2026 Le Mans Cup
European racing season
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The 2026 Le Mans Cup, known as the 2026 Michelin Le Mans Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the eleventh season of the Le Mans Cup. The six-event series began at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 11 April and will conclude at Algarve International Circuit on 10 October. The series was open to Le Mans Prototypes in the LMP3 category and grand tourer sports cars in the GT3 class. For the first time, the flagship Road to Le Mans event featured a single, three-hour endurance race.[1]
Calendar
The provisional calendar for the 2026 season was announced on 28 August 2025. All venues from the previous season returned, with the 24 Hours of Le Mans–supporting Road to Le Mans changing format from a pair of sprint races to a single, three-hour endurance race.[1][2]
| Rnd | Circuit | Location | Race Length | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montmeló, Spain | 2 hours | 11 April | |
| 2 | Le Castellet, France | 2 hours | 2 May | |
| 3 | Le Mans, France | 3 hours | 12 June | |
| 4 | Stavelot, Belgium | 2 hours | 22 August | |
| 5 | Silverstone, United Kingdom | 2 hours | 12 September | |
| 6 | Portimão, Portugal | 2 hours | 10 October | |
| Source:[3] | ||||
Entries
LMP3
All cars in the LMP3 class use the Toyota V35A-FTS 3.5 L twin-turbo V6 engine and Michelin tyres.[4] Entries in the LMP3 Pro-Am class, set aside for teams with a Bronze-rated driver in their line-up, are denoted with icons.
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- Hadrien David, Luke Kendall and Natan Bihel were scheduled to compete for Nielsen Racing, Vector Sport RLR and M Racing respectively, but were replaced prior to the start of the season.[20]
- Dan Skočdopole and Josh Hill were scheduled to compete for Bretton Racing and Steller Motorsport respectively, but did not appear at any rounds.[20]
- Leo Robinson was scheduled to compete for Team Virage, but switched to Bretton Racing prior to the start of the season.[20][21]
GT3
- Tom Wood and Loek Hartog were scheduled to compete for Racing Spirit of Léman and Dinamic GT respectively, but were replaced prior to the start of the season.[20]
- Antoine Leclerc was scheduled to share Code Racing Development's Aston Martin with Pascal Huteau,[20] but the team reshuffled its lineup prior to the start of the season.[8]
- Jens Reno Møller provisionally entered Road to Le Mans for High Class Racing, but was later replaced by Max Moritz.[6]
Race results
Bold indicates the overall winner.
| Round | Circuit | LMP3 Winners | LMP3 Pro-Am Winners | GT3 Winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| 2 | ||||
| 3 | ||||
| 4 | ||||
| 5 | ||||
| 6 | ||||
Championship standings
Points are awarded according to the following structure:
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Le Mans | 38 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
LMP3 Drivers' Championship
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Italics – Fastest Lap | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LMP3 Teams' Championship
| Pos. | Team | Car | BAR |
LEC |
LMS |
SPA |
SIL |
POR |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duqueine D09 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 106 | ||
| 2 | Ligier JS P325 | Ret | Ret | 1 | 2 | 5 | 67 | ||
| 3 | Ligier JS P325 | 4 | 3 | 3 | Ret | 4 | 62 | ||
| 4 | Ligier JS P325 | 19 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 56 | ||
| 5 | Ligier JS P325 | 2 | 1 | Ret | 9 | 11 | 45 | ||
| 6 | Ligier JS P325 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 35 | ||
| 7 | Ligier JS P325 | Ret | 15 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 31 | ||
| 8 | Ligier JS P325 | 5 | 8 | Ret | 6 | 6 | 30 | ||
| 9 | Duqueine D09 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 27 | ||
| 10 | Ligier JS P325 | 6 | 12 | 15 | Ret | 3 | 23 | ||
| 11 | Ligier JS P325 | 7 | 6 | Ret | 7 | Ret | 20 | ||
| 12 | Duqueine D09 | 3 | Ret | 13 | 14 | 8 | 19 | ||
| 13 | Duqueine D09 | 10 | Ret | 6 | 13 | 18 | 13 | ||
| 14 | Ligier JS P325 | 12 | Ret | 16 | 16 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 15 | Ligier JS P325 | 21 | 7 | Ret | 15 | 15 | 6 | ||
| 16 | Ligier JS P325 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 6 | ||
| 17 | Ligier JS P325 | 9 | 16 | Ret | Ret | 9 | 4 | ||
| 18 | Ligier JS P325 | 11 | 10 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 4 | ||
| 19 | Ligier JS P325 | 16 | 11 | Ret | 10 | 16 | 1 | ||
| 20 | Ligier JS P325 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 11 | 10 | 1 | ||
| 21 | Duqueine D09 | 13 | 11 | 0 | |||||
| 22 | Ligier JS P325 | 15 | 13 | Ret | 19 | 12 | 0 | ||
| 23 | Ligier JS P325 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 18 | Ret | 0 | ||
| 24 | Ligier JS P325 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 0 | |||
| Teams ineligible to score points | |||||||||
| Ligier JS P325 | 14 | ||||||||
| Pos. | Team | Car | BAR |
LEC |
LMS |
SPA |
SIL |
POR |
Points |
LMP3 Pro-Am Drivers' Championship
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Italics – Fastest Lap | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LMP3 Pro-Am Teams' Championship
| Pos. | Team | Car | BAR |
LEC |
LMS |
SPA |
SIL |
POR |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ligier JS P325 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 109 | ||
| 2 | Ligier JS P325 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 95 | ||
| 3 | Ligier JS P325 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 72 | ||
| 4 | Ligier JS P325 | 4 | Ret | 6 | 2 | 2 | 66 | ||
| 5 | Ligier JS P325 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 56 | ||
| 6 | Ligier JS P325 | 5 | 4 | DSQ | 3 | 7 | 47 | ||
| 7 | Ligier JS P325 | 3 | 6 | Ret | 7 | 9 | 33 | ||
| 8 | Ligier JS P325 | Ret | 7 | 7 | 6 | Ret | 29 | ||
| 9 | Ligier JS P325 | 7 | 8 | Ret | 5 | 20 | |||
| 10 | Ligier JS P325 | 9 | 9 | 9 | Ret | 10 | 18 | ||
| Teams ineligible to score points | |||||||||
| Ligier JS P325 | 2 | ||||||||
| Ligier JS P325 | 4 | ||||||||
| Ligier JS P325 | 9 | 8 | |||||||
| Ligier JS P325 | 8 | ||||||||
| Ligier JS P325 | Ret | ||||||||
| Ligier JS P325 | DSQ | ||||||||
| Pos. | Team | Car | BAR |
LEC |
LMS |
SPA |
SIL |
POR |
Points |
GT3 Drivers' Championship
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GT3 Teams' Championship
Notes
- Bukhantsov is Russian, but he competed under an Emirati licence at rounds 1–5 as Russian national emblems were banned by the FIA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ban was lifted on 13 August 2026.[13]
- The LMP3 class was originally won by the No. 85 R-ace GP entry of Danial Frost and Enzo Peugeot, but they were subsequently issued with a ten-second time penalty for a Full Course Yellow infringement. As a result, the No. 9 ANS Motorsport car inherited the win.[33]