TF Sport and Corvette Racing reigned at Le Mans on Sunday as the team’s #33 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R of Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Ben Keating earned a hard-fought LMGT3 victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

First victory at the French endurance class for the Corvette GT3

It’s the first victory at the French endurance class for the Corvette GT3 and 10th for the Corvette Racing program since its first Le Mans win in 2001. A Corvette won Le Mans for the first time since 2023 when Catsburg and Keating won for the Corvette Racing team in the final year of the GTE Am class with a Corvette C8.R.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Le Mans 2026. Sunday late morning pit stop for leading #33 Corvette.

Starting 17th in LMGT3, the #33 Corvette team established itself as a contender early. After an ironman run in the race’s opening eight hours by Ben Keating – who completed his minimum of six hours driving with five stints and then four stints – Edgar and Catsburg surged to the front of the LMGT3 class by the time the sun rose over the Circuit de la Sarthe.

Jonny Edgar moved the #33 Corvette into the class lead for the first time in the race’s 10th during his second stint. Nicky Catsburg also led into the final third of the race by as much as three minutes before a safety car chopped that advantage to only a few seconds.

Edgar ended up being the driving force at the end of the race. He drove five consecutive stints and just under four hours to take the checkered flag for his first Le Mans victory. Catsburg won his second and Keating his third.

NICKY CATSBURG, #33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R – LMGTE WINNER: “If you get to write the story, you would write it this way. We had to come all the way from the back. We had to wait for Ben to heal and be back in shape. Nine weeks after he broke his elbow, so it’s an incredible result for us. A great, great day.

“First of all, the Corvette has been great to us first in 2023 and now today. For Ben to do all of his driving before Sunday with no mistakes, that was incredible. Then Jonny Edgar – the man with two first names! – if you asked me, he was man of the match. He had just crazy pace and he did five stints until the end. A big thank you to him as well. Having good teammates makes it a lot easier!”

(On Jonny Edgar) “What Jonny showed today was incredible. I feel like this is one of those races that could be a career-changing race. He was unbeatable today and he showed that it’s very nice to have teammates like that. It’s very cool for him. This always means we are doing well in the championship going to Sāo Paulo. You couldn’t ask for a better day than this!”

JONNY EDGAR, #33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R – LMGTE WINNER: “I knew we had a fighting chance because the car was feeling really good and we seemed pretty fast. I always knew we had a chance to win but in a 24-hour race you need so much to go right. You need some luck with safety cars or to also not be unlucky. There are a hundred things that could have gone wrong but we had a pretty perfect race, I would say. No mistakes, no contact, good pit stops the whole time. It was just a great race.

“The plan wasn’t to do five stints at the end. But I think I had to do at least three due to the drivetime rules and how much Nicky had done. I was going to do three but because of the way we did tires, it made sense to do four. Once I was already in for four, I may as well have stayed in again! So it went from two stints to five pretty quickly. But I felt good in the car and it was easy to drive, which changes a lot about how much effort is needed to drive. That made it easier over the 24 hours.”

BEN KEATING, #33 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R – LMGTE WINNER: “You always believe it can happen, absolutely. I don’t care how good your car or team is. You can’t come into a 24-hour race expecting to do well. You just have to do your job, and we had a perfect race… no penalties, no mistakes. The car is in pretty good shape, and that’s what you need to do to win this race.

“It’s so good to be with these guys. I enjoy Nicky. I’m super-proud of Jonny. To win with Corvette is really special again. But it’s even better to have my name on the side of it. In 2023 when we won with the Corvette, I didn’t have Keating Chevrolet! Now I have Keating Chevrolet so I can put my dealership on it. Hopefully we win on Sunday and sell Corvettes on Monday!”

(More on the race) “This has to be the best weather I’ve ever seen in Le Mans in the 12 times I’ve done it. It was a clean race. I’d be shocked if we didn’t go further than we ever have before. It made for really competitive racing. The heat was good for our car, so it was an advantage to have that heat, especially in the middle of the day when we got strong.”

Second place for the #78 Lexus

At the front of the field from practice onwards, and fourth in Hyperpole, the #78 Lexus RC F LMGT3 of Tom Van Rompuy, Hadrien David and Jack Hawksworth was at the front throughout, managing safety car periods, different strategies and fierce competition to finish second of LMGT3 class.

