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Who has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the WEC era?
Since the FIA WEC began in 2012, only four manufacturers have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright: Audi (2012 to 2014), Porsche (2015 to 2017), Toyota (2018 to 2022, plus 2026) and Ferrari (2023 to 2025). Fifteen editions, four badges, and three distinct dynasties broken only by the swing years between eras. The full year-by-year list, with crews and race distance, is below.
The winners, year by year
Every result here comes from the race classifications in our archive, except 2016, which our ingestion does not yet cover and which is listed from the official record.
2012: Audi R18 e-tron quattro, Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer, Benoît Tréluyer. 378 laps. 2013: Audi R18 e-tron quattro, Tom Kristensen, Allan McNish, Loïc Duval. 348 laps. 2014: Audi R18 e-tron quattro, Fässler, Lotterer, Tréluyer again. 379 laps. 2015: Porsche 919 Hybrid, Earl Bamber, Nick Tandy, Nico Hülkenberg. 395 laps. 2016: Porsche 919 Hybrid, Romain Dumas, Neel Jani, Marc Lieb, after the leading Toyota stopped with under four minutes to run. 2017: Porsche 919 Hybrid, Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley, Earl Bamber. 367 laps. 2018: Toyota TS050 Hybrid, Fernando Alonso, Kazuki Nakajima, Sébastien Buemi. 388 laps. 2019: Toyota TS050 Hybrid, the same Alonso, Nakajima, Buemi crew. 385 laps. 2020: Toyota TS050 Hybrid, Hartley, Nakajima, Buemi. 387 laps. 2021: Toyota GR010 Hybrid, Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, José María López. 371 laps. 2022: Toyota GR010 Hybrid, Buemi, Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa. 380 laps. 2023: Ferrari 499P, Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi. 342 laps. 2024: Ferrari 499P, Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, Nicklas Nielsen. 311 laps. 2025: Ferrari 499P, Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye, Philip Hanson, the first customer AF Corse entry to win outright. 387 laps. 2026: Toyota TR010 Hybrid, Kobayashi, Mike Conway, Nyck de Vries. 381 laps.
Three dynasties and two handovers
The list reads as three eras. Audi's wins in 2012 to 2014 closed out a run that started in 2000; by the time the WEC existed, winning Le Mans was simply what Audi did. Porsche returned in 2014, took the crown a year later, and made it three in a row while Toyota kept finding new ways to lose: the 2016 heartbreak at the end of the race Toyota had already won remains the cruelest finish in the race's modern history.
Toyota's own dynasty began the year the opposition left. The five straight wins from 2018 to 2022 came first against thin LMP1 grids, then against the opening Hypercar fields, and the asterisk some fans attach to them undersells how good the TS050 and GR010 were. The cars that finally beat Toyota had to be built to new rules entirely.
Ferrari's return delivered the story the era was designed for: a factory 499P winning on the marque's Le Mans centenary return in 2023, a repeat in the wet-shortened 311-lap race of 2024, and then the outlier of the whole list in 2025, when the yellow customer 499P of AF Corse beat both factory cars with Kubica, Ye and Hanson aboard.
The records inside the list
A few details from the archive stand out. The 395 laps Porsche covered in 2015 is the highest distance of the WEC era, and 2024's 311 laps the lowest, run behind safety cars and through hours of rain. Sébastien Buemi's four wins (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022) make him the most successful driver of the era, one clear of Kobayashi and Conway, who added their second in 2026. Kazuki Nakajima retired with three, all consecutive.
Toyota's 2026 win also broke the longest gap between victories for any manufacturer in the list: four years, which counts as a drought by the standards this race has set since 2012.
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