Alpine won the 6 Hours of Fuji 2025 at Fuji Speedway. The #35 Alpine A424 of Alpine Endurance Team covered 202 laps over 6 hours, a race distance of 922 km. The winning crew: Paul-Loup Chatin, Ferdinand Habsburg and Charles Milesi. The margin to second place was 7.7 s, close enough to keep the result open late. The quickest manufacturer over one lap was Cadillac — but the win went to Alpine. Pace and result do not always match.
How the Lead Was Won
Across the race we counted 5 lead changes among 5 different cars in the HYPERCAR class. At the closest point, first and second were only 0.4 s apart. For 6 of 6 measured hours the gap stayed under 30 seconds.
That is a real head-to-head fight, not a comfortable lead.
Figure 1 shows how that gap moved over the distance.
Manufacturer Pace
We rank pace by the average of each manufacturer’s fastest lap. That measures real speed over the distance instead of one lucky lap. The order at the top: Cadillac (181.0 km/h), Peugeot (180.4 km/h), Aston Martin (180.4 km/h).
Between the fastest and the slowest manufacturer in the HYPERCAR class lie 1.4 km/h. That is a tight field — the balance of performance is doing its job.
Figure 2 sets the pace order side by side.
Reliability by Class
3 of 36 cars did not make the finish — an overall retirement rate of 8%. The heaviest toll fell on HYPERCAR with 11%, while LMGT3 came through best at 6%.
Over this distance, reliability is a result in itself. A car that stops scores nothing, no matter how fast it was.
Figure 3 compares the classes directly.
Efficiency Over the Distance
Our efficiency score multiplies average lap speed by laps completed and compares that to the class average. It rewards cars that were fast and stayed out of trouble. A value of 1.000 is exactly class average.
The top score goes to #12 Cadillac with 1.075. The winner, #35, is not on top here. Track position and strategy turned into a result that raw efficiency alone does not explain.
Figure 4 ranks the cars by that score.
The Closing Phase
In the final hour, 31% of the field held position within ±1 place (n = 36). The closing hour stayed busy, with position changes across the field. The biggest single move came from #81 Chevrolet, 9 places forward.
Figure 5 shows how settled the finish really was.
Fastest Lap and Class Gaps
The fastest single lap of the race belongs to #12 Cadillac (Hertz Team JOTA): 1:30.507 at 181.5 km/h. Crew: Alex Lynn, Norman Nato and Will Stevens.
Between HYPERCAR and LMGT3 sits a pace gap of 10.3 s per lap. That number decides how much traffic the leaders have to work through.
Class winners — HYPERCAR: #35 Alpine (Alpine Endurance Team), LMGT3: #81 Chevrolet (TF Sport).
Putting the Race in Context
The winner averaged 153.3 km/h across 922 km. On a 4.563 km lap, that is the pace the whole strategy had to sustain.
We calculate the same metrics for every race in the archive: pace order, reliability by class, lead changes, winning margin, closing stability and efficiency. That makes this race directly comparable with every other round of the 2025 season — and with the seasons before it.
All figures are derived from the full classification of every race hour and are recalculated with each build.
