Oliver Webb was confirmed this morning as the third driver for the ByKOLLES Racing LMP1 Privateer effort for the 2016 FIA WEC.
The Briton will join Simon Trummer and Pierre Kaffer aboard the AER engined CLM P1/01.
“With the signing of Oliver Webb our desired driver line-up for the 2016 WEC season is now complete,” says Boris Bermes, ByKOLLES Director of Racing Operations.
“Oliver is a young and fast sports car driver, who was able to gain a lot of experience in the past few years. His achievements in endurance racing speak for themselves. We have been watching his career for a long time and were already impressed back when he was in single-seater open-wheel racing. I am convinced that Oliver will be a great asset for our team. He fits perfectly with his new team-mates in terms of character and his approach and will support the team throughout the 2016 season to systematically continue the progress from last year.”
Oliver Webb: “I’m delighted to be joining ByKolles for the 2016 FIA WEC season. A great calendar and step in my career into LMP1 with faster, more advanced machinery. After some good conversations with the team and the direction the car is going in I’m very excited to be involved in this project for 2016. It’s a big step forward and I’m looking forward to the challenge and joining my new team mates Simon Trummer and Pierre Kaffer”
Webb has plenty of LMP racing experience – In 2014 he won the European Le Mans Series with Signatech Alpine moving to the Morand Engineering effort in the 2015 FIA WEC.
At the start of this year he helped Race Performance to the teams’ title in the Asian Le Mans Series.
