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On Friday 5 and Saturday 6 June this year, the place de la République in the city centre will serve as the stage for the first electrifying highlight of the 94th running of the Le Mans classic, officially kicking off race week with the one event more highly anticipated than the 24 Hours itself.

Every year, race week kickstarts&nbsp;in the Le&nbsp;Mans city centre with die-hard fans as far as the eye can see &ndash; cheering, taking photos left and right,&nbsp;and generally amping up the excitement level as the 62 cars entered in the 24 Hours submit to two days of administrative and&nbsp;technical checks known as Scrutineering.&nbsp;

This&nbsp;is one of the rare moments you can actually get close to the&nbsp;Hypercars, LMP2s and&nbsp;LMGT3s, as well as the drivers, entered in the most spectacular endurance race in the world.

On Friday 5 June at 10:00, Inter Europol Competition&#39;s #43 ORECA 07-Gibson LMP2 will open the show, followed by the other racing cars&nbsp;until Team WRT&#39;s #69&nbsp;BMW M4 LMGT3 Evo closes the event on Saturday&nbsp;6 June at&nbsp;12:40.

After&nbsp;Scrutineering concludes, the festivities continue with the unforgettable city centre parade. For the fourth year in a row, select cars entered in the 2026 24 Hours will snake through the streets from the place du Jet d&rsquo;Eau to the place des Jacobins, reminding everyone in attendance that this&nbsp;race belongs&nbsp;as much to the city as it does to its&nbsp;legion of fans worldwide.

Check out the 2026 Scrutineering Programme for the 94th&nbsp;24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans below.

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24 Hours of Le Mans – 2026 Scrutineering Programme

BMW has ended a 27-year absence from the top step of the podium at the pinnacle of international endurance racing, by clinching a memorable triumph in today’s TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

The &lsquo;Ardennes Rollercoaster&rsquo; invariably generates exciting action, and the second round of the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship campaign was no exception. BMW M Team WRT &ndash; based just up the road near Li&egrave;ge &ndash; began the six-hour contest in front of a record-breaking Spa crowd of 101,606 enthusiastic fans from just tenth and 11th on the Hypercar class grid, but an audacious strategy and a stroke of luck proved to be key to the squad&rsquo;s success.

In a race that featured no fewer than four safety car interventions, BMW elected to roll the dice, with Ren&eacute; Rast, Sheldon van der Linde and Robin Frijns going on to deliver the Bavarian brand its first outright victory in global endurance racing since the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1999, taking the chequered flag in front of the sister #15 M Hybrid V8 in a brilliant one-two finish.

&ldquo;It&#39;s an unbelievable story for us,&rdquo; enthused Rast. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a long time in the making &ndash; we&rsquo;ve been waiting for this moment for the last two or three years. Everybody has worked so hard, and the team pulled off a miracle in terms of strategy. To celebrate our first win in Belgium, where WRT is at home, is something very special. It&rsquo;s just an amazing day!&rdquo;

In LMGT3, there was redemption for Garage 59 &ndash; which had looked to be on-course for victory on its championship debut in last month&rsquo;s Imola curtain-raiser until suffering an alternator failure barely half-an-hour from the chequered flag. The #10 McLaren piloted by Tom Fleming, Marvin Kirchh&ouml;fer and Antares Au scythed through the 18-car field from 15th on the grid to triumph in Belgium, taking advantage of a late-race five-second penalty for VISTA AF Corse&rsquo;s #21 Ferrari.

Full race results <a href="https://www.fiawec.com/fr/page/resultats/56" target="_blank">HERE</a>.&nbsp;

Next up on the FIA WEC calendar is the series&rsquo; flagship event &ndash; the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans in France on 10-14 June.

Follow all of the action live on <a href="https://plus.fiawec.com/fr" target="_blank">FIAWEC+</a>.

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BMW breaks through with Spa one-two on Team WRT’s home turf

Malthe Jakobsen confirmed his status as one of the FIA World Endurance Championship’s brightest rising stars at Spa-Francorchamps today, producing a scintillating lap to secure Peugeot’s maiden pole position in the series.

Earlier on in the Hypercar qualifying session, that kind of result had looked far less likely, when the 22-year-old Dane spun at high speed on his &lsquo;out&rsquo; lap from the pits, fortunately avoiding any impact but obliging him to return to the box for a fresh set of tyres.

Atoning for his error, Jakobsen subsequently soared to the top of the timesheets in the ten-minute Hyperpole shootout behind the wheel of the #94 Team Peugeot TotalEnergies 9X8 Hypercar that he shares with fellow young gun Th&eacute;o Pourchaire and former FIA World Endurance Champion, Lo&iuml;c Duval.

The result represented the first pole for &lsquo;The Lions&rsquo; in any international endurance racing series in 15 years and first in world championship competition since 1992.

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best feeling to drive this track on low fuel and new tyres, and I&rsquo;m very happy for the team,&rdquo; enthused Jakobsen, after pipping Cadillac&rsquo;s Will Stevens to the prime spot by a scant 0.043 seconds. &ldquo;This is a great boost for everybody in terms of motivation to keep working hard. It really shows that even though we&rsquo;ve had a challenging past couple of years, everything is possible and you should never, ever give up.&rdquo;

At the other end of the order, Imola winner Toyota struggled for speed in 12th and 16th positions in the 17-strong Hypercar field, with only one of defending world champion Ferrari&rsquo;s 499P prototypes advancing to the top ten as Antonio Fuoco bagged eighth on the grid.

In LMGT3, Akkodis ASP Team&rsquo;s Lexus RC F achieved its third FIA WEC pole 12 months on from its first, in the hands of impressive rookie racer, Hadrien David.

The TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps &ndash; round two of the 2026 campaign &ndash; will get underway at 14:00 CEST tomorrow (Saturday, 9 May).

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Peugeot on pole in Belgium as Jakobsen stuns at Spa

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