Toyota leads the FIA World Endurance Championship after triumphing in last month’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, but BMW is right in the fight, reigning title-holder Ferrari is still searching for its first win of the season and Cadillac – victorious in Brazil last year – is targeting a return to the top step of the podium. Preview the Rolex 6 Hours of São Paulo and find out how to watch live.
The 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship reaches its mid-point with the title fight blown wide open. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Toyota produced the performance of the season so far, as the #7 TR010 Hybrid piloted by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries charged from deep on the grid to secure a stunning sixth outright victory for the Japanese marque at La Sarthe. With the sister #8 car rounding out the rostrum, the result vaulted Toyota to the top of the Hypercar Manufacturers’ table.
BMW, however, is refusing to lie down. René Rast, Robin Frijns and Sheldon van der Linde backed up their breakthrough Spa success with second place at Le Mans, keeping the Bavarian brand firmly in the hunt. Defending world champion Ferrari endured a bruising weekend in France, and arrives in Brazil with ground to make up. Toyota leads the way on 132 points, 36 clear of BMW, with Ferrari a further stretch back on 62. Now, the championship heads overseas for the first time in 2026, and Interlagos has a habit of springing surprises and re-writing the script.
The Rolex 6 Hours of São Paulo is the first flyaway race of the season and marks the exact halfway point of the eight-round campaign – the moment when momentum either builds or breaks. The Autódromo José Carlos Pace is the shortest circuit on the calendar at 4.309km – a tight, undulating, anti-clockwise ribbon of 15 corners where track position is everything and there is nowhere to hide. What worked at Le Mans counts for little here. Interlagos asks its own questions, and the answers rarely come from outright speed alone.
Nobody knows that better than Cadillac. This is where the American manufacturer scored its maiden FIA WEC victory in 2025 – a commanding one-two led home by the #12 crew – and Will Stevens and Norman Nato return to the scene of that triumph desperate to convert 2026’s front-running pace into a first podium of the year. Interlagos is Cadillac country, and the championship’s dark horse comes into the event with genuine belief.
For Toyota, the mission is simple – keep the ball rolling. The Japanese giant has won two of the previous five FIA WEC races staged at Interlagos – more than any other manufacturer – and arrives in Brazil with the wind in its sails. But leading the championship at the halfway mark carries its own weight, with every rival now measuring itself against the TR010 Hybrid.
BMW has quietly become the model of consistency – a win at Spa-Francorchamps, a runner-up finish at Le Mans and a squad that no longer looks like a work in progress. Ferrari, meanwhile, cannot afford another quiet weekend; Interlagos has not been kind to the 499P in the Hypercar era, but champions are defined by how they respond to adversity. Expect the Prancing Horse to be hungry.
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