The Rolex 6 Hours of São Paulo tightened the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) title fights as the season reached its halfway point.
BMW M Team WRT claimed its second Hypercar victory of the campaign through Kevin Magnussen, Raffaele Marciello and Dries Vanthoor. Their success, combined with Toyota’s failure to score, reduced the Japanese manufacturer’s championship advantage from 36 points after Le Mans to only five.
René Rast and Robin Frijns also moved level with Toyota’s Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Nyck de Vries at the top of the Hypercar Drivers’ standings. Meanwhile, Racing Team Turkey by TF won in LMGT3, although the No. 33 TF Sport Corvette retained comfortable leads in both class championships.
2026 WEC Hypercar Manufacturers’ standings after Round 4 at São Paulo
BMW made the largest gain in the Hypercar Manufacturers’ Championship after converting its strong race pace into victory at Interlagos.
Magnussen moved the No. 15 BMW into contention during the opening stint before problems during Cadillac’s first pit stops opened the door for BMW. Marciello maintained the challenge through the middle of the race, while Vanthoor defeated James Calado’s No. 51 Ferrari during the final phase.
The No. 15 crew collected 25 points for victory. Meanwhile, the No. 20 BMW added six Manufacturers’ Championship points because the manufacturers’ classification considers the marque’s two highest-finishing nominated cars. Therefore, BMW scored 31 points and increased its total to 127.
Toyota retained the championship lead despite leaving São Paulo without any points. The No. 7 Toyota finished 12th after several penalties, while contact and lengthy repairs left the No. 8 car 12 laps behind the winner.
Consequently, Toyota remains on the 132 points it held after winning the double-points 24 Hours of Le Mans. BMW now sits only five points behind after outscoring Toyota by 31 points in Brazil.
Ferrari strengthened third place with 26 points. The No. 51 crew finished second, while the No. 50 Ferrari contributed further points after Robin Frijns received a post-race penalty for his late collision with Antonio Fuoco.
Cadillac also made a significant gain. Will Stevens claimed the Hypercar pole-position bonus before the No. 12 and No. 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA entries finished third and fourth. The 28-point return moved Cadillac ahead of Alpine and into fourth place.
Aston Martin moved to within one point of Alpine after both Valkyries finished inside the top nine. However, Peugeot and Genesis failed to score and remain seventh and eighth respectively.
Standings:
- Toyota — 132 pts
- BMW — 127 pts
- Ferrari — 88 pts
- Cadillac — 60 pts
- Alpine — 41 pts
- Aston Martin — 40 pts
- Peugeot — 15 pts
- Genesis — 6 pts
Toyota remains at the top, but São Paulo erased most of the advantage that it created at Le Mans. BMW has now won two of the opening four rounds and enters the second half of the season as Toyota’s closest challenger.
Ferrari sits 39 points behind BMW and 44 behind Toyota. Further back, Cadillac has created a 19-point advantage over Alpine, while only one point separates Alpine and Aston Martin.
2026 WEC Hypercar Drivers’ standings after Round 4
Rast and Frijns returned to the top of the Hypercar Drivers’ Championship despite losing two positions through a post-race penalty.
The No. 20 BMW initially crossed the line sixth. However, officials penalised Frijns following his late contact with Fuoco’s No. 50 Ferrari, which dropped the BMW crew to eighth.
Rast and Frijns still collected four points, increasing their total from 71 to 75. That score moved them level with Kobayashi, Conway and de Vries, who failed to score after finishing 12th in the No. 7 Toyota.
The official classification places Rast and Frijns first. Both leading crews have one victory, but the BMW pair also finished second at Le Mans, giving them the stronger countback result.
Sheldon van der Linde remains separately classified because he missed the opening round at Imola. He shares the No. 20 crew’s Spa victory, Le Mans second place and São Paulo points, placing him third with 65.
Pier Guidi, Giovinazzi and Calado moved from fifth to fourth after finishing second in Brazil. They now sit on 57 points, one ahead of the No. 8 Toyota crew of Brendon Hartley, Ryō Hirakawa and Sébastien Buemi.
Magnussen and Marciello made another substantial gain through their São Paulo victory. They climbed to sixth with 50 points, while Vanthoor sits seventh with 44 because he did not contest the opening round with the No. 15 crew.
Stevens and Norman Nato also moved forward after combining third place with the bonus point for pole. They hold eighth on 42 points, while Louis Delétraz remains separately classified on 26 after missing São Paulo.
