Gutierrez, Berthon Join Glickenhaus for Le Mans

Esteban Gutierrez and Nathanael Berthon will join Glickenhaus for the 24 Hours of Le Mans next month, as confirmed on the full entry list for the French endurance classic.

Ex-Formula 1 competitor Gutierrez, who drove for Inter Europol Competition in LMP2 last year, and former Rebellion Racing LMP1 driver Berthon will share the No. 709 Glickenhaus 007 Pipo with Franck Mailleux.

The 100th-anniversary edition of Le Mans will mark both drivers’ first appearances with Glickenhaus.

The American constructor’s other non-hybrid LMH car will be shared by Romain Dumas, Olivier Pla and Ryan Briscoe who teamed up for the FIA World Endurance Championship season-opener at Sebring in March.

Mailleux then joined Dumas and Pla in the No. 708 Glickenhaus for last weekend’s 6 Hours Spa-Francorchamps.

A 16-car Hypercar field will compete for overall honors in the largest top-category grid at Le Mans since the LMP1 class achieved 17 entries in 2011.

Additional entries from outside the WEC include a third Porsche 963 for the Penske-run factory team, a second Glickenhaus andextra Cadillac V-Series.Rs from Chip Ganassi Racing and Action Express Racing.

All of the LMP2 driver lineups were previously announced, including the all-Belgian DKR Engineering trio which was confirmed on the morning of the entry list reveal.

In GTE-Am, Walkenhorst Motorsport will have Jeff Segal and Andrew Haryanto sharing its Ferrari 488 GTE Evo with Asian Le Mans Series class champion Chandler Hull.

The second Ferrari for Kessel Racing features the all-Japanese crew of Kei Cozzolino, Naoki Yokomizo and Yorikatsu Tsujiko. David Fumanelli was originally listed in that car as a placeholder.

The reserve list has gone down to eight cars after Risi Competizione and The Heart of Racing withdrew their standby GTE-Am entries.

The Heart of Racing will compete in the main event after taking over the No. 98 NorthWest AMR Aston Martin Vantage GTE when Paul Dalla Lana recently decided to step back from racing.

Ferrari GTE-Am team Spirit of Race remains the first reserve in the event of a competitor pulling out from the 62-car field.