A Milestone 47-car grid for the 2026 ELMS Season

The LMP2 category is filled with the very best team and driver talent from around the world.

2025 LMP2 Champions Panis Racing will team up with Forestier Racing for the 2026 season and will be known as Forestier Racing by Panis.

2025 Vice Champions, and 24 Hours of Le Mans class winners Jakub Smiechowski, Tom Dillmann and Nick Yelloly return with Inter Europol Competition, with the Polish team fielding a second car in the class once again.

IDEC Sport will once again run a two-car squad in LMP2 with one car in partnership with Genesis Magma Racing, while 2023 champions Algarve Pro Racing will field a single Oreca-Gibson in the top class.

Reigning LMP3 champions Theodor Jensen and Adrien Closmenil move up to LMP2 with the team they won the title in 2025 in dominant style, CLX Motorsport.

Proton Competition will field a single LMP2 entry with Jonas Ried, while United Autosports, Vector Sport and Nielsen Racing will also all run a single car to complete the 11 strong LMP2 field.

LMP2 Pro/Am: 12 Cars for 2026

LMP2 Pro/Am grid will grow from 8 to 12 cars in 2026, with reigning champions AO by TF fielding an unchanged driver line up of PJ Hyett, Dane Cameron and Louis Delétraz, with the Swiss driver going for his fifth ELMS title.

2024 Champions AF Corse also return with multiple title holder François Perrodo also returning once again to try and regain his crown.

Algarve Pro Racing will also run a single car in the LMP2 Pro/Am category with former champion and Peugeot Hypercar driver Malthe Jakobsen making a welcome return to the ELMS.

British team Vector Sport are running a second Oreca 07, with the no7 LMP2 Pro/Am entry featuring Pietro Fittipaldi.

Double Michelin Le Mans Cup LMP3 Champion Jean Glorieux will make his ELMS LMP2 Pro/Am debut with DKR Engineering, while class front runners, and former LMP2 Champions, TDS Racing will also run a single entry in the category.

Reigning LMP2 Pro/Am Vice Champions Nielsen Racing will race with Alex Quinn in 2026. United Autosports will enter a single car in the class, with an unchanged driver line up from 2025 of Mario Sato, Oliver Jarvis and Daniel Schneider.

UAE flagged team Rossa Racing by Virage joins the ELMS grid, with former LMP2 Pro/Am and LMP3 champion John Falb being joined by Manuel Espirito Santo and Rik Koen in the no19 Oreca-Gibson.

Reigning LMP2 Champion Charles Milesi joins Felipe Fraga and Georgios Kolovos at CLX Motorsport, while qualifying specialist Giorgio Roda will race the no30 Duqueine Team Oreca-Gibson. Father-Son duo Horst Felbermayr and Horst Felix Felbermayr will race the no88 Proton Competition entry and rounds off the 12-strong grid in LMP2 Pro/Am.

LMP3: Showcase for Emerging Driver Talent

The LMP3 grid will feature 10 cars for the 2026 season and is packed with young drivers looking to make their mark in highest levels of endurance racing. The field features nine Ligier JS P325-Toyotas and one Duqueine D09, run by reigning Michelin Le Mans Cup champions R-ace GP.

Reigning champions CLX Motorsport will defend their title once again, the Swiss team entering a single car for Brazilians Alexander Jacoby and Bruno Ribeiro.

Former class champions DKR Engineering will run a Ligier JS P325 for the first time in 2026 after switching from Ginetta in 2025. Romain Favre and Antti Rammo will race for the Luxembourg flagged team.

Former champions Eurointernational will enter a single car with race winner Matthew Richard Bell racing with Belgium’s Douwe Dedecker. Long time supporters of the LMP3 category Ultimate return with Matthieu Lahaye being named as the lead driver once again.

Rinaldi racing, Team Virage, Racing Spirit of Léman and M Racing will each run a single car to complete the 10-car grid that will be seen in Barcelona in April.

LMGT3: Six Manufacturers Represented on 14-Car Grid

2025 LMGT3 Champions TF Sport will also return to defend their hard-won title with a single Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R for Blake McDonald and Matthew Bell.

The Corvette is one of six manufacturers represented on the grid in 2026, with six Ferrari 296 EVO LMGT3s, three Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3s, two Mercedes-AMG LMGT3s, one McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo and one Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3.

Iron Lynx will run a pair of Mercedes-AMGs with the no62 car running the Qatari colours of the QMMF and driven by Abdulla Ali Al-Khelaifi.

Multiple ELMS Champions Proton Competition will run a pair of 911s, with the no91 Porsche being driven by 2024 MLMC GT3 Champion Matthew Kurzejewski. The third Porsche will race under the High Class Racing banner, with Iceland’s Audunn Gudmundsson being named as the first driver.

United Autosports will run a single McLaren 720S with an unchanged driver line up from the 2025 season of Wayne Boyd, Garnet Patterson and Michael Birch. Clément Mateu and Valentin Hasse Clot will be joined by Marius Fossard in the Racing Spirit of Léman Aston Martin Vantage.

Reigning LMGT3 Vice Champion Custodio Toledo returns with Richard Mille AF Corse in the no50 Ferrari 296 EVO. ELMS Race winner Duncan Cameron also returns with the no55 Spirit of Race 296 EVO LMGT3.

AF Corse and GR Racing will run a single Ferrari for two long standing competitors in the ELMS, Charles-Henri Samani in the no51 296 EVO LMGT3 and Michael Wainwright in the no86 Ferrari.

Kessel Racing will enter a pair of Ferrari 296s, with Japan’s Takeshi Kimura in the no57 entry and Andrew Gilbert in the no74 296 EVO.

Pierre Fillon, President of the Automobile Club de l’Ouest: “The 2026 European Le Mans Series entry list underlines the championship’s outstanding vitality and its central role within the endurance racing pyramid. A record grid of 47 cars, strong representation across all categories and a compelling mix of established teams and new contenders once again highlight the ELMS as a benchmark platform for performance, competition and driver development. This level of commitment from teams and manufacturers is a clear sign of the championship’s appeal, and we look forward to another highly competitive and exciting season, starting in Barcelona.”

Frédéric Lequien, CEO of Le Mans Endurance Management: "The 2026 European Le Mans Series will see the largest ever entry, with a huge grid of 47 cars. We are extremely pleased to see this important championship reach new heights and attract the best teams and drivers from around the world. LMP2 stands out, with a total of 23 cars across the two categories, with 11 cars for LMP2 and 12 in LMP2 Pro/Am. With six brands once again in LMGT3 and the Toyota powered LMP3 cars providing the perfect platform for emerging driver talent, it is no wonder that teams and drivers want to compete in the ELMS. We’d like to extend a warm welcome to both the teams and drivers who are returning to the ELMS and to those who will make their series debut in Barcelona. We can’t wait for 2026 and the first race in April.”

The six-round 2026 European Le Mans Series will start at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Sunday 12th April, with visits to Le Castellet, Imola, Spa-Francorchamps and Silverstone before concluding in Portimão in October.