With the summer time break over, the chase for the World Endurance Championship titles resumes with the Lone Star Le Mans on 4-6 September, because the main gamers within the prime endurance sequence take to the observe in Austin for a 6-hour race.
Circuit of The Americas opens the second half of the 2026 season, and in Texas there’ll clearly be loads of curiosity to see how issues develop within the Hypercar class, the place BMW and Toyota are battling for the lead, pursued by Ferrari, which has no intention of giving up and not using a struggle.
Naturally, the highlight will even be on native favorite Cadillac, which after the bitter tablet swallowed in Sao Paulo is raring for redemption with a V-Collection.R that has proven itself to be extra aggressive in varied conditions. For that reason, the Basic Motors model has chosen to name up native hero Ricky Taylor, to whom it is going to entrust the wheel of the #12 rather than Alex Lynn, who will return for the ultimate two rounds of the yr.
Genesis Magma Racing, in the meantime, was at COTA in current weeks for an necessary growth check session with its GMR-001. As soon as the race is over, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Korean model’s crew will be part of Ferrari and Aston Martin for additional personal assessments, with the latter two producers having just lately begun engaged on evolutions of their respective 499P and Valkyrie for 2027.
Within the LMGT3 class, this can be a massively necessary occasion for Corvette Racing, at the moment main with the TF Sport’s #33 Z06 GT3.R pushed by Jonny Edgar, and with the will to carry out properly in entrance of its house crowd.
Clearly, no person simply stand by. The #92 Porsche-Manthey of reigning champions Riccardo Pera and Richard Lietz is 27 factors behind the Corvette, whereas it is going to even be value maintaining a tally of BMW-WRT, Ferrari-AF Corse and Lexus-ASP, in addition to the Ford-Proton entries backed by the house crowd.
Basic view
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THE SCHEDULE
Observe motion begins on Friday with the primary two free apply classes, each lasting 90 minutes, as all the time helpful to arrange each the assault on Hyperpole and Sunday’s race.
On Saturday, there would be the typical remaining 60-minute free apply session earlier than qualifying, break up by giving the LMGT3s observe time first after which persevering with with the Hypercar session.
On Sunday, Lone Star Le Mans will begin at lunchtime, with the race concluding late within the night after six hours of motion.
So let’s take a look at the schedule to observe all of the observe motion.
Occasion
Date
13:00
COTA – Free Apply 1
COTA – Free Apply 2
COTA – Free Apply 3
COTA – Qualifying – LMGT3
COTA – Hyperpole – LMGT3
COTA – Qualifying – HYPERCAR
COTA – Hyperpole – HYPERCAR
COTA – Race
Lone Star Le Mans – Session timings in CDT (-5 GMT)
FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER
Free Apply 1: 11:30-13:00
Free Apply 2: 16:00-17:30
SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
Free Apply 3: 11:00-12:00
LMGT3 Qualifying: 15:00-15:12
LMGT3 Hyperpole: 15:20-15:30
Hypercar Qualifying: 15:40-15:52
Hypercar Hyperpole: 16:00-16:10
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
Partenza
Foto di: Andreas Beil
FIA WEC 2026: easy methods to watch Lone Star Le Mans
The complete World Endurance Championship might be watched on Eurosport in most components of Europe, and MotorTrend and HBO+ in North America.
The championship has additionally launched the brand-new FIAWEC+ web site and app, which additionally contains Dwell Timing supplied by official timekeeper Al Kamel.
As is the case with each spherical apart from Le Mans, Free Apply 1 and a couple of is not going to be broadcast reside on TV, however each classes might be adopted by way of official timing.
Dwell protection begins with Free Apply 3 reside.
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