The French 23-year-old’s only competition appearance of 2021 came as a substitute with IDEC Sport at the Le Mans 24 Hours when he was called up to replace Kyle Tilley.
But Laurent, who finished second outright on his first Le Mans start with Jota Sport in 2017 and also won the LMP2 class, didn’t participate in the race due to chassis damage sustained in a practice crash by co-driver Dwight Merriman.
Laurent, who took an outright World Endurance Championship race win at Silverstone in 2018 following the disqualification of the two, previously contested the full ELMS championship with Graff in 2020 and scored two podiums at Spa and Paul Ricard.
He will line up alongside Matthias Kaiser and an as-yet unnamed third driver at Muhlner Motorsport, the Belgian-based squad stepping up from the LMP3 ranks of the ELMS-supporting Michelin Le Mans Cup with the now ubiquitous ORECA 07-Gibson.
The Bernhard Muhlner-owned team also runs two Duqueine M30-D08 LMP3 cars in the IMSA SportsCar…
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