END 2HEURE · Course Race⏱ 2h02

Eighteen teams lined up on the 964-metre Karting Paul Ricard layout on 3 November 2026 for a 121-minute endurance race. At the chequered flag, LES JAP (kart #18) took the victory with 99 laps completed, edging out GUIDEL-CLUB (kart #20) by 13.329 seconds after more than two hours of racing. LES DANSEUSES (kart #24) completed the podium, one lap down and 54 seconds behind the runner-up.

HERMES CLUB (kart #17) finished fourth, also on 99 laps but one lap behind the leaders on count-back, while LE NEPTUNIA (kart #26) and LA CMU (kart #11) rounded out the top six, both on 97 laps. All teams in the top eight completed 8 pit stops, as did the majority of the field.

The fastest lap of the race was set by GUIDEL-CLUB in 1:01.109. Fittingly, GUIDEL-CLUB also posted the best median pace of the entire field — a median lap time of 1:03.187, ranking first in pure pace. Yet it was LES JAP who converted that close battle into the race win, relying on a solid overall median of 1:03.766 (2nd in pure pace) and remarkable consistency across their eight stints, five of which were rated stable or accelerating. Their final stint of 19 laps — their longest — produced a best lap of 1:02.154 and a steady median of 1:03.545, confirming the team's ability to maintain pace to the very end.

GUIDEL-CLUB's race was marked by contrasting stints: their 6th and 8th stints were their sharpest (medians of 1:01.891 and 1:01.701 respectively), but the 4th and 7th stints were notably slower, which ultimately left them 13 seconds shy of victory despite having the fastest machinery on pace. Their overall consistency figure (σ = 2.13 s) was the widest among the top two, reflecting those variations between stints.

Among the notable storylines further down the field, LES TIMALS (kart #12) present a striking contrast: classified 17th with 98 laps completed, they ranked 3rd in pure pace — a gap between raw speed and final position that points to lost time elsewhere in the race. LES SOUPEURS (kart #2), on the other hand, finished 7th despite ranking only 13th in pure pace (median 1:05.788), demonstrating that strategy and execution can compensate for a pace deficit. The most consistent team across the whole race was BLEU BLANC BOULE (kart #13), with the lowest lap-time standard deviation of the field (σ = 1.58 s), even though they finished 11th.

TEAM SHREK (kart #10) was the only team outside the top eight to make 9 pit stops, finishing 9th on 95 laps. LES 7.5 (kart #5), also on 9 stops, completed just 39 laps and finished 14th — the fewest laps recorded among all finishers.

Key takeaways for teams: At Karting Paul Ricard, pure pace alone does not guarantee victory — GUIDEL-CLUB's median was the fastest yet LES JAP won on execution and consistency. Stint-to-stint variation is costly: the gap between a team's best and slowest stints proved decisive at the front. Managing pit stop efficiency within an 8-stop structure appeared to be the standard approach, and teams able to sustain their pace deep into the final stint — as LES JAP did with a 19-lap closing run — gained a decisive edge.