AMR powered commitments continue to fill the headlines this week
Friday, November 22, 2024
Whilst confirming what we had already been made aware of only yesterday with the inclusion of two Aston Martin Valkyrie Hypercars from the Heart of Racing team, today’s news also sealed what had largely been suspected and intimated about within the motorsport mainstream media since before the final round of last season in Bahrain last month.
That news was in the form of formal confirmation that the Swiss based Racing Spirit of Leman AMR team would be stepping up from their European Le Mans Series endeavours of last season and onto the world stage of the WEC with American Derek DeBoer again headlining the #10 entry alongside that of AMR factory driver Valentin Hasse-Clot. Their third driver will be confirmed in due course as this team take the place of the departing D'Station Racing AMR team.
Within that class set of eighteen entries was the continuation of the #27 Heart of Racing AMR Vantage LMGT3 with Team Manager Ian James again fronting that entry.
With the Heart of Racing’s earlier announcement of both Harry Tincknell and Alex Riberas fronting their #007 and #009 Hypercar entries (respectively), that obviously means changes within the #27 car after James was joined by both Riberas and Daniel Mancinelli for their one and a bit WEC seasons that the team has entered so far with four empty places yet to be filled within the two Hypercar entries as well!
Season 13 will be another eight round season with visits to Qatar, Imola and Spa before the 24 Hours of Le Mans before progressing onto Sao Paulo, CoTA, Fuji and Bahrain to round off the year afterwards.
There was, however, partial bad news posted earlier this week by the Heart of Racing team as they confirmed that their IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship Valkyrie GTP (Hypercar) entry will now NOT be present at their season opener at the Rolex 24 early next year as they will use the time between now and the opening round of the FOA WEC in Qatar to develop and finally homologate that new platform.
The official Prologue Test of the WEC will be run again at Qatar over the 21st-22nd February before the opening round of the season there the following weekend.
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