Team Penske has an enormous responsibility to bear the Porsche Motorsport LMDh project on its shoulders. starting in 2023. The long history of the German firm and its many successes at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and in the United States place an extra burden on Penske. Nevertheless, the American team does not shy away from this challenge and with the great objective of preparing your foray into this new class, the structure plans to compete with two LMP2s in the WEC silver category during the 2022 season. At least, this is what is indicated from the United States.
It should be remembered that Team Penske already pursued a similar strategy before kicking off the Acura DPi project in 2018. Months earlier, the formation lined up an LMP2 at Petit Le Mans with the aim of collecting data and information for its jump to the DPi class. A situation that five years later can happen again, since Team Penske wants to compete in the LMP2 class of the WEC to collect as much information as possible for your LMDh program with Porsche. Of course, although the German firm is associated with Multimatic to develop the chassis of its prototype, Team Penske looks like they will work with two units of the Oreca 07-Gibson.
At least this has been the LMP2 prototype that Team Penske has tested in the test session developed by the team at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with an Oreca LMP2 without any decoration. Although no details have been leaked about the drivers tasked with conducting this test, Penske’s LMP2 program at WEC is expected to feature several of the official drivers from Porsche This is how a really interesting project is drawn, only at the height of two teams that will also line up two prototypes such as Team WRT and United Autosports, reference both of the LMP2 class.