CEFC Manor TRS Racing's current driver line-up of Ben Hanley, Matt Rao and ex-F1 driver Jean-Eric Vergne in the No. 24 ORECA 07 Gibson are set to finish the 2017 FIA WEC season together, team principal Graeme Lowdon confirmed to RACER at Fuji.The trio has been together since the 6...

CEFC Manor TRS Racing's head Graeme Lowdon has confirmed to RACER that its driver line-up across its two LMP2 ORECA 07 Gibsons will stay the same for the next round of theWorld Endurance Championship season at Circuit of The Americas later this month.For this weekend in Mexico City, the trio...

CEFC Manor TRS Racing will bring a fresh line-up in the No. 24 ORECA for the 6 Hours of Mexico next month.Sporting director Graeme Lowdon revealed to RACER that the team will enter the car with Ben Hanley, who drove in the WEC with TDS Racing at Spa and G-Drive...

Ex-Formula 3 driver Matt Rao is set to return to the World Endurance Championship for a second season in 2017, filling the third seat in Signatech Alpine's lead No. 36 A470 in the LMP2 class. The team also confirmed today in its pre-season announcement in Paris that Nelson Panciatici, Pierre...

Former IndyCar driver James Jakes has been replaced by 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours LMP2 winner Matt Howson at Manor for this weekend's Nurburgring World Endurance Championship round. Howson will drive alongside Tor Graves and Antonio Pizzonia in the No.44 Manor ORECA-Nissan 05 LMP2 entry.Manor sporting director Graeme Lowdon was...

The Signatech Alpine of Nicolas Lapierre, Stephane Richelmi and Gustavo Menezes took LMP2 victory, having wrested control of the race deep into Sunday morning.Lapierre led very early in the race, but was left on wets for too long as the track dried and others switched to intermediates and fell out...

Ex-Formula 1 racer Roberto Merhi will take the seat at the Manor LMP2 team vacated by Will Stevens for this month's Le Mans 24 Hours.The Spaniard is contesting the World Endurance Championship in the Manor ORECA that doesn't have an entry for Le Mans and will now replace Stevens in...

The new Manor sportscar squad shook down its second ORECA chassis at Rockingham on Thursday ahead of its debut in next weekend's World Endurance Championship round at Silverstone.The team's first ORECA-Nissan 05 LMP2 machine ran during the pre-season WEC test at Paul Ricard last month (ABOVE), but the second was...

Former Manor Formula 1 driver Roberto Merhi will rejoin his 2015 team bosses for an assault on the World Endurance Championship this year.Merhi (LEFT) has completed the line-up in the second ORECA-Nissan 05 LMP2 to be run by Manor Motorsport, which John Booth and Graeme Lowdon have revived following their...

Ex-British Formula 3 Championship frontrunner Matt Rao has joined the Manor LMP2 team's assault on the World Endurance Championship this year.The 21-year-old, who finished a close second in British F3 in 2014, will race the additional entry of a second ORECA-Nissan 05 coupe that Manor Motorsport announced last week."Matt has...