Corvette squad TF Sport has announced its complete driver line-up for the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship.
In the #33 Z06 LMGT3.R, Ben Keating and Jonny Edgar return to join the previously announced Nicky Catsburg.
Two-time FIA WEC champion Keating and Edgar shared the #33 Corvette with Daniel Juncadella this season, winning the season-opening Qatar 1812KM in what would prove to be their only visit to the podium during a challenging campaign.
Keating and Catsburg last raced together during the 2023 FIA WEC, when they dominated the final season of the LMGTE Am class aboard the Pratt Miller-fielded Corvette C8.R, winning three of the first four races, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the title.
21-year-old Edgar is entering his third season with TF Sport, having won the 2024 European Le Mans Series LMP2 title with the team, before switching to its FIA WEC effort in 2025.
The Briton was initially set to lose his seat for 2026, following a provisional upgrade from Silver to Gold in the FIA Driver Categorisation system. A successful appeal has meant that Edgar will remain Silver-ranked for next year, but this didn’t come through before the team felt it had to commit elsewhere, with 2025 LMGT3 drivers’ champion Riccardo Pera originally lined up for the drive.
DSC understands, however, that in the festivities following this season’s FIA WEC finale at Bahrain, Pera revealed to TF Sport that he had been offered the position of Porsche contracted driver, and was planning to accept. This, therefore, opened the door for Edgar to make a return.
In the sister ‘Racing Team Turkey by TF’ branded entry, which has changed from #81 to #34 for 2026, Salih Yoluç returns to the FIA WEC alongside longtime TF driver Charlie Eastwood and FIA WEC rookie Peter Dempsey.
Yoluç and Eastwood have now spent over a decade as teammates, almost always in TF Sport machinery. The pair won the LMGTE Am class at the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans alongside Jonathan Adam, and the 2022 European Le Mans Series LMP2 Pro/Am as a duo, during their first run together with Tom Ferrier’s outfit, which is now resuming after a break of almost two years.
The Turkish driver had his first taste of the Corvette Z06 GT3.R during the 2026 IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup with DXDT Racing, and will continue to build on that experience with TF, Eastwood and Tom Van Rompuy in the Asian Le Mans Series, which begins at Sepang this weekend.
39-year-old Dempsey has signed up to his first full-season racing programme since 2013, when he competed in Indy Lights (now Indy NXT), and famously won the Indianapolis 500-supporting Freedom 100 by only 0.0026 seconds.
Dempsey initially connected with TF Sport through Eastwood and the Team Ireland driver development programme, where the suggestion was made that the team might require a Bronze-rated driver. The US-based Irishman set competitive times during a test in DXDT Racing’s Corvette, and therefore has been selected to join Yoluç and Eastwood for 2026.
The season opener is set to be Dempsey’s first sportscar start since an unsuccessful one-off appearance at the 2010 Petit Le Mans aboard Libra Racing’s Radical SR9 – Nissan LMP2, when the team retired in the opening laps.
Eastwood, who was confirmed alongside Catsburg earlier this week, has recently announced a two-year extension to his contract with Corvette Racing. This aligns with the length of TF Sport’s current deal with the American marque.
The arrival of Yoluç and Dempsey has led to the departure of Rui Andrade and Van Rompuy from TF Sport’s FIA WEC line-up after two years. Andrade has already announced a move to Mercedes-AMG squad Iron Lynx for 2026, whilst van Rompuy’s FIA WEC is unconfirmed.
The 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship season will begin at the Lusail International Circuit with the Qatar 1812KM, from 26th to 28th March 2026.
