The title-deciding encounter of the season will feature a 37-car-field, with five cars apiece in the Hypercar as well LMGTE Pro classes, thirteen in the LMGTE Am category and fourteen in LMP2.

Changes from last weekend's 6 Hours of Fuji include the return of the ARC Bratislava squad, with team owner Miroslav Konopka in action, joined by two as yet unnamed drivers. 

Absent at Fuji due to a date clash with a DTM round held at Spa-Francorchamps, René Rast is set to return to the line-up of the #31 WRT LMP2 entry while Nico Müller to a similar machine run by Vector Sport.