Hypercar Performance – LMGT3 Performance
Closeness
Hypercar’s spread stayed around a quarter of a second, while LMGT3 sat closer to four-tenths and widened further over the long-run sample.
Relative Performance– Hypercar
The good old Top 10 and Top 60%, with bonus Top 20%.
BMW had the strongest overall race pace. The #20 BMW was the benchmark across the longer averages, leading the Top 10, Top 34 and Top 62 lap averages at 2:04.560, 2:05.041 and 2:05.392 respectively. The #15 BMW backed that up as the second-best BMW, only 0.34% off on the Top 62 average, giving BMW the best combined make-level pace.
Alpine, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Peugeot and Toyota were tightly packed behind. The best Alpine, Ferrari, Aston Martin and Toyota entries were all within roughly 0.5% of the BMW benchmark on the Top 62 average, with Alpine #35, Ferrari #50, Aston Martin #009/#007 and Toyota #8 all in the main performance group. Cadillac showed strong single-lap and Top 10 pace, but its longer-run averages spread more, especially between the #12 and #38. Genesis was the weakest make on sustained race pace, with both cars at the back of the Top 62 spread and the #17 around 0.81% off the best Top 62 average.
Sectors
Aston Martin was strongest in Sector 1, with the #009 and #007 heading that ranking at 34.397s and 34.420s. BMW was also strong in S1, with the #20 third, while Peugeot #93 and Ferrari #50 were close behind, showing that the first sector was very compressed across the leading makes.
BMW’s main advantage came in the rest of the lap. The #20 BMW led Sector 2 at 58.867s and Sector 3 at 31.517s, giving it the clearest all-round sector profile. Genesis #19 was second in S2, but its weaker S1 and S3 kept it from matching the best race pace. Alpine and Toyota were particularly competitive in S3, with Alpine #35 second and Toyota #7 third, while Ferrari and Cadillac sat in the leading group without owning a clear sector advantage.
Speed Trap
Peugeot had the standout straight-line number, with the #93 recording the best trap speed at 377.6 kph, which looks like an outlier compared with the rest of the field. On more representative averages, Peugeot #93 also led the Top 10 speed average at 319.7 kph, but Ferrari was strongest over the broader speed samples: Ferrari #50 led the Top 34 and Top 62 speed averages at 313.5 kph and 310.6 kph.
Aston Martin #007 was also very strong on speed consistency, leading the 62–34 speed average at 315.0 kph, suggesting it retained good speed deeper into the ranked sample. BMW was competitive but not dominant in the traps, with the #15 and #20 both in the low-to-mid 310s on the broader averages. Toyota and Cadillac were generally weaker on top speed, especially Cadillac #12 and Toyota #8, while Genesis sat mid-pack on longer speed averages despite not converting that into the best lap-time pace.
Drivers
Robin Frijns, Sheldon van der Linde and René Rast combined to make the #20 BMW the race-pace reference, with van der Linde setting the car’s best lap at 2:04.391, Frijns producing the best Top 10 average among the #20 drivers at 2:04.875, and the car leading the overall longer-run averages. Stoffel Vandoorne set the fastest driver lap of the race at 2:04.177 in the #93 Peugeot, but Peugeot’s longer-run pace did not quite match BMW’s.
Marco Sørensen was one of the strongest individual performers, completing 90 laps, the most of any listed driver, and also delivering a strong Top 60 average of 2:06.295 in the #009 Aston Martin. Harry Tincknell also had a heavy workload with 83 laps in the #007 Aston Martin. Among the longer-run driver averages, Sørensen, Tincknell, Kevin Magnussen, and the BMW #20 drivers were among the most competitive, while several quick single laps from Peugeot, Cadillac and Ferrari were not matched by the same level of sustained make-leading pace.
Lead battle – gaps and stops
Relative Performance– LMGT3
Due to the nature of the Pro-Am category we see a great variation, especially intra-team.
McLaren had the strongest overall LMGT3 race pace. The #10 Garage 59 McLaren topped the Top 10, Top 34 and Top 62 averages, with the #58 sister car also near the front, making McLaren the clearest benchmark over both short and longer runs. Ferrari was very close on peak pace — the #21 Vista AF Corse car set the fastest race lap at 2:18.281 — but its averages faded slightly compared with the best McLaren.
Aston Martin, Porsche, Corvette, Mercedes-AMG and Lexus were tightly grouped behind. On Top 34 averages, the best Porsche #92, Aston Martin #27, Corvette #34, Mercedes #61 and Lexus #87 were all within roughly three tenths of each other. BMW and Ford were a little further back on sustained pace, although Ford’s #88 was stronger than the #77 and BMW’s #32 was clearly ahead of the #69. The Top 62 spread shows McLaren still best at 2:19.845, with the main chasing group mostly from 2:20.0–2:20.7, so the class was close but not completely compressed.
Sectors
The sectors show why McLaren was so strong. The #10 McLaren was second in S1, second in S2, and fastest in S3, while the #58 was also third in S1, third in S2, and second in S3. That gave Garage 59 the most complete sector profile across the lap.
Porsche #92 was fastest in S1 and third in S3, but only fifth in S2, while Ferrari #21 was fastest in S2 but only 17th in S1 and 11th in S3. That explains why Ferrari could produce the best single lap but was less dominant in the averages. Aston Martin #27 was consistently strong, ranking fourth in S1, fourth in S2 and sixth in S3. Corvette’s sector performance was solid rather than outstanding, while BMW’s sector rankings were generally lower, matching its weaker race pace.
Speed Trap
Corvette was the speed-trap standout. The #33 and #34 Corvettes led the Top 10, Top 34 and Top 62 speed averages, with the #34 also reaching 270.9 kph and the #33 producing the best Top 10 average at 269.3 kph. Porsche was also very strong in a straight line, with the #91 recording the highest single speed at 271.6 kph and both Porsches sitting near the top of the speed averages.
McLaren’s pace was not built on outright top speed. The #10, despite being the race-pace reference, was only mid-pack in the speed trap averages, which suggests its advantage came from lap efficiency rather than straight-line speed. Ferrari was the weakest on the speed table, with the #21 last on Top 10 and Top 34 averages despite having the fastest single lap of the race. Aston Martin and Lexus sat in the middle, while Mercedes-AMG and Ford varied by car.
Drivers
Alessio Rovera was the quickest driver on single-lap pace with a 2:18.281 in the #21 Ferrari, and also had the best Top 10 driver average at 2:18.999. Thomas Fleming was extremely strong in the #10 McLaren, leading the Top 30 driver average at 2:19.891, which supports the car’s race-long pace advantage. Marvin Kirchhöfer and Finn Gehrsitz also kept the McLarens near the front, giving Garage 59 strong depth across its line-ups.
Jonny Edgar did the most laps, completing 68 laps in the #33 Corvette, and also had the best Top 60 driver average shown at 2:23.222. Several drivers completed around 50–53 laps, including Thomas Fleming, Finn Gehrsitz, Riccardo Pera, Hadriend David, Matthew Cressoni, François Hériau, Stefano Gattuso, Yasser Shahin, Martin Berry, Anthony McIntosh, and Gray Newell. At the other end, Lin Hodenius only completed 2 laps, so the #79 Mercedes-AMG driver sample is not comparable.
