Martins Set for LMP2 Debut as Paul Ricard Entry Finalized

Victor Martins is poised to make his LMP2 debut for Proton Competition in this weekend’s Asian Le Mans Series season opener at Paul Ricard.

The Frenchman is set to join his fellow Alpine FIA World Endurance Championship racer Charles Milesi and Georgios Kolovos aboard Proton’s No. 11 Oreca 07 Gibson for the two four-hour races that kick off the European-based 2026/27 season.

That’s according to an official spotters’ guide released ahead of Thursday’s Prologue pre-season test, with an updated entry list reflecting the changes due imminently.

The final gap in the 16-strong LMP2 field has been filled by Hugo Schwarze, who will share DKR Engineering’s Oreca with Tom van Rompuy and Laurents Hoerr.

Schwarze will also be making his first appearance in the class, having spent this year’s European Le Mans Series season in the LMP3 division for R-ace GP.

As revealed earlier this week, Inter Europol Competition has filled its final two vacancies with Torsten Kratz and Antonine Comeau.

The three missing names in the GT division have also been filled.

Jonny Adam returns to Ecurie Ecosse Blackthorn to share its Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo with Giacomo Petrobelli and Kobe Pauwels, the same trio having competed together in the 2025/26 campaign for the British outfit, winning the Abu Dhabi finale.

At Proton Competition, Robert de Haan has moved over from the No. 99 entry Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo that he was previously listed against to the sister No. 77 car, where he joins the previously-named Lenny Ried and Matt Kurzejewski.

The lineup for the No. 99 now comprises father-and-son duo Christian and Jonas Ried and Porsche-contracted Harry King, who was on the full-season entry list for the team but was absent from the first draft of the entry list published last week.

Prologue testing on Thursday comprises two 90-minute sessions, with Free Practice 1 taking place on Friday at 10:10 a.m. local time (4:10 a.m. ET), followed by FP2 at 1:30 p.m. (7:30 a.m. ET) and qualifying from 4:05 p.m. (10:05 a.m. ET).

Unlike last season, separate sessions will be held to set the grid for Saturday and Sunday’s races, instead of using the second-fastest times from qualifying.

GT cars will have their own pair of 15-minute sessions, while the two-strong Hypercar field will qualify along with the LMP2s.

Both the Saturday and Sunday races are slated to begin at 1:15 p.m. (10:15 a.m. ET).