FIA WEC Super Season and 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours entry lists revealed
The entry list for the 2018-2019 FIA WEC super season and the entry list for the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours have been revealed today. FIA and ACO announced that 36 crews will participate in the FIA World Endurance Championship which will kick-off in May at Spa-Francorchamps. It’s the biggest ever grid in world’s premier sports car competition.
At Le Mans 24 Hours, the number of entries is traditionally limited to sixty. The regular FIA WEC entries will be joined by 24 crews from other competitions in June at 86th edition of 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Ten LMP1 prototypes, including two Toyota TS050 Hybrids and eight non-hybrids, will participate full season in the World Endurance Championship and also at Le Mans. The LMP2 grid for FIA WEC features seven cars of three chassis manufacturers (Ligier, Oreca, Dallara) while twenty LMP2 cars will fight for Le Mans 24h trophy.
The 19-car FIA WEC GT grid is divided into ten GTE Pro crews and nine GTE Am crews. At Le Mans, thirty GT cars will participate – seventeen GTE Pro and thirteen GTE Am.
Sixty cars will participate at 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours
Here’s the entry list for 2018 Le Mans 24h (FIA WEC entries are marked):
| Class | FIA WEC entry | Car number | Team | Car | Drivers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMP1 | YES | 1 | Rebellion Racing | Rebellion R13 - Gibson | Andre Lotterer |
| YES | 3 | Rebellion Racing | Rebellion R13 - Gibson | Thomas Laurent | |
| YES | 4 | ByKolles Racing Team | ENSO CLM P1/01 - Nismo | Oliver Webb | |
| YES | 5 | CEFC TRSM Racing | Ginetta G60-LT P1 - Mecachrome | Charlie Robertson | |
| YES | 6 | CEFC TRSM Racing | Ginetta G60-LT P1 - Mecachrome | Oliver Rowland | |
| YES | 7 | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Toyota TS050 Hybrid | Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria Lopez | |
| YES | 8 | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Toyota TS050 Hybrid | Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima, Fernando Alonso | |
| YES | 10 | Dragonspeed | BR Engineering BR1 - Gibson | Henrik Hedman, Ben Hanley, Renger van der Zande | |
| YES | 11 | SMP Racing | BR Engineering BR1 - Gibson | Mikhail Aleshin | |
| YES | 17 | SMP Racing | BR Engineering BR1 - Gibson | Vitaly Petrov | |
| LMP2 | 22 | United Autosports | Ligier JS P217 - Gibson | Philip Hanson | |
| 23 | Panis Barthez Competition | Ligier JS P217 - Gibson | Timothe Buret | ||
| 25 | Algarve Pro Racing | Ligier JS P217 - Gibson | Mark Patterson | ||
| 26 | G-Drive Racing | Oreca 07 - Gibson | Roman Rusinov | ||
| YES | 28 | TDS Racing | Oreca 07 - Gibson | Francois Perrodo, Matthieu Vaxiviere, Loic Duval | |
| YES | 29 | Racing Team Nederland | Dallara P217 - Gibson | Frits Van Eerd, Giedo Van Der Garde, Jan Lammers | |
| YES | 31 | Dragonspeed | Oreca 07 - Gibson | Roberto Gonzalez | |
| 32 | United Autosports | Ligier JS P217 - Gibson | Hugo de Sadeleer | ||
| 33 | Jackie Chan DC Racing | Ligier JS P217 - Gibson | David Cheng | ||
| 34 | Jackie Chan DC Racing | Ligier JS P217 - Gibson | Jacques Nicolat | ||
| 35 | SMP Racing | Dallara P217 - Gibson | Victor Shaytar | ||
