How FIA World Endurance Championship – LMGT3 Works
New to FIA World Endurance Championship – LMGT3? Learn how the Sprint and Endurance formats work, how class points are scored, and how to follow the season from round one.
LMGT3 is the GT3 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship, sharing every grid with Hypercar and LMP2 prototypes. Introduced in 2024 to replace the ageing GTE-Am category, it brought homologated GT3 cars — the same machinery racing in GTWCE, IMSA, and British GT — into the world's biggest endurance series, headlined by the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The 2026 provisional entry list features 18 LMGT3 cars from nine manufacturers across eleven teams. Familiar GT3 names race here in dedicated WEC-only line-ups: Vista AF Corse and TF Sport run alongside Iron Lynx, Garage 59, Team WRT, Proton Competition, Akkodis ASP, Heart of Racing, Racing Team Turkey by TF, and two separate Manthey-run entries — Manthey DK Engineering and The Bend Manthey.
The 2026 calendar was disrupted when the Qatar 1812km — originally the season-opening round in March — was postponed due to regional security concerns and rescheduled to October, pushing Imola into the season-opener slot instead.
LMGT3 crews run three drivers per car, each assigned an FIA driver categorisation — Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze — and every entry must include at least one Bronze or Silver-graded driver, mirroring the Pro-Am structure used across GT3 racing worldwide.
Cars share the track with Hypercar and LMP2 machinery throughout every race, which makes traffic management between classes as decisive as outright pace. LMGT3 races on Goodyear control tyres, separate from the Michelin rubber supplied to Hypercar.
The calendar mixes 6-hour sprints (Imola, Spa, São Paulo, COTA, Fuji), the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the distance-based Qatar 1812km, and the 8 Hours of Bahrain finale — giving LMGT3 crews one of the broadest formats of any GT3 championship.