Skip to main content

Lap Times

Best cars and lap times at Circuit Paul Ricard

How real driver pace is distributed at Circuit Paul Ricard 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 Circuit Paul Ricard: 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.

Data on this page is cached and may be up to 24h old. For live figures, use the Discord bot.

GT3

2,241 drivers

Open setup

Qualifying · Field distributionbest lap, pooled across all race lengths, on open setup
p10 p25 p50 p75 p90 B3 S1 S2+ ≥+10%: 91+0%+2%+4%+6%+8%+10%

Median by driver rating Bronze 3 2:09.574 Silver 1 2:07.216 Silver 2+ 2:05.264

alien top 0.5% ≤ 2:04.000 gold top 10% ≤ 2:05.840 silver top 30% ≤ 2:07.244 bronze top 50% ≤ 2:08.416 rookie top 75% ≤ 2:10.362

2,241 drivers · p10 2:05.840 to p90 2:12.882 · σ 3.58s · pole 2:03.349

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.

Mercedes-AMG GT3
157 drv
2.78s
2.2%
Ferrari 296 GT3
294 drv
3.06s
2.4%
McLaren 720S GT3 Evo
196 drv
3.15s
2.5%
Ford Mustang GT3
122 drv
3.16s
2.5%
BMW M4 GT3
700 drv
3.19s
2.5%
Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)
606 drv
3.24s
2.6%
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2
110 drv
3.29s
2.6%
Lexus RCF GT3
238 drv
3.37s
2.7%
its own top 5% +8% slower
Race · Field distributionrace laps from 20 to 40 minute races, sustained median lap, on open setup
p10 p25 p50 p75 p90 B3 S1 S2+ ≥+10%: 40+0%+2%+4%+6%+8%+10%

Median by driver rating Bronze 3 2:10.216 Silver 1 2:08.076 Silver 2+ 2:06.216

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.

alien top 0.5% ≤ 2:05.048 gold top 10% ≤ 2:06.718 silver top 30% ≤ 2:08.138 bronze top 50% ≤ 2:09.215 rookie top 75% ≤ 2:10.766

1,991 drivers · p10 2:06.718 to p90 2:12.687 · σ 2.77s · quickest 2:04.378

Car Fastest setup-shop lap
Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 2:02.890 GO↗
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 2:02.925 GO↗
Corvette Z06 GT3.R 2:02.958 GO↗

Hypercar

Setup-shop laps only

No per-driver race data at Circuit Paul Ricard for Hypercar yet, so there is no distribution to show. The fastest setup-shop laps below are the car ceiling until the race rotation reaches this combination.

Car Fastest setup-shop lap
Alpine A424 1:48.151 GO↗
Porsche 963 1:48.159 GO↗
Cadillac V-Series.R 1:48.184 GO↗

LMP2

1,554 drivers

Open setup

Qualifying · Field distributionbest lap, pooled across all race lengths, on open setup
p10 p25 p50 p75 p90 B3 S1 S2+ ≥+10%: 47+0%+2%+4%+6%+8%+10%

Median by driver rating Bronze 3 1:54.068 Silver 1 1:52.062 Silver 2+ 1:50.488

alien top 0.5% ≤ 1:49.206 gold top 10% ≤ 1:50.596 silver top 30% ≤ 1:51.704 bronze top 50% ≤ 1:52.621 rookie top 75% ≤ 1:54.400

1,554 drivers · p10 1:50.596 to p90 1:56.534 · σ 2.77s · pole 1:48.670

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.

Oreca 07 Gibson ELMS
1,554 drv
2.47s
2.2%
its own top 5% +8% slower
Race · Field distributionrace laps from 20 to 40 minute races, sustained median lap, on open setup
p10 p25 p50 p75 p90 B3 S1 S2+ ≥+10%: 26+0%+2%+4%+6%+8%+10%

Median by driver rating Bronze 3 1:54.972 Silver 1 1:53.316 Silver 2+ 1:51.773

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.

alien top 0.5% ≤ 1:50.527 gold top 10% ≤ 1:51.882 silver top 30% ≤ 1:52.972 bronze top 50% ≤ 1:53.882 rookie top 75% ≤ 1:55.169

1,452 drivers · p10 1:51.882 to p90 1:57.117 · σ 2.40s · quickest 1:50.226

Car Fastest setup-shop lap
Oreca 07 Gibson ELMS 1:48.849 HY↗
Oreca 07 Gibson 1:52.839 HY↗

LMP3

359 drivers

Open setup

Qualifying · Field distributionbest lap, pooled across all race lengths, on open setup
p10 p25 p50 p75 p90 B3 ≥+10%: 25+0%+2%+4%+6%+8%+10%

Median by driver rating Bronze 3 2:03.876

alien top 0.5% ≤ 1:57.776 gold top 10% ≤ 1:59.421 silver top 30% ≤ 2:00.942 bronze top 50% ≤ 2:02.344 rookie top 75% ≤ 2:04.734

359 drivers · p10 1:59.421 to p90 2:08.065 · σ 4.42s · pole 1:57.582

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.

Duqueine D09
110 drv
3.17s
2.7%
Ginetta G61-LT-P325 EVO
189 drv
3.22s
2.7%
its own top 5% +8% slower
Race · Field distributionrace laps from 20 to 40 minute races, sustained median lap, on open setup
p10 p25 p50 p75 p90 ≥+10%: 24+0%+2%+4%+6%+8%+10%

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.

alien top 0.5% ≤ 1:58.522 gold top 10% ≤ 1:59.998 silver top 30% ≤ 2:01.222 bronze top 50% ≤ 2:02.404 rookie top 75% ≤ 2:05.000

311 drivers · p10 1:59.998 to p90 2:08.028 · σ 4.38s · quickest 1:57.626

Car Fastest setup-shop lap
Duqueine D09 1:56.080 HY↗
Ginetta G61-LT-P325 EVO 1:56.243 HY↗
Adess AD25 LMP3 1:56.598 HY↗

Best Cars at Circuit Paul Ricard

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 Circuit Paul Ricard

open setup

The fastest GT3 setup lap at Circuit Paul Ricard is the Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) (02:02.890, GO). By race win rate, the BMW M4 GT3 leads at 30.6% over 156 races. On open setup, the most forgiving GT3 is the Mercedes-AMG GT3: a mid-pack driver gives up 2.78s to the quick drivers in it, against 3.37s in the Lexus RCF GT3, over the 8 cars with enough drivers to measure.

Highest win rate

BMW M4 GT3

30.6% wins

over 156 races

Most picked

BMW M4 GT3

27.0% of entries

popularity, not results

Most podiums

BMW M4 GT3

60.8% podiums

over 156 races

Most forgiving

Mercedes-AMG GT3

2.78s from a mid-pack driver to the quick ones in the same car

Widest is the Lexus RCF GT3 at 3.37s. Measured on open setup, over the 8 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 Lexus RCF GT3 02:03.349
2 BMW M4 GT3 02:03.363
3 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 02:03.452

Best race lap per car

20 to 40 min

1 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo 02:03.689
2 Lexus RCF GT3 02:03.734
3 BMW M4 GT3 02:03.776

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 Circuit Paul Ricard

open setup

The fastest Hypercar setup lap at Circuit Paul Ricard is the Alpine A424 (01:48.151, GO).

Not enough official race results at this layout yet to rank win rate, pick rate or podiums. The setup-shop and per-car benchmarks below are still tracked.

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.