Chatin Replaces Injured Habsburg for Barcelona

Cool Racing has announced that Paul-Loup Chatin will replace an injured Ferdinand Habsburg for next week’s European Le Mans Series season opener at Barcelona.

Habsburg has been forced to sit out the curtain-raiser in the wake of the injuries he suffered in a crash at Motorland Aragon late last month while testing the Alpine A424 he races in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

The incident left the Austrian driver with two fractured vertebrae, ruling him out of the Barcelona ELMS opener that he was due to contest for Cool Racing and putting his participation in the second round of the WEC at Imola later this month in doubt.

Cool has now announced that Habsburg’s Alpine WEC teammate Chatin will fill the vacancy left in its N0. 47 Oreca 07 Gibson alongside Frederik Vesti and Alex Garcia.

Chatin has long been a regular fixture of the ELMS paddock, winning the LMP2 title in 2014 for Signatech Alpine and again in 2019 with IDEC Sport.

He remained part of IDEC Sport’s lineup up until the end of last season, finishing fifth in the standings alongside Laurents Hoerr and Paul Lafargue.

Cool’s No. 37 car will be driven by Malthe Jakobsen, Ritomo Miyata and Lorenzo Fluxa.