2026 Season
Rules
Class definitions, regulation envelopes, scoring, and the bits that change year over year. Everything below is from public FIA / ACO documentation.
Top class. Two homologation paths competing under one BoP umbrella.
- LMH
- Le Mans Hypercar — bespoke chassis + bespoke ICE. Ferrari 499P, Toyota TR010, Peugeot 9X8, Aston Martin Valkyrie.
- LMDh
- Le Mans Daytona h — manufacturer's ICE on a spec chassis (Multimatic / Oreca / Ligier / Dallara) and spec Bosch hybrid kit. Cadillac, BMW, Alpine, Genesis.
Built on the Group GT3 platform. Two-class WEC since 2024 (replaced LMGTE).
- Driver lineup
- Pro / Am rules — at least one Bronze or Silver driver per car, varying by season.
- Tires
- Single supplier (Goodyear) — same compounds as LMP2 to neutralize tire as a performance variable.
- Min weight
- 1030 kg LMH and LMDh share the floor
- Max combined power
- 500 kW ≈ 670 hp (ICE + ERS)
- Front-axle ERS
- ≥ 190 km/h Hybrid only deploys above this speed
- ICE displacement
- — Open. 2.6 L V6 (Peugeot) to 6.5 L V12 (Aston) on the grid.
- Aero
- Single map One configuration per car after homologation; no track-specific bodywork.
- ERS mandate
- From 2026 Required for any newly homologated car going forward.
BoP is set in two phases. Pre-season: cars are simulated and wind-tunnel-tested at Windshear with a target performance window. Per-round: weight, max-power, and energy-per-stint adjustments are applied based on the most recent races.
From 2026 the FIA stopped publishing the per-round table. Numbers are now shared only with the competing teams — the stated rationale is that BoP figures without the underlying homologation data lead to outside misinterpretation. There is no public source for the actual settings.
Cars carrying championship form into a round are weighted up; the lower-scoring rivals stay at base weight. The handicap is absorbed into the same private BoP table, so the per-car split isn't public.
Le Mans is exempt. Endurance week stands on its own — handicap is paused so the crown jewel of the calendar isn't decided by mid-season standings.
| Race length | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | P7 | P8 | P9 | P10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 6 h | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Endurance (24 h, 8 h, 1812 km) | 38 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
Endurance table applies at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 8 Hours of Bahrain, and the Qatar 1812 km. Pole position adds +1 to every driver of the pole-sitting car.
- Stage 1 · Qualifying — open to all cars in the class. Top times on the board determine who advances.
- Stage 2 · Hyperpole — top 10 (Hypercar) and top 8 (LMGT3) advance for a fresh shootout. Pole sitter takes the championship-points bonus and the right side of the grid.
Cars that don't advance start in their stage-1 order behind the Hyperpole field.
- 24 Hours of Le Mans24 h
- Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain8 h
- Qatar 1812 km≈ 10 h
- Imola, Spa, São Paulo, COTA, Fuji6 h
The LMH and LMDh frameworks were originally written through 2027 / 2028. In 2024 the FIA, ACO, and IMSA jointly extended both regulation sets through 2032 — twelve years for LMH, ten for LMDh — to give manufacturers a stable runway and avoid a repeat of the late-2010s LMP1 collapse. There has been informal talk of a single converged platform for the next cycle, but nothing committed.