Update: 1,000 Miles of Sebring entry list published
Updated 11:45 Thursday 10th March 2022. The FIA World Endurance Championship has released its entry list for the first race of the season, the 1,000 Miles of Sebring, with a reduction to 36 cars following the withdrawal of G-Drive.
Roman Rusinov’s Russian-backed squad quit the WEC and European Le Mans Series in protest at the banning of teams and drivers from displaying anything representing Russia or racing under the Russian banner.
The original full-season entry list also included Peugeot’s two 9X8 Le Mans Hypercars, which have not been confirmed as absent until at least after the Le Mans 24 Hours in June. That means the Hypercar class at Sebring will be made up of just four cars: two Toyota GR010s and a single Glickenhaus 007 LMH and Alpine A480 LMP1 car.
LMP2 is reduced to 15 cars with the absence of G-Drive while GTE-Pro will have five cars, two from Porsche and Ferrari and a lone Corvette C8.R.
Twelve cars will make up the GTE-Am grid, with two drivers positions still TBA, one in the Team Project 1 Porsche 911 alongside Matteo Cairoli and Mikke Pedersen and another in the Northwest AMR Aston Martin Vantage to race with Paul Dalla Lana and Nicki Thiim.
The race will see the debut of Team Penske in the World Endurance Championship. The multiple IndyCar, IMSA and NASCAR champion team is preparing for its future as the factory entrant for Porsche’s LMDh car by running an Oreca 07 in LMP2 with Penske regular and IMSA champion Dane Cameron alongside double IMSA champion Felipe Nasr and sportscar veteran Emmanuel Collard.