{"id":615961,"date":"2026-06-01T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615961\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:15:09","slug":"le-mans-ultimate-teases-circuit-de-la-sarthe-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615961\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Mans Ultimate teases Circuit de la Sarthe upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traxion.gg\/category\/games\/le-mans-ultimate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Mans Ultimate<\/a> has begun its presumed teaser campaign ahead of its next update and DLC season pass \u2013 and it has started with a new bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit de la Sarthe, the venue for the real-world 24 Hours of Le Mans event, is switching the revered Dunlop-branded bridge to Goodyear this season. This was part of what event organisers, the Automobile Club de l\u2019Ouest, called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.24h-lemans.com\/en\/news\/aco-and-goodyear-announce-strategic-enhancements-to-the-24-hours-of-le-mans-experience-60185\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strategic enhancements<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The landmark had been branded by Dunlop since 1932. Dunlop used to be owned by the same corporation as Goodyear <a href=\"https:\/\/news.goodyear.com\/2025-01-07-Goodyear-Announces-Sale-of-Dunlop-Brand-to-Sumitomo-Rubber-Industries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">until early 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"104928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Le-Mans-Ultimate-teases-Circuit-de-la-Sarthe-upgrades-02-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Le Mans Ultimate teases Circuit de la Sarthe upgrades 02\" class=\"wp-image-104928\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"104927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Le-Mans-Ultimate-Goodyear-Bridge-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Le Mans Ultimate Goodyear Bridge\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-104927\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Fresh branding has already been implemented into Le Mans Ultimate, with a social media video showcasing new signage around the circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Footage has been recorded from a bumper camera perspective, so the car used is not visible. It sounds like the Toyota LMH entry. The now old-specification GR010 is already present in the simulation, although this could be the first sound of the new-for-2026 TR010.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Toyota-TR010-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota TR010\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-104930\"  data-\/>Toyota TR010 \u2013 Image: Toyota media<\/p>\n<p>As the official game of the FIA World Endurance Championship, and this Le Mans race, so far, it has all of the top-category cars used in the 2023-2025 season. It even recently added the all-new <a href=\"https:\/\/traxion.gg\/le-mans-ultimates-adds-genesis-free\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Genesis GMR-001 LMDh before its real-world track debut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re expecting to update you on our next season pass plans at [the 24 Hours of] Le Mans in June,\u201d said Motorsport Games CEO, Stephen Hood, <a href=\"https:\/\/traxion.gg\/what-to-expect-from-sim-racing-and-driving-games-in-june\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earlier this year<\/a>. The race runs between 10th and 14th June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tx-ai-pledge__eyebrow\">AI Pledge<\/p>\n<p class=\"tx-ai-pledge__title\">Every Traxion article is written by people, not prompts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tx-ai-pledge__body\"> Traxion.GG does not use AI to write articles, and we never will. We care deeply about journalism,<br \/>\n trust and original reporting, which is why every story is researched, written and edited by real<br \/>\n people who care about sim racing and the community around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le Mans Ultimate has begun its presumed teaser campaign ahead of its next update and DLC season pass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,16332,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-pc-gaming","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}