Masters Endurance Legends frontrunner Steve Tandy, who has bought the second-generation Peugeot 908 LMP1 turbodiesel during which he was a race winner final 12 months, will drive an Acura that has been restored by BBM Sport.
Bob Berridge’s operation has bought two of the automobiles designed by Wirth Analysis for the 2015 season and has undertaken a nine-month rebuild of the primary chassis.
The automobile was given a shakedown at Donington Park final week with Tandy and Richard Bradley driving. The P2 Le Mans 24 Hours class winner lapped the nationwide circuit just under the one-minute mark.
“It was a profitable take a look at after fairly a posh rebuild – the engines got here in equipment kind and have been constructed up by Mountune and we at the moment are operating on MoTeC electronics,” mentioned Berridge.
“Richard reckoned he would have been capable of get into the 58s on recent rubber and low gas, and Steve was within the 62s, which isn’t dangerous for a 69-year-old.”
The ARX-04b was deserted by the Excessive Velocity Motorsports squad after the opening spherical of IMSA’s United SportsCar Championship in 2015.
The automobile subsequently underwent a growth programme for the next 12 months, however by no means raced in its revised kind.
Tandy’s outing in two 40-minute MEL races on the Pageant invoice on 26-27 August stays a one-off for the second.
In the meantime, additionally confirmed as making an look on the occasion would be the Mercedes and Williams F1 groups, with each set to run automobiles across the circuit.
Michael Schumacher, Mercedes GP W01
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Mercedes will carry six of its automobiles to the occasion, together with an MGP W01 as raced by Michael Schumacher in 2010 and the newest W14 mannequin presently pushed by Lewis Hamilton and George Russell.
The workforce’s growth driver Esteban Gutierrez will even take to the observe in a W04 used throughout the 2013 season.
Williams could have Alain Prost’s 1993 title-winning FW15C on show, whereas an FW19 used throughout the 1997 season will even be demonstrated on observe.