Ferrari’s plans for a further entry fielded on the client foundation outlined by its sportscar boss Antonello Coletta earlier this month have been firmed up with the publication of the 37-strong 2024 WEC entry on Monday.
The third Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar will probably be run underneath the umbrella of AF Corse, which additionally runs the manufacturing facility automobiles, and entered within the Endurance Trophy for Hypercar groups quite than the total producers’ championship, which is proscribed to 2 entries per marque.
Kubica is listed within the automotive after being introduced as an AF signing for 2024 final week with out his programme being revealed.
The Components 1 race winner strikes as much as the Hypercar ranks following three years in LMP2 and taking the category title in 2023 with WRT.
Ferrari’s additional automotive is one among seven additions to the Hypercar division on the 2024 listing.
Two automobiles every from BMW and Alpine and a solo entry from Lamborghini, all LMDh prototypes, have been confirmed together with one Isotta Fraschini LMH and the Jota group’s second Porsche 963 LMDh.
There was no room for the ByKolles-run Vanwall Racing group and its Vandervell 680 LMH, which accomplished its maiden season within the WEC in 2023.
Glickenhaus Racing, a fixture within the WEC for the previous three seasons with its Pipo-engined 007 LMH, had already confirmed its intention to not return to the sequence in 2024.
The newcomers be part of the two-car manufacturing facility groups from Ferrari, Toyota, Porsche, Peugeot and the solo Cadillac Racing entry run by Chip Ganassi Racing.
The Hypercar class has expanded from 13 full-season entries in 2023 to 19.
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Which means there are 18 entries representing 9 producers within the new LMGT3 class.
BMW have to this point nominated Dries Vanthoor and Sheldon van der Linde to race its two M Hybrid V8s entered underneath the BMW M Staff WRT.
Alpine has listed Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere in its pair of A424s to be run at the side of the Signatech squad.
It has already introduced a six-strong roster together with Mick Schumacher for its return to the Hypercar class, however groups and producers are solely required to appoint a single driver at this stage.
The Renault model will reveal its driver mixtures in February when it formally launches its 2024 programme.
Lamborghini, which can run underneath the Lamborghini Iron Lynx banner, has listed Mirko Bortolotti in opposition to its solo S63 LMDh.
Isotta Fraschini has secured a solo entry, however the Vector Sport squad that had been as a consequence of run the Tipo 6 Competizione LMH introduced forward of publication of the listing that it had cut up with the revived Italian marque.
Staff boss Gary Holland cited “minimal entry and enter into the event” of the automotive as the rationale.
The 2 drivers nominated to this point for the Tipo 6 are 2017 TCR Worldwide Sequence champion Jean-Karl Vernay and Alejandro Garcia, who was victorious within the European Le Mans Sequence LMP3 class in 2023 alongside a Components 3 marketing campaign.
Hertz Staff Jota has listed Will Stevens and Olivier Rasmussen, who have been respectively a part of its Hypercar and LMP2 line-ups in 2023, in opposition to its two Porsche 963s.
F1 world champions Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button are recognized to be in talks to race for the group in 2024.
The Porsche Penske Motorsport line-up has been tweaked, with Matt Campbell switching over from the sister IMSA SportsCar Championship squad to switch Dane Cameron within the #5 963 in an in any other case unchanged line-up.
Toyota is the one different producer in Hypercar to appoint its full driver roster after the affirmation final week that Nyck de Vries is changing Jose Maria Lopez within the #7 GR010 HYBRID LMH.
Alex Lynn has been confirmed within the Cadillac Racing entry alongside Earl Bamber, however a substitute for Richard Westbrook who will return to IMSA to race for the JDC-Miller Porsche squad has but to be named.
Harry Tincknell is the primary driver introduced by Proton Competitors for its buyer Porsche, although he’ll miss the 2 rounds that conflict together with his commitments with Ford within the IMSA SportsCar Championship.
The 9 producers in LMGT3, which replaces GTE Am for 2024 and is the one different class within the WEC on the disappearance of LMP2 from the total championship, are Ferrari, Porsche, Chevrolet, Aston Martin, BMW, Lamborghini, Ford, McLaren and Lexus.
