The full 2023 WEC entry list has been revealed

The factory teams from major car manufacturers Toyota, Peugeot, Ferrari, Porsche and Cadillac have been joined by Glickenhaus and Vanwall, as well as the Jota and Proton customer Porsche squads.

But there is no place for Isotta Fraschini, which made a bid for a single entry with its new Le Mans Hypercar in conjunction with the British Vector Sport team.

The revived Italian marque announced that it was developing an LMH hybrid with GT specialist Michelotto as recently as October and could only commit to joining the series for round three at Spa at the end of April after a start to testing in February.

Glickenhaus has gained the solo entry that the American-flagged operation confirmed it would make in December, with team stalwart Romain Dumas listed as the only driver so far in its Pipo-engined 007 LMH so far.

The Vanwall Racing team run by the ByKolles operation has gained an entry for its non-hybrid LMH powered by the Gibson V8 after being turned down for last year’s championship.

#8 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 - Hybrid: Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa (Photo by: Paul Foster)

Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve is listed alongside Tom Dillmann and Esteban Guerrieri as one of the drivers for a car now dubbed the Vanwall Vandervell 680.

The inclusion of the 51-year-old follows his test with the team at Barcelona at the end of November.

The drivers listed in the two-car factory teams from Toyota, Peugeot, Ferrari and Porsche, as well as the solo Ganassi-run Cadillac Racing squad, are as previously announced.

Yifei Ye is the only nominated driver so far in Jota’s customer Porsche 963 LMDh, while factory-contracted Gianmaria Bruni is the first driver named by Proton Competition.

The Jota and Proton teams will receive their 963s in time for Spa, with the former having already confirmed that it will run an LMP2 ORECA-Gibson 07 in the colours of new sponsor Hertz for its Hypercar crew at the first two WEC rounds.

The total entry for the 2023 WEC is 38 cars, one down on the record of 39 registered last year.

There are 11 in LMP2 for what is expected to be the final year for the category in the WEC, which compares to last year’s 15.

Vector Sport, which joined the series last year, has been granted an entry for its ORECA, with Ryan Cullen nominated as its first driver.

The Signatech-run Alpine squad has received two LMP2 entries on its return to the category after a pair of seasons in Hypercar running a grandfathered LMP1 ORECA design.

It is stepped down a class for one season while it awaits the arrival of the new Alpine LMDh, which is scheduled to begin racing in 2024.

Team regulars Matthieu Vaxiviere and Andre Negrao are each listed in one of the Alpine-badged ORECA 07s.

Prema has expanded to two cars in P2, a move confirmed on Monday when it announced the first drivers for the cars, Doriane Pin and Juan Manuel Correa.

Reigning P2 champion P2 team Jota is running only one full-season car in the class as a result of its graduation to the Hypercar ranks.

WRT, the P2 title winner in 2021, has listed silver-ranked Sean Gelael and Rui Andrade for its two cars.

United Autosports again fields two cars for, while Inter Europol returns to the WEC for a third season.

The is no LMP2 pro/am class this year.

#98 Northwest Amr Aston Martin Vantage AMR GTE-AM: Paul Dalