The BMW M Hybrid V8 number 20 of Robin Frijns, René Rast and Sheldon van der Linde won the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and gave BMW its first victory in the FIA World Endurance Championship. WRT also placed the number 15 of Kevin Magnussen, Raffaele Marciello and Dries Vanthoor in second position, ahead of the Ferrari 499P number 50 of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen. The last time BMW won in the top endurance category was at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1999 with the V12 LMR.

Will Stevens started from second position in the Cadillac number 12 and passed the Peugeot 9X8 number 94 of Loïc Duval at Les Combes to take the lead. The two Alpine A424s advanced quickly in the first hour to sit second and fourth, with the Peugeot between them. Kevin Magnussen rose from tenth to fifth place in the BMW number 15 during that same initial stint.

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René Rast extended the BMW number 20's lead to 19 seconds over the Toyota of Hartley in the second hour. Sheldon van der Linde relieved Rast and continued to increase the gap, reaching 52 seconds over the Cadillac number 12, which remained at the front among cars on a regular strategy. António Félix da Costa in the Alpine number 35 passed the Cadillac in the third hour with a faster pit entry and exit to move into second.

Accidents and safety cars

The collision between Matteo Cressoni in the Mercedes-AMG number 79 and Malthe Jakobsen in the Peugeot number 94 at Les Combes caused the first safety car with two hours remaining. Cressoni ran wide at the corner and spun in front of the Peugeot, which was on cold tyres and could not avoid contact. The car that had started from pole ended up with severe damage and completed only 103 laps. The neutralisation put all the Hypercars on the same pit strategy, with the BMW number 20 of Frijns maintaining the lead.

Robin Frijns restarted in first place and opened an eight‑second gap over his pursuers in the following stint. That gap disappeared when the race was neutralised again at the start of the final hour. Alessandro Pier Guidi in the Ferrari number 51 was hit from behind by the BMW M4 GT3 number 32 of Augusto Farfus, who in turn appeared to have made contact with the Porsche number 91 of Ayhancan Güven. The accident put the Ferrari out of the race and caused another lengthy safety car period.

Frijns led the restart with Kevin Magnussen in the BMW number 15 protecting him from the Ferrari number 50. Miguel Molina had taken four new tyres on his final stop and pressured the Dane during the last 24 minutes, but Magnussen held his position. A third safety car appeared when Alex Riberas spun the Aston Martin number 009 while fighting with da Costa for fifth place, setting up a final phase of 24 minutes to the flag.

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Final results

Frijns controlled the final restart and crossed the line with a 2.071‑second advantage over Magnussen. The Ferrari of Molina finished 2.437 seconds behind the winner to complete the top three. The M Hybrid V8 program had started in 2024 and had achieved two second places (Fuji 2024 and Imola 2025) before this victory.

The Aston Martin Valkyrie number 007 of Tom Gamble and Harry Tincknell finished fourth, the best result in the history of Aston Martin’s WEC program. The team had previously taken a fifth place at Fuji as its best result. Gamble passed Kamui Kobayashi in the Toyota number 7 with four minutes to go to secure fourth. Genesis Magma Racing scored its first WEC points with eighth place for the number 17 of Luis Felipe Derani, Mathys Jaubert and André Lotterer, in only its second race in the championship. The Korean team had debuted at Imola two weeks earlier. The number 19 had electrical issues in the first hour and finished 13th.

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Toyota, which had won at Imola, placed the number 7 of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries in fifth. The number 8 finished tenth after pitting under green conditions just before the Pier Guidi incident, costing it a full lap. Alpine ended up out of the points when António Félix da Costa went off track on the final restart and damaged the front of the number 35, which was running fifth. The Cadillac number 12 of Will Stevens, Louis Delétraz and Norman Nato finished ninth. Delétraz received a five‑second penalty in the fourth hour for overtaking off‑track at Raidillon, and Norman Nato tried to recover the lost time in the final stints without success. The second Peugeot, the number 93 of Stoffel Vandoorne, Paul Di Resta and Nick Cassidy, finished eighth.

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Garage 59 wins in LMGT3 with the McLaren 720S

The McLaren 720S number 10 of Garage 59 won in LMGT3 with Antares Au, Tom Fleming and Marvin Kirchhöfer. The team had retired at Imola while leading the class. Tom van Rompuy started from pole in the Lexus number 78 and took the early lead, but Eric Powell in the Ford Mustang number 77 of Proton passed him with a move at Eau Rouge. Powell spun at Stavelot 14 minutes later and got stuck in the gravel, bringing out the first safety car of the race and leaving the Mustang five laps down.

The Aston Martin number 27 of Ian James moved into second, with the Ford Mustang number 88 of Stefano Gattuso and the Ferrari number 21 of François Hériau fighting for the positions behind. Van Rompuy received a drive‑through penalty for track limits violations and dropped to third. The BMW number 69 of Anthony McIntosh led the class in the second hour by making his stop after the rest of the group, but in real terms the battle was between the Ferrari number 21 of Simon Mann and the Mustang number 88 of Giammarco Levorato, separated by less than a second.

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François Hériau had jumped from sixth to third in his first stint, and a fast pit stop put him in the lead in the third hour. The Ferrari number 21 stayed ahead during the following stages of the race, with the McLaren number 10 of Tom Fleming chasing closely. Both cars pitted together in the fourth hour when the second safety car appeared, with Alessio Rovera and Marvin Kirchhöfer relieving their team‑mates for the final stints.

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The Ferrari number 21 was leading the class when the final round of pit stops arrived. Kirchhöfer in the McLaren left the pits and found the Ferrari blocking his exit, which resulted in a five‑second penalty for the Italian team for an unsafe release. The penalty put the McLaren in front and dropped the Ferrari to fourth, with the Aston Martin Vantage number 27 of Heart of Racing inheriting second place. Ian James, Mattia Drudi and Zacharie Robichon achieved the team's best result of the season. The Porsche 911 number 92 of The Bend Manthey, with Richard Lietz, Yasser Shahin and Riccardo Pera, finished third after starting 12th on the grid.

The Mustang number 88 received a drive‑through penalty for exceeding track limits while running second, which knocked it out of the top positions. The Lexus number 78 kept its chances alive until the final hour, when it stopped on track at the same time the Ferrari number 51 retired from the race.

The next round of the WEC is the 24 Hours of Le Mans, scheduled for June 10‑14.

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TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps

