By Edition number forty-nine of legendary 24 Heures Motos at Circuit Bugatti (Le Mans, France), the 2026 EWC (Endurance World Championship) season curtain raiser, officially concluded yesterday afternoon.
Overall race winners were YART Yamaha Official EWC Team (Karel Hanika/Marvin Fritz/Leandro Mercado) with 859 laps to their credit. This means in total 3594.915 kilometres (around 2,247 miles).
Just for length comparison, this equates to more than fifty-nine TT Mountain Course laps, 919 laps at Oliver’s Mount and 698 laps at Horice road-race circuit.
The next EWC event will be the 8 Hours of Spa Motos in Belgium (Saturday 6th June), coinciding with the final day of TT 2026 race week (incorporating the Senior TT).
Projected below are-selected 24 Heures Motos race results of teams, which included road race experienced participants.
(Number of race laps plus names of ex, current roads exponents near team’s name)
P2 – Yoshimura SERT Motul (Dan Linfoot) – 854 laps
P7 – Team Bolliger Switzerland #8 (Ville Valtonen) – 829 laps
P8 – Honda No Limits (Ricardo Brink) – 827 laps (2nd in Superstock category)
P10 – TR27 AZ moto (Eemeli Lahti) – 822 laps (3rd in Superstock category)
P17 – Team LRP Poland (Sheridan Morais/Danny Webb) – 805 laps
P32 – Team HTC Racing (Lancelot Unissart) – 741 laps (4th in Production category)
P33 – Maco Racing Team (Martin Vugrinec/Michal Prasek) – 741 laps
P38 – GRT42-Kawasaki Orleans Moto Sport (Nicolas Therouin) – 650 laps
Not classified:
Grillini Racing Team (Jef Van Calster) – 475 laps
Basomba Racing (Wayne Bourgeais) – 445 laps
Team Metiss (Joe Akroyd) – 316 laps (the only one in Experimental class)
TMC 35-PMO (John-Ross Billega) – 252 laps
Team PMS99 Yam Racing (Timothee Monot) – 81 laps
Words by Jan Vavra
