ELMS: Guasch joins United Autosports LMP3 team

Former American Le Mans Series LMPC champion Mike Guasch will return to the United Autosports team for its first European Le Mans Series campaign this year. Mike will join Britain's burgeoning sportscar star Alex Brundle in one of the team's two Ligier JS P3 cars as preparations intensify for the Anglo-Amercian team's ELMS debut that begins at Silverstone on 16 April.

The American businessman raced for the UK-based team in 2010 and '11 in an Audi R8 LMS GT3 sportscar and scored the team's first race victory at Snetterton alongside Matt Bell, who will be driving the team's second Ligier in 2016. Guasch also raced with the team in the 2010 FIA GT3 Championship, with Mark Patterson as his teammate. Patterson, too, will be part of the team's 2016 ELMS campaign.

Since Guasch left the team, he has been successful contesting endurance racing in prototype machinery in his North America. He won the 2013 American Le Mans Series driver's championship in an LMPC prototype. He also won the Rolex 24 at Daytona in the LMPC class, along with wins at Sebring, Lime Rock and Road Atlanta last year, and won the overall championship in the North American Endurance Cup.

The team, which is looking for a second bronze-graded driver to join Alex and Mike and a silver graded driver to join Patterson and Bell, have taken delivery of their first Ligier JS P3 sports car. The 2016 ELMS season roars in to action at Paul Ricard in France for the official two-day test on March 22-23.