Pos	Pos. cl.	#	team	car	drivers	class.	Gap	Pits
1	1	#20	BMW M Team WRT	BMW M Hybrid V8	Sheldon Van Der Linde Robin Frijns René Rast	HYPERCAR	—	6
2	2	#15	BMW M Team WRT	BMW M Hybrid V8	Dries Vanthoor Kevin Magnussen Raffaele Marciello	HYPERCAR	+1.969	5
3	3	#50	Ferrari AF Corse	Ferrari 499P	Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen	HYPERCAR	+2.622	6
4	4	#007	Aston Martin Thor Team	Aston Martin Valkyrie	Harry Tincknell Tom Gamble	HYPERCAR	+5.004	6
5	5	#7	Toyota Racing	Toyota TR010 Hybrid	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Nyck De Vries	HYPERCAR	+6.015	6
6	6	#83	AF Corse	Ferrari 499P	Robert Kubica Yifei Ye Philip Hanson	HYPERCAR	+11.552	6
7	7	#93	Peugeot Totalenergies	Peugeot 9X8	Nick Cassidy Paul Di Resta Stoffel Vandoorne	HYPERCAR	+12.861	6
8	8	#17	Genesis Magma Racing	Genesis GMR-001-Hypercar	Luis Felipe Derani Mathys Jaubert André Lotterer	HYPERCAR	+29.882	6
9	9	#12	Cadillac Hertz Team Jota	Cadillac V-Series.R	Louis Delétraz Norman Nato Will Stevens	HYPERCAR	+31.837	6
10	10	#8	Toyota Racing	Toyota TR010 Hybrid	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	HYPERCAR	+32.165	7
11	11	#36	Alpine Endurance Team	Alpine A424	Jules Gounon Frédéric Makowiecki Victor Martins	HYPERCAR	+32.376	5
12	12	#35	Alpine Endurance Team	Alpine A424	António Félix Da Costa Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi	HYPERCAR	+89.603	7
13	13	#19	Genesis Magma Racing	Genesis GMR-001-Hypercar	Paul-Loup Chatin Mathieu Jaminet Daniel Juncadella	HYPERCAR	+34.6	5
14	1	#10	Garage 59	McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo	Antares Au Thomas Fleming Marvin Kirchhöfer	LMGT3	+28.398	5
15	2	#27	Heart of Racing Team	Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3	Ian James Zacharie Robichon Mattia Drudi	LMGT3	+30.546	5
16	3	#92	The Bend Manthey	Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3	Yasser Shahin Riccardo Pera Richard Lietz	LMGT3	+31.82	5
17	4	#21	Vista AF Corse	Ferrari 296 LMGT3 Evo	Simon Mann François Hériau Alessio Rovera	LMGT3	+32.461	5
18	5	#58	Garage 59	McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo	Alexander West Finn Gehrsitz Benjamin Goethe	LMGT3	+38.799	8
19	6	#87	Akkodis ASP Team	Lexus RC F LMGT3	Petru Umbrärescu Clemens Schmid José María López	LMGT3	+40.657	5
20	7	#91	Manthey DK Engineering	Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3	James Cottingham Timur Boguslavskiy Ayhancan Güven	LMGT3	+42.366	6
21	8	#33	TF Sport	Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R	Blake Mcdonald Jonny Edgar Nicky Catsburg	LMGT3	+43.4	6
22	9	#34	Racing Team Turkey by TF	Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R	Peter Dempsey Salih Yoluç Charlie Eastwood	LMGT3	+44.538	5
23	10	#61	Iron Lynx	Mercedes-AMG LMGT3	Martin Berry Rui Andrade Maxime Martin	LMGT3	+44.733	6
24	11	#69	Team WRT	BMW M4 LMGT3 Evo	Anthony Mcintosh Parker Thompson Daniel Harper	LMGT3	+55.566	5
25	12	#88	Proton Competition	Ford Mustang LMGT3	Stefano Gattuso Giammarco Levorato Logan Sargeant	LMGT3	+55.742	7
26	13	#23	Heart of Racing Team	Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3	Gray Newell Eduardo Barrichello Jonny Adam	LMGT3	+56.906	8
27	14	#32	Team WRT	BMW M4 LMGT3 Evo	Darren Leung Sean Gelael Augusto Farfus	LMGT3	+94.344	6
28	15	#54	Vista AF Corse	Ferrari 296 LMGT3 Evo	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Davide Rigon	LMGT3	+44.029	6
29	16	#77	Proton Competition	Ford Mustang LMGT3	Ben Tuck Eric Powell Sebastian Priaulx	LMGT3	+3.669	9
30	14	#009	Aston Martin Thor Team	Aston Martin Valkyrie	Alex Riberas Marco Sørensen	HYPERCAR	+3.777	6
31	15	#51	Ferrari AF Corse	Ferrari 499P	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Antonio Giovinazzi	HYPERCAR	+18.358	5
32	17	#79	Iron Lynx	Mercedes-AMG LMGT3	Johannes Zelger Matteo Cressoni Lin Hodenius	LMGT3	+83.963	7
33	18	#78	Akkodis ASP Team	Lexus RC F LMGT3	Tom Van Rompuy Hadrien David Esteban Masson	LMGT3	+120.564	5
34	16	#94	Peugeot Totalenergies	Peugeot 9X8	Loïc Duval Malthe Jakobsen Théo Pourchaire	HYPERCAR	+88.28	5
35	17	#38	Cadillac Hertz Team Jota	Cadillac V-Series.R	Jack Aitken Earl Bamber Sébastien Bourdais	HYPERCAR	+4.699	5