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#6hImola 2026 sees Darren Leung, Sean Gelael & Augusto Farfus reunite at @followWRT and @BMWMotorsport. The trio delivered the marque's best result in #WEC at this race two years ago, claiming BMW's first victory in the series, and WRT's first in LMGT3. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

7 - @ToyotaRacingWEC #7's @Mikeconway26, @kamuikobayashi & @nyckdevries claimed their first #WEC victory as a trio at #6hImola 2024, and they also won the most-recent race at Bahrain 2025. Imola 2026 debuts the marque's new Hypercar, the TR010 HYBRID. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

1 - With the 2026 #WEC season starting at #6hImola, @FerrariHypercar will be the first reigning overall world champions to begin a title defence on home soil; at a venue where it won in 2025 no-less. 🇮🇹 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

Genesis becomes the #WEC's newest manufacturer, joining the Hypercar grid for 2026. In series history, only one marque never finished a race with any of its entries, in any class - Nissan. Five cars entered, five retirements. 📸: NISMO

36 - @ToyotaRacingWEC's @BrendonHartley and @kamuikobayashi continue their streak of competing in every #WEC Hypercar race, at #6hImola 2026, in the class's 36th outing. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

125 - @Heart_Of_Racing's podium at the 2025 season-finale in Bahrain was Aston Martin's 125th podium finish in #WEC across the GTE Pro, GTE Am and LMGT3 classes combined, as the 3rd marque to reach this milestone, after Ferrari and Porsche. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

2026 will be the first #WEC season since 2017 to start in the month of April, and the 6th ever, after Silverstone’s run of five from 2013.

#6hImola will host the opening round of the 2026 #WEC season, with Italy becoming the 5th different country to stage a season-opener. 2026 will be the first campaign to start in Europe since Belgium in 2021. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

4 - As full-time #WEC teammates, Ferrari stalwarts @JamesCalado51 & @Ale_PierGuidi have a 50% championship-rate across their eight seasons together 🤩 GTE Pro in 2017, 2021 and 2022, Hypercar in 2025. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

41 - Genesis is the 41st different brand name to be represented in #WEC, and the 4th beginning with the letter 'G', after Gibson, Ginetta and Glickenhaus. 📸: @MagmaRacing

#Qatar1812KM 2026 is the 4th #WEC race to occur on the 28th day of a month. Corvette has won all three; by Larbre Competition at Shanghai 2012, before two by @OfficialTFSport - Qatar and Fuji 2025.

4 - @FerrariHypercar (📸) #51 achieved four podium finishes en-route to the world titles in #WEC 2025. Four podiums by the overall world drivers' champions is the second-fewest in history, ahead of only 2016's three podiums by Porsche LMP1 Team #1.

9 - With the withdrawal of the Porsche 963, and the Toyota GR010 HYBRID replaced by a new model, the Hypercar field in #WEC 2026 features the seven-win Ferrari 499P, one-win Cadillac V-Series.R and one-win Alpine A424 as its race-winning competitors. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

6x - In the #WEC LMP1 era, only four races featured 10 or more cars in the top class. #Qatar1812KM 2026 will be the 24th-consecutive Hypercar race to feature 10+ cars. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

3 - Joining @Heart_Of_Racing in 2026, @jonnyadam will be the second driver to race for @AMR_Official in all three #WEC GT classes (GTE Pro, GTE Am, LMGT3), after fellow GTE Pro, GTE Am and Le Mans race-winner @Marco_sorensen. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

23 - @Heart_Of_Racing will run the number 23 on an Aston Martin in #WEC 2026, the first time this number has been used since also by the Anglo-American entwined United Autosports USA at Le Mans 2023. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

3 - Genesis GMR-001 debuts in #WEC at #Qatar1812KM 2026. @Oreca's first two Hypercar class debuts ended with P2 overall by the grandfathered A480 at Spa 2021, before the A424s finished P7 & P11 at Qatar 2024. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

3 - For the second consecutive edition, three @amgmotorsport (📸) will feature in LMGT3 at #LeMans24, with @IronLynx_ fielding a Team Qatar car. Abdulla Al-Khelaifi will be the first driver from Qatar to compete in a #WEC race.

10 - The @Oreca 07 will contest its 10th edition of #LeMans24 in 2026, with 19 of the legendary model competing in LMP2. At Le Mans, the Oreca 07 has a 96% podium rate in the LMP2 class since its debut (26 of a possible 27 places). 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

#LeMans24 2026 will feature just two Porsche cars, the fewest in the #WEC era (previous low of 7 in 2012, 2013 & 2025) Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3 is undefeated at La Sarthe since its debut in 2024. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI