24h Le Mans
Just two weeks ahead of the 6 Hours of Fuji, fourth round of the 2018-2019 World Endurance Championship (WEC) Super Season, the entry list is now slightly different from its initial version.
The LMP1 class is subject to the most significant modifications, including the withdrawal of the lone Ginetta G60-LT-P1 originally fielded by CEFC TRSM Racing. Present at Spa, but denied participation in and therefore absent at the 6 Hours of Silverstone, so far both cars designed by Lawrence Tomlinson's crew have only done Le Mans.
Also a competitor at the 24 Hours, Tom Dillmann will once again take the wheel of ByKOLLES Racing's ENSO CLM P1/01, along with head driver Oliver Webb. The Frenchman will reunite with one of his rivals in Japanese single-seaters championship Super Formula, James Rossiter, making his return to the Austrian team this year.
Lastly, only DragonSpeed is expected to rely on a duo, comprised of Ben Hanley and James Allen, the latter a competitor in the European Le Mans Series making his debut on the international racing scene since Matevos Isaakyan, absent at Silverstone, is scheduled to share SMP Racing's #17 BR Engineering BR1 with Stéphane Sarrazin et Egor Orudzhev.
The final two changes will benefit two Japanese drivers: Keiko Ihara returning to the World Endurance Championship (WEC) - at the wheel of Larbre Compétition's Ligier LMP2 - for the first time since 2014, and Satoshi Hoshino, a Porsche expert in Asia, set to take the wheel of Proton Competition's #88 911 RSR in the LMGTE Am class.
The start of the 6 Hours of Fuji, the fourth of eight rounds on the 2018-2019 World Endurance Championship (WEC) Super Season calendar, will be given at 11:00 local time on Sunday 14 October 2018.
