The Bend Manthey’s No. 92 Porsche 911 GT3 R won the LMGT3 class at the 6 Hours of Monza on 8 November 2026, the final round of the FIA World Endurance Championship season. Yasser Shahin, Riccardo Pera and Richard Lietz crossed the line 0.270 seconds ahead of Heart of Racing’s Aston Martin Vantage after six hours of racing.
The title went elsewhere. TF Sport’s No. 33 Corvette finished third, enough for Jonny Edgar to take the LMGT3 drivers’ championship, and TF Sport also claimed the teams’ crown.
A relocated finale and a crew on the chase
Monza was not the original venue. The season was meant to end with the 8 Hours of Bahrain, replaced by a six-hour race at the Italian circuit. Going into the weekend, the No. 92 crew sat second in the LMGT3 standings, 18 points off the top, according to Porsche Motorsport’s November preview.
They arrived with momentum, having won the previous round, the 6 Hours of Barcelona. Monza made them the first LMGT3 crew to win twice in 2026, as French outlet Endurance-Info pointed out. Over the season, Porsche, BMW and Corvette each finished with two class wins.
A drive-through, then the comeback
It was not a clean run. Shahin was handed a drive-through for speeding in the pit lane, and the class as a whole was a penalty festival: Endurance-Info counted fourteen LMGT3 penalties over the race.
Pera did most of the recovery work in his middle stint. Strategy then swung Manthey’s way. According to Pit Debrief’s race report, the No. 92 Porsche and the No. 33 Corvette had yet to make a scheduled stop when a Virtual Safety Car period came out, and the Porsche emerged in the lead.
Proton Competition’s No. 77 Ford Mustang, quick all race, retook the lead for a spell before contact with a Toyota Hypercar sent it in for repairs. Both Mustangs collected penalties throughout. The leading Akkodis ASP Lexus retired with a radiator holed by debris.
Lietz took the final stint. Eduardo Barrichello closed in steadily in the Aston Martin, pressing through traffic in the closing laps, but never found a way past. The gap at the flag: 0.270 seconds.
Lietz marks his 100th WEC start with a win
The timing was neat. Monza was Lietz’s 100th race in the World Endurance Championship, a milestone reported by both Pit Debrief and the German site gt-place. He celebrated it from the top step of the LMGT3 podium.
Manthey’s second 911, the No. 91 entered with DK Engineering for James Cottingham, Timur Boguslavskiy and Ayhancan Güven, finished inside the top six. Sources disagree on whether it was fifth or sixth once the final classification adjustments are taken into account, so we leave it there.
Edgar sole champion, TF Sport doubles up
The No. 33 Corvette had its own scare. Ben Keating received a penalty for a Virtual Safety Car infringement that dropped the car out of the points, and the crew fought back to third: exactly what the championship required.
Edgar is the sole LMGT3 drivers’ champion because his team-mates did not contest every round, gt-place notes. TF Sport adds the teams’ title.
For Manthey, the WEC season ends with a race win and, according to Pit Debrief, second place in the teams’ standings, eight points behind TF Sport. The Meuspath squad had already had a strong autumn in the DTM, taking the drivers’ title with Thomas Preining as well as the teams’ title. We covered that in our story on Preining’s DTM championship.
No Porsche in Hypercar
Overall victory went to the No. 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA car of Jack Aitken, Sébastien Bourdais and Earl Bamber, ahead of the No. 36 Alpine. The No. 8 Toyota of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryō Hirakawa finished tenth and sealed the Hypercar drivers’ title.
No Porsche appears in the Hypercar classification at Monza. When it presented its 2026 programme in November 2025, Porsche listed factory commitments in Formula E and IMSA, with the 963, and kept its WEC presence to the LMGT3 class. The 963 went on to win Petit Le Mans in October, as we reported in our Petit Le Mans race story. Monza showed that the customer side of the WEC effort can still win.
For the longer history of Porsche in endurance racing, our French-language feature Les courses d’endurance, terrain de jeu de Porsche (in French) covers the background.
Sources: Pit Debrief, 6 Hours of Monza race report, 8 November 2026; Endurance-Info, « Porsche et Manthey concluent la saison en beauté à Monza »; gt-place.com, « FIA WEC: Manthey-Sieg beim Saisonfinale », 8 November 2026; Porsche Motorsport, « Looking ahead: November 2026 Porsche Motorsport preview »; Porsche Newsroom, « Porsche enters the 2026 motorsport year with a revised focus », 29 November 2025.
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