The Mexican, who made 59 grand prix begins for Sauber and Haas in F1, has been introduced into the Glickenhaus Racing line-up along with Nathanael Berthon to drive its extra Le Mans Hypercar entered for the French enduro on 10/11 June.
They had been confirmed on Friday alongside Franck Mailleux within the #709 Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 with the publication of the total entry record which options accomplished driver line-ups for all 62 automobiles racing the a hundredth anniversary version of the occasion.
Gutierrez, who stays an envoy for the Mercedes F1 squad, made a primary transfer into sportscars final 12 months with a full WEC marketing campaign with the Inter Europol Competitors squad in LMP2 and contested this 12 months’s IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener in LMP2 with Algarve Professional Racing.
Berthon, in the meantime, has in depth expertise within the prototype ranks, together with making two of his seven Le Mans begins in LMP1 with Rise up Racing.
Luca Ciancetti, technical director of the Podium Superior Applied sciences organisation that runs the Glickenhaus staff, informed Autosport: “We had been in search of fast and skilled guys and people are the sort of driver we’ve ended up with.”
He defined that Berthon has been picked on the advice of Glickenhaus common Romain Dumas, with whom he drove at Rise up.
“That left us with one seat to fill and Esteban fitted our expectations,” added Ciancetti.
Glickenhaus had been in talks with DTM champion and Mercedes manufacturing unit driver Maximilian Gotz about filling one of many vacancies, but that deal fell over last month.
Had the German raced for Glickenhaus, it was deliberate for him to hitch Dumas and Olivier Pla within the staff’s full-season entry, #708, with Ryan Briscoe transferring over to #709 to drive alongside Mailleux.
#708 Glickenhaus Racing Glickenhaus 007: Romain Dumas, Ryan Briscoe, Olivier Pla
Photograph by: Eric Le Galliot
Frenchman Mailleux raced the staff’s common automotive at Spa final weekend instead of Briscoe so as reacquaint himself with the Glickenhaus LMH forward of Le Mans.
Briscoe will probably be again on the wheel of #708 for the 24 Hours.
Groups had till noon on Tuesday to appoint their full driver line-ups for Le Mans.
The publication of the total record follows the announcement of variety of line-ups this week, together with Jan Magnussen joining the Polish Inter Europol team for what will probably be his twenty fourth Le Mans marketing campaign.
The vast majority of TBAs to be stuffed had been within the 21-strong GTE Am class.
Former Champ Automotive driver Jan Heylen has been named within the #16 Proton Competitors Porsche 911 RSR alongside Ryan Hardwick with whom he completed second within the IMSA SportsCar Championship GT Daytona class final 12 months and Zach Robichon.
The trio are contesting this 12 months’s IMSA enduros in GTD with the Wright Motorsports Porsche staff.
Two-time Le Mans class winner Harry Tincknell stays within the #88 Proton entry he has raced within the opening three rounds of the WEC, now sharing with Brendan Iribe and Ollie Millroy relatively than Hardwick and Robichon.
Estonian Martin Rump has been confirmed within the #911 Proton Porsche alongside manufacturing unit driver Richard Lietz and Hollywood star Michael Fassbender with whom he’s contesting this 12 months’s European Le Mans Collection.
Fassbender will probably be partnered by Rump and Lietz for his second try at Le Mans
Photograph by: Eric Le Galliot
Le Mans stalwart JMW Motorsport’s Ferrari 488 GTE Evo will probably be raced by Giacomo Petrobelli and Louis Prette along with the already-announced Thomas Neubauer.
The Swiss Kessel Racing staff’s #74 Ferrari will probably be pushed by Kei Cozzolino, Yorikatsu Tsujiko and Naoki Yokomizo.
Walkenhorst Motorsport has named Andrew Haryanto and Jeff Segal in its solo Ferrari entry alongside Chandler Hull.
Frenchman Julien Piguet has come into the AF Corse’s #21 entry alongside Ulysse de Pauw and Simon Mann.
Eight automobiles stay on the unique 10-strong reserve record.
Monitor motion on the total 8.47-mile Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans begins with the Take a look at Day on Sunday 4 June, with follow and qualifying for the race starting on Wednesday 7 June.