As World Endurance Championship teams now have to find replacement drivers for two races this year, DragonSpeed has locked in their driver line-up for the 2018 races.
The Italian GTE team Ebimotors have secured graduation to the European Le Mans Series and entry into the GTE Am class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2018 after a successful 2017 season.
For 2018, Oliver Jarvis has had to give up racing full time in the World Endurance Championship due to commitments elsewhere.
IDEC Sport have withdrawn their #27 Ligier JS P217/Gibson from the reserve entry list for the 24 Hours of Le Mans so that the team can focus on it’s LMP2 efforts in the European Le Mans Series.
After debuting in the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans, Cetilar Villorba Corse will return to the historic Circuit de la Sarthe this year to take on the LMP2 field and battle for overall victory.
The #36 Signatech Alpine returns to the LMP2 class for the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship ‘Super-Season’.
Ben Keating will pair up with Risi Competizione to take Keating Motorsports to the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, challenging in the GTE Am class.
1988 Le Mans winner Jan Lammers has been added to the Racing Team Nederland line up for the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 Dallara P217/Gibson.
The ACO and FIA are expected to announce the new set of LMP1 regulations at the 24 hours of Le Mans in June.
Renger van der Zande has been announced as the third and final driver for the LMP1 DragonSpeed team line up in the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship super season.
The FIA held a season announcement press conference ahead of the 2018 season, declaring that 41 car would take on the six race calendar
Fuji Speedway are currently seriously considering a race date change for their FIA World Endurance Championship round this year so that it avoids an Formula 1 clash so Fernando Alonso does not have to miss the race.
Manor believe that the LMP1 class they will be graduating to this season is much more complex than LMP2, so have recruited ex-Formula One engineer Dave Greenwood to join the team as technical director.
After the successful year Ferrari and factory-run team AF Corse had last year with a clean sweep of championships, Ferrari have retained the same four drivers for their full season dual-car entries.
After a strong campaign last season, ending second in the ELMS GTE championship and completing the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans, TF Sport will step up in their racing challenge as they take on a full season of the World Endurance Championship.
After Porsche’s departure from LMP1 saw their six factory drivers without seats next year, Neel Jani and Andre Lotterer look set to stay in the World Endurance Championship, racing with Rebellion
After the 6 Hours of Bahrain, Toyota Gazoo racing have confirmed they will be returning to the WEC grid next season.