| YES | 36 | Signatech Alpine Matmut | Alpine A470 - Gibson | Nicolas Lapierre, Andre Negrao, Pierre Thiriet | |
| YES | 37 | Jackie Chan DC Racing | Oreca 07 - Gibson | Jazeman Jaafar | |
| YES | 38 | Jackie Chan DC Racing | Oreca 07 - Gibson | Ho-Pin Tung | |
| 39 | Graff-SO24 | Oreca 07 - Gibson | Vincent Capillaire | ||
| 40 | G-Drive Racing | Oreca 07 - Gibson | James Allen | ||
| 44 | Eurasia Motorsport | Ligier JS P217 - Gibson | Marko Asmer | ||
| 47 | Cetiler Villorba Corse | Dallara P217 - Gibson | Roberto Lacorte | ||
| 48 | IDEC Sport | Ligier JS P217 - Gibson | Paul Lafargue | ||
| YES | 50 | Larbre Competition | Ligier JS P217 - Gibson | Erwin Creed, Romano Ricci, Fernando Rees | |
| GTE Pro | YES | 51 | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado |
| 52 | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | Toni Vilander | ||
| 63 | Corvette Racing - GM | Chevrolet Corvette C7.R | Jan Magnussen | ||
| 64 | Corvette Racing - GM | Chevrolet Corvette C7.R | Oliver Gavin | ||
| YES | 66 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Ford GT | Stefan Mucke, Olivier Pla | |
| YES | 67 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Ford GT | Andy Priaulx, Harry Tincknell | |
| 68 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA | Ford GT | Joey Hand | ||
| 69 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA | Ford GT | Ryan Briscoe | ||
| YES | 71 | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | Davide Rigon, Sam Bird | |
| YES | 81 | BMW Team MTEK | BMW M8 GTE | Martin Tomczyk, Nick Catsburg, Philipp Eng | |
| YES | 82 | BMW Team MTEK | BMW M8 GTE | Augusto Farfus, Antonio Felix da Costa, Alexander Sims | |
| YES | 91 | Porsche GT Team | Porsche 911 RSR | Richard Lietz, Gianmaria Bruni | |
| YES | 92 | Porsche GT Team | Porsche 911 RSR | Michael Christensen, Kevin Estre | |
| 93 | Porsche GT Team | Porsche 911 RSR | Patrick Pilet | ||
| 94 | Porsche GT Team | Porsche 911 RSR | Romain Dumas | ||
| YES | 95 | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | Marco Sorensen, Nicki Thiim | |
| YES | 97 | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | Alex Lynn, Maxime Martin | |
| GTE Am | YES | 54 | Spirit of Race | Ferrari 488 GTE | Thomas Flohr, Francesco Castellacci, Giancarlo Fisichella |
| YES | 56 | Team Project 1 | Porsche 911 RSR | Jorg Bergmeister, Patrick Lindsey, Egidio Perfetti | |
| YES | 61 | Clearwater Racing | Ferrari 488 GTE | Weng Sun Mok, Keita Sawa, Matt Griffin | |
| YES | 70 | MR Racing | Ferrari 488 GTE | Ishikawa Motoaki, Olivier Beretta, Edward Cheever | |
| YES | 77 | Dempsey-Proton Racing | Porsche 911 RSR | Matteo Cairoli | |
| 80 | Ebimotors | Porsche 911 RSR | Fabio Babini | ||
| 84 | JMW Motorsport | Ferrari 488 GTE | Liam Griffin | ||
| 85 | Keating Motorsports | Ferrari 488 GTE | Ben Keating | ||
| YES | 86 | Gulf Racing | Porsche 911 RSR | Michael Wainwright | |
| YES | 88 | Dempsey-Proton Racing | Porsche 911 RSR | Matt Campbell | |
| YES | 90 | TF Sport | Aston Martin Vantage | Salih Yoluc, Euan Hankey, Charles Eastwood | |
| YES | 98 | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin Vantage | Paul Dalla Lana, Pedro Lamy, Mattias Lauda | |
| 99 | Proton Competition | Porsche 911 RSR | Patrick Long |
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