The Brazilian will fill the emptiness on the manufacturing unit Motion Specific Racing workforce for the French enduro on 15-16 June and be a part of Pipo Derani and Jack Aitken, the workforce’s full-season drivers within the IMSA SportsCar Championship, within the #311 Cadillac V-Sequence.R LMDh.
Drugovich has landed a manufacturing unit drive within the Hypercar class after taking his first steps in sportscar racing this 12 months within the European Le Mans Sequence.
He joined the Vector Sport LMP2 squad for his first race marketing campaign since profitable the 2022 Components 2 Championship, but it surely was made clear from the outset that he wouldn’t be racing the British workforce’s ORECA-Gibson 07 at Le Mans.
Motion Specific workforce supervisor Gary Nelson revealed that Drugovich had been “on our radar for a few years”.
“After watching him race a sportscar within the ELMS not too long ago, we lastly received an opportunity to satisfy him and work with him in some simulator testing,” he defined.
“We had been impressed by his maturity, self-discipline and data. Subsequent, we took Felipe to a monitor check, the place he shared our automotive with Pipo and Jack.
“We’re very excited to take the subsequent apparent step and enter Felipe alongside Pipo and Jack at Le Mans. His document speaks volumes.”
#311 Motion Specific Racing Cadillac V-Sequence.R of Pipo Derani, Alexander Sims, Jack Aitken
Picture by: Marc Fleury
Drugovich described the possibility to race for Cadillac and Motion Specific at Le Mans as “crucial alternative in my racing profession so far”.
“The Le Mans 24 Hours is inconceivable to outline in phrases, such is its magic and significance for automobiles on the whole and motor racing particularly,” mentioned the 23-year-old, who’s a two-time winner of the Le Mans Digital Esports occasion.
“I barely touched the magic of Le Mans twice profitable the digital editions – now I’m going to plunge into it for actual. What a privilege having one other dream come true.”
Drugovich takes a berth crammed by Tom Blomqvist within the IMSA collection: he’s the Motion Specific workforce’s endurance driver for the long-distance races at Daytona, Sebring, Watkins Glen, Indianapolis and Street Atlanta.
Cadillac has now crammed its full driver line-up for its three-car Le Mans assault made up of its common solo WEC V-Sequence.R and its two IMSA entries.
Present IndyCar champion Alex Palou is becoming a member of Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn within the #2 Ganassi-run Cadillac Racing WEC automotive, whereas Scott Dixon groups up once more with Sebastien Bourdais and Renger van der Zande within the workforce’s IMSA entry, #3.