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

Five teams have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans since the Hypercar class arrived in 2021. Toyota Gazoo Racing took the first two runnings with the GR010 Hybrid. Ferrari has won every Le Mans since, taking three consecutive overall victories with the 499P from 2023 to 2025. Every winning crew so far has been all new to Le Mans victory at the time of the win.

The five winners, year by year

The 2021 race was the first run under Hypercar regulations. The No. 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez won, after the trio had finished second three years in a row in the LMP1-Hybrid era.

In 2022 the sister No. 8 Toyota took its turn, with Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa closing out Toyota's run of five consecutive Le Mans wins.

Then Ferrari arrived. The No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari 499P won the centenary 2023 race on the marque's return to the top class after 50 years, with Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi in the car.

In 2024 the No. 50 sister car won. Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen made it back-to-back for Ferrari.

The 2025 race went to the yellow-liveried No. 83 AF Corse 499P, a customer entry, with Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Philip Hanson. The No. 83 had started 13th on the grid, the lowest grid position any car has ever recovered from to win Le Mans overall in the WEC era.

What links the five crews

No driver has won more than one Hypercar-era Le Mans. Every overall win has come with a different three-driver lineup. That is a strong contrast with the LMP1-Hybrid era that closed in 2020: Buemi, Hartley and Kazuki Nakajima won three Le Mans together with Toyota, and Audi's run of nine wins from 2000 to 2014 produced multiple repeat-winning trios.

The closest a crew has come to a repeat is Kubica and Ye sharing the 2025 winning No. 83, having previously co-driven a JOTA-run Porsche 963 at Le Mans. Pier Guidi, Calado and Giovinazzi have started every Hypercar-era Le Mans together since 2023; only the 2023 race delivered the win.

Why Ferrari and Toyota, not Porsche or Cadillac

Toyota has finished second twice in the Ferrari era (2023 and 2024) and sixth in 2025. The Japanese manufacturer's lap-time potential has been judged the strongest in the field by Ferrari's own engineering staff after every recent Le Mans, but tyre management and pit strategy have not put the GR010 Hybrid back on the top step. The hybrid GR010 is now in its sixth season and a revamped version arrives for 2026.

Porsche's three-car Penske Motorsport effort with the 963 has produced multiple top-three finishes since 2023, including second place in 2025. Cadillac's three-car factory programme took third overall in 2023 and has been a podium-class contender since. Neither has converted at Le Mans yet.

What it tells us about 2026

The Hypercar field is the deepest it has been since the World Sportscar Championship years of the late 1980s. Eight manufacturers compete in the class as of 2025, with Genesis, Ford and McLaren due to join by 2027. Ferrari brings the same three-driver crew back to Le Mans in 2026 in the No. 83 after a season in which the customer car scored every overall pole and every overall win in the WEC. If the pattern holds through Imola and Spa, the question at Le Mans will be how many cars can stay on the lead lap.

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