LE MANS, France — Toyota beat BMW and Cadillac in a close fight spread across Saturday and Sunday to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the sixth time.
It was the 94th edition of global endurance racing’s showpiece event.
The No. 7 Toyota of Mike Conway, Nyck de Vries and Kamui Kobayashi had been a distant fourth Sunday morning, but Kobayashi seized his chance when the safety car bunched up the field with six hours remaining.
Kobayashi delivered a series of fast laps to surge into the lead, and the team controlled the pace after that for Toyota’s first win since a run of five in a row ended in 2022.
“Even in the first couple of hours, we thought it wasn’t looking good,” Conway said before joining De Vries and Kobayashi for celebrations atop the car. “We just stuck in there.”