Austrian teenager, Lucas Auer, will be racing with the Lotus Praga LMP2 team at the 6 Hours of Bahrain. The 19-year-old nephew of former F1 driver and current President of the FIA Single Seat Commission, Gerhard Berger, finished 4th overall in the 2013 FIA F3 European Championship. Endurance racing, however, will be very new to him as he acknowledges.
“I am very pleased that I have been given the chance to compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship season finale with the Lotus Praga LMP2 team,” said Auer, who will drive the No.31 Lotus T128 alongside Kevin Weeda and Vitantonio Liuzzi.
“For me, an endurance race will be an entirely new experience since I only took part in sprint races so far. Driving a closed-top car is also unknown territory for me and so is having to share the car with team-mates. Generally, I think it is a good thing for a racing driver to get new experiences and I am grateful for the chance that I am getting now. However, this doesn’t mean that I am bowing out of single-seater racing. It is my aim to race in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship once again next year, but firstly, I am very happy to race with the Lotus Praga LMP2 in the 6 Hours of Bahrain."
Quote from Lotus Praga LMP2 press release
