FIA WEC 2026: Calendar, Results and Race Reports
The FIA World Endurance Championship is motorsport’s premier endurance series: Hypercar prototypes from Toyota, Ferrari, BMW, Porsche, Cadillac, Peugeot, Alpine, Aston Martin and Genesis racing wheel to wheel with LMGT3 machinery over six, eight and twenty-four hours. This is our permanent home for the WEC: the full 2026 calendar, every race result, the championship standings and our reporting from the track. Bookmark it once and it stays current all season.
Round 7 result: Toyota one-two in the 6 Hours of Barcelona
The #8 Toyota of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa won the first WEC race in Barcelona on 18 October, 0.583 seconds ahead of the sister #7 after a wet start, with the #50 Ferrari third. The #92 The Bend Manthey Porsche won LMGT3. The pole-sitting #17 Genesis finished 16th. With one round to go, the #8 crew leads the drivers’ championship by 17 points from the #7: FIA WEC standings 2026.
- Race report: Toyota claims manufacturers’ title with 1-2 finish in Barcelona
- WEC Barcelona 2026 results: Toyota one-two and the title maths
- Every 2026 WEC result
- The race at half distance: Toyota in control in the wet
- WEC Barcelona qualifying and full starting grid
- WEC Barcelona practice results
- Preview: the inaugural 6 Hours of Barcelona
- Juncadella confirmed at Genesis for 2027, at his home race
FIA WEC 2026 calendar
The 2026 season runs to eight rounds. The originally scheduled Middle East races, the Qatar 1812km and the 8 Hours of Bahrain, were replaced during the season by new European events at Barcelona and Monza because of freight and travel constraints in the region.
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Official Prologue | Imola, Italy | 14 April | Testing |
| 1 | 6 Hours of Imola | Imola, Italy | 19 April | #8 Toyota |
| 2 | TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps | Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium | 9 May | #20 BMW |
| 3 | 24 Hours of Le Mans | Circuit de la Sarthe, France | 13-14 June | #7 Toyota |
| 4 | Rolex 6 Hours of Sao Paulo | Interlagos, Brazil | 12 July | #15 BMW |
| 5 | Lone Star Le Mans | Circuit of The Americas, USA | 6 September | #50 Ferrari |
| 6 | 6 Hours of Fuji | Fuji Speedway, Japan | 27 September | #8 Toyota |
| 7 | 6 Hours of Barcelona | Barcelona-Catalunya, Spain | 18 October | #8 Toyota |
| 8 | 6 Hours of Monza | Monza, Italy | 8 November | Season finale |
Background on the calendar change: WEC drops its Qatar round for 2026.
FIA WEC 2026 results and standings
Three manufacturers have won in six rounds: Toyota won at Imola, Le Mans and Fuji, BMW at Spa and Interlagos, and Ferrari took its first win of the year at COTA after the leading Toyota retired late. After Fuji the #8 Toyota of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa leads the drivers’ championship on 89 points.
| Round | Race | Hypercar winner | LMGT3 winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imola | #8 Toyota | #69 Team WRT BMW |
| 2 | Spa-Francorchamps | #20 BMW M Team WRT | #10 Garage 59 McLaren |
| 3 | Le Mans | #7 Toyota | #33 TF Sport Corvette |
| 4 | Sao Paulo | #15 BMW M Team WRT | #34 Racing Team Turkey by TF |
| 5 | COTA | #50 Ferrari AF Corse | #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin |
| 6 | Fuji | #8 Toyota | #32 Team WRT BMW |
Hypercar drivers after six rounds: #8 Buemi, Hartley, Hirakawa 89; #7 Kobayashi, Conway, de Vries 79; #20 Rast, Frijns 75. Manufacturers: Toyota 169, BMW 146, Ferrari 115. Full podiums and class winners: FIA WEC 2026 results. Every driver and team: FIA WEC standings 2026.
WEC race reports and analysis
Our coverage from the 2026 season so far:
- Fuji race report: Toyota snatches the win from Alpine with a short fill
- Fuji starting grid
- Fuji practice results
- COTA race report: Toyota’s heartbreak hands Ferrari its first 2026 win
- COTA pole: Ferrari and a dead heat
- The WEC title fight after COTA
- Sao Paulo race report: BMW wins at Interlagos
- FIA and ACO extend the WEC agreement to 2037
- Fernando Alonso and the WEC in 2027
- 24 Hours of Le Mans 2026: schedule and entry list
- Full Thursday programme for the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans
- Le Mans 2026 Hyperpole preview
- Le Mans qualifying: Alpine and Ferrari fight for Hyperpole
- Cadillac leads FP4 at Le Mans
- Le Mans: ten hours to go
- Jamie Chadwick makes her Le Mans Hypercar debut
- Alpine brings the lightest racing suit to Le Mans
- BMW reveals a Brazil livery for Interlagos
- WEC and GT World Challenge clash at Portimao
- Peugeot changes its driver line-up for 2027
Everything we publish on the championship collects on our FIA WEC news archive.
Understanding the WEC
New to endurance racing, or want the detail behind the timing screens? Start with our guide How does the WEC work?, or go straight to one of the explainers:
- The Hypercar class explained
- The LMGT3 class explained
- Balance of Performance explained
- FIA driver ratings explained
- Homologation explained
- Hyperpole explained
- What a stint is
- Slow zones explained
- Strategy and pit cycles explained
More endurance racing
Next season: our WEC 2027 calendar. The 24 Hours of Le Mans has its own home on this site: our 24 Hours of Le Mans knowledge hub and the Circuit de la Sarthe overview. For the Nordschleife, see our NLS hub. And for the WEC’s European home race, our Spa-Francorchamps circuit guide covers every corner of the 7.004-kilometre lap.