FIA World Endurance Championship

Mike Conway to step back from full-time racing

The two-time world champion says his second Le Mans victory helped him decide to close this chapter of his career.

Olga Ivanova

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Mike Conway will step back from full-time racing, the British driver announced on 6 October 2026.

In a statement published that day, the FIA World Endurance Championship said Conway’s second outright victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, achieved in June 2026, played a large part in his decision.

A career across racing categories

Conway won the Formula Renault UK and British Formula 3 titles and the Macau Grand Prix before testing for Honda Racing’s Formula 1 team in 2007 and 2008. He later recorded four race wins in IndyCar.

He moved into endurance racing in 2013, joining G-Drive Racing in the FIA WEC’s LMP2 category. Four victories in eight rounds brought him third in the standings in his first season in the discipline.

Success with Toyota

Conway joined Toyota in 2014. His first victory in the championship’s top class came in Bahrain, where he shared the car with Alexander Wurz and Stéphane Sarrazin.

The FIA WEC said Conway went on to take 20 championship wins with Toyota, including his latest at the 94th 24 Hours of Le Mans in June 2026. That was his second outright Le Mans victory.

He won the world championship in the 2019–20 and 2021 seasons, and finished in the top three in the overall drivers’ standings on four other occasions. The source also credited his contribution to Toyota’s seven manufacturers’ titles.

A title fight still underway

At the time of the announcement, Conway was competing alongside Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries. The trio sat ten points behind the top of the standings with two rounds remaining.

The FIA WEC reported that a late-race hydraulic problem at Circuit of The Americas the previous month had interrupted the team’s run while it was close to victory. The source did not report a final championship outcome.

Conway’s decision

Conway said winning Le Mans for a second time made it feel like the right moment to end this phase of his career and focus on his family. He described his time in motorsport as an opportunity to do his dream job and thanked Toyota, his teammates and the people who supported him.

The FIA WEC reported that Conway would step away from full-time racing; it did not say he was retiring from all forms of motorsport.

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This report is based on an FIA WEC article published on 6 October 2026.

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