By alley - May 23, 2017, 12:02 PM ET

Kubica tests SMP's Dallara P217 at Monza

Ex-F1 and World Rally Championship driver Robert Kubica has been pictured testing this morning at Monza in SMP Racing's Dallara P217 (courtesy Fausto Mattei), along with Viktor Shaytar and Maurizio Mediani.

This comes after Kubica was originally slated to drive for ByKolles in the World Endurance Championship's LMP1 class this year,

before quitting just days away

from the opening Silverstone race.

There is no news yet as to whether Kubica is planning to drive with the Russian team – which will race at Le Mans with the Dallara and the remaining European Le Mans Series rounds before racing in LMP1 next year with a new BR Engineering/Dallara chassis. The team has confirmed an all-Russian lineup of Sergej Sirotkin, IndyCar driver Mikhael Aleshin and Viktor Shatter for Le Mans next month.

RACER understands that the Dallara chassis SMP will race at Le Mans is a brand-new build. It is notable that the Dallara pictured is running its Le Mans-spec low-downforce aerodynamic package; the team is not the first to run the low-drag Dallara kit though, as ELMS team Racing Team Nederland ran a P217 with it at the Prologue back in April.