Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA has returned to the lead of the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans, with the race now back underway after its second safety car interruption.
The race resumed with four hours and 54 minutes to go, with Robin Frijns in the #20 WRT BMW heading the #12 Cadillac of Norman Nato.
Nato initially pressured Frijns for the lead, before falling back into the clutches of the charging third-place #7 Toyota of Kamui Kobayashi.
Frijns kicked off the most recent round of pit stops, but locked up at the chicane in pit entry, and skipped across the gravel. This helped enable the #12 Cadillac, as well both Toyotas, to overcut the Dutchman.
Nato currently leads by just 1.4 seconds over the #8 Toyota of Ryo Hirakawa, which undercut the sister car of Kobayashi, who is on the tail of his compatriot.
Frijns is now eight seconds back in fourth, ahead of the #51 Ferrari, #83 Ferrari and #35 Alpine. Behind, the #007 Aston Martin has passed the #101 Cadillac for eighth, with the #36 Alpine rounding out the top 10.
In LMP2, the order has remained the same for the past three hours, with the top three running in formation, separated by under two seconds.
Julien Andlauer leads in the #30 Duqueine Team ORECA, ahead of the #343 Inter Europol Competition ORECA of Reshad De Gérus and #43 Inter Europol entry of Nick Yelloly. All three cars, as well as the fourth-placed #29 Forestier Racing by Panis ORECA, are also currently pitting on the same lap.
Laurin Heinrich has retained the #4 CrowdStrike Racing by APR’s ORECA one lap advantage in LMP2 Pro/Am, over the #183 AF Corse and #99 AO by TF efforts.
And in LMGT3, Nicky Catsburg is still out front aboard the #33 TF Sport Corvette. The Dutchman has a five-second advantage over the closing #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin of Eduardo Barrichello, with Jack Hawksworth’s #78 Akkodis ASP Team Lexus a further six seconds behind in third.
The #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin has fallen from second to fourth since the restart, after taking a longer pit stop to replace Mattia Drudi with Zacharie Robichon. The Canadian emerged in fifth, but has since passed the #87 Lexus of Clemens Schmid.
