Category wins across the championship year – including the Le Mans 24 Hours
Manthey Competition going for third consecutive FIA WEC GT3 Championship as final round approaches after victory at Barcelona Round
United Autosports takes Teams and Drivers crown in ELMS LMP2 Category
Motul and its partners are once again celebrating both race and championship victories as the 2026 Endurance season comes towards its exciting conclusion.
With the final race of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) taking place at Monza in Italy over the first weekend of November, some of the World Champions have yet to be decided – including the GT3 crown.
Motul partners, Manthey Racing having had a roller coaster season but are coming off the back of victory at the penultimate round in Barcelona. The ultra successful Porsche entrants have taken both the Drivers' and Teams' crowns for the last two years and are now in second place, with a chance of making it a world title hat-trick if results go their way – especially if the number 92 car can win the category at Monza.
Meanwhile, in the European Le Mans Series, Motul’s partners of long standing, United Autosports, have once again delivered series victory, taking both the Teams and Drivers championships in LMP2, with the number 22 car driven by Ben Hanley, Gregoire Saucy and Griffin Peebles.
It was a great season for the Motul-lubricated machine. It only narrowly missed out on a podium at every round, and its drivers stood on the top step in both France and Portugal. With 26 points available for a win, the eventual margin of victory over competition was an impressive 27 points.
The 2026 running of the Le Mans 24 Hour race provided Motul with what will surely be one of its highlights of the year as, again this year, it enjoyed notable success on the track as well as a huge brand presence around the circuit.
In the race itself, Motul Partner team, Inter Europol Racing swept to a 1-2 in the fiercely competitive LMP2 category. The prototype sports racers always provide incredibly close racing and InterEuropol, were aiming to make it back-to-back victories and a hat-trick of podium finishes.
Once again the result was in balance until late on in the race, with the top three cars regularly switching places, but in the end the #43 Oreca 07-Gibson of Jakub Smiechowski, Tom Dillmann and Nicholas Yelloly came home ahead of its siter machine, the #343 car piloted by Bijoy Garg, Reshad de Gérus and Nico Müller.
All LMP2 cars are powered by the same 600 BHP 4.2 litre V8 Gibson GK428 engines. As longtime technology partners of Gibson, this means that Motul 300V is the oil that all the LMP2 cars leave the factory with as first fill.
Inspired by the Aviation industry, Motul used vegetable esters to produce 300V – named in honour of the brand’s 300 race victories – and, in 1971, it introduced this, the world’s first fully synthetic motor oil, into the market. 55 years on, Motul’s flagship lubricant remains the standard by which other competition lubricants measure themselves. Motul has refined the range over time and it now boasts four different variants, each tailored to specific needs: Power, Competition and Le Mans - the latter designed for maximum reliability.
At Le Mans Motul also showcased its partnership with McLaren, and spectators could check out a McLaren F1 car on display in the Motul pavilion at the event. It also used Le Mans to preview the upcoming McLaren Hypercar partnership. Media were invited to meet McLaren boss, Zak Brown and Motul CEO Olivier Montagne, to discuss the Motul-McLaren partnership and to get an insight into the exciting prospect of McLaren’s factory sportscar competing in the top category at next year’s FIA World Endurance Championship which, of course, includes the legendary Le Mans 24 Hour race.