WEC 2025 Prologue – Laps completed, times… the Hypercar category in figures

The 2025 Prologue of the WEC is now over, it's time for the first assessment after these two days of driving on the Losail circuit, in Qatar! The eight manufacturers and 18 crews entered in Hypercar took advantage of these two days to try out their new machines and fine-tune the settings before the start of the season, for the 1812km of Qatar (February 28).

Most of the fastest times were set on Saturday evening in the fourth and final Free Practice session, a session dominated by the #20 BMW Team WRT. Robin Frijns set the absolute fastest time of this 2025 WEC Prologue with a time of 1:38. This was faster than Matt Campbell's pole position for the 971 km Qatar 1812 (Porsche) in 1'39″347. During this Prologue, several manufacturers showed themselves to their advantage, like Cadillac – which begins its new association with JOTA – and Ferrari, who showed an interesting pace at Losail.

As expected, it is Toyota who completed the most laps on the track. The Japanese manufacturer, reigning world champion, smoothed out the Qatari asphalt with a total of 792 laps completed by the two GR010 Hybrids in two days (i.e. 4260 kilometers covered!). On the manufacturer side, thanks to its third semi-private Hypercar, it was Ferrari who was able to collect the most data thanks to its 1070 laps completed in Losail.

For his first official sessions in WEC, Aston Martin was not ridiculous. The Gaydon firm completed 549 laps with its Valkyrie with very few problems encountered during the two days of the Prologue. The British manufacturer will now have to work on the pace over a lap, since the best Valkyrie is more than two seconds behind the reference set by the BMW n°20. The "bad student" of this Prologue is undoubtedly Proton Competition which completed only 213 laps with its Porsche 963 and which finished last in the cumulative classification, 2″3 behind the best time.

Best time per team

1) BMW Team WRT – 1’38″971
2) Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA – 1’39″116 (+0″145)
3) AF Corsica – 1’39″141 (+0″170)
4) Ferrari AF Corse – 1’39″367 (+0″396)
5) Alpine Endurance Team – 1’39″505 (+0″534)
6) Toyota Gazoo Racing – 1’39″549 (+0″578)
7) Porsche Penske Motorsport – 1’39″873 (+0″902)
8) Peugeot TotalEnergies – 1’40″138 (+1″167)
9) Aston Matin THOR Team – 1’41″089 (+2″118)
10) Proton Competition – 1’42″254 (+2″382)

Number of laps per crew

1) Toyota n°7 – 402 laps
2) Toyota n°8 – 390 laps
3) Ferrari n°51 – 362 laps
4) Ferrari n°50 – 360 laps
5) BMW n°15 – 355 laps
6) Alpine n°36 – 349 laps
7) AF Corse n°83 – 348 laps
8) BMW n°20 – 347 laps
9) Peugeot n°93 – 346 laps
10) Cadillac n°38 – 345 laps
11) Alpine n°35 – 335 laps
12) Porsche n°5 – 329 laps
13) Peugeot n°94 – 316 laps
14) Cadillac n°12 – 303 laps
15) Porsche n°6 – 284 laps
16) Aston Martin n°007 – 275 laps
17) Aston Martin n°009 – 274 laps
18) Proton n°99 – 213 laps

Number of laps per team

1) Toyota Gazoo Racing – 792 laps
2) Ferrari AF Corse – 722 laps
3) BMW Team WRT – 702 laps
4) Alpine Endurance Team – 684 laps
5) Peugeot TotalEnergies – 662 laps
6) Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA – 648 laps
7) Porsche Penske – 613 laps
8) Aston Martin THOR Team – 549 laps
9) AF Corse – 348 laps
10) Proton Competition – 213 laps

Number of rounds per manufacturer

1) Ferrari – 1070 laps (average: 356,7 laps/car)
2) Porsche – 826 laps (average: 275,3 laps)
3) Toyota – 792 laps (average: 396 turns)
4) BMW – 702 laps (average: 351 laps)
5) Alpine – 684 laps (average: 342 laps)
6) Peugeot – 662 laps (average: 331 laps)
7) Cadillac – 648 laps (average: 324 laps)
8) Aston Martin – 549 laps (average: 274,5 laps)

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