The French producer dropped hints ultimately weekend’s Imola WEC race that it expects the Austrian to retake his place alongside Charles Milesi and Paul-Loup Chatin within the #35 Alpine A424 LMDh on the Spa 6 Hours on 11 Could.
“We expect excellent news from Ferdy this week,” mentioned Philippe Sinault, boss of Signatech squad that runs the manufacturing facility Alpines.
“We hope he could be with us as quickly as attainable.
“His setting, the non-public one and the medical one additionally, is excellent.”
Requested particularly concerning the probabilities of Habsburg being again within the cockpit on the Belgian WEC spherical, Sinault steered {that a} resolution could possibly be imminent.
“We may have a clearer view on the finish of this week,” he said.
The entry listing for Spa will likely be revealed this week, though Habsburg’s presence on it could not essentially imply he will likely be within the automotive for spherical three of the WEC.
He’s nonetheless awaiting sign-off from his medical doctors to get again in a racing automotive after fracturing two lumbar vertebrae whereas testing for Alpine on the MotorLand Aragon circuit on the finish of March.
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It’s understood that he may have a sequence of scans within the run-up to Spa to evaluate his restoration from the accidents, which have been sustained in a head-on impression at Flip 7 of the Spanish venue.
There isn’t any expectation that Habsburg will likely be able to race one week earlier than Spa on the Paul Ricard spherical of the European Le Mans Collection, during which he’s contracted to the Cool Racing LMP2 workforce.
He was changed by Chatin within the Cool ORECA-Gibson 07 LMP2 within the ELMS opener at Barcelona earlier this month after which by Jules Gounon, Alpine’s official reserve driver, within the A424 ultimately weekend’s Imola 6 Hours WEC spherical.
Sinault confirmed that Habsburg’s accident was the results of an issue with the automotive and never driver error.
“We proceed to analyze, however we had a technical concern,” he mentioned.
“Every little thing is below management; now we have labored very onerous after this accident, however now it’s okay.”
Habsburg’s accident curtailed an endurance check, however Sinault insisted that it wasn’t a serious downside for Alpine because it builds in direction of the Le Mans 24 Hours in June.
He revealed that the solo automotive current at Aragon had already accomplished 26 of the deliberate 30 hours and that the check was nonetheless a productive one.