The 2026 WEC season will be brought to a close this weekend with the 6 Hours of Monza, a race slated for the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Italy. TOYOTA RACING will sign off a year in which it has already secured the World Constructors’ Championship and has secured, for one of its teams, the Drivers’ Championship after the one-two at the last round in Barcelona.
Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa won the Spanish leg of the World Endurance Championship and head to the championship decider leading the standings, with a 17-point margin over Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, and Nyck de Vries, the runners-up. Only these two teams hold a shot at the title.
A fifth place by the championship-leading trio and responsible for the TR010 HYBRID number 8 would secure the world title, which would be Buemi, Hartley and Hirakawa’s third, should they clinch it, repeating the feats of 2022 and 2023. Meanwhile, the team behind car number 7 must erase the 17-point gap to car 8. Conway and Kobayashi are chasing their third title, while De Vries contends for his first.
Regardless of the result, the 6 Hours of Monza will mark the end of a remarkable season for TOYOTA RACING, which will conclude the debut year of the TR010 HYBRID with the two world titles this year in the WEC, in addition to four wins already, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, won by Conway, Kobayashi and De Vries.
The event will also mark Conway’s farewell from full-time racing. The driver will be making, at Monza, his 86th WEC start with TOYOTA RACING, having accumulated 20 victories to date, including two editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and 47 podiums. In Monza, the Brit has won in 2021 and 2023, in addition to four podiums.
The schedule for the final round of the WEC will begin this Friday with two free practice sessions, followed on Saturday by one more practice session and the qualifying. The 6 Hours of Monza will get underway from 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, broadcast on BandSports and YouTube.
