Robert Shwartzman will return to the World Endurance Championship Hypercar ranks with Peugeot subsequent season.
The 26-year-old is shifting again to sportscars with the French marque to drive one its revised 9X8 Le Mans Hypercars.
It comes after the withdrawal from the IndyCar Collection of the Prema Racing staff with which he claimed pole place for the 2025 Indianapolis 500.
Shwartzman beforehand competed in Hypercar aboard the satellite tv for pc Ferrari 499P LMH entered by the AF Corse staff, profitable the 2024 Austin spherical with Robert Kubica and Yifei Ye.
The Russian-Israeli additionally raced a manufacturing unit AF-run entry within the GT World Problem Europe Endurance Cup throughout his time fulfilling check and reserve roles with the Ferrari Formulation 1 staff from 2022 to 2024.
“I’m extraordinarily blissful to be returning to the WEC after my time racing within the US,” mentioned Shwartzman.
“Endurance racing is one thing I’ve actually missed over the previous two seasons, and I’m thrilled to be becoming a member of Staff Peugeot TotalEnergies.
“From my very first discussions with the staff, I felt genuinely welcomed and instantly a part of the venture inside a extremely skilled and bold atmosphere.
“The 2027 programme is especially thrilling and I can’t wait to contribute to this new chapter and assist write the following phases of the story collectively.”
Robert Shwartzman returns to WEC after a stint in IndyCar
Photograph by: Penske Leisure
Shwartzman’s “pure velocity, adaptability and maturity make him a perfect match for our venture”, mentioned Peugeot Sport staff principal Emmanuel Esnault.
“He’s fairly spectacular not solely when it comes to velocity, but additionally mindset, method and positivity, so we’re very blissful. We need to construct one thing robust on the human aspect and the sporting aspect with him.”
Shwartzman, who has no race programme this yr after Prema’s IndyCar withdrawal initially of 2026, has but to check certainly one of Peugeot’s LMHs.
He’ll get his first style of the automotive in the course of this month on the Algarve circuit when Peugeot undertakes its second check with the heavily-revised 2027 model of the 9X8. The automotive ran for the primary time at Paul Ricard on the finish of July.
Esnault, who joined Peugeot Sport for this season, defined that there have been “nonetheless some choices to make” because it finalises its WEC driver line-up for 2027.
Doriane Pin will get her first run in a 2026-spec 9X8 at Paul Ricard initially of December after being signed by Peugeot as a improvement driver in March.
It had been deliberate for the 2025 F1 Academy champion, who’s racing in LMP2 within the European Le Mans Collection this yr, to be given a try-out in a 9X8 on the official WEC rookie check in Bahrain the day after the WEC finale.
The substitute of the Center Japanese race with a spherical at Monza has resulted within the new date at Ricard. Esnault confirmed that she was being assessed for a attainable check and reserve position on the WEC squad.
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