The FIA along with the ACO have revealed the 2015 FIA WEC entry list and Le Mans 24 Hour entry list. 35 full time entry’s have been accepted into the FIA WEC for this year, 21 LMP entries, with 11 in LMP1 and 10 in LMP2. The LMGTE entry is evenly split with 7 cars in both Pro and Am categories, making a total of 14 in all.
This year we will see Audi, Porsche, Toyota and Nissan all competing in LMP1 H with 2 Rebellions and 1 Team ByKolles (Formally Lotus) in the LMP1 sub class. In LMP2 we have the return of the British team Strakka with there Strakka Dome S103, ESM have joined from the states with 2 new HPD coupés, Oak Racing/G-Drive with 3 Ligier JS P2’s. Signatech Alpine move over from the ELMS with there re-branded Oreca the Alpine A450B, KCMG are back with there Oreca 05, and Moran have teamed up with Japanese team Sard for a 2 car campaign with the Morgan Evo.
In GT Aston Martin Racing have stepped up to 3 V8 Vantage GTE’s in Pro and 2 in AM, Porsche once again have 2 Pro 911’s with Proton Racing running 2 in AM, one for a certain Patrick Dempsey. AF Corse have 2 Ferrari 458’s in Pro with 1 in Am along with an SMP entered 458. To end of the list nicely there is Larbre Competition who return with a Corvette C7.R in the AM category.
All of the above teams are also entered in the Le Mans 24 Hours which has an entry list of 56 Cars with 7 cars on the reserve list in case any drop out. The full list is below which shows the Le Mans 24 Hours entry list along with the FIA WEC entry List.
LMP1 (14 Entries)
1 – Toyota Racing – Toyota TS040 Hybrid – Anthony Davidson*
2 – Toyota Racing – Toyota TS040 Hybrid – Alexander Wurz*
7 – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R18 e-tron quattro – Marcel Fassler*
8 – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R18 e-tron quattro – Lucas di Grassi*
9 – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R18 e-tron quattro – Filipe Albuquerque
17 – Porsche Team – Porsche 919 Hybrid – Timo Bernhard*
18 – Porsche Team – Porsche 919 Hybrid – Romain Dumas*
19 – Porsche Team – Porsche 919 Hybrid – Nico Hulkenberg
21 – Nissan Motorsports – Nissan GT-R LM NISMO – Tsugio Matsuda
22 – Nissan Motorsports – Nissan GT-R LM NISMO – Harry Tincknell*
23 – Nissan Motorsports – Nissan GT-R LM NISMO – Olivier Pla*
4 – Team ByKolles – CLM P1/01 AER – Simon Trummer*
12 – Rebellion Racing – Rebellion R-One AER – Nicolas Prost*
13 – Rebellion Racing – Rebellion R-One AER – Mathias Beche*
LMP2 (20 Entries)
26 – G-Drive Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Roman Rusinov*
27 – SMP Racing – BR01 Nissan – Mikhail Aleshin
28 – G-Drive Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Gustavo Yacaman*
29 – Pegasus Racing – Morgan Nissan – Leo Roussel
30 – Extreme Speed Motorsports – HPD ARX-04b – Scott Sharp*
31 – Extreme Speed Motorsports – HPD ARX-04b – Ed Brown*
34 – OAK Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Ho-Pin Tung
35 – OAK Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Jacques Nicolet*
36 – Signatech-Alpine – Alpine A450b Nissan – Nelson Panciatici*
37 – SMP Racing – BR01 Nissan – Maurizio Mediani
38 – Jota Sport – Gibson 015S Nissan – Simon Dolan
39 – Team SARD-Morand – Morgan Evo SARD – Christian Klien*
40 – Krohn Racing – Ligier JS P2 Judd – Tracy Krohn
41 – Greaves Motorsport – Gibson 015S Nissan – Johnny Mowlem
42 – Strakka Racing – Strakka-Dome S103 Nissan – Nick Leventis*
43 – Team SARD-Morand – Morgan Evo SARD – Pierre Ragues*
45 – Ibanez Racing – Oreca 03R Nissan – Jose Ibanez
46 – Thiriet by TDS Racing – Oreca 05 Nissan – Pierre Thiriet
47 – KCMG – Oreca 05 Nissan – Matthew Howson*
48 – Murphy Prototypes – Oreca 03R Nissan – Greg Murphy
GTE-Pro (9 Entries)
51 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Gianmaria Bruni*
63 – Corvette Racing-GM – Corvette C7.R – Jan Magnussen
64 – Corvette Racing-GM – Corvette C7.R – Oliver Gavin
71 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Davide Rigon*
91 – Porsche Team Manthey – Porsche 911 RSR – Richard Lietz*
92 – Porsche Team Manthey – Porsche 911 RSR – Patrick Pilet*
95 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Marco Sorensen*
97 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Darren Turner*
99 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Fernando Rees*
GTE-Am (13 Entries)
50 – Larbre Competition – Corvette C7.R – Gianluca Roda*
55 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Duncan Cameron
61 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Peter Mann
62 – Scuderia Corsa – Ferrari F458 Italia – William Sweedler
66 – JMW Motorsports – Ferrari F458 Italia – George Richardson
67 – Team AAI – Porsche 911 GTE RSR (997) – Jun-san Chen
68 – Team AAI – Porsche 911 GTE RSR (997) – Han-chen Chen
72 – SMP Racing – Ferrari F458 Italia – Victor Shaitar*
77 – Dempsey Proton Racing – Porsche 911 RSR – Patrick Dempsey*
83 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Francois Perrodo*
88 – Abu Dhabi Proton Racing – Porsche 911 RSR – Christian Ried*
96 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Roald Goethe*
98 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Paul Dalla Lana*
*Denotes full-season FIA World Endurance Championship entrant.
RESERVES (7 Reserves)
53 – Riley Motorsports-TI Auto – Dodge Viper GTS-R – Jeroen Bleekemolen
49 – KCMG – Oreca 03R Nissan – Alexandre Imperatori
60 – Formula Racing – Ferrari F458 Italia – Johnny Laursen
86 – Gulf Racing UK – Porsche 911 RSR – Michael Wainwright
25 – Algarve Pro Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Rudolf Munemann
65 – Proton Competition – Porsche 911 RSR – Wolf Henzler
44 – Ibanez Racing – Oreca 03R Nissan – Pierre Perret
Full FIA WEC Entry List: http://bit.ly/1IiY8uI
ACO/FIA Press Release: http://bit.ly/1vwmITD
PLR Dedicated FIA WEC Highlights page: http://bit.ly/1zphdpe
