TF Sport Corvette sets 2026 WEC line-up

Corvette partner team TF Sport has firmed up its driver line-up for the 2026 FIA WEC season, completing its driver stable by confirming Ben Keating, Jonny Edgar, Salih Yoluc and Peter Dempsey for the season in LMGT3.

Keating and Edgar return to the team in 2026 and will compete in the No. 33 Z06 LMGT3.R alongside Nicky Catsburg, who was confirmed along with the full WEC entry earlier this week. Yoluc and Dempsey, meanwhile, will drive the sister car – bannered as Racing Team Turkey – with Charlie Eastwood.

Two-time FIA WEC champion Keating and 2024 ELMS LMP2 champion Edgar shared the No. 33 Corvette with Daniel Juncadella this season, winning the WEC season opener in Qatar. Keating and Catsburg last raced together during the 2023 FIA WEC, when they dominated the final season of the LMGTE Am class aboard the Pratt Miller-fielded Corvette C8.R, winning three of the first four races, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the title.

21-year-old Edgar is entering his third season with TF Sport, having won the 2024 European Le Mans Series LMP2 title with the team, before switching to its FIA WEC effort in 2025. The Briton was initially set to lose his seat for 2026, following a provisional upgrade from Silver to Gold in the FIA Driver Categorization system. A successful appeal has meant that Edgar will remain Silver-ranked for next year, but this didn’t come through before the team felt it had to commit elsewhere, with 2025 LMGT3 drivers’ champion Riccardo Pera originally lined up for the drive.

RACER understands, however, that in the festivities following this season’s FIA WEC finale at Bahrain, Pera revealed to TF Sport that he had been offered the position of Porsche contracted driver, and was planning to accept. This, therefore, opened the door for Edgar to make a return.

In the sister entry, which has changed from No. 81 to No. 34 for 2026, Yoluç returns to the FIA WEC alongside longtime TF driver Eastwood and FIA WEC Dempsey. Yoluç and Eastwood have now spent over a decade as teammates, almost always in TF Sport machinery. The pair won the LMGTE Am class at the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans alongside Jonathan Adam, and the 2022 ELMS LMP2 Pro/Am as a duo, during their first run together with Tom Ferrier’s outfit, which is now resuming after a break of almost two years.

The Turkish driver had his first taste of the Corvette Z06 GT3.R during the 2026 IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup with DXDT Racing, and will continue to build on that experience with TF, Eastwood and Tom Van Rompuy in the Asian Le Mans Series, which begins at Sepang this weekend and airs live on RACER+.

39-year-old Dempsey has signed up to his first full-season racing program since 2013, when he competed in Indy Lights, and won the Indianapolis 500-supporting Freedom 100 by only 0.0026s.

Dempsey initially connected with TF Sport through Eastwood and the Team Ireland driver development program, where the suggestion was made that the team might require a Bronze-rated driver. The U.S.-based Irishman set competitive times during a test in DXDT Racing’s Corvette, and therefore has been selected to join Yoluç and Eastwood for 2026.

The season opener is set to be Dempsey’s first sports car start since an unsuccessful one-off appearance at the 2010 Petit Le Mans aboard Libra Racing’s Radical SR9-Nissan LMP2, when the team retired in the opening laps.

Eastwood, who was confirmed alongside Catsburg earlier this week, has recently announced a two-year extension to his contract with Corvette Racing. This aligns with the length of TF Sport’s current deal with the American marque.

The arrival of Yoluç and Dempsey has led to the departure of Rui Andrade and Van Rompuy from TF Sport’s FIA WEC line-up after two years. Andrade has already announced a move to Mercedes-AMG team Iron Lynx for 2026, while van Rompuy’s FIA WEC status is unconfirmed.