The No. 38 Hertz Team JOTA Cadillac V-Series.R won the 2026 World Endurance Championship finale at Monza on Sunday. Jack Aitken, Sebastien Bourdais, and Earl Bamber drove the winning car, which finished 5.607 seconds ahead of the No. 36 Signatech Alpine A424.
Bourdais secured his first victory under the Cadillac badge and his first WEC win since 2016. The French driver competed in his final WEC race, bringing closure to his time with the manufacturer.
The No. 8 Toyota TR010 claimed the drivers' championship. Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, and Roy Hirakawa earned the title. The victory marked Buemi and Hartley's fifth championship and Hirakawa's third. Hirakawa made his Formula 1 debut the previous weekend.
Neither of the Le Mans-winning No. 7 Toyota nor the championship No. 8 Toyota finished in the points at Monza.
JOTA's win extends the team's streak of securing victories in every year it has competed in WEC.
Bourdais expressed frustration with WEC's driver categorization system during the race weekend. "Unfortunately, the categorization for guys like me just puts you into retirement," Bourdais said. "My window of being a professional race car driver is not going to be extremely long. I'm unfortunately platinum and getting closer to 50 years old."
In the LMGT3 category, the Manthey Porsche 911 GT3 R EVO won the race. The No. 33 TF Sport Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3 R, driven by Jonny Edgar, Ben Keating, and Nick Catsburg, finished third. Edgar took the drivers' title in LMGT3.