Ferrari

Ferrari 499P

It’s business as usual for the manufacturer trying to make it four in a row at the Le Mans 24 Hours with the 499P Le Mans Hypercar: Ferrari returns with a largely unchanged car without any major upgrades and the same drivers. It has made great play of the importance of stability in its line-up so it keeps with the same six factory drivers who took it to both WEC Hypercar titles last year and have been with the programme since 2023. The crew of the satellite No83 AF Corse team that completed the hat-trick at Le Mans in 2025 is unchanged, too.

No50 Nicklas Nielsen (DK), Antonio Fuoco (I), Miguel Molina (E)

No51 James Calado (GB), Alessandro Pier Guidi (I), Antonio Giovinazzi (I)

No83 Phil Hanson (GB), Robert Kubica (PL), Yifei Ye (CN)

Alpine

Alpine A424

The French marque, part of Renault, makes its final appearance at Le Mans with the A424 LMDh after the decision earlier this year to scale back on its motor sport activities. With slower than expected growth in its niche in the electric vehicle market, the cars are headed for the museum on the completion of the season. Mick Schumacher has departed the line-up to race in IndyCar and been replaced by Victor Martins, a former member of Alpine’s F1 academy programme and now test and reserve driver for Williams. Ex-Formula E champion António Félix da Costa returns to the WEC after a two-season absence to take the other vacant seat after the departure of Paul-Loup Chatin to Genesis. A single evo joker has been invoked, with an increase in downforce the target.

No35 António Félix da Costa (P), Charles Milesi (F), Ferdinand Habsburg (A)

No36 Jules Gounon (F), Victor Martins (F), Frédéric Makowiecki (F)

Cadillac

Cadillac V-Series.R

Cadillac downscales its Le Mans entry from last year’s four cars to three. The Action Express Racing squad that joined the full-season WEC entries at the French enduro in 2023-25 is concentrating on its IMSA SportsCar Championship programme in North America. Wayne Taylor Racing joins up with the British Jota team for a second year. There’s no Jenson Button at Jota this year; the 2009 F1 champion has hung up his helmet. Jack Aitken takes his place and is pulling double duty across WEC and IMSA where he is racing with Action Express. The Caddy V-Series.R has benefited from two joker upgrades: one aerodynamic and one on the braking system.

No12 Alex Lynn (GB), Will Stevens (GB), Norman Nato (F)

No38 Jack Aitken (GB), Earl Bamber (NZ), Sébastien Bourdais (F)

No101 Filipe Albuquerque (P), Jordan Taylor (USA), Ricky Taylor (USA)

Toyota

Toyota TR010 Hybrid

The Japanese manufacturer has undertaken a significant overhaul of its long-serving LMH, the oldest car on the Hypercar grid. It’s even got a new type number: the TR010 Hybrid rather than the GR010 after the Gazoo suffix was dropped from the name of the team. The developments under the evo joker regulations have been focused on the aerodynamics, with the goal of overcoming the deficit in straightline speed that has hamstrung its efforts to add to its tally of Le Mans victories since win number five in 2022. The driving crew remains constant for a third season.

No7 Mike Conway (GB), Kamui Kobayashi (J), Nyck de Vries (NL)

No8 Sébastien Buemi (CH), Brendon Hartley (NZ), Ryo Hirakawa (J)

BMW

BMW M Hybrid V8

A manufacturer that endured a difficult second season in the WEC in 2025 with the Belgian WRT squad, at least after it was right in the mix at the season-opener in Qatar, has undertaken a significant aero upgrade of its M Hybrid V8, below. The aim of the updates, which have given its LMDh a change of look, are aimed at creating a more consistent racing car. The same six drivers return.

No15 Kevin Magnussen (DK), Raffaele Marciello (CH), Dries Vanthoor (B)

No20 Robin Frijns (NL), René Rast (D), Sheldon van der Linde (ZA)

Genesis

Genesis GMR-001

A manufacturer new not just to Hypercar and the WEC but to motor sport as a whole has modest ambitions for its maiden Le Mans with an in-house team established at Paul Ricard. Hyundai’s prestige brand has big ambitions, though, and insists it’s in WEC for the long haul. It has assembled an impressive driver line-up with three-time Le Mans winner André Lotterer and Pipo Derani, who has four victories at the Sebring 12 Hours to his name, and Mathieu Jaminet recruited from Porsche.

No17 André Lotterer (D), Pipo Derani (BR), Mathys Jaubert (F)

No18 Mathieu Jaminet (F), Paul-Loup Chatin (F), Daniel Juncadella (E)

Aston Martin

Aston Martin Valkyrie

Aston Martin is back for a second attempt with the Valkyrie LMH, above, to reprise its solo Le Mans triumph in 1959. The Heart of Racing factory team has been on an upward curve since last year’s 24 Hours when it got both its cars to the finish without major problems. With a bit more luck it might have finished the year with a top-three race finish, something the Valkyrie did achieve over in North America with second in the IMSA SportsCar Championship finale at Road Atlanta. No jokers played. It is too early in the programme for that, says Aston.

No007 Harry Tincknell (GB), Tom Gamble (GB), Ross Gunn (GB)

No009 Marco Sorensen (DK), Alex Riberas (E), Roman De Angelis (CDN)

Peugeot

Peugeot 9X8

This is a fourth Le Mans campaign for Peugeot’s 9X8 LMH, which underwent a significant overhaul one race into the 2024 WEC season. Those revisions and changes in the years either side mean it has exhausted its supply of jokers, but the organisers have more wriggle room with the rehomologation of the Hypercar grid to bring the French car into the equation. The results of Le Mans last year suggest that might be needed, notwithstanding the late-season form that took it to a pair of podiums. Nick Cassidy joins the line-up after signing up with Peugeot sister brand Citroën in Formula E after leaving Jaguar. Théo Pourchaire is now a full-timer after making his debut with the team at the end of last year. GW

No93 Paul di Resta (GB), Nick Cassidy (NZ), Stoffel Vandoorne (B)

No94 Loïc Duval (F), Malthe Jakobsen (DK), Théo Pourchaire (F)