Next weekend’s 6 Hours of Fuji in Japan (26-28 September) will mark the 100th race in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s spectacular story so far. Ahead of this milestone event, here are some of the key figures from the 99 rounds held to-date...
That is the margin, in seconds – or, to put it another way, less than the blink of an eye – that separated the top two cars in FIA WEC’s closest-ever finish, which occurred in the GTE Pro category in Bahrain in 2017 as AF Corse left the opposition eating its desert dust.
In evidence of the series’ fiercely competitive nature, a number of victories have been decided by mere tenths-of-a-second, with the tightest overall result coming in 2017 at COTA, where Porsche celebrated a formation one-two finish in LMP1, while at the Texan track this season, United Autosports pipped Team WRT to LMGT3 class glory by a scant 0.256 seconds…
At Fuji in 2019, the #8 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing TS050 Hybrid crewed by Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and home hero Kazuki Nakajima became the first and – thus far – only car to top every practice session, qualify on pole position, lead every lap, set the fastest lap of the race and win overall.
The number of outright wins claimed by Sébastien Buemi, FIA WEC’s ‘record man’ and four times a world champion in the discipline’s top-flight. The Swiss star’s nearest competitors are current Toyota team-mates Brendon Hartley and Mike Conway, and all three will be eager to add to their tally on the Japanese manufacturer’s home turf this weekend, as they continue to chase their first victory of the 2025 campaign…
The number of marques that have competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship over the course of its twelve-and-a-half seasons to-date. Twenty-two of them have reached the highest step of the rostrum…
Of the major manufacturers, Porsche has won the most races in FIA WEC history, counting 71 in total – 21 overall victories (17 in LMP1; four in Hypercar), six in LMGT3, 20 in GTE Pro and 24 in GTE Am. Current world championship leader Ferrari is close behind on 63.
Only one car has ever sported the number 100 in an FIA World Endurance Championship race – Walkenhorst Motorsport’s GTE Am class Ferrari 488 GTE Evo in the 2023 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
No nation has produced more FIA WEC drivers than France, with a staggering 141 competitors proudly defending the colours of la tricolore over the years. The United Kingdom is next up on 131.
The total number of drivers to have competed in FIA WEC since the series’ inception back in 2012, representing some 61 different nationalities.
The biggest crowd ever to attend an FIA World Endurance Championship event poured through the gates at Le Mans earlier this year – all 332,000 of them – and they were treated to a Ferrari vs. Porsche duel for the ages.
The cumulative race distance covered in kilometres (3,649,731 miles) by the 3,544 cars to have participated in the championship to-date across all categories – LMP1, LMP2, GTE Pro, GTE Am, Garage 56, Hypercar and LMGT3. That equates to some 715,302 racing laps...
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