After the announcement of yesterday's Le Mans entry list, ACO revealed all of the participants for 2019 European Le Mans Series, which features 41 cars.
LMP2 class features an incredible 18 car grid, with 11 ORECAs, 6 Ligiers and a Dallara completing the grid.
Carlin is the new team for 2019, adding another team to LMP2 class beside the 4 other teams that jumped up from LMP3 (BHK Motorsport, Cool Racing, RLR MSport and Europol).
SMP Racing is missing this year along with AVF. Racing Engineering is also absent from the list.
Panis Barathez suffered a disappointing year in 2018 and is entering another car. GRAFF Racing enters a single car for 2019.
LMP3 grid has shrinked for the season, with most of the cars making up to LMP2 and LMGTE cars increasing.
Realteam Racing is new team to the series, although being under operation of GRAFF.
Nielsen and 360 Racing entered pairs of their P3 cars with Eurointernational and M Racing entering single car for 2019.
Various teams have shifted from P3 to P2, with BySpeed refusing to enter ELMS and DKR moving to Le Mans Cup.
In LMGTE, a pair of Kessel Racing Ferraris, WEC Championship leader in GTE-Am Project 1 and Luzich Racing adding to the GTE grid. 9 cars in total set the grid.
2018 European Le Mans Series Entry List
LMP2
#20 - High Class Racing - ORECA 07 – Dunlop - Anders Fjordbach
#21 - DragonSpeed - ORECA 07 - Michelin - Henrik Hedman
#22 – United Autosports - Ligier JS P217 – Michelin – Phil Hanson
#23 – Panis Barthez – Ligier JS P217 – Michelin – Rene Binder
#24 – Panis Barthez – Ligier JS P217 – Michelin – Timothe Buret
#25 – Algarve Pro – ORECA 07 – Dunlop – Mark Patterson
#26 – G-Drive Racing – ORECA 07 – No tyre specified – Roman Rusinov
#27 – IDEC Sport – Ligier JS P217 – Michelin – Patrice Lafargue
#28 – IDEC Sport – ORECA 07 – Michelin – Paul Lafargue
#29 – Duquiene Engineering – ORECA 07 – Michelin – Nicolas Jamin
#31 – Algarve Pro – ORECA 07 – Dunlop – Henning Enqvist
#32 – United Autosports – Ligier JS P217 – Michelin – Ryan Cullen
#34 – Inter Europol – Ligier JS P217 – Michelin – Jakub Smiechowski
#35 – BHK Motorsport – ORECA 07 – Michelin – Francesco Draconi
#37 – Cool Racing – ORECA 07 – Michelin – Alexandre Coigny
#39 – GRAFF – ORECA 07 – Dunlop – Tristan Gommendy
#43 – RLR MSport – ORECA 07 – Dunlop – John Farano
#45 – Carlin – Dallara P217 – Dunlop – Jack Manchester
LMP3
#2 – United Autosports – Ligier JS P3 – Mike Gausch
#3 – United Autosports – Ligier JS P3 – Garrett Grist
#5 – 360 Racing – Ligier JS P3 – James Dayson
#6 – 360 Racing – Ligier JS P3 – Terrence Woodward
#7 – Nielsen Racing – Ligier JS P3 – Tony Wells
#8 – Nielsen Racing – Ligier JS P3 – Nobuya Yamanaka
#9 – RealTeam Racing – Norma M30 – Esteban Garcia
#10 – Oregon Team – Norma M30 – Damiano Fioravanti
#11 – Eurointernational – Ligier JS P3 – Andrea Dromendari
#13 – Inter Europol – Ligier JS P3 – Martin Hippe
#14 – Inter Europol – Ligier JS P3 – Paul Scheuschner
#15 – RLR MSport – Ligier JS P3 – Martin Vedel Mortensen
#17 – Ultimate – Norma M30 – Mathieu Lahaye
#19 – M Racing – Norma M30 – Laurent Milara
LMGTE
#51 – Luzich Racing – Ferrari 488 GTE – TBA #55 – Spirit of Race – Ferrari 488 GTE – Duncan Cameron #56 – Project 1 – Porsche 911 RSR – Dunlop – Egidio Perfetti #60 – Kessel Racing – Ferrari 488 GTE – Claudio Schiavoni #66 – JMW Motorsport – Ferrari 488 GTE – Jeff Seagal #77 – Dempsey Proton Racing – Porsche 911 RSR – Richard Lietz #80 – Ebimotors – Porsche 911 RSR – Fabio Babini #83 – Kessel Racing – Ferrari 488 GTE – Manuela Gostner #88 – Proton Competition – Porsche 911 RSR – Matteo Carioli
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