WEC - A FEW DRIVER CHANGES FOR THE FUJI ROUND [wecfia]

WEC - A FEW DRIVER CHANGES FOR THE FUJI ROUND
There'll be 86 drivers in 31 cars for the FIA WEC 6 Hours of Fuji

In a little more than 10 days will take place the 6 Hours of Fuji, third
Ito-last round of the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season. The entry list will contain some changes compared to the preceding race in Texas.



In LM P1, as foreseen for several weeks now, Nick Heidfeld will not make the trip to Japan with Rebellion Racing, therefore only Mathias Beche and Nicolas Prost will share the wheel of the No. 12 R-One. No other changes are on the horizon for the head class, in which Porsche won again at the 6 Hours of the Circuit of the Americas, though not the case in the LM P2 class.

Nick Tandy, overall winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June, will reunite with KCMG's Oreca 05-Nissan. Porsche, its employer, requisitioned the Brit for the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship round that took place the same day as the World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Austin.

Another return to the WEC, but in a different car this time, is Chris Cumming - who was at the wheel of one of OAK Racing's Ligier JS P2s at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (retirement) along with Laurens Vanthoor and Kévin Estre - to be welcomed by Team SARD Morand. The Canadian driver will support Pierre Ragues and Oliver Webb in the No. 43 Morgan.

Identical situation for Stefan Mücke who did not participate in the Texas round. The German driver will once again race in an Aston Martin in the LM GTE Pro class, and will join Alex MacDowall and Fernando Rees in the No. 99 Vantage. His usual teammate, Darren Turner, will be joined by Jonny Adam, a recent winner in British GT with the British manufacturer, in the No. 97 sister car, but the 100% Danish driver line-up will limit itself to two drivers, Christoffer Nygaard et Marco Sørensen.

Another Dane, Kristian Poulsen, will leave his spot to a fellow countryman, Nicolai Sylvest, in Larbre Compétition's Corvette C7.R. The former winner in the LM P2 class at the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans not being a professional driver, like many in the LM GTE Am class, must attend to his business obligations, just like Roald Goethe in the No. 96 Aston Martin Vantage. He will be replaced by a newcomer in the WEC, Liam Griffin, coming from the BTCC and British GT.

Last but not least, Earl Bamber - winner at Le Mans with Nick Tandy (see above) and Nico Hülkenberg - will once again replace Klaus Bachler in the No. 88 Porsche for Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing, as he did at the Nürburgring.

The start of the 6 Hours of Fuji will be given on Sunday October 18th at 11:00 a.m., or 3:00 a.m. in the U.K.

Provisional Entry List: