FIA and ACO have published the list of participants of the 6 Hours of Spasecond scoring event on the WEC 2022 calendar. Without any individual entry in preparation for the 24 Hours of Le Mans In the event that takes place in the Ardennes, the World Championship grid is made up of 37 cars. The difference compared to the 1,000 Miles of Sebring, in which there were 36 vehicles, is the incorporation of the Porsche # 86 of GR Racingas Michael Wainwright has no other commitments to attend to.
Thus, the WEC grid at Spa will feature four hypercars in the same division that was already seen in Sebring with the presence of two LMH from Toyota, one from Glickenhaus and the LMP1 from Alpine. While Toyota and Alpine have not made any changes to their driver line-ups, Glickenhaus has retouched his squad and Pipo Derani will compete at Spa alongside Olivier Pla and Romain Dumas replacing Ryan Briscoe. As in the hypercar class, in LMP2 there are also several driver changes.
Although the fifteen LMP2 prototypes that make up the silver category of the World Championship repeat at Spa compared to Sebring, there are a couple of prototypes in which the same line-up is not repeated. This is the case of Vector Sport’s Oreca #10, as Sébastien Bourdais is ready to start his program with the team after skipping the 1,000 Miles of Sebring to focus on the IMSA event. Mike Rockenfeller replaced the Frenchman in Florida. For its part, Alex Lynn Joins United Autosports #23 Oreca Lineup after being replaced at Sebring by Paul Di Resta.
No change in the LMGTE-Pro category, with five cars and the same line-ups by Porsche, Ferrari and Corvette, the rest of the changes to the entry list for the 6 Hours of Spa compared to the 1,000 Miles of Sebring come in the LMGTE-Am class. And it is that beyond the ‘reappearance’ of the #86 Porsche in which Michael Wainwright, Riccardo Pera and Benjamin Barker will compete, There are also modifications in the line-ups of another two of the five GTEs that Porsche has in the amateur division..
The figure of Nicolas Leutwiler appears in the Porsche #46 of Team Project 1 to accompany Matteo Cairoli and Mikkel Pedersen. For its part, in Dempsey-Proton’s #88 Porsche there is also a modification of its alignment since Jan Heylen joins Patrick Lindsey and Fred Poordad. In the 1,000 Miles of Sebring this position was held by the Frenchman Julien Andlauer, in what could be a start of dynamics of looking for local drivers to close the squad for the team’s second car.
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