Ford says it could wait till the top of the 12 months earlier than finalising the rest of the motive force roster for its 2027 Hypercar programme within the World Endurance Championship.
The American producer has to date signed simply three names for its return to the highest echelon of sportscar racing, with Logan Sargeant, Sebastian Priaulx and Mike Rockenfeller main growth of its as-yet-unnamed LMDh challenger. Nonetheless, Ford will in the end require as many as six drivers for the longer WEC occasions, together with the Le Mans 24 Hours, along with any reserve drivers.
Discussions are underway with potential candidates, and whereas just a few bulletins stay potential in the summertime, Ford indicated that the total line-up will not be settled till a lot later within the 12 months.
“We hope to have some extra bulletins within the subsequent few months, however the last [line-up] may not be in place until in direction of the top of this 12 months,” Ford LMDh chief Dan Sayers instructed reporters together with Motorsport.com.
“We’re very pleased with how issues are progressing. Because it stands, the three we have got in the intervening time, we have introduced them already. With Logan, Seb and Mike, we have got an incredible mixture of expertise, youth and velocity, so if we feature on that means, we’ll have a extremely good driver line-up, however it will likely be in direction of the top of the 12 months for all six.”
Dan Sayers, Ford Hypercar Program Supervisor
Picture by: Ford Efficiency
Ford’s present driver line-up is led by 2010 Le Mans winner Rockenfeller, who additionally has expertise of LMDh equipment due to his time with Porsche clients JDC-Miller and Proton Competitors in IMSA’s GTP division.
Nonetheless, a number of GTD Professional race winner Priaulx comes from a background in GT automobiles, whereas former F1 driver Sargeant remains to be new to sportscar racing.
Sayers admitted Ford is in discussions with drivers with present LMDh and LMH expertise, opening the opportunity of recruiting from rival producers.
“We’re speaking to loads of drivers in the intervening time for the remaining seats, a few of whom do have LMDh and hypercar expertise,” he stated.
“I feel we will try to proceed to have a stability of expertise and youth. So, I feel you will notice hopefully we’ll make future bulletins in order that’s continued.
“However once more, as a lot as expertise helps with engineers, it helps to have drivers and expertise as nicely, so we might be speaking to them.”
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