European Le Mans Series LMP2 squad Cool Racing has announced a change of identity, and will be known as CLX Motorsport for the 2025 season.
The change was revealed in a brief statement posted by the Swiss team on social media on Friday that read: “From 2025 onwards, Cool Racing CLX will take on a new identity as CLX Motorsport. A new name, the same drive.”
CLX refers to the company that took over the running of Cool Racing at the end of the 2020 season, with the ‘C’ referring to Alexandre Coigny, the CEO of Cool Aviation, and the ‘L’ referring to Nicolas Lapierre.
Based in Annecy, France, the team has become one of the top teams in the ELMS, finishing second overall in 2023 with Coigny, Lapierre and Malthe Jakobsen and finishing in the same position in class in that year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Jakobsen and teammates Lorenzo Fluxa and Ritomo Miyata were third in this year’s championship with two victories.
It has also has had success in the LMP3 arena, achieving back-to-back class titles in the ELMS in 2022 and ’23.
Lapierre recently told Sportscar365 that he would continue to work for what is now known as CLX alongside his new duties as sporting director for the Alpine Hypercar team in the FIA World Endurance Championship.