2026 6 Hours of Fuji
| Event information | |
|---|---|
| Round 6 of 8 in the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship | |
 | |
| Date | 27 September 2026 |
| Location | Oyama, Shizuoka |
| Venue | Fuji Speedway |
| Duration | 6 hours |
| Results | |
| Laps completed | 203 |
| Distance (km) | 926.29 |
| Distance (miles) | 575.51 |
| Hypercar | |
| Pole position | |
| Team |  Alpine Endurance Team |
| Drivers | Jules Gounon Victor Martins |
| Winners | |
| Team |  Toyota Racing |
| Drivers |  Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryō Hirakawa |
| LMGT3 | |
| Winners | |
| Team |  Team WRT |
| Drivers |  Augusto Farfus Sean Gelael Darren Leung |
The 2026 6 Hours of Fuji was an endurance sportscar racing event held on 27 September 2026, as the sixth of eight rounds of the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship. It was the thirteenth running of the event in its current format in the World Endurance Championship.
Entry list
[edit]The entry list consisted of 35 cars, with 17 in Hypercar and 18 in LMGT3.[1]
Schedule
[edit]| Date | Time (local: JST) | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, 25 September | 10:15 | Free Practice 1 |
| 14:30 | Free Practice 2 | |
| Saturday, 26 September | 09:30 | Free Practice 3 |
| 14:00 | Qualifying - LMGT3 | |
| 14:20 | Hyperpole - LMGT3 | |
| 15:00 | Qualifying - Hypercar | |
| 15:30 | Hyperpole - Hypercar | |
| Sunday, 27 September | 11:00 | Race |
| Source:[2] | ||
Practice
[edit]Three practice sessions were held: two were held on Friday, and one was held on Saturday. The sessions on Friday morning and Friday afternoon lasted 90 minutes, while the Saturday session 60 minutes.[2]
Practice 1
[edit]| Class | No. | Entrant | Driver | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hypercar | 8 | Toyota Racing |
Ryō Hirakawa |
1:29.694 |
| LMGT3 | 58 | Garage 59 |
 Finn Gehrsitz |
1:40.214 |
| Source:[3] | ||||
- Note: Only the fastest car in each class is shown.
Practice 2
[edit]| Class | No. | Entrant | Driver | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hypercar | 93 | Peugeot TotalEnergies |
 Mikkel Jensen |
1:29.495 |
| LMGT3 | 87 | Akkodis ASP Team |
 Clemens Schmid |
1:41.431 |
| Source:[4] | ||||
- Note: Only the fastest car in each class is shown.
Practice 3
[edit]| Class | No. | Entrant | Driver | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hypercar | 36 | Alpine Endurance Team |
Victor Martins |
1:40.594 |
| LMGT3 | 34 |  Racing Team Turkey by TF |
 Charlie Eastwood |
1:51.232 |
| Source:[5] | ||||
- Note: Only the fastest car in each class is shown.
Qualifying
[edit]Qualifying was scheduled to start at 14:00 JST on Saturday, with one twelve-minute qualifying session and one ten-minute hyperpole session per class, resulting in two qualifying and two hyperpole sessions in total.[2] Qualifying was cancelled due to adverse weather conditions and the grid was established based on the best times across all three practice sessions.[6]
Race
[edit]The race started at 11:00 JST on Sunday, and ran for six hours.[2]
Race results
[edit]Class winners are in bold and ‡.
Sources
[edit]- ↑ Klein, Jamie (24 September 2026). "Fuji Thursday Notebook". Sportscar365. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "6 HOURS OF FUJI TIMETABLE V1" (PDF). FIAWEC Alkamel. Alkamel Systems. 21 August 2026. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
- ↑ "FIA WEC – 6 Hours of Fuji Free Practice 1 – Final Classification by Driver Fastest Lap" (PDF). FIAWEC Alkamel. Alkamel Systems. 25 September 2026. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
- ↑ "FIA WEC – 6 Hours of Fuji Free Practice 2 – Final Classification by Driver Fastest Lap" (PDF). FIAWEC Alkamel. Alkamel Systems. 25 September 2026. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
- ↑ "FIA WEC – 6 Hours of Fuji Free Practice 3 – Final Classification by Driver Fastest Lap" (PDF). FIAWEC Alkamel. Alkamel Systems. 26 September 2026. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
- ↑ Kilbey, Stephen (26 September 2026). "Alpine Handed Fuji Pole After Weather Woes, Qualifying Cancelled". Dailysportscar. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- ↑ "FIA WEC – 6 Hours of Fuji Race – Final Classification" (PDF). FIAWEC Alkamel. Alakmel Systems. 27 September 2026. Retrieved 29 September 2026.