Hypercar Performance – LMGT3 Performance
Closeness
Hypercar: The field was closely matched, with the cars becoming increasingly compressed when sustained race pace was considered.
LMGT3: The class was similarly tight, with particularly little separation across the longer race-pace samples.
Relative Performance– Hypercar
Cadillac set the benchmark throughout the race, with the #12 leading every lap-time measure and the #38 providing strong support over the longer samples. The #35 Alpine emerged as the closest sustained challenger, with the #009 Aston Martin, #15 BMW and Ferraris forming a tightly packed group behind. As the earlier class-spread summary showed, the field became increasingly compressed over longer runs, although Toyota, Peugeot and Genesis generally remained in the second half of the order.
Sectors
Cadillac’s advantage came primarily through its strength in the long middle sector, where both cars headed the order, while also remaining near the front in the other two sectors. Ferrari was strongest in Sector 1, led by the #51, while Peugeot performed particularly well in Sector 3 despite lacking the same complete-lap pace. Alpine and Aston Martin were competitive across multiple sectors, but neither matched Cadillac’s overall balance around the lap.
Speed Trap
Ferrari produced the strongest sustained speed-trap performance, particularly through the #51 and #83, with Toyota also consistently near the front. Cadillac recorded the highest outright peak through the #12, but its longer-run speed figures were lower in the order.
The sector rankings did not correlate closely with the speed-trap order, particularly in Sector 3. However, this does not necessarily indicate differences in cornering performance alone: the result may also reflect the trap’s position, varying lift-and-coast strategies, energy deployment and traffic or slipstream effects.
Drivers
Will Stevens was the clear individual benchmark, setting the strongest lap averages while completing by far the most laps of any Hypercar driver. Jack Aitken, Charles Milesi, Marco Sørensen and Frédéric Makowiecki were among the strongest drivers over their fastest representative laps, while Harry Tincknell led the #007 Aston Martin effort.
After Stevens, the drivers completing the most laps were Harry Tincknell, Marco Sørensen, Alex Riberas and Tom Gamble. This meant the Aston Martin crews placed unusually large shares of their races in the hands of individual drivers, whereas most other teams distributed their running more evenly.
Relative Performance– LMGT3
The #61 Mercedes-AMG set the clearest overall benchmark, with Maxime Martin’s pace placing it at the front across both the quickest and more sustained laps.
The leading BMW, Porsche, McLaren, Lexus and Ford entries were closely grouped behind, while the spread widened mainly among the slower laps rather than at the sharp end of the performance curves.
Sectors
Mercedes-AMG’s #61 combined the strongest performance in Sectors 1 and 3, confirming that its advantage was spread across different parts of the lap. Porsche was particularly strong through Sector 2, with both cars heading that ranking, while Ford performed well in Sectors 1 and 3 but lost ground through the middle sector. BMW also showed good Sector 3 performance, while the remaining manufacturers were generally more mixed across the lap.
Speed Trap
The #61 Mercedes-AMG also led the sustained speed-trap measures, although the wider relationship between trap speed and sector performance was weak. Ford was among the quickest through Sector 3 despite sitting much lower in the longer-run speed rankings, while the #23 Aston Martin ranked near the front in sustained trap speed without matching that position in the sector tables. As with Hypercar, this may reflect the trap’s location, lift-and-coast strategy, energy use, traffic and slipstream rather than simply each car’s straight-line capability.
Drivers
Maxime Martin was the standout driver, leading all of the representative lap-average measures. Augusto Farfus, Ayhancan Güven, Marvin Kirchhöfer, José María López and Ben Tuck formed the next group of strongest performers, with Richard Lietz and Charlie Eastwood also showing competitive sustained pace.
Lin Hodenius completed the most laps and is awarded ironman, followed by Ben Tuck. Thomas Fleming and Eric Powell were next, with Francesco Castellacci and Ian James also completing particularly large shares of their teams’ running.
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