the last of them four-hour races in the 2019-20 season. The Nürburgring hosted three races from 2015 to 2017 and Mexico City two, in 2016 and 2017. Sebring held the 2012 opener, a 12-hour race, and the 1000 Miles of Sebring in 2019, 2022 and 2023. Portimão ran an eight-hour race in 2021 and a six-hour race in 2023. Monza held three races from 2021 to 2023.

The 2026 calendar was changed during the season. The Qatar and Bahrain rounds were cancelled, and the FIA WEC named Barcelona and Monza as replacements, on 18 October and 8 November. Barcelona had not hosted a WEC race before; its only previous WEC event was the 2019 Prologue test. Silverstone returns on the 2027 calendar, alongside Qatar, Imola, Spa, Le Mans, São Paulo, the Circuit of the Americas, Fuji and Bahrain.

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