Standings:
- BMW #20 — René Rast and Robin Frijns — 75 pts
- Toyota #7 — Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Nyck de Vries — 75 pts
- BMW #20 — Sheldon van der Linde — 65 pts
- Ferrari #51 — Alessandro Pier Guidi, Antonio Giovinazzi and James Calado — 57 pts
- Toyota #8 — Brendon Hartley, Ryō Hirakawa and Sébastien Buemi — 56 pts
- BMW #15 — Kevin Magnussen and Raffaele Marciello — 50 pts
- BMW #15 — Dries Vanthoor — 44 pts
- Cadillac #12 — Norman Nato and Will Stevens — 42 pts
- Ferrari #83 — Philip Hanson, Robert Kubica and Yifei Ye — 31 pts
- Aston Martin #007 — Harry Tincknell and Tom Gamble — 30 pts
- Ferrari #50 — Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen — 29 pts
- Alpine #35 — António Félix da Costa, Charles Milesi and Ferdinand Habsburg — 29 pts
- Cadillac #12 — Louis Delétraz — 26 pts
- Cadillac #38 — Earl Bamber and Sébastien Bourdais — 16 pts
- Cadillac #38 — Jack Aitken — 12 pts
- Aston Martin #007 — Ross Gunn — 8 pts
- Peugeot #93 — Nick Cassidy, Paul di Resta and Stoffel Vandoorne — 6 pts
- Genesis #17 — André Lotterer, Luis Felipe Derani and Mathys Jaubert — 4 pts
- Alpine #36 — Frédéric Makowiecki, Jules Gounon and Victor Martins — 4 pts
- Peugeot #94 — Loïc Duval, Malthe Jakobsen and Théo Pourchaire — 3 pts
- Aston Martin #009 — Alex Riberas and Marco Sørensen — 2 pts
- Genesis #19 — Daniel Juncadella, Mathieu Jaminet and Paul-Loup Chatin — 0 pts
- Aston Martin #009 — Roman De Angelis — 0 pts
The official standings separate drivers when they have not contested the same rounds, even when they have shared the same car during part of the season.
The tie at the top leaves the Hypercar Drivers’ Championship finely balanced. Only 19 points cover Rast and Frijns in first and the No. 8 Toyota crew in fifth.
Meanwhile, the No. 15 BMW drivers have moved into contention after their São Paulo victory. Magnussen and Marciello sit 25 points behind the leaders, while Vanthoor trails by 31 because he missed Imola.
2026 WEC LMGT3 Teams’ standings after Round 4 at São Paulo
TF Sport retained the LMGT3 Teams’ Championship lead after bringing the No. 33 Corvette home eighth.
The Le Mans-winning entry carried maximum success weight in Brazil and missed Hyperpole after Ben Keating finished 12th in the opening Qualifying session. Nevertheless, Jonny Edgar, Nicolás Varrone and Keating secured four points and increased the team’s total to 76.
The Bend Manthey moved from fifth to second after recording its third podium of the season. Yasser Shahin, Riccardo Pera and Richard Lietz finished third in the No. 92 Porsche, adding 15 points and taking the team to 49.
Team WRT’s No. 69 BMW also made a major gain. Anthony McIntosh, Parker Thompson and Daniel Harper finished second after Harper passed the No. 77 Proton Competition Ford during the final phase. The result lifted the crew from eighth to third with 43 points.
Racing Team Turkey by TF climbed from 13th to fourth after Peter Dempsey, Salih Yoluç and Charlie Eastwood won the class.
The No. 34 Corvette used a different driver strategy from most of its rivals. Yoluç started the race before handing the car to Bronze-rated Dempsey, while Eastwood completed the final stint and secured the victory.
The team now shares 43 points with the No. 69 BMW. However, Team WRT sits ahead because it has a victory and a second-place finish, while Racing Team Turkey’s next-best result carries fewer points.
VISTA AF Corse slipped from second to fifth after the No. 21 Ferrari finished ninth. Meanwhile, the No. 87 Akkodis ASP Team Lexus moved ahead of its sister car after taking seventh in Brazil.
Kobe Pauwels claimed the LMGT3 pole-position bonus for the No. 23 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin. However, the entry finished three laps behind the winner and failed to add race points.
Standings:
- Corvette #33 — TF Sport — 76 pts
- Porsche #92 — The Bend Manthey — 49 pts
- BMW #69 — Team WRT — 43 pts
- Corvette #34 — Racing Team Turkey by TF — 43 pts
- Ferrari #21 — VISTA AF Corse — 42 pts
- Lexus #87 — Akkodis ASP Team — 38 pts
- Lexus #78 — Akkodis ASP Team — 37 pts
- McLaren #10 — Garage 59 — 34 pts
- Aston Martin #23 — Heart of Racing Team — 33 pts
- Porsche #91 — Manthey DK Engineering — 30 pts
- BMW #32 — Team WRT — 22 pts
- Aston Martin #27 — Heart of Racing Team — 19 pts
- McLaren #58 — Garage 59 — 18 pts
- Ford #88 — Proton Competition — 14 pts
- Mercedes-AMG #61 — Iron Lynx — 9 pts
- Ford #77 — Proton Competition — 2 pts
- Ferrari #54 — VISTA AF Corse — 0 pts
- Mercedes-AMG #79 — Iron Lynx — 0 pts
The No. 33 Corvette retains the largest lead across the four FIA WEC championships. It sits 27 points ahead of The Bend Manthey despite adding only four points in São Paulo.
However, the battle behind TF Sport remains extremely close. Only 12 points separate the second-placed No. 92 Porsche and the seventh-placed No. 78 Lexus, while one point covers Team WRT, Racing Team Turkey and VISTA AF Corse in third, fourth and fifth.
