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Le Mans winners compared: Porsche, Ferrari, Bentley, Aston Martin, McLaren and Bugatti
Porsche leads with 19 overall Le Mans wins, ahead of Ferrari with 12, Bentley with 6, Bugatti with 2, and Aston Martin and McLaren with 1 each. Here is every marque's first and latest win, up to the 2026 race.
By the My Hangar editorsPublished 5 min read
Key takeaways
- Porsche holds the record with 19 overall Le Mans wins, from 1970 to 2017.
- Ferrari has 12, including three in a row from 2023 to 2025; Toyota ended that run in 2026.
- Bentley has 6 overall wins, and the 73 years between its 1930 and 2003 victories are the longest gap for any manufacturer.
- Bugatti won twice before the war, in 1937 and 1939, with Jean-Pierre Wimille in both winning crews.
- Aston Martin (1959, DBR1) and McLaren (1995, F1 GTR) each have one overall win.
Among these six marques, Porsche has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright most often, with 19 victories from 1970 to 2017. Ferrari follows with 12, then Bentley with 6, Bugatti with 2, and Aston Martin and McLaren with one each. Audi, with 13, sits between Porsche and Ferrari, and Toyota won the 2026 race.
Who has won Le Mans the most among these marques?
Porsche, by a clear margin. This table counts overall victories only, not class wins, and is current up to the 2026 race.
| Marque | Overall wins | First win | Latest win | Latest winning car |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porsche | 19 | 1970 | 2017 | 919 Hybrid |
| Ferrari | 12 | 1949 | 2025 | 499P |
| Bentley | 6 | 1924 | 2003 | Speed 8 |
| Bugatti | 2 | 1937 | 1939 | Type 57C |
| Aston Martin | 1 | 1959 | 1959 | DBR1 |
| McLaren | 1 | 1995 | 1995 | F1 GTR |
For context, the all-time tally places Audi second with 13 and Jaguar on 7, while Bentley and Toyota are level on 6 after Toyota's win in 2026. Class wins are a separate count: Bentley's EXP Speed 8, for example, won the LMGTP class in 2001 and 2002 before its outright win in 2003.
How did Porsche reach 19 wins?
In waves, from a first victory with the 917 to a last one with a hybrid prototype. Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood took the first in 1970. Porsche then won seven straight from 1981 to 1987, added 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1998, and finished with three in a row from 2015 to 2017.
Number 20 has been close but not yet achieved. In 2025, the No. 6 Porsche 963 of Estre, Vanthoor and Campbell finished second, only 14.084 seconds behind the winning Ferrari. We list every crew in Porsche's 19 Le Mans wins, and the Porsche quiz tests them.
How did Ferrari's 12 wins come about?
They fall into two eras more than half a century apart. Nine wins came between 1949 and 1965, including six in a row from 1960 to 1965, the last with a 250 LM entered by the North American Racing Team. The second era is the 499P, run by AF Corse, with wins in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
The three modern wins went to three different crews: Calado, Pier Guidi and Giovinazzi; then Fuoco, Molina and Nielsen; then Hanson, Kubica and Ye. Toyota ended the run in 2026, when Pier Guidi, Giovinazzi and Calado finished fifth for Ferrari. Read the fuller story in Ferrari at Le Mans or try the Ferrari quiz.
Why does Bentley's record stand out?
Because five of its six wins came in seven years, then nothing for 73. Bentley won in 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930, then returned in 2001 with the EXP Speed 8.
In 2003, Tom Kristensen, Dindo Capello and Guy Smith started from pole, led 369 of 377 laps and headed a Bentley one-two. The ACO's own site calls that 73-year wait the longest gap between overall wins by the same manufacturer. The first era is covered in the Bentley Boys at Le Mans.
What did Bugatti, Aston Martin and McLaren win?
Each won with a single famous car, or in Bugatti's case two closely related ones.
- Bugatti, 1937: Jean-Pierre Wimille and Robert Benoist won in the streamlined Type 57G Tank, setting a distance record of 3,287 km.
- Bugatti, 1939: Wimille and Pierre Veyron won again in a Type 57C, covering 3,354 km at an average of 139 km/h. Bugatti calls it a development of the 57G.
- Aston Martin, 1959: Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby led a DBR1 one-two, with Paul Frère and Maurice Trintignant second. The ACO calls it the marque's sole overall win. See Aston Martin's 1959 win.
- McLaren, 1995: JJ Lehto, Yannick Dalmas and Masanori Sekiya won in F1 GTR chassis 001R, a racing version of the road car. McLaren took four of the top five places on the car's first visit to Le Mans.
The entry came about when a Japanese client of McLaren's offered to sponsor a car, and Paul Lanzante's small squad ran it under the Kokusai Kaihatsu banner; Motor Sport calls its works status a matter of debate. The win remains unusual because the winning car descended so directly from a road car, as the McLaren F1 story explains.
Which of these marques still races for the win?
Ferrari and Aston Martin, on the evidence of the 2026 race. Both entered the Hypercar class: Ferrari's best 499P finished fifth and Aston Martin's best Valkyrie eighth, behind Toyota's winning car. The historical table can only change for a marque that enters and wins. Follow these marques through the Bentley, Aston Martin, McLaren and Bugatti quizzes.
FAQ
Who has the most Le Mans wins?
Porsche, with 19 overall victories, followed by Audi with 13 and Ferrari with 12. Porsche's most recent overall win came in 2017 with the 919 Hybrid.
How many times has Ferrari won Le Mans?
Twelve times overall: nine between 1949 and 1965, then three in a row with the 499P from 2023 to 2025. Toyota won in 2026.
Has McLaren won Le Mans?
Yes, once overall. A McLaren F1 GTR driven by JJ Lehto, Yannick Dalmas and Masanori Sekiya won in 1995.
How many times did Bentley win Le Mans?
Six: 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 and 2003. The Speed 8 of 2003 ended a 73-year gap, the longest of any manufacturer.
Sources
- List of 24 Hours of Le Mans winners, Wikipedia
- 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans: Porsche Penske Motorsport so close to win number 20, 24h-lemans.com
- 24 Hours of Le Mans 2001-2003: 21st-century Bentley Boys, 24h-lemans.com
- A decade-long ascent that took Aston Martin to the summit, 24h-lemans.com
- The history of Bugatti at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Bugatti Newsroom
- Won for the road: McLaren's unlikely 1995 Le Mans win, Motor Sport Magazine
- Woking back to happiness, Motor Sport Magazine
- Toyota ends Ferrari's reign at Le Mans, Nordisk Bil
- 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans: full results for all classes, Crash
Every figure here was checked against at least two independent sources, listed at the end.
