Former Manor Formula 1 driver Roberto Merhi tested for the Greaves LMP2 team this week. The 24-year-old drove Greaves Motorsport's Nissan-engined Gibson 015S and ORECA 05 chassis over the course of a Dunlop tire test at the Motorland Aragon circuit.Merhi's manager, Mark Blundell, said that the Spaniard had taken up...

The British Jota Sport LMP2 squad will expand into the World Endurance Championship next season with the new ORECA coupe.Jota, which took P2 honors at last year's Le Mans 24 Hours, will field a solo Nissan-powered coupe in the full WEC alongside a continued campaign in the European Le Mans...

The Strakka Racing team gave its new Gibson LMP2 contender a shakedown on Tuesday ahead of its switch to the British-built car for the season's remaining World Endurance Championship rounds.The British team, which announced its decision to abandon the Strakka Dome S103 project earlier this month, ran the Nissan-powered Gibson...

British sports car squad Strakka Racing has begun work on a new LMP1 project for the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship. The non-hybrid LMP1 will be the first car fully designed and constructed in-house by Strakka.The team plans to utilise 3D printing and additive manufacturing techniques to keep component manufacturing...

Filipe Albuquerque will contest the European Le Mans Series with JOTA Sport for a second consecutive year aiming to go one better and win the championship title in 2015. The 29-year-old Portuguese and Simon Dolan will again race JOTA's venerable Zytek Z11SN which has now been rebranded a Gibson 015S.Albuquerque,...

The entry for the European Le Mans Series entry is set to grow from the 34 cars announced on Thursday.Series boss Gerard Neveu said the grid, which was unveiled along with those for the Le Mans 24 Hours and the World Endurance Championship in Paris, would be bolstered by additional...