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Who has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Hypercar era?

Two manufacturers have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans since the Hypercar class arrived in 2021. Toyota won in 2021, 2022 and 2026, and Ferrari won three in a row from 2023 to 2025 with the 499P. Through the 2026 race, Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi are the only drivers to have won it twice in the Hypercar era.

The winners, year by year

The 2021 race, the first under Hypercar rules, went to the No. 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez.

In 2022 the sister No. 8 won with Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa.

Ferrari won on its return to the top class in 2023. The No. 51 Ferrari AF Corse 499P of James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi started second. The No. 50 of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen won from fourth in 2024.

The 2025 race went to the customer No. 83 AF Corse 499P of Philip Hanson, Robert Kubica and Yifei Ye, from 13th on the grid.

Toyota returned to the top step in 2026. The No. 7 Toyota Racing TR010 Hybrid of Conway, Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries won from 14th, the furthest back any Le Mans winner has started among the seven editions with starting-grid data in the archive.

Repeat winners

Conway and Kobayashi won in 2021 and 2026, with Lopez in the first car and de Vries in the second. Every other driver who has won in the Hypercar era has won once. In the archive's WEC-era count, Kobayashi has 2 Le Mans wins and Conway 2.

Across every WEC-era edition in the archive, Sébastien Buemi has the most Le Mans wins, with 4. Toyota has won the race 6 times since 2012 and Ferrari 3 times. The archive does not yet include the 2016 race.

Who has come close

Toyota finished second behind Ferrari in 2023 and 2024. Porsche was second in 2025 with the 963 and BMW second in 2026 with the M Hybrid V8. Cadillac reached the overall podium in 2023, Alpine in 2021 and Glickenhaus in 2022, all in third place.

Through 2026 no LMDh car has won Le Mans outright. Every Hypercar-era winner has been an LMH design built entirely by its manufacturer: the Toyota GR010 Hybrid and its TR010 update, and the Ferrari 499P. The difference between LMH and LMDh covers why the two platforms race together under one balance of performance.

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What is Hyperpole and how does it work?

Hyperpole is the WEC's top-shootout qualifying format. After a 12 to 15 minute open qualifying session in which every car runs, the fastest cars in each class transfer to a separate Hyperpole session and fight for pole position alone on track. At Le Mans, the top six cars from each class transfer. At all other WEC rounds since 2024, the top eight transfer in Hypercar and the top eight in LMGT3. The Hyperpole session itself is short, between 10 and 30 minutes depending on the round.

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