WEC: Junqueira gets Mexico City drive

Champ Car veteran Bruno Junqueira will contest next month's Mexico City round of the World Endurance Championship. The 39-year-old will drive a Gibson-Nissan 015S run by Greaves Motorsport in a deal put together by sometime Champ Car racer Roberto Gonzalez, brother of race promoter and WEC regular Ricardo.

Junqueira and Gonzalez will share the car in the Mexican event on Sept. 3 with former American Le Mans Series regular Luis Diaz.

Ricardo Gonzalez, who has put together the RGR Sport LMP2 team for this season, explained that his younger brother wanted to contest the race in advance of a full WEC assault in 2017.

"Roberto jumped at the chance to race in Mexico when we put the race on and he wants to do the full season next year," said Gonzalez.

Corvette Racing driver Ricky Taylor is set to rejoin the Larbre Competition squad with which he raced in the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2013 and '14. The American is due to share the team's GTE Am class Chevrolet Corvette C7.R together with Pierre Ragues and Yutaka Yamagishi.

Benoit Treluyer is still scheduled to be fit in order to rejoin Andre Lotterer and Marcel Fassler in the #7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro in the wake of back injuries sustained in a cycling accident.

The Manor LMP2 team has yet to nominate drivers for its #44 entry alongside Tor Graves. An extra car could join the 33 WEC regulars at Fuji in October and Bahrain November.

The Indonesian Jagonya Ayam driver scheme, which has forged deals for its drivers to race in the Asian and European Le Mans Series races over the past year, has looked at fielding a car in some end-of-season WEC rounds.

Originally on Autosport.com