Lap Times
Best cars and lap times at Long Beach
How real driver pace is distributed at Long Beach in Le Mans Ultimate. Tiers are percentiles of the actual field, so a badge means the same thing on every circuit and nobody falls off the scale.
For which car to drive rather than how fast you are, jump to best cars at Long Beach: the fastest setup-shop lap, the race win, pick and podium leaders, and the car that gives up least between its mid-pack and its quick drivers.
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GT3
Open setup
Median by driver rating Bronze 3 1:22.179 Silver 1 1:20.938 Silver 2+ 1:19.992
1,495 drivers · p10 1:19.796 to p90 1:23.696 · σ 2.73s · pole 1:18.450
Per-car driveability
How far a mid-pack driver falls behind the quick drivers in the same car. Narrow is forgiving, wide is demanding. Not a speed ranking: each car is measured against its own top 5%, because which drivers pick a car distorts its outright pace.
Median by driver rating Bronze 3 1:23.065 Silver 1 1:21.977 Silver 2+ 1:21.112
Each driver counts once, at the median lap of their best race here. Half that race's laps were quicker, so the figure reads as sustained pace rather than one low-fuel flyer. You will beat your own marker on individual laps. Everyone on the curve will too, which is why a handful of quick laps does not move you a tier up.
1,121 drivers · p10 1:20.929 to p90 1:24.422 · σ 2.71s · quickest 1:19.293
Each driver counts once, at the median lap of their best race here. Half that race's laps were quicker, so the figure reads as sustained pace rather than one low-fuel flyer. You will beat your own marker on individual laps. Everyone on the curve will too, which is why a handful of quick laps does not move you a tier up.
237 drivers · p10 1:20.662 to p90 1:23.908 · σ 1.38s · quickest 1:19.241
Hypercar
Open setup
253 drivers · p10 1:11.769 to p90 1:14.934 · σ 1.53s · pole 1:10.843
| Tier | Cutoff |
|---|---|
| Alien | 1:10.875 |
| Gold | 1:11.769 |
| Silver | 1:12.442 |
| Bronze | 1:12.954 |
| Rookie | 1:13.927 |
| Offline | slower than 1:13.927 |
Only 160 drivers recorded here so far, below the 200 needed to draw a reliable distribution. The tier cutoffs still hold; the curve appears once more races land.
Each driver counts once, at the median lap of their best race here. Half that race's laps were quicker, so the figure reads as sustained pace rather than one low-fuel flyer. You will beat your own marker on individual laps. Everyone on the curve will too, which is why a handful of quick laps does not move you a tier up.
160 drivers · p10 1:13.202 to p90 1:16.511 · σ 2.03s · quickest 1:12.438
LMP2
Open setup
Median by driver rating Bronze 3 1:15.152 Silver 1 1:13.721
482 drivers · p10 1:12.439 to p90 1:16.923 · σ 2.67s · pole 1:11.018
Per-car driveability
How far a mid-pack driver falls behind the quick drivers in the same car. Narrow is forgiving, wide is demanding. Not a speed ranking: each car is measured against its own top 5%, because which drivers pick a car distorts its outright pace.
Median by driver rating Silver 1 1:15.434
Each driver counts once, at the median lap of their best race here. Half that race's laps were quicker, so the figure reads as sustained pace rather than one low-fuel flyer. You will beat your own marker on individual laps. Everyone on the curve will too, which is why a handful of quick laps does not move you a tier up.
400 drivers · p10 1:13.951 to p90 1:17.900 · σ 2.55s · quickest 1:12.380
LMP3
Open setup
Only 118 drivers recorded here so far, below the 200 needed to draw a reliable distribution. The tier cutoffs still hold; the curve appears once more races land.
118 drivers · p10 1:16.862 to p90 1:21.911 · σ 3.13s · pole 1:15.878
| Tier | Cutoff |
|---|---|
| Alien | 1:15.962 |
| Gold | 1:16.862 |
| Silver | 1:17.618 |
| Bronze | 1:18.358 |
| Rookie | 1:19.672 |
| Offline | slower than 1:19.672 |
Only 94 drivers recorded here so far, below the 200 needed to draw a reliable distribution. The tier cutoffs still hold; the curve appears once more races land.
