It was confirmed today that Penske will run the full WEC season in 2022 with an ORECA-Gibson 07 LMP2 car, ahead of the team’s WEC/IMSA effots with Porsche’s LMDh in 2023.
It will mark the first time Penske has competed at the Le Mans 24 Hours since Mark Donohue and David Hobbs drove the team’s Ferrari 512M but retired early.
The drivers for Penske’s LMP2 effort will be 2018 and 2021 IMSA champion Felipe Nasr, 2016 and 2019 IMSA champion Cameron, and two-time WEC GT world champion Emmanuel Collard.
“We look forward to learning as much as we can about the WEC process in 2022 as most of our competition has competed in this series for many years,” said Team Penske president Tim Cindric.
“Much like the approach we took by running Road Atlanta in 2017 when we returned to [IMSA] sportscar racing after an eight-year hiatus, we think the LMP2 class provides us a means of gaining valuable experience as we continue to build our program to compete full-time in the IMSA and WEC…
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