Bumper Grid Expected for Blancpain Endurance Season

With the deadline for full season entries on February 28 nearing, the Blancpain Endurance Series looks set for another healthy season in 2015. (En Français)

Even though SRO hasn’t released a provisional entry list yet, Endurance-Info and Sportscar365 take a look at the confirmed and possible entries for the upcoming season.

At the moment there’s already the potential for a 40-car GT3 grid, nearing the average of 43 entrants last season, knowing nonetheless that some programs are still being finalized and several additional teams and cars might join on a race-by-race basis.

This provisional list features several of the stalwarts of the past seasons, with WRT defending the honor of Audi, HTP and M-Sport representing Bentley and Black Falcon and Nissan GT Academy Team RJN moving up to the Pro Cup.

Grasser Racing Team returns to the Endurance Series with two factory Lamborghini Huracans, while Von Ryan is filling the void left by ART GP for McLaren, and AF Corse is once again leading the Ferrari battalion.

Several new teams are arriving or returning to the series after a short absence, such as I.S.R. (Audi), Car Collection (Mercedes), DragonSpeed (Ferrari), AKKA-ASP (Ferrari), Kessel Racing (Ferrari) and Team Russia by Barwell (BMW).

Stéphane Ratel has been pushing hard for more entries in the combined Blancpain GT Series by making the full amount of prize money available to those entering both Endurance and Sprint.

Sprint teams BMW Team Brasil and Bhaitech (McLaren) have expressed interest in adding BES to their programs.

2015 will also be a transition year, as Audi, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes Ferrari and Lexus are working on new machinery.

The Blancpain Endurance Series has always been on the forefront of receiving the latest GT3 cars, and 2015 marks the arrival of at least the McLaren 650S GT3, Lamborghini Huracan GT3, the updated Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3, as well as the new Audi R8 LMS GT3, which could debut as early as March, during the official test days.

Confirmed Entries:

Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi R8 LMS ultra
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi R8 LMS ultra
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi R8 LMS ultra
M-Sport Bentley	Bentley Continental GT3
M-Sport Bentley	Bentley Continental GT3
Bentley Team HTP	Bentley Continental GT3
Bentley Team HTP	Bentley Continental GT3
Black Falcon	Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
Black Falcon	Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
Von Ryan Racing	McLaren 650S GT3
Von Ryan Racing	McLaren 650S GT3
AKKA-ASP	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
AKKA-ASP	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
Ecurie Ecosse	BMW Z4 GT3
TDS Racing	BMW Z4 GT3
Car Collection	Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
Car Collection	Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
Boutsen Ginion Racing	BMW Z4 GT3
Boutsen Ginion Racing	?
Triple Eight Race Engineering	BMW Z4 GT3
Nissan Academy Team RJN	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3
Nissan Academy Team RJN	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3
Grasser Racing Team	Lamborghini Huracan GT3
Grasser Racing Team	Lamborghini Huracan GT3
Leonard Motorsport AMR	Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3
Team Parker Racing	Audi R8 LMS ultra
Insight Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
Emil Frey Racing	Emil Frey Jaguar GT3
DragonSpeed	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
Classic & Modern Racing	BMW Z4 GT3
I.S.R.	Audi R8 LMS ultra
I.S.R.	Audi R8 LMS ultra
Team Russia by Barwell	BMW Z4 GT3
Kessel Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
Kessel Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
Saintéloc Racing	Audi R8 LMS ultra
Sport Garage	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3

 

Possible Entries:

TDS Racing	BMW Z4 GT3
ROAL Motorsport	BMW Z4 GT3
Motorbase	Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3
Triple Eight Race Engineering	BMW Z4 GT3
MRS	Nissan GT-R GT3 NISMO
Sport Garage	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi R8 LMS ultra
Beechdean AMR	Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3
Sébastien Loeb Racing	Audi R8 LMS ultra
Reiter Engineering	Lamborghini Gallardo Extenso
Kessel Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
DKR Engineering	BMW Z4 GT3
IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 911 GT3-R
BMW Team Brasil	BMW Z4 GT3
BMW Team Brasil	BMW Z4 GT3