A capacity 58-car field is set to take part in the 2026 Road to Le Mans, the blue-riband round of the Michelin Le Mans Cup.
The provisional entry features 26 LMP3s, 15 LMP3 Pro/Ams and 17 GT3s, with 13 additional runners joining the 45 full-season Le Mans Cup participants.
The LMP3 grid is made up of 20 Ligier JS P325s and six Duqueine D09s, with the only one-off car for Road to Le Mans being Rinaldi Racing’s #2 Ligier, which will feature Alvise Rodella.
Meanwhile, two full-season efforts which were originally entered into LMP3 Pro/Am have stepped up to LMP3. Nielsen Racing has moved its #4 Duqueine D09, whilst Ajith Redant Racing’s #36 Ligier has also made the switch.
Team Virage’s #16 Ligier has moved in the opposite direction, and will now compete in LMP3 Pro/Am under the ‘Ajith Redant by Virage’ banner, with Ajith Kumar and Romain Vozniak behind the wheel. Kumar was previously listed in the #36 JS P325, where he has been replaced by Aditya Patel alongside Narain Karthikeyan.
One-off entries for Road to Le Mans in LMP3 Pro/Am come in the form of efforts from ELMS competitors DKR Engineering, Team Virage, Ultimate, CLX Motorsport, and M Racing. All 15 LMP3 Pro/Am runners will compete with a Ligier JS P325.
And in GT3, seven additional cars will join the grid, bringing the field up to six manufacturers.
GetSpeed has entered the #14 Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO for Steve Jans and Anthony Bartone, whilst High Class Racing will field the #45 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Evo for Jens Reno Møller.
AF Corse has added two additional Ferrari 296 GT3 Evos to its full-season two-car programme, whilst Blackthorn has added a second Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo.
A BMW M4 GT3 Evo comes from Team WRT, for local drivers Maxime and Arnold Robin, with the #95 United Autosports McLaren GT3 Evo of Michael Birch and Garnet Patterson – an effort which is also on the reserve list for the 24 Hours of Le Mans – completing the grid.
For 2026, Road to Le Mans has received a significant format overhaul. Instead of running as a pair of 60-minute sprint contests, it will instead be a single three-hour race held on Friday, 12th June, the day before the start of the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans. The race will offer 1.5x standard points.
Qualifying, which has been plagued by Red Flag interruptions in recent years, has also received an overhaul, and will now run as a single 60-minute session on Thursday, 11th June.
Image courtesy of Michelin Le Mans Cup
