TEAM COMPETITION · Endurance Race⏱ 1h32

On 30 September 2026, the Le Mans Karting International – Alain Prost circuit hosted a 91-minute endurance race on the Piste Alain Prost B (980 m). Twenty teams took the start, delivering a closely contested classification throughout the field.

CLUB PORSCHE (kart #10) claimed victory with 74 laps completed, edging out CARROSSERIE DU BELINOIS (kart #8) by just 11.787 seconds — a remarkably tight margin after 91 minutes of racing. Both teams completed the same lap count with 5 pit stops each, making the on-track battle the decisive factor. Third place went to DSDJ 2 (kart #27), one lap down at 73 laps, ahead of DSDJ 1 (kart #12), also on 73 laps but 53.762 seconds further back.

The fastest lap of the race was set by DSDJ 2 with a time of 1:04.142, the quickest single lap of the entire event. Among the top two finishers, CLUB PORSCHE posted a best lap of 1:04.203 and CARROSSERIE DU BELINOIS 1:04.320.

Analysing pure pace, the story behind the results is revealing. CARROSSERIE DU BELINOIS held the 2nd-best median race pace (1:05.083) and CLUB PORSCHE the 3rd (1:05.138), yet it was consistency and pit-stop management that separated them at the flag. Notably, TOUCHARD COMPETITION (kart #35) recorded the best pure median pace of the entire field at 1:00.507, yet finished 18th — the clearest illustration that raw speed alone does not win endurance races. Their 7 pit stops, compared to the standard 5 for most rivals, proved extremely costly.

In terms of consistency, DSDJ 1 stood out as the most regular team of the race, with a lap-time standard deviation of just 1.34 seconds — the lowest in the field. Their four stints were almost all marked as stable, and their median pace of 1:05.584 placed them 4th in pure pace, perfectly matching their 4th-place finish.

EAPS 3 (kart #46) offers the most striking strategic case: ranked only 17th in pure pace (median 1:07.542), they converted that into a 9th-place finish — a gain of 8 positions over their pace ranking, the biggest overperformance of the race.

At the front, CARROSSERIE DU BELINOIS showed the most pronounced tyre degradation of the day in their opening stint, losing 1.01 s/lap over those 5 tours — though they recovered strongly in subsequent stints, including a final 15-lap run at a median of 1:04.695. CLUB PORSCHE also showed a slight slowing in stints 3 and 4 (0.32 and 0.18 s/lap respectively), but managed it well enough to hold the lead to the flag.

Key takeaways for teams: On the Piste Alain Prost B, controlling degradation across stints and limiting pit stops to the minimum viable number are paramount. The TOUCHARD COMPETITION case confirms that the fastest kart does not win without pit-stop discipline. DSDJ 1's regularity profile — low standard deviation across all stints — is the benchmark to target for future endurance events at this circuit.