McLaren Le Mans Hypercar Entry Confirmed For 2027 After 29 Years

McLaren has announced that it will compete in the 2027 World Endurance Championship (WEC) Hypercar class. With this, the company hopes to win the renowned 24 Hours of Le Mans race overall for the first time in 29 years. It last competed in the premier endurance racing class in 1998.

McLaren will enter the WEC Hypercar class as the eleventh manufacturer. Ferrari, Alpine, BMW, Cadillac, Toyota, Peugeot, Porsche, and Aston Martin are the eight manufacturers that presently compete in this class. In 2026, Genesis will join them, and in 2027, Ford and McLaren.

It is known that McLaren will choose to follow the Le Mans Daytona (LMDh) rules, which call for cars that are loosely based on LMP2 technology. According to reports, it has teamed up with Dallara, an Italian builder that also supplies the chassis for BMW and Cadillac.

Whether McLaren intends to compete in the USA-based IMSA championship is yet unknown. More information is anticipated to be made public closer to the June Le Mans race this year. McLaren’s historic victory at Le Mans. Three further Formula One GTRs placed among the top five.

The manufacturer only made a comeback to the WEC last year, competing with the 720S GT3 Evo in the new LMGT3 class after leaving at the end of the 1998 season.

According to McLaren CEO Zak Brown, the team plans to compete for the triple crown of motorsport in 2027, trying to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Indy 500, and the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix all in the same year.

Brown remarked, “We won on our debut at Le Mans thirty years ago in a car that wasn’t even supposed to race.” That guaranteed that we would be the only team in history to win the Indianapolis 500, the Monaco Grand Prix, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. We will now attempt to win all three of these major races in the same year in light of this great news. We’ll see you at the track; we’re prepared and ready for the challenge.