WEC: SMP's new LMP2 car makes debut
SMP Racing's new BR Engineering LMP2 coupe, which will race at the Le Mans 24 Hours and in the European Le Mans Series, made its track debut on Sunday.
The Russian entrant's BRE-Nissan BR01, which is named after team owner Boris Rotenberg, was given a shakedown on Paul Ricard's training circuit on Sunday before moving onto the full track for one hour of running in the evening. Team sporting director Sergey Zlobin, who won the WEC LMP2 title with the team last year driving an ORECA, completed the first laps before Nicolas Minassian took over.
SMP team principal Benjamin Durand told AUTOSPORT: "It went well for the first test of a new car and we managed 100km yesterday. Sergey and Nic were pretty happy with the handling of the car and think it is well born."
SMP will continue to run on the small track on Monday before moving to Barcelona for further testing on Thursday.
A series of delays, linked to the economic sanctions imposed on Russia, held up the build of the car and forced the team to revert to its open-top ORECA 03Rs for last week's official ELMS test at Ricard.
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