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33 Car Entry For 2021 FIA WEC

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33 cars are listed for the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship season entry for the full six-race season with one surprise omission and plenty more detail about some of the drivers we’re set to see for the coming season.

Hypercar: 5 cars

The new top class, ‘Hypercar’ encompasses the new LMH cars from Toyota and Glickenhaus and a grandfathered Rebellion LMP1 car to be fielded by Signatech Alpine.

The news that can be garnered from the entry is the absence, as a full-season entry at least, of the proposed ByKolles LMH, the Austrian-flagged team have not placed an entry.

In addition, the first two drivers for Glickenhaus are mentioned, the cars will run as #708 (with ex Rebellion driver Gustavo Menezes (above) the first-named driver) and #709 (with Ryan Briscoe named).

The first driver in the car now labelled as an Alpine A480 is André Negrão with both the driver and the running number #36, carried over from the Signatech team’s successful LMP2 forays.

LMP2: 11 cars

There are no major surprises here for DSC readers.

There are five new additions to the WEC entry from last year:

The already announced Richard Mille Racing team, the all-female squad will run as #1.

Team WRT will run as #31 with Robin Frijns the first-named driver for the crack Belgian outfit’s first full season in LMP racing.

Inter Europol Competition and RealTeam Racing both step up from the ELMS.

And there’s a place too for the only non-Oreca in the WEC class as Slovakian stalwart Miro Konopka gets the nod with his #44 ARC Bratislava Ligier.

United Autosports, as confirmed by DSC yesterday will field just one car as they seek to defend their LMP2 title from 2020, Phil Hanson and Felipe Albuquerque return to be joined by Silver-ranked ex DTM and FIA F3 racer Fabio Scherer.

The previously announced returns of High Class Racing, DragonSpeed USA, Jota (with a 2 car entry), and Racing Team Nederland complete a highly competitive 11.

GTE Pro: 4 cars

No surprises here with the Porsche and Ferrari pairings as previously announced, Daniel Serra’s elevation to a full-season WEC seat for Ferrari and the same at Porsche for 2016 FIA WEC World Drivers Champion Neel Jani.

Neel Jani

GTE Am: 13 Cars

Five Ferraris, Five Porsche and a trio of Aston Martins make up a GTE AM field with real depth.

The Ferrari squads were confirmed earlier this week with Iron Lynx and AF Corse with two cars apiece and a car entered by Cetilar Racing, all five will be supported by AF Corse.

Amongst the Porsches are the expected pair of new spec 911 RSR-19s for Dempsey Proton Racing, WEC ever-present Christian Ried the current sole named driver in the #77 with Porsche man Julien Andlauer in the sister #88.

Team Project 1 also field a pair of new cars with Jörg Bergmeister listed against their #46 car, Egidio Perfetti and Matteo Cairoli against the #56.

And the GR Racing name change is confirmed for the Mike Wainwright-owned squad to field their new spec #86 car (seen above testing at Portimao), Wainwright joined again by Ben Barker for the season.

TF Sport had already revealed their expanded two-car effort with a car under their own name and the entry into the WEC for Asian Le Mans Series race winners D’station Racing from Japan.

And the entry is rounded out by the very welcome return of the #98 Aston Martin Racing Vantage, Paul Dalla Lana the named driver in his car.

2021 FIA WEC ENTRY LIST >>

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