2026 WEC LMGT3 Drivers’ standings after Round 4
Edgar moved into the outright lead of the LMGT3 Drivers’ standings after scoring four points with the No. 33 Corvette.
Nicky Catsburg shared the first three rounds with Edgar but did not contest São Paulo. Therefore, he remains second on 72 points, four behind his regular team-mate.
Keating also added four points and sits third with 54. He remains separately classified because an injury forced him to miss the opening two rounds at Imola and Spa.
Pera, Lietz and Shahin climbed to fourth through their third-place finish. Their 49 points place them six ahead of the two crews tied for fifth.
McIntosh, Harper and Thompson moved to 43 points after finishing second. Eastwood, Dempsey and Yoluç reached the same total through victory, but the BMW drivers hold fifth on countback because they also won the opening round at Imola.
Alessio Rovera, François Hériau and Simon Mann slipped to seventh after scoring two points with the No. 21 Ferrari. The No. 87 Lexus trio follows one point ahead of Hadrien David and Tom Van Rompuy from the sister No. 78 entry.
Gray Newell and Jonny Adam received the LMGT3 pole-position bonus earned by Pauwels and now hold 33 points. Pauwels remains separately classified on three because he only joined the No. 23 crew later in the season.
Standings:
- Corvette #33 — Jonny Edgar — 76 pts
- Corvette #33 — Nicky Catsburg — 72 pts
- Corvette #33 — Ben Keating — 54 pts
- Porsche #92 — Riccardo Pera, Richard Lietz and Yasser Shahin — 49 pts
- BMW #69 — Anthony McIntosh, Daniel Harper and Parker Thompson — 43 pts
- Corvette #34 — Charlie Eastwood, Peter Dempsey and Salih Yoluç — 43 pts
- Ferrari #21 — Alessio Rovera, François Hériau and Simon Mann — 42 pts
- Lexus #87 — Clemens Schmid, José María López and Petru Umbrărescu — 38 pts
- Lexus #78 — Hadrien David and Tom Van Rompuy — 37 pts
- Lexus #78 — Jack Hawksworth — 36 pts
- McLaren #10 — Antares Au, Marvin Kirchhöfer and Thomas Fleming — 34 pts
- Aston Martin #23 — Gray Newell and Jonny Adam — 33 pts
- Aston Martin #23 — Eduardo Barrichello — 30 pts
- Porsche #91 — Ayhancan Güven, James Cottingham and Timur Boguslavskiy — 30 pts
- Corvette #33 — Blake McDonald — 22 pts
- BMW #32 — Augusto Farfus, Darren Leung and Sean Gelael — 22 pts
- Aston Martin #27 — Ian James, Mattia Drudi and Zacharie Robichon — 19 pts
- McLaren #58 — Alexander West, Benjamin Goethe and Finn Gehrsitz — 18 pts
- Ford #88 — Giammarco Levorato, Logan Sargeant and Stefano Gattuso — 14 pts
- Mercedes-AMG #61 — Martin Berry, Maxime Martin and Rui Andrade — 9 pts
- Corvette #33 — Nicolás Varrone — 4 pts
- Aston Martin #23 — Kobe Pauwels — 3 pts
- Ford #77 — Ben Tuck, Eric Powell and Sebastian Priaulx — 2 pts
- Lexus #78 — Esteban Masson — 1 pt
- Ferrari #54 — Davide Rigon, Francesco Castellacci and Thomas Flohr — 0 pts
- Mercedes-AMG #79 — Johannes Zelger, Lin Hodenius and Matteo Cressoni — 0 pts
Edgar holds a four-point lead over Catsburg, although both drivers earned most of their points together in the No. 33 Corvette. Pera, Lietz and Shahin remain the closest drivers from a rival entry, 27 points behind Edgar.
However, the São Paulo podium brought the No. 92 Porsche, No. 69 BMW and No. 34 Corvette crews closer together. Only seven points separate fourth-placed Pera, Lietz and Shahin from Rovera, Hériau and Mann in seventh.
São Paulo tightens both title fights before Austin
The fourth round produced contrasting championship pictures across Hypercar and LMGT3.
Toyota still leads the Hypercar Manufacturers’ standings, but BMW reduced its deficit from 36 points to five with victory in São Paulo. The Drivers’ Championship sits even closer, with Rast and Frijns level on points with Kobayashi, Conway and de Vries.
Meanwhile, TF Sport remains firmly in control of LMGT3. The No. 33 Corvette leads the Teams’ Championship by 27 points, while Edgar holds the same advantage over the highest-placed drivers from another entry.
Nevertheless, São Paulo strengthened the chasing group. The Bend Manthey climbed to second, while Team WRT and Racing Team Turkey moved into a tie for third after completing the podium in Brazil.
The 2026 FIA WEC season resumes with the Lone Star Le Mans at Circuit of The Americas from 4 to 6 September. The six-hour race will use the standard points allocation as Toyota, BMW and the leading LMGT3 crews begin the second half of the championship.
