35 Full Season Entries for FIA WEC

A field of 35 entries has been announced for the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship at Thursday’s press conference in Paris, more than the 32 projected for a full-season.

LMP1 sees 11 cars confirmed as expected. Notable here are Toyota, Audi, Porsche and ByKolles all switching numbers.

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Nissan’s pair of Nissan GT-R LM NISMOs officially join the fray, and the three privateer, AER-powered entries are also confirmed even though Rebellion Racing will miss the season-opening Silverstone round.

LMP2 will feature a significant car count increase from the four cars that competed full-time in 2014 up to 10. G-Drive and KCMG return, although their entries will be in different car configurations compared to what they began the 2014 season with.

SMP Racing does not return to LMP2, and will run in the European Le Mans Series with two new BR01s. It will still have a GTE-Am entry, listed below.

Strakka Racing will make its long-awaited race debut with the Strakka-Dome S103 Nissan. Extreme Speed Motorsports, run as Tequila Patron ESM in the U.S., enters the WEC under its prior name instead.

Newcomers Team SARD-Morand and Signatech Alpine join the grid, and OAK Racing is also entered with the third Ligier JS P2 in class beyond the two from G-Drive.

The GTE classes are more continuous compared to 2014. GTE-Pro has seven cars, with two cars apiece entered from AF Corse and Porsche Team Manthey and three from Aston Martin Racing.

In GTE-Am there are also seven cars. AF Corse has one further entry, joined by two more Aston Martins, the Proton and Dempsey-Proton Porsches, SMP Racing and Larbre Competition. The latter three entries are additions to GTE-Am for 2015.

The entry lists for the twice-around-the-clock French endurance classic, as well as the European Le Mans Series, were also unveiled.

LMP1 (11 Entries)
1 – Toyota Racing – Toyota TS040 Hybrid – Anthony Davidson
2 – Toyota Racing – Toyota TS040 Hybrid – Alexander Wurz
7 – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R18 e-tron quattro – Marcel Fassler
8 – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R18 e-tron quattro – Lucas di Grassi
17 – Porsche Team – Porsche 919 Hybrid – Timo Bernhard
18 – Porsche Team – Porsche 919 Hybrid – Romain Dumas
22 – Nissan Motorsports – Nissan GT-R LM NISMO – Harry Tincknell
23 – Nissan Motorsports – Nissan GT-R LM NISMO – Olivier Pla

4 – Team ByKolles – CLM P1/01 AER – Simon Trummer
12 – Rebellion Racing – Rebellion R-One AER – Nicolas Prost
13 – Rebellion Racing – Rebellion R-One AER – Mathias Beche

LMP2 (10 Entries)
26 – G-Drive Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Roman Rusinov
28 – G-Drive Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Gustavo Yacaman
30 – Extreme Speed Motorsports – HPD ARX-04b – Scott Sharp
31 – Extreme Speed Motorsports – HPD ARX-04b – Ed Brown
35 – OAK Racing – Ligier JS P2 Nissan – Jacques Nicolet
36 – Signatech-Alpine – Alpine A450b Nissan – Nelson Panciatici
39 – Team SARD-Morand – Morgan Evo SARD – Christian Klien
42 – Strakka Racing – Strakka-Dome S103 Nissan – Nick Leventis
43 – Team SARD-Morand – Morgan Evo SARD – Pierre Ragues
47 – KCMG – Oreca 05 Nissan – Matthew Howson

GTE-Pro (7 Entries)
51 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Gianmaria Bruni
71 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Davide Rigon
91 – Porsche Team Manthey – Porsche 911 RSR – Richard Lietz
92 – Porsche Team Manthey – Porsche 911 RSR – Patrick Pilet
95 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Marco Sorensen
97 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Darren Turner
99 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Fernando Rees

GTE-Am (7 Entries)
50 – Larbre Competition – Corvette C7.R – Gianluca Roda
72 – SMP Racing – Ferrari F458 Italia – Victor Shaitar
77 – Dempsey Proton Racing – Porsche 911 RSR – Patrick Dempsey
83 – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Francois Perrodo
88 – Abu Dhabi Proton Racing – Porsche 911 RSR – Christian Ried
96 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Roald Goethe
98 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Paul Dalla Lana