2016 Lone Star Le Mans

The race was held at the twenty-turn 3.426 mi (5.514 km) Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas on September 17, 2016.

[4] In GTLM, Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner led the Drivers' Championship with 287 points, 7 ahead of Ryan Briscoe and Richard Westbrook.

[4] In GTD, the Drivers' Championship was led by Alessandro Balzan and Christina Nielsen with 268 points; the duo held a twenty-point advantage over Jeroen Bleekemolen and Ben Keating.

Mazda Motorsports had two Lola B12/80 cars and Michael Shank Racing (MSR) entered one Ligier JS P2 chassis with a Honda HR35TT twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 engine.

007 The Racer's Group Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 was reinstated to the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship after making its first appearance since the Laguna Seca round.

67 CGR car lapping 2:04.107 from Giancarlo Fisichella's second-placed Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE.

[15] Ferrari paced GTLM with Risi Competizione's 488 of Vilander lapping 2:03.380, ahead of the two Ford GTs.

Cars in GTD were sent out first before those grouped in GTLM, PC, and Prototype had three separate identically timed sessions.

Regulations stipulated teams to nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each classes starting order.

IMSA would arranged the grid to put all Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM, and GTD cars.

With a total of 285 points, Curran and Cameron's second-place finish allowed them to take the lead of the Prototype Drivers' Championship.

[19] Popow and van der Zande's victory allowed them to increase their advantage in the PC Drivers' Championship by 3 points over Alon and Kimber-Smith.

[19] The final results of GTLM meant that Gavin and Milner extended their advantage to 11 points in the Drivers' Championship over Briscoe and Westbrook.

[19] Balzan and Nielsen's third-place finish allowed them to increase their advantage in the GTD Drivers' Championship to 32 points over Bleekemolen and Keating.