Jack Hawksworth (#78) started from fourth and quickly moved to P2, being part of a one-two lead for the Lexus, with the #87 ahead of the #78. At the end of the first hour, Jack Hawksworth led the class. Tom Van Rompuy took over from Jack Hawksworth and kept the #78 out front, holding a 17-second advantage to sister #87 after 3 hours. On lap 103, the two RC F LMGT3 cars stayed out front, separated by just a few seconds with the #78 in the lead over the #87. As the night wore on, different strategies and safety car periods reshuffled the order. At halfway, the order was turned upside down once again, with the #33 Corvette taking the lead with the two Akkodis ASP Team cars still on the lead lap. The #78 gradually climbed back up the order, thanks to a consistent strong pace. After 16 hours of racing, it moved into second in LMGT3 and back into victory contention.

Alternating between second and third, the #78 was driven on by solid, aggressive stints from Jack Hawksworth and then Hadrien David. In the 22nd hour, the Frenchman set the fastest LMGT3 lap of the race in 3’53’’802 (on lap 305), beating the benchmark previously held by his team-mate Jack Hawksworth.

The Heart of Racing Team achieves its first podium at the Circuit de la Sarthe

Aston Martin Vantage, the most successful racing car in the great sporting endurance history of the legendary British brand, claimed its 11th class podium in the world famous 24 Hours of Le Mans, when the Heart of Racing Team #23 finished third in the LMGT3 class on Sunday.

Gray Newell, on his race debut, driving alongside FIA World Endurance Championship team-mates Dudu Barrichello and two-time Le Mans GT class winner Jonny Adam, raced to a fraught and fiercely contested final podium spot, finishing ahead of the rival Lexus by just 2.5 seconds in a dramatic end to the race.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Le Mans 2026. Aston Martin Vantage #23

“I gave everything I had in those last laps and took every inch out of the car.” said Barrichello. “In those situations, you trust the people around you and my engineers were giving me information and targets to hit. I just had to keep my cool and do my job and thankfully that was good enough to finish on the podium!”

For Adam, the podium means that 50% of his Le Mans starts have concluded with a visit to the Le Mans rostrum, having won his class in 2017 and again in 2020: “Aston Martin has always had a special relationship with Le Mans, so to stand on the podium here, at a race so steeped in the brand's history, means a great deal. We had some good fortune and some bad fortune with safety cars and strategy during the race, but overall it came together really nicely. I'm especially pleased for Gray because this was his Le Mans debut and to come away with a podium is huge for his confidence and a great reward for all his hard work. It could have been an incredible story for both cars today, but we'll celebrate this result.

For Newell, the result will of course be written indelibly in his memory: “More than anything, I just feel incredibly fortunate to be part of this team. These guys are the best. The culture at Heart of Racing is phenomenal and it's something that stood out to me from the moment I arrived. To come here for my first Le Mans and experience that environment, while standing on the podium at the end of it, is special. One of the biggest takeaways from this week is how encouraging it has been for me personally. To come here, compete at this level and feel comfortable gives me a lot of confidence. It shows me that the skill set is working and that I'm moving in the right direction.” Source: Aston martin

#87 Lexus RC F LMGT3 fourth

The #87 Lexus RC F LMGT3 car driven by Petru Umbrarescu, Clemens Schmid and José María López also put in a top-class performance, spending much of the race at the front and finishing just off the podium following an incredible late charge in the final hours.

#21 Ferrari fifth

The #21 Vista AF Corse 296 LMGT3 Evo, finished fifth – the best result among the Ferraris 296 on track. Four of the Maranello manufacturer’s five 296 LMGT3 Evos finished in the top ten of the LMGT3 class.

Starting from second on the grid with François Hériau at the wheel, the silver-liveried Ferrari fell behind its rivals’ pace and was in eleventh place after the opening hour. Strong stints from Simon Mann, and especially Ferrari official driver Alessio Rovera, helped the car climb back through the field and remain inside the top eight throughout the night.
Following the Safety Car phase, which bunched the field with five hours remaining, the 296 LMGT3 Evo fought all the way to the finish to secure a valuable fifth place, an important result for the championship standings. Source: Ferrari