Photo: Brendon Hartley (right) keeping his Porsche Team teammate Timo Bernhard smiling!
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26 different nationalities from five continents are represented among the 180 drivers, including 37 Britons, 31 Frenchmen and 22 Americans (as the entry list currently stands).
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Drivers from Japan, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Monaco, Portugal, Malaysia, Denmark, Republic of Ireland, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Belgium, Thailand, China, Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands and Mexico will also participate in the FIA WEC’s third round.
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With five Le Mans 24 Hour events under his belt, FIA World Endurance Champion Brendon Hartley is familiar with all the pomp and circumstance surrounding the world’s greatest endurance race, including the scrutineering in the town centre and official team photograph that follows. But, in 2013, when Hartley competed with Murphy Prototypes in LMP2, Hartley was absent for the photo and, instead, Karun Chandhok and Mark Patterson are joined by Hartley’s brother Nelson… Brendon thankfully returned for the race, where Murphy finished 6th in class.
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This year will be the first for Audi since 2006 that they have not run three cars at Le Mans. 2006 saw their new R10 TDi take a maiden victory in the hands of Frank Biela, Marco Werner and Emanuele Pirro. Will it prove a good omen?
Photo: Motorsport.com - A young Nelson Piquet Jr alongide David Brabham and Antonio Garcia
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Also in 2006, reigning FIA Formula E champion Nelson Piquet Jr was just 20 when he made his first appearance in a Russian Age Racing Aston Martin DBR9. After a 10 year hiatus, Piquet returns to Le Mans with Rebellion Racing as a vastly more experienced driver, but still some way short of Jean Alesi’s record for the longest gap between starts. The 1995 Canadian Grand Prix winner waited 21 years after his first appearance in 1989 before returning in 2010 with a GT2 Ferrari.
