Porsche Formulation E drivers Pascal Wehrlein and Nico Muller will be a part of the German producer’s manufacturing unit Penske line-up for the Spa spherical of the World Endurance Championship subsequent month.
Reigning FE world champion Wehrlein has been drafted in to drive one of many common Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDhs on the Spa 6 Hours on 10 Could forward of his Le Mans 24 Hours debut within the further PPM Hypercar entry for the WEC double-points spherical in June.
Porsche-contracted Muller, who has been positioned with the Andretti group for the 2024/25 FE marketing campaign, comes into the Hypercar line-up as a result of he has been named as reserve driver for the three-car PPM squad at Le Mans.
Wehrlein will share the #6 PPM entry with 2024 WEC drivers’ champions Laurens Vanthoor and Kevin Estre at Spa, whereas former Peugeot Hypercar driver Muller will return to the sequence to race #5 along with Michael Christensen and Julien Andlauer.
The chance for Wehrlein and Muller to achieve race expertise of the 963 within the WEC earlier than Le Mans has arisen as a result of PPM has slimmed down its LMDh driver roster for 2025.
Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet, who respectively raced #6 and #5 on the Qatar and Imola WEC rounds this season, won’t be accessible as a result of they’re competing full time within the IMSA SportsCar Championship with PPM’s US arm and will likely be on obligation at Laguna Seca on the weekend of Spa.
#6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963: Kevin Estre, Laurens Vanthoor, Matt Campbell
Photograph by: Shameem Fahath
They are going to return to the WEC squad for Le Mans on 14/15 June, however it isn’t deliberate for them to race within the six-hour occasions at Interlagos, Austin and Fuji when PPM will run two drivers solely in every of its pair of 963s.
Wehrlein will make his Le Mans debut within the third PPM entry alongside Nick Tandy and Felipe Nasr.
The announcement of Wehrlein for Spa on Friday by way of temporary posts on X and WhatsApp comes after PPM left the door open eventually weekend’s Imola WEC spherical for him to make an early debut within the sequence.
The group additionally refused to verify in Italy who would act because the reserve, a job crammed by Campbell and Dane Cameron in 2023 and ’24 respectively.
Wehrlein mentioned: “In preparation for Le Mans, it’s clearly firstclass that I can rejoice my debut within the WEC at Spa-Francorchamps and get to know how PPM works even earlier – each aggressive kilometre with the Porsche 963 counts.”
Muller added that he was “super-happy to be supporting PPM because the official reserve driver at Le Mans – though, after all, I hope I received’t be wanted”.
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Each Wehrlein and Muller have already raced the 963, respectively driving on the Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours with the shopper JDC-Miller MotorSports group.
They’ve each been concerned in Porsche’s pre-Le Mans preparations, collaborating in a 32-hour endurance take a look at on the Aragon circuit in Spain in March.
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Gary Watkins
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Formulation E
Nico Müller
Pascal Wehrlein
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