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Who has the most WEC race fastest laps?

Kamui Kobayashi has the most WEC race fastest laps, with 25. That count credits each race fastest lap to every driver who drove the car that set it, the rule used on WEC Engine's driver pages. Counting only the laps a driver set personally, the leader is Sébastien Buemi with 12.

Two ways to count a fastest lap

The official results flag one race fastest lap per race: the quickest lap by any car, in any class. The archive holds 107 races, from 2012 to the 2026 Barcelona round. It does not yet include the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, so that race's fastest lap is not counted for anyone.

- Car credit. The fastest lap belongs to the car, so every driver who drove that car in the race is credited, in the same way as a win. Driver pages use this count. - Laps set. Only the driver who set the lap is credited, using the lap chart. The archive has no lap chart for the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans, so that race counts under car credit only.

Endurance cars are shared by two or three drivers, so the two lists can differ a lot. Kobayashi has 25 fastest laps by car credit and set 11 himself. André Lotterer has 17 by car credit and set 11. Sébastien Buemi has 16 and 12.

The car-credit list

The top six by car credit:

- Kamui Kobayashi: 25 - Mike Conway: 24 - Jose Maria Lopez: 20 - André Lotterer: 17 - Brendon Hartley: 16 - Sébastien Buemi: 16

Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez drove the No. 7 Toyota together from 2017 to 2023, so most of their car-credited fastest laps are the same laps. In the Hypercar class, from 2021, Kamui Kobayashi has the most, with 15.

The laps-set list

The top five by laps set personally:

- Sébastien Buemi: 12 - André Lotterer: 11 - Kamui Kobayashi: 11 - Mike Conway: 10 - Brendon Hartley: 7

In all, 39 different drivers have set at least one race fastest lap in the archive. At Le Mans, André Lotterer has set the most, 3. In the Hypercar class the leader is Kamui Kobayashi with 7.

Manufacturers and cars

Toyota has the most race fastest laps among manufacturers, 45. Second and third on that list are Audi with 23 and Porsche with 17. Among car models, the Toyota GR010 Hybrid leads with 22.

Up to the 2026 Fuji round, every race fastest lap in the archive was set by a car from the top prototype class, LMP1 until 2020 and Hypercar from 2021.

The WEC also keeps a pole position record; see which driver has the most WEC pole positions.

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