The 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship gets underway in Spa-Francorchamps next month with the Official Prologue and round one of WEC Season 9 which sees a total of 37 cars on the first version of the entry list.
Five Hypercars, 14 LMP2s, five LMGTE Pro cars and 13 LMGTE Am entries make up the roster of teams that will compete at the TOTAL 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (29 April/1 May), which will be staged behind closed doors.
The headline Hypercar category will see five cars go head-to-head in the WEC’s new premier racing class. Toyota Gazoo Racing has entered two full-season entrants with the all-new Toyota GR010 HYBRID whilst US-flagged Glickenhaus Racing has entered a pair of their SCG 007 Hypercars.
French squad Alpine Elf Matmut will enter an Alpine A480 Gibson in the Hypercar category with its trio of drivers who were confirmed earlier this week: Nicolas Lapierre, André Negrão and Matthieu Vaxiviere.
In addition to the 11 full-season LMP2 entries, US-based PR1 Motorsports and triple ELMS Champions G-Drive Racing have entered cars into the ever-popular WEC category.
LMGTE Pro will see the category’s full-season manufacturers, Porsche and Ferrari take on the #63 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R entered by the factory Corvette Racing outfit.
Finally, LMGTE Am sees a healthy field of 13 entries, which is made up of five Porsche 911 RSR, 19 cars, five Ferrari 488 GTE Evos and three Aston Martin Vantage AMR cars. For the first time in WEC’s history, a total of six females will compete in this year’s season-opener which includes the three females from LMP2 squad the Richard Mille Racing Team and the all-female line-up entered under the Iron Lynx LMGTE Am team banner.
The official pre-season test, otherwise known as The Prologue, will be staged at the Belgian circuit from 26-27 April with the main event, the TOTAL 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, getting underway on Saturday 1 May.
