The Biggest WEC Crashes of 2026

Turn four. Rocking and rolling and of course they've now all probably got a little bit too much fuel for the distance. That could have been a big one. That could have been a proper Spa plane crash but Alex Ribeiro is out of the race. That could have been a massive one taken to the grass on the inside. And just ran out of, ran out of room and as soon as it was on the grass, it just went sideways and that was so lucky. Thank you. I'm starting to lose it. And we're losing some pieces. Oh, and that's trouble for the DK Engineering car, that's the car that was in fourth in LMGT3 and Chand Hüven, the Porsche Pro is off the road and in the barriers on the Mulsanne. And he's shaking his head, and that looks to me as though that might have been driver error, but with whom those tires, and he's carried them a long way, look at this. Steering went, yeah, it looks like he was just not able to, what a hit he got there. That's a plane crash. Super happy to see that Eichengüven is okay, that was a massive hit. Let's see from the inside here, he's just trying to turn. And he only just avoided the wall on the inside so at that stage he's fighting the car all the way as well. Trouble for the 50 Ferrari. This time for the next cars along and this is yet another two-car battle for 11th place now. Mattia Drudi and Fingers hits. Oh that's a big one. Come on! Massive and that's what can go wrong when you're playing with a side draft. And that will be a safety car. We spoke about it. You take your chance. I've never actually seen that happen. But I've always suspected that playing with that could be a dangerous thing. We see Andy Priaulx in the Ford GT 10 years ago who had a similar incident like that down at turn one. But yeah the two cars bobbling side by side and then the wheel of the McLaren runs up the side of the front arch I think of the Aston or rear arch it was. And there'll be a lot of people saying, you know, how unnecessary is that? Why get so close in a straight line? And hopefully we've explained why they do this. It's a NASCAR thing. You see that happen quite a lot. And you see this happen quite a lot in NASCAR as well. Cars get sucked together. Yeah, how about you? ...over a little bit of debut, and again, Ben Keating is going to have to let him go. Contact or penalties are not going to help the team or the driver. Did that just happen under the yellow flag, though? I think that pass might have happened under the yellow flag because of this moment here. Down the inside, barrels, and McLaren way too late, and nothing that the BMW 32 could have done about that one. Yeah. And I think because of that yellow flag that was out... I think Yasser Ayari's move on Ben Keating, I think he could be in trouble for that. It all depends on exactly when. That's what it looked like on board and you can hear the hit. There's just nothing he could have done. And that I think is the end of Darren Young's adventure with WRT. Oh it's a horrible feeling when you know. Actually you know what? What's that? No hit him in the right. That's the other Alpine. Where's Malessi gone off? That's the first corner? No it's the final corner. Okay so that is out of the Parabolica, not quite out of the Parabolica. This plays beautifully into car number 83's hands here because I was just about to say they're not really racing him because of the different fuel strategy going on as we see this move down. Virtual safety car in 30 seconds. Here it comes. What's Malessi done there in the turbulence of the cars in front, gets in the power. Whoa, he's losing the rear, that came out of nowhere. I'm just trying to see exactly how many laps, yes 62 laps he had on the summit and then 56 on the other side, so I mean very very old tyres and it just looked like... And a massive, massive lock-up from Alex Lynn. Huge dark stripes coming down into the barriers. John is in the barriers. And that is what Aston Martin needed to guarantee a top-three finish. Oh, dear, oh, dear. That was all very unnecessary. Yeah, a rush of blood to a couple of heads there. And that is a very sad way to end.