Which driver has the most WEC overall race wins?

The top of the list

Buemi joined Toyota for 2014 and is still active in the Hypercar era. His win count spans the late LMP1-Hybrid years and the Hypercar transition, with the bulk of his record coming from Toyota's run of dominance between 2017 and 2022. He won three 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP1-Hybrid era (2018, 2019, 2020) with Anthony Davidson, Hartley, Nakajima and Hirakawa in various combinations.

Hartley's 24 wins came across a Porsche LMP1 spell (2014-2017) and the longer Toyota run that followed. He is the only driver in the top five with overall wins for two different manufacturers, having taken the 2017 Manufacturers' World Championship and the 2015-2017 driver titles with Porsche before moving across.

Conway, Kobayashi and Lopez form the No. 7 Toyota crew that ran together from 2017 to the end of 2022. Their 2021 Le Mans victory is one of three Hypercar-era Le Mans wins on the list and the only one shared by a single three-driver lineup; the rest of the Hypercar-era Le Mans wins have all come with different crews.

How the record set

A driver who runs a full WEC season with a factory Hypercar team scores between four and eight overall finishes per year. Win conversion sits at one or two per season for a competitive crew, with the occasional dominant season pushing higher. Toyota's 2018-2019 super-season had eight races and the works No. 8 took five of them.

The record is built on consistency more than on any single peak season. Buemi's largest single-year haul was four overall wins, but he has been on the WEC grid every year from 2014 to date. No driver outside Toyota's LMP1-Hybrid era axis has yet reached double-digit overall wins in the WEC. The closest currently active non-Toyota driver is Mike Conway, who is now retired from full-season Hypercar, and Andre Lotterer, tied at 12, who started his WEC career with Audi and is now with Porsche Penske Motorsport.

What this tells us about the Hypercar era

The Hypercar era has been more competitive than the LMP1-Hybrid run that closed in 2020. No single driver has yet won more than four Hypercar-era WEC races. Ferrari's three-year run of dominance has put Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen on the WEC win list for the first time, with Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi also adding multiple overall victories. None of those drivers will catch Buemi's record this decade.

The slow rate of record progress reflects the way Hypercar is structured. Eight manufacturers competed in the class as of 2025, with Genesis, Ford and McLaren joining by 2027. The win share is split thinly across the field. A 2025 driver scoring three overall wins is having a championship-level season; an LMP1-Hybrid driver in 2018 might have scored five.

Who could catch the record

Buemi is still on the WEC grid, racing for Toyota Gazoo Racing in the No. 8 GR010 Hybrid. Any addition to his total extends the record. The only realistic challenger from the current field is Hartley, also still active with Toyota, on 24. The gap is three wins and Hartley is racing the same car as Buemi. The race for the all-time record may stay an intra-Toyota story for the rest of the decade.