Another packed entry will grace the European Le Mans Series in 2022 with a 42 car full-season roster announced today.
As predicted by DSC last week the LMP2 entry totals 17 cars, all ORECA 07 Gibsons with seven of the cars in the LMP2 Pro-Am sub-class for crews featuring a Bronze-ranked driver.
Highlights
LMP2
Seven new or returning teams to the ELMS LMP2 grid – Prema Team, AF Corse, Inter Europol, Muehlner, Virage, Nielsen, TDS Racing x Vaillante.
Thomas Laurent is confirmed in the # Muehlner Motorsports Oreca together with Bronze-ranked Mathias Kaiser.
Sophia Flörsch joins Roman Rusinov in one of a pair of G-Drive branded Oreca’s (note the Aurus brand no longer features).
G-Drive together with G-Drive by APR are the only two-car team.
TDS Racing rejoin the ELMS with a Michel Vaillante themed effort and with driver trio Philippe Cimadomo, Mathias Beche and Tijmen Van der Helm.
LMP3
LMP3 sees a 12 car entry with 11 Ligier JS P320s and a single Duqueine D08.
Defending Champions DKR Engineering returns to the class after a proposed LMP2 full-season entry fell late in the day, the Luxembourg team field the only Duqueine.
RLR MSport field a pair of cars in the ELMS, including one likely to feature the iconic Felbermayr livery!
GTE
GTE meanwhile numbers an impressive 13 cars with a pit of Aston Martins, three Porsche 911 RSRs and eight Ferrari 488 GTEs in the total.
New entries come from Absolute Racing after the Asian-based team were not granted a full-season WEC entry for Andrew Haryanto, and from Rinaldi Racing who field a pair of Ferraris.
More to follow…