Each driver counts once, at the median lap of their best race here. Half that race's laps were quicker, so the figure reads as sustained pace rather than one low-fuel flyer. You will beat your own marker on individual laps. Everyone on the curve will too, which is why a handful of quick laps does not move you a tier up.
94 drivers · p10 1:17.654 to p90 1:23.125 · σ 4.14s · quickest 1:16.855
| Car | Fastest setup-shop lap |
|---|---|
| Adess AD25 LMP3 | 1:15.488 HY↗ |
Best Cars at Long Beach
Distributions answer "am I fast". This answers "what should I drive", from setup-shop pace, official win, pick and podium rates, and how much pace each car gives up between its quick and its mid-pack drivers.
No single car wins on all of them. How these rankings are built.
Best GT3 at Long Beach
open setupThe fastest GT3 setup lap at Long Beach is the Ford Mustang GT3 (01:18.108, BE). By race win rate, the BMW M4 GT3 leads at 22.2% over 20 races. The most-picked GT3 is the Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) (28.8%). On open setup, the most forgiving GT3 is the Ferrari 296 GT3: a mid-pack driver gives up 1.48s to the quick drivers in it, against 1.77s in the Ford Mustang GT3, over the 5 cars with enough drivers to measure.
Highest win rate
BMW M4 GT3
22.2% wins
over 20 races
Most picked
Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)
28.8% of entries
popularity, not results
Most podiums
BMW M4 GT3
51.5% podiums
over 20 races
Most forgiving
Ferrari 296 GT3
1.48s from a mid-pack driver to the quick ones in the same car
Widest is the Ford Mustang GT3 at 1.77s. Measured on open setup, over the 5 cars with enough drivers. Not a speed ranking: each car is measured against its own quick drivers, so this says how hard a car is to extract pace from, not how fast it is.
Best qualifying lap per car
| 1 | Ford Mustang GT3 | 01:18.450 |
| 2 | Corvette Z06 GT3.R | 01:18.612 |
| 3 | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 01:18.638 |
Best race lap per car
| 1 | Ford Mustang GT3 | 01:18.575 |
| 2 | Corvette Z06 GT3.R | 01:19.042 |
| 3 | BMW M4 GT3 | 01:19.053 |
| 1 | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 01:19.543 |
| 2 | BMW M4 GT3 | 01:19.638 |
The quickest lap anyone has reached in each car, sorted so you can find your own. It is a best-of, so it improves with how many people have raced the car: a car 2,000 drivers have run shows a better lap than an equally quick car 200 have run. Read it as a target, not as a ranking of the cars. Race figures are single laps, the quickest anyone has set in that car in a race of that length, so they sit quicker than the sustained pace on the curve above.
Best Hypercar at Long Beach
open setupThe fastest Hypercar setup lap at Long Beach is the Isotta Fraschini Tipo 6 LMH-C (01:10.667, HY). There is not enough race data yet to name a reliable win-rate leader. The most-picked Hypercar is the BMW M Hybrid V8 (21.3%).
Highest win rate
Not enough races yet.
Most picked
BMW M Hybrid V8
21.3% of entries
popularity, not results
Most podiums
Not enough races yet.
Best qualifying lap per car
| 1 | Cadillac V-Series.R | 01:10.843 |
| 2 | BMW M Hybrid V8 | 01:10.859 |
| 3 | Ferrari 499P | 01:10.967 |
Best race lap per car
40 to 60 min
| 1 | Cadillac V-Series.R | 01:11.170 |
| 2 | BMW M Hybrid V8 | 01:11.242 |
| 3 | Genesis GMR-001 | 01:11.649 |
The quickest lap anyone has reached in each car, sorted so you can find your own. It is a best-of, so it improves with how many people have raced the car: a car 2,000 drivers have run shows a better lap than an equally quick car 200 have run. Read it as a target, not as a ranking of the cars. Race figures are single laps, the quickest anyone has set in that car in a race of that length, so they sit quicker than the sustained pace on the curve above.
Setup laps are the fastest still-valid benchmark from GoSetups, BeAlien and Hymo. Per-car best laps come from official Le Mans Ultimate sessions. Win, pick and podium rates are from official race results on BoP-stable patches.