Hotels for Lone Star Le Mans 2026 (FIA WEC)

Lone Star Le Mans 2026 brings FIA World Endurance Championship racing to Circuit of The Americas in Austin. Where you stay determines your commute to the track—from a quick local hop to a longer drive—and shapes your experience of this premier motorsport event.

Circuit of The Americas opened in 2012 as the first purpose-built Grand Prix circuit in the United States, carved into the rolling hills south-east of Austin to a Hermann Tilke design. Its 5.5-kilometre, twenty-corner lap is famous for a dramatic uphill run to the blind, banked first corner and a fast, flowing esses section that borrows its rhythm from Silverstone and Suzuka.

The World Endurance Championship first raced here in 2013, and the American round — badged Lone Star Le Mans — has become the series' North American home, pitting the premier Hypercar class against LMP2 and the production-based GT machines in Le Mans-style, multi-class racing. Run into the warm Texan evening, it draws sports-car crowds who also know the venue from Formula 1's United States Grand Prix and MotoGP's Grand Prix of the Americas. The mix of a world-class facility and Austin's music-and-barbecue culture makes it one of endurance racing's most enjoyable weekends.

Circuit of The Americas in Austin is the United States' purpose-built Formula 1 venue, a lap that borrows corners from the world's great circuits wrapped around a 133-metre observation tower in the Texas Hill Country. Austin is an exceptional race city: live music venues, legendary barbecue, the South Congress district and a welcoming creative energy.

The circuit is 15 miles south-east of downtown, with shuttle services and rideshare the main options. Stay in the city, book early, and build the grand prix around the broader Austin experience.