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Who has won WEC races in 2026?
Through the 2026 Barcelona round, 3 manufacturers have won the 7 WEC races of 2026 in WEC Engine's archive. Toyota has 4 wins, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, BMW 2 and Ferrari 1. The calendar's last two rounds are six-hour races at Barcelona on 18 October and Monza on 8 November.
The first six rounds
Imola opened the season on 19 April. The No. 8 Toyota Racing TR010 Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa covered 213 laps and beat the No. 51 Ferrari by 13.352 seconds.
BMW took its first overall WEC win at Spa on 9 May. The No. 20 BMW M Team WRT M Hybrid V8 of Robin Frijns, René Rast and Sheldon van der Linde led the sister No. 15 home by 1.969 seconds for a BMW one-two.
Toyota's No. 7 won Le Mans on 13-14 June. Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries covered 381 laps and finished 10.913 seconds clear of the No. 20 BMW, with the No. 8 Toyota third. It was Toyota's first Le Mans win since 2022.
BMW won again at São Paulo on 12 July, this time with the No. 15 of Kevin Magnussen, Raffaele Marciello and Dries Vanthoor, 2.254 seconds ahead of the No. 51 Ferrari.
The Circuit of the Americas round on 6 September went to the No. 50 Ferrari AF Corse 499P of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen, 4.471 seconds ahead of the No. 38 Cadillac.
At Fuji on 27 September, the No. 8 Toyota beat the No. 36 Alpine by 0.591 seconds after 203 laps, the closest finish of the first six rounds.
The running totals
In 2026, 15 different drivers have won an overall race. Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa and Sébastien Buemi share the most wins, with 3.
On podiums, Toyota has 7 Hypercar podium finishes in 2026, BMW 5, Ferrari 5, Cadillac 2 and Alpine 2. In all, 5 manufacturers have reached the podium.
The championship after Fuji
After the Fuji round, the official FIA WEC standings had Buemi, Hartley and Hirakawa leading the Hypercar drivers' championship on 89 points. Conway, Kobayashi and de Vries were second on 79, Frijns and Rast third on 75, and Magnussen and Marciello fourth on 69. Toyota led the manufacturers' table on 169 points, ahead of BMW on 146 and Ferrari on 115. These figures are a snapshot after round six and do not include later races.
The LMGT3 and LMP2 winners
In LMGT3, the first six rounds produced six different winning cars. Team WRT won twice with BMW's M4 LMGT3 Evo, the No. 69 at Imola and the No. 32 at Fuji. Corvette's Z06 LMGT3.R also won twice: the No. 33 TF Sport car of Ben Keating, Jonny Edgar and Nicky Catsburg at Le Mans, and the No. 34 Racing Team Turkey by TF entry at São Paulo. Garage 59's No. 10 McLaren won at Spa and the No. 27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin won in Texas. In 2026, 6 teams and 5 manufacturers have won in LMGT3.
After Fuji, the official standings had Jonny Edgar leading the LMGT3 drivers' table on 86 points. LMP2 raced only at Le Mans, where the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 of Tom Dillmann, Jakub Smiechowski and Nick Yelloly won the class.
Barcelona and Monza
The 2026 calendar was due to finish in the Middle East. The FIA WEC announced on 28 July 2026 that the Qatar 1812km and the Bahrain finale had been cancelled because of regional developments affecting freight and travel, and replaced by two European six-hour races.
Barcelona's race on 18 October is its first WEC race. Monza hosts the finale on 8 November; it held WEC races from 2021 to 2023, two of them won by Toyota and one by Alpine.
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