European Le Mans Series com 44 carros para 2016
A organização do WEC também divulgou nesta sexta (05), as equipes que irão participar do European Le Mans Series. Ao todo 44 carros estarão presentes nas 6 etapas do certame que começa em Silverstone em Abril.
A Onroak Automotive é o fabricante com o maior número de carros inscritos. Serão sete Ligier JS P2, um Morgan e dezenove JS P3. Dos 44 carros, 27 são da Onroak. Em contra partida a Oreca também será representada por seu modelo 05 e 03R. Os russos da equipe SMP Racing com o seu BR01 e a Gibson 015S.
Os planos da categoria em incentivar a classe LMP3 deram resultado. Serão 15 carros na principal classe, a LMP2 e 20 na LMP3. Com o fim da classe GTC, a classe GTE é a única com carros GT com nove carros.
LMP2
1 – Greaves Motorsport – Gibson 015S Nissan – Gary Hirsch
21 – DragonSpeed – Oreca 05 Nissan – Henrik Hedman
22 – SO24 by Lombard Racing – Ligier JS P2 Judd – Vincent Capillaire
23 – Panis-Barthez Competition – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Fabien Barthez
25 – Algarve Pro Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Michael Munemann
28 – Idec Sport Racing – Ligier JS P2 Judd – Patrice Lafargue
29 – Pegasus Racing – Morgan Nissan – Ines Taittinger
32 – Courage – BR01 Nissan – Andreas Wirth
33 – Eurasia Motorsport – Oreca 05 Nissan – Pu Jun Jin
34 – Race Peformance – Oreca 03R Judd – Nicolas Leutwiler
38 – G-Drive Racing – Gibson 015S Nissan – Simon Dolan
40 – Krohn Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Tracy Krohn
41 – Greaves Motorsport – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Memo Rojas
46 – Thiriet by TDS Racing – Oreca 05 Nissan – Pierre Thiriet
48 – Murphy Prototypes – Oreca 03R Nissan – Greg Murphy
LMP3
2 – United Autosports – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Alex Brundle
3 – United Autosports – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Mark Patterson
4 – OAK Racing – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Jean-Marc Merlin
5 – By Speed Factory – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Jesus Fuster
6 – 360 Racing – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Terence Woodward
7 – Villorba Corse – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Roberto Lacorte
8 – Race Performance – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Nicolas Leutwiler
9 – Graff – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Eric Trouillet
10 – Graff – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – John Falb
11 – Eurointernational – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Constantino Peroni
12 – Eurointernational – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Jay Palmer
13 – Inter Europol Competition – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Jakub Smiechowski
14 – Murphy P3-3Dimensional.com – Riley AR-2 Nissan – Tony Ave
15 – RLR MSport – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Ossy Yusuf
16 – Panis-Barthez Competition – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Eric Debard
17 – Ultimate – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Jean-Baptiste Lahaye
18 – M.Racing – YMR – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Thomas Laurent
19 – Duqueine Engineering – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – David Hallyday
20 – Duqueine Engineering – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – TBA
24 – OAK Racing – Ligier JS P3 Nissan – Jacques Nicolet
GTE
51 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Pierguiseppe Perazzini
55 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Duncan Cameron
56 – AT Racing – Ferrari F458 Italia – Alexander Talkanitsa
59 – TDS Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Eric Dermont
60 – Formula Racing – Ferrari F458 Italia – Johnny Laursen
76 – JMW Motorsport – Ferrari F458 Italia – Robert Smith
77 – Proton Competition – Porsche 911 RSR – Marco Seefried
88 – Proton Competition – Porsche 911 RSR – Gianluca Roda
99 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Andrew Howard