BMW leads the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship after a stunning one-two finish last time out at Spa-Francorchamps, but Ferrari and Toyota are hot on the Bavarian brand’s heels. Preview the forthcoming 94th edition of the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans (10-14 June) and find out how to watch all of the action live.
BMW heads to Le Mans as championship leader, but Ferrari and Toyota are right behind – and the Circuit de la Sarthe has a habit of shaking up the order.
24 Hours of Le Mans – at a glance
The 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship has already delivered its first major twist. At Spa-Francorchamps, BMW M Team WRT produced an emphatic statement, taking a historic one-two finish to claim the German manufacturer’s first victory in the Hypercar era.
René Rast, Robin Frijns and Sheldon van der Linde led home their team-mates to leave the Ardennes with BMW sitting seven points clear of Toyota and 17 ahead of Ferrari in the chase for the coveted crown.
Imola winner Toyota fought hard for a podium in Belgium but ultimately had to settle for a double points finish, slipping to second in the standings as a result. Ferrari’s #50 car recovered brilliantly from a disappointing qualifying to round out the rostrum at Spa, keeping the Italian marque well within reach of the summit. Three manufacturers separated by fewer than 20 points. Now, all roads lead to Le Mans – where everything is susceptible to change.
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is not just the centrepiece of the FIA World Endurance Championship calendar. It is the race that defines seasons, breaks hearts and builds reputations that last decades. What happened at Imola and Spa matters less here. Le Mans asks different questions, and outright pace is not always the answer.
Ferrari knows this better than most. The Prancing Horse is hunting a fourth straight success at the Circuit de la Sarthe – a run of dominance that would cement its place in modern Le Mans folklore. After the #50 499P demonstrated its resilience at Spa, the ever-enthusiastic tifosi will arrive in northern France with real belief, even if the points table currently tells a different story.
Toyota, meanwhile, has unfinished business. The Japanese carmaker opened proceedings at Imola with the confidence of a title contender, only for BMW’s Spa performance to complicate the picture. At Le Mans, where Toyota triumphed on five consecutive occasions from 2018 to 2022 but has not reached the top step of the rostrum since, the pressure to convert that potential into victory is as strong as it has ever been.
And then there is BMW. Arriving as championship leader for the first time in the Hypercar era, Team WRT will face the full weight of expectation across 24 hours – around a circuit where consistency matters as much as raw speed, and where a single mechanical failure can undo hours of painstaking work.
Watch the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2026 live on FIAWEC+, the official streaming home of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Every session of race week – from Free Practice through Qualifying and Hyperpole to the full 24-hour race – will be streamed live and on-demand, ad-free, so you never have to choose between watching and waiting.
With live on-board cameras, live timing and full race replays, FIAWEC+ brings you closer to Le Mans than any broadcast can. Thirty-nine on-board cameras across the Hypercar, LMP2 and LMGT3 fields, Live Timing Pro and real-time race data put you at the heart of every strategy call, every overtake and every moment that shapes the result. Whether you are following the Hypercar title fight, tracking the LMGT3 battles through the night or re-living the decisive final hour on-demand, FIAWEC+ keeps you up-to-speed from lights-out right the way through to the chequered flag.
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