The 2 Ferrari works drivers have been amongst a number of notable names to characteristic on an 18-car entry checklist for the check, set to happen on 5 November after the WEC finale on the similar monitor, launched on Tuesday.
For Wadoux, who has raced an AF Corse Ferrari within the GTE Am class on this week’s WEC, it should mark her second time behind the wheel of an LMH after she drove the Toyota GR010 HYBRID in the identical occasion final yr.
Ferrari System 1 reserve Shwartzman in the meantime will get the possibility to pattern the 499P after racing within the GT World Problem Europe Endurance Cup this season with AF, which additionally runs the Ferrari Hypercar programme.
All 5 main producers within the Hypercar class shall be current for the check, albeit with only one automotive for almost all. Solely Peugeot has opted to take part with each of its vehicles.
Toyota will run the WEC’s nominated rookie driver Josh Pierson in its solo GR010 HYBRID, as previously announced, joined by present staff common Jose Maria Lopez in addition to Jack Hawksworth and Ben Barnicoat.
British pair Hawksworth and Barnicoat received this yr’s IMSA SportsCar Championship title within the GTD Professional class driving a Lexus RC F GT3 for Vasser Sullivan Racing.
Porsche in the meantime is giving a primary run in top-flight prototype equipment to newly-crowned DTM champion Thomas Preining, who will share the works 963 LMDh with a yet-to-be-announced second driver.
Cadillac’s V-Sequence.R shall be shared by Nicolas Varrone, the WEC’s nominated rookie for the check within the LMP2 class, and newly topped European Le Mans Sequence LMP2 champion Kyffin Simpson.
Varrone received this yr’s GTE Am title for sister GM model Corvette, whereas Simpson additionally has hyperlinks to Cadillac through companion staff Chip Ganassi Racing, with which he’s stepping as much as the IndyCar Sequence in 2024.
Champion Thomas Preining, Manthey EMA
Photograph by: Alexander Trienitz
Peugeot will run current racer Mikkel Jensen alongside 2024 newcomer Stoffel Vandoorne and its personal official junior driver Malthe Jakobsen throughout its two 9X8 LMHs.
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Additionally current for the check would be the Vanwall Vanderwell 680 and two buyer Porsches, one every from Jota and Proton Competition.
Job van Uitert will share the Vanwall with common driver Esteban Guerrieri whereas Jota’s LMP2 common Pietro Fittipaldi will pattern the staff’s 963. Former IndyCar driver Rene Binder and GTE common Julien Andlauer will each drive for Proton.
The 18-car entry checklist for the check is made up by 5 LMP2s and 4 GTE Am vehicles.
Solely three of the 5 LMP2 squads, Prema Racing, United Autosports and Inter Europol Competition, have at the least one driver named for the check, with Jota and WRT but to announce any.
Proton LMDh common Harry Tincknell will share Prema’s ORECA-Gibson 07 with present GTE Am racer PJ Hyett and Paul-Loup Chatin, whereas United Autosports will run bronze-rated Daniel Schneider and Inter Europol fields System 2 racer Clement Novalak.
Varrone was initially slated to drive for whichever staff received the LMP2 title in Bahrain, which is prone to be WRT because it has a 33-point lead with solely 39 accessible, however he’ll solely pattern the Cadillac as LMP2 drops out of the WEC on the finish of this season.
Antoine Doquin, the WEC’s nominated rookie for GTE Am, will share the title-winning Corvette C8.R with works driver Nicky Catsburg within the final official check outing for GTE equipment.
The opposite three vehicles within the class will all be AF Corse-run Ferraris, with Christoph Ulrich, Nicola Marinangeli and Lorenzo Patrese, son of ex-F1 racer Riccardo, named as drivers.