That’s it folks, end of the year.
Hypercar Performance – LMGT3 Performance
Hourly Chart
Lap Chart
Closeness
It speaks wonders to the professionalism of the teams that they keep it so consistent, and also to the drivers who, mostly, all perform at a higher standard.
I get the feeling that as this rule set beds in there is some convergence with the consistency of performance, how much extra performance teams can gain, and how the BoP adjustments play out will normalize with time. Notably a large difference has been seen across the two Porsche teams. What remains are circuit variations and car subtle car development.
Relative Performance– Hypercar
The good old Top 10 and Top 60%, with bonus Top 20%.
The trends of practice carried into the rare. Toyota was fast including the long stints. The small lap average was helped by them being able to manage tyres well and some key moments when they had four new tyres and some clear track to put them to use. See the spread chart, it is a small gap, but the consistency shows.
Aston Martin had quick pace and noteably a stint where it was quicker than Toyotas despite tyre parity. It was Ferrari that grew stronger as the race went on.
Peugeot had a strong race. BMW had quite a difference between the two cars. Cadillac had the odd moment, but overall didn’t have the pace and Porsche while only being 0.53% realistically couldn’t challenge.
Sectors
For Toyota it was strength in each sector.
Speed Trap
There is another hint at the multi-dimensional nature of car performance and the task in balancing. Porsche #6 ended top here, and we’ve often heard discontent at the inability of Porsche to match others here, but its overall pace wasn’t there.
Drivers
This can be dependent on when you had your stint. Although of course a strong driver is likely to get favoured here too.
De Vries super strong as we know, although it was Conway with the fastest lap using those new tyres to garb that time. Rivers’s did too, getting the best Top 10.
Ironman goes to Sorensen.
Relative Performance– LMGT3
Due to the nature of the Pro-Am category we see a great variation, especially intra-team.
They weren’t in the race for the win, but over the averages Manthey was strongest. They are 2025 champions and this is why.
Sectors
It was a race between #87 and #61, with #27 joining in later and it shows here. #92 lurks.
Speed Trap
This wasn’t typical, but demonstrates there is more than one way to be quick – compare the positions of #87 and #61.
Drivers
Ironman in GT goes to Barrichello. He loves being in the car. #27’s charge was led by Drudi
