As Motorsport.com Italia reports, the World Endurance Championship standings have undergone a serious shake-up following a stunning home victory for Toyota at the 6 Hours of Fuji. After a two-year drought in front of their local fans, the Japanese manufacturer finally broke through on home soil, turning what looked like a tightly frozen title fight after Austin into a commanding display of strength in both the drivers' and constructors' categories.
In the manufacturers' battle, that emotional win on home ground added 29 points to the tally of the TR010 Hybrid machines, pushing their total to 169 and stretching their gap to 23 points over BMW. The BMW-WRT outfit secured a strong second place in Japan, using the result to cleanly jump ahead of Ferrari in the points. Meanwhile, Maranello is left licking its wounds; the #51 499P managed just a single solitary point, leaving the Italian squad stranded in third place on 115 points and facing the very real threat of having to abdicate their crown ahead of the penultimate round at Barcelona in some twenty days.
Further down the constructors' order, Alpine enjoyed an excellent weekend to climb to fourth with 96 points, pulling level with Cadillac. Behind them sit Aston Martin on 54 points, Peugeot with 24, and Genesis rounding out the standings at the bottom with 12 points.
The drivers' championship tells an equally fierce story, with the #8 Toyota trio of Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, and Ryo Hirakawa storming to the top of the standings on 89 points thanks to their Fuji win. They leapfrogged their teammates in the #7 car—Kamui Kobayashi, Nyck de Vries, and Mike Conway—who now sit second with 79 points. BMW's René Rast and Robin Frijns dropped to third after leaving Japan empty-handed, stuck on 75 points and now feeling the heavy breathing of their M Hybrid V8 stablemates Kevin Magnussen and Raffaele Marciello, who hold fourth on 69 points. Further back, their respective third crew members sit with Sheldon Van Der Linde on 65 points and Dries Vanthoor on 63, both having missed select rounds this season.
Ferrari's title defence took a massive blow as the #51 crew of James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi, and Antonio Giovinazzi plunged to seventh place with 59 points, making the defense of their 2025 crown an uphill battle. Their stablemates in the #50 Ferrari—Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, and Nicklas Nielsen—remain static at 54 points, bypassed by the Alpine #35 pairing of Charles Milesi and Ferdinand Habsburg, who now sit eighth with 56 points.
Over in the LMGT3 class, the TF Sport Corvette #33 squad continues to command the top three spots in the standings despite differing points totals due to driver appearances. Jonny Edgar, having contested every single round, leads the way at 86 points ahead of Nicky Catsburg on 82 and Ben Keating on 64. A brilliant comeback podium in Japan propelled Mattia Drudi, Ian James, and Zach Robichon into fourth place with 62 points in their Heart of Racing Aston Martin #27, dragging along the #34 TF Sport Corvette of Charlie Eastwood, Tom Dempsey, and Salih Yoluç on 58 points, alongside the #91 Manthey Porsche of Ayhancan Guven, Petr Boguslavskiy, and Joel Cottingham on 54.
Meanwhile, the LMGT3 hopes for the #21 Vista AF Corse Ferrari of Alessio Rovera, François Hériau, and Simon Mann are now hanging by a thread as they sit seventh on 54 points, identically matched to the fading title defense of defending champions Klaus Bachler, Yasser Shahin, and Richard Lietz in the #92 Manthey Porsche, who are still frozen at 49 points. With 52 total points still up for grabs across pole positions and victories at both Barcelona and Monza, absolutely nothing is settled yet.
