Correa to Make Prema ELMS Debut at Spa

Juan Manuel Correa will make his delayed European Le Mans Series debut with Prema, joining the team for the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

As seen on the entry list released on Tuesday, Correa will partner championship leaders Louis Deletraz and Ferdinand Habsburg at Spa, thus taking the place in the lineup that had been held by Lorenzo Colombo.

The Ecuadorian-American driver was originally supposed to join the lineup for the No. 9 Oreca 07 Gibson from the start of the season, but was ruled out ahead of the Paul Ricard season opener after suffering a foot injury.

Colombo, who is a part of Prema’s FIA World Endurance Championship crew, stepped in and continued with the team for the subsequent races at Imola, Monza and Barcelona.

Several other teams in the LMP2 category have also made changes to their lineup for the penultimate round of the season.

Algarve Pro Racing has brought in Romanian racer Filip Ugran to partner Bent Viscaal aboard the No. 19 Oreca.

Ugran replaces Sophia Floersch aboard the two-driver lineup. The German had been with the team since the start of the year.

The 20-year-old will make his sports car racing debut, having previously competed in Formula 3 and Euroformula Open.

Jack Aitken is notably absent from the lineup for Racing Team Turkey’s No. 34 Oreca, with the third driver alongside Salih Yoluc and Charlie Eastwood yet to be confirmed.

Similarly, Reshad de Gerus is no longer a part of Duqueine Team’s lineup that also features Memo Rojas and Richard Bradley.

The Frenchman was already absent at Barcelona, where he was replaced by former WEC racer Anders Fjordbach.  His replacement for Spa has not yet been named.

In LMP3, Eurointernational has made changes to the driver squads for both of its Ligier JS P320 Nissan.

The No. 10 car has been reduced to a two car lineup, with Miguel Cristovao replacing Glenn van Berlo while Freddie Hunt does not return after Barcelona.

The sister car, meanwhile, sees Max Koebolt and Jerome de Sadeleer joined by Santiago Concepcion Serrano.

The Spaniard contested two races in LMP3 machinery at Spa earlier this year as part of the Prototype Cup Germany.

In GTE, Matthew Payne returns to the No. 66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari 488 GTE Evo I’m after missing the previous round at Barcelona.

Over at Kessel Racing, Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS racer Conrad Grunewald will make his ELMS debut aboard the No. 57 Ferrari teaming with Frederik Schandorff and Mikkel Jensen.