The 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship will begin on Sunday 20th April and there will be a feast of cars for endurance racing fans to enjoy including the new Porsche LMP1 challenger and the all-new Rebellion Racing R-One LMP1 prototype which is being developed by the Swiss team in association with ORECA.
Rebellion has confirmed it will have two entries for the 2014 season, and recently re-confirmed Nicolas Prost for its 2014 driver line up.
The design of the new Le Mans Prototype is progressing to schedule, and the Rebellion R-One is due to complete its first laps during March 2014. During a recent visit to ORECA’s workshops in the south of France by team engineers and Prost, the driving position and cockpit ergonomics were also validated using a full-scale mock-up of the Rebellion R-One chassis. One of the notable characteristics of the cockpit is that the driving position is located on the left side, in order to provide better visibility for the driver.
Bart Hayden, Team Manager REBELLION Racing : "We are pleased that the project is on schedule. Our engineers are working closely with the project team at ORECA and the drivers are already involved in validating elements of the design, as witnessed by the interior ergonomics validation in the chassis mock-up. We are already making plans for the REBELLION Racing mechanics to be involved in the assembly of the cars in the new year and are targeting the first roll-out in the middle of March. It's a tight schedule, but it is achievable and we are giving it our due focus."
Fiona Miller - quote and information from team press release
Photo: Courtesy of Rebellion Racing. Nicolas Prost and ORECA engineers developping the new Rebellion R-One LMP1 chassis.
