TotalEnergies and the WEC

TotalEnergies is the multi-energy partner and official fuel supplier of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), of which the 24 Hours of Le Mans is the undeniable highlight.

The company played an active role in Peugeot Sport’s return to the FIA WEC in the new Hypercar class in 2022 and through its brand ELF, it also has a partnership with Alpine, who joined the top-level Hypercar class with a brand new prototype in 2024.  

A major partnership with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO)

Through this strategic partnership with the ACO, TotalEnergies continues its long-standing commitment to endurance racing. As a true open-air laboratory, the track is a key driver of innovation, as the extreme constraints of endurance racing—long race durations, high mileage, harsh conditions, and relentless pace—push us to develop ever more efficient fuels that will one day be made available to motorists.

These constraints have become even more demanding as the ACO recently redefined the WEC regulations for the Hypercar category. The objective is now to achieve the best possible performance while using as little fuel as possible. A real revolution that reflects the current concerns of manufacturers and drivers alike: consuming less and reducing environmental impact.

To meet these challenges and building on Excellium Endurance—introduced in 2019 with already 10% renewable ethanol and 5% bio-based hydrocarbons—TotalEnergies engineers took a major step forward with the development of Excellium Racing 100. The result of eighteen months of research and testing, this racing fuel already embodied the ambition to combine performance, reliability, and energy efficiency.

First introduced in March 2022 in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at the 1000 Miles of Sebring (USA), Excellium Racing 100 was at the time a 100% certified sustainable fuel*. Designed and produced by TotalEnergies, it was made from bioethanol derived from French wine industry residues (grape marc and lees), enabling at least a 65% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across its entire life cycle**, in accordance with European methodology. 

Building on four years of racing experience, TotalEnergies is now taking a further step forward with Excellium Racing evo, a direct evolution of Excellium Racing 100, developed to meet the current and future challenges of motorsport competition. From 2026, Excellium Racing evo becomes the official fuel of the FIA WEC—including the 24 Hours of Le Mans—as well as the European Le Mans Series and the Asian Le Mans Series, ensuring equal supply to all competitors. 

Based on 100% bio-circular feedstocks, using a mass balance approach and certified ISCC PLUS*, Excellium Racing evo is notably produced from recycled residues and waste (used oils, sugar beet pulp residues, and wood waste from the paper industry), particularly at the La Mède biorefinery. It delivers uncompromised performance, compatible with a wide range of powertrains—from naturally aspirated V12 engines to turbocharged hybrid V6 units—while ensuring at least a 65% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to its fossil equivalent**.

A true demonstration of TotalEnergies’ expertise and pioneering spirit, Excellium Racing evo reflects the shared values with the FIA and the ACO: safety, technological innovation, energy efficiency, hybridization, and low-carbon mobility. Validated by all stakeholders—manufacturers, teams, and governing bodies—this fuel highlights the role of motorsport as an innovation laboratory, serving the development of concrete, transferable solutions for the mobility of tomorrow.

Peugeot and TotalEnergies take on the Le Mans Hypercar category

On the occasion of the twenty-five year anniversary of their collaboration in 2020, Peugeot and TotalEnergies formalized the launch of their joint Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) project. An ambitious program which materialized in an official entry into competition as part of the FIA World Endurance Championship during the 6 Hours of Monza 2022. Particularly anchored in the DNA of the two brands, competition has always represented for them a true technological laboratory.

However, Le Mans Hypercar, the new premier category of Endurance, perfectly embodies the energy transition of the two companies and in particular of TotalEnergies, which has become a multi-energy company capable of meeting all mobility needs.

After a season and half competing with the PEUGEOT 9X8, during which the French outfit secured a podium at the 6 Hours of Monza 2023, Team Peugeot TotalEnergies gave the extensively modified 2024 version PEUGEOT 9X8 its competitive début at the 6 Hours of Imola 2024. The team enjoyed some promising results in the closing rounds of the 2024 season, claiming fourth place in Japan and a podium finish at the 8 Hours of Bahrain. In 2025, Team Peugeot TotalEnergies confirmed its progress, still in a highly competitive environment, with two podium finishes (Austin, Fuji). 

This season, Team Peugeot TotalEnergies is fielding two PEUGEOT 9X8 Hypercar prototypes for Nick Cassidy/Paul di Resta/Stoffel Vandoorne and Loïc Duval/Théo Pourchaire/Malthe Jakobsen. 

Alpine returns in Hypercar with ELF

Forty-three years after the victory of the Alpine A442b in the general classification of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Alpine returned to the premier Endurance category in 2021 alongside ELF, its inseparable sporting partner, to support it in this new challenge. This arrival of the Alpine ELF Endurance Team in the new Hypercar category with the Alpine A480 was a logical continuation after the two FIA WEC LMP2 World Champion titles won in 2016 and 2019, and the three victories also secured at the 24 Hours of Mans in the feeder class to the premier category.

With the Frenchman Nicolas Lapierre, third in the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans and great architect of Alpine's success in LMP2, the Brazilian André Négrao, as well as the Frenchman Matthieu Vaxivière, the Alpine ELF Endurance Team will have completed two years punctuated by two poles positions, two victories (1000 miles of Sebring 2022, 6 Hours of Monza 2022) and eleven podiums, including a hard-fought third place at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2021, in twelve starts and won the honorary titles of vice-world champion manufacturer and drivers 2022. After a 2023 season in which the French team returned temporarily to the LMP2 class as it developed its brand new weapon, 2024 saw the début of its LMDh Hypercar, the A424, and a maiden campaign during which it scored a podium at the 6 Hours of Fuji. In 2025, the French team demonstrated its performance with two podium finishes at the start of the season before securing victory at the 6 Hours of Fuji with Charles Milesi, Ferdinand Habsburg, and Paul-Loup Chatin.

For the 2026 campaign, two Alpine A424 prototypes featuring revised aerodynamics will be driven by Charles Milesi, Ferdinand Habsburg, Jules Gounon, Frédéric Makowiecki, Antonio Félix da Costa, and Victor Martins.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans, a legendary race

The flagship event of the FIA WEC season, the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most extreme races in the world.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans are also a major challenge for the people involved, and the TotalEnergies teams are no exception to the rule, ensuring the distribution of some 280,000 litres of fuel to the 62 participating cars. In the interest of sporting fairness, TotalEnergies' technical teams carry out more than 150 fuel compliance analyses, at the request of the ACO and the FIA. To do this, they use a chromatograph, which allows them to check the “fingerprint” of the fuel. The fuel is also controlled at every stage of manufacturing to ensure quality and guarantee fairness between all competitors. In order to achieve this objective, an engineer from the TotalEnergies Company is present at every round of the World Championship alongside the FIA to analyse the fuel at all times.

* Excellium Racing evo is a fuel based on 100% bio-circular feedstocks, certified under the ISCC PLUS scheme, using a mass balance approach.

** In line with the methodology defined by Directive 2018/2001 on the promotion of renewable energy, as amended by Directive RED III (2023/2413), Excellium Racing evo enables a reduction of at least 65% in greenhouse gas emissions over its entire life cycle compared to its fossil equivalent.

Updated in May 2026