Today, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest launched the entry checklist for this yr’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The 2023 version of the French endurance traditional would be the a hundredth working of the legendary occasion. This yr’s 24-hour race may also be the debut of the Hypercars conforming to IMSA’s LMDh rules. Two producers might be racing to this ruleset, Cadillac and Porsche.
Three Cadillac V-Series.Rs might be racing at Le Mans in June, two Cadillac Racing entries and one entered by Action Express Racing. The No. 2 V-Series.R, a full-season FIA World Endurance Championship entry, might be pushed by Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn and Richard Westbrook. The No. 3 V-Series.R might be pushed by Sebastien Bourdais, Renger van der Zande and Scott Dixon. The No. 3 competes full-time within the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship because the No. 1. The third Cadillac, the No. 311 Whelen Engineering Cadillac V-Series.R entered by Action Express, might be pushed by Pipo Derani, Alexander Sims and Jack Aitken. The No. 311 races full-time in IMSA because the No. 31 V-Series.R.
No. 2 driver and two-time Le Mans winner Earl Bamber stated in a launch, “We are all looking forward to Cadillac returning to Le Mans and challenging for the overall victory. It has been decades since an American manufacturer has achieved this and we will be strongly pushing to achieve our goal.” Cadillac final raced at Le Mans for 3 years at first of the 2000s. Ford was the newest American producer to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans general when the Ford GT gained the endurance race for the fourth and ultimate time in 1969.
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