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JOSE MARIA
LOPEZ
Argentine race car driver (born 1983)
Career Note
José María "Pechito" López is an Argentine race car driver who is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Akkodis ASP. He is three-time World Touring Champion with Citroën in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and two-time World Endurance Champion with Toyota Gazoo Racing in 2020 and 2021, also becoming that last year the second Argentine driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans since José Froilán González in 1954.
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Career Constellation
Each season is a star — sized by overall wins, positioned by championship rank, coloured by primary class. Gold ring marks championship-winning campaigns; silver ring marks top-three finishes.
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FIA driver categorisation per event — Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, or Member. Sourced from Al Kamel entry-list PDFs.
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Questions about this driver
Circuits · 5 min read
Why doesn't the WEC race at Silverstone anymore?
The WEC last raced at [Silverstone](/circuits/silverstone) in September 2019 and has not returned since. The 6 Hours of Silverstone hosted 8 WEC rounds between 2012 and 2019, making it the championship's longest-running British venue. The 2019 race produced one of the WEC's most controversial results when both Toyota TS050 Hybrids were stripped of their finishing positions in a post-race technical inspection, handing the win to a Rebellion Racing privateer that had finished a lap down. The fixture was dropped from the 2020 calendar and never reinstated.
Drivers · 5 min read
Who is Kamui Kobayashi?
[Kamui Kobayashi](/drivers/kamui-kobayashi) is a Japanese endurance racing driver and the team principal of [Toyota Gazoo Racing](/teams/toyota-gazoo-racing) Europe. He holds the WEC's all-time race fastest-lap record at 23 and shares the all-time pole record at 17 with his long-time team-mate [Mike Conway](/drivers/mike-conway). Kobayashi won the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans with the No. 7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid, set the all-time Le Mans qualifying record of 3:24.408 in 2022, and remains on the WEC grid in 2026 with the No. 7 entry he has driven since 2017.
Drivers · 4 min read
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.
Drivers · 4 min read
Who has the most WEC race fastest laps?
[Kamui Kobayashi](/drivers/kamui-kobayashi) has set the most race fastest laps in WEC history, with 23 across 102 race sessions since 2012. [Mike Conway](/drivers/mike-conway) sits second with 22, followed by [Jose Maria Lopez](/drivers/jose-maria-lopez) on 20, [Andre Lotterer](/drivers/andre-lotterer) on 17 and [Brendon Hartley](/drivers/brendon-hartley) on 16. The top five all share a Toyota Gazoo Racing connection at some point in their WEC careers, with Lotterer the only one to set most of his fastest laps for a different manufacturer.
Drivers · 4 min read
Which driver has the most WEC pole positions?
[Kamui Kobayashi](/drivers/kamui-kobayashi) and [Mike Conway](/drivers/mike-conway) share the all-time WEC pole record with 17 overall poles each. Both drove the [No. 7 Toyota](/teams/toyota-gazoo-racing) through the LMP1-Hybrid and early Hypercar eras, and they accumulated the record together over six seasons in the same car. [Brendon Hartley](/drivers/brendon-hartley) and [Jose Maria Lopez](/drivers/jose-maria-lopez) sit tied for third on 14 each, and [Timo Bernhard](/drivers/timo-bernhard) and [Sebastien Buemi](/drivers/sebastien-buemi) are fifth-equal on 9.
Manufacturers · 5 min read
What was the Toyota TS050 Hybrid era like?
The [Toyota TS050 Hybrid](/cars/toyota-ts050-hybrid) era ran from 2016 to 2020 in the WEC's LMP1-Hybrid class. The car took 21 race wins across five WEC seasons, three consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans victories (2018, 2019, 2020), three Manufacturers' championships (2017, 2018-2019, 2019-2020) and three Drivers' championships. The TS050 is also the car associated with one of the most infamous late-race losses in Le Mans history, the 2016 power-system failure that handed [Porsche](/manufacturers/porsche) the win with three minutes to run.