How WEC's manufacturers shared honours in 2024 as Hypercar era stepped up a gear

Porsche, Toyota and Ferrari all had reasons to cheer as the World Endurance Championship really came of age in 2024. Here's how the manufacturers divided the big prizes between them

The important silverware was split three ways this year for the first time since the 2012 rebirth of the World Endurance Championship. Porsche won the drivers’ title, Toyota took a last-gasp victory in the manufacturers’ rankings, and Ferrari claimed the big prize at the Le Mans 24 Hours. So was it honours even for three grandee marques, both historically and in the context of the 2024 campaign, competing in Hypercar?

That depends on how you assess the relative values of the trophies on offer. In terms of the championship, the drivers’ crown is the one the wider world acknowledges, though the car makers themselves put at least as high a value on the manufacturers’ title (one, perhaps more, pays its driver bonuses based upon it).

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Gary Watkins

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Author Gary Watkins

Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.

Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.