TOYOTA RACING, the most successful team in World Endurance Championship history, added another chapter to its storied run in the world’s premier endurance category last Sunday by winning the 6 Hours of Fuji, the sixth round of the 2026 season. The result represented none other than the manufacturer’s tenth victory at the Fuji round of the World Endurance Championship, and it also marked the team’s 17th win in the event, which has been contested since 1967.
This year’s triumph was achieved by the trio of Sebastian Buemi, Brendon Hartley, and Ryō Hirakawa, who opted for a bold strategy to seize the lead in the final stretch and clinch the victory by just half a second ahead of the runners-up. It was the team’s third win in six rounds, in addition to being the first win for the current car, the TR010 HYBRID, at the Japanese round of the championship.
“This is one of our best wins in recent times. I am very proud of this achievement, especially because it was completely unexpected in the final stretch of the race. The team made a great decision at the last pit stop, and that was enough to overtake all rivals. An incredible strategic move. And, of course, Ryō kept everyone behind him and made no mistakes under difficult conditions. Overall, it was an amazing victory,” Buemi celebrated.
Looking at the WEC era, the first triumph came in the championship’s very first year, in 2012. Buemi is a key piece in this sequence of ten wins, having first won in 2014, with teammate Anthony Davidson at that time. The Swiss driver would win the race again in 2017, 2019 and 2022, as well as this year, becoming, alongside Kazuki Nakajima, the driver with the most Fuji wins in the World Endurance Championship, always representing TOYOTA RACING.
Over the years, other drivers helped the manufacturer reach ten wins at Fuji, including Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway, both members of TOYOTA RACING.
Check the drivers who won for TOYOTA RACING at the 6 Hours of Fuji:
2012 – Alexander Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima
2013 – Alexander Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima
2014 – Sébastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson
2016 – Stéphane Sarrazin, Mike Conway and Kazuki Nakajima
2017 – Sébastien Buemi, Anthony Davidson and Kazuki Nakajima
2018 – Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López
2019 – Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Kazuki Nakajima
2022 – Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa
2023 – Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López
2026 – Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryō Hirakawa
The WEC returns on October 18 with the penultimate round of the season in Barcelona, Spain. The championship will conclude in Monza, Italy, on November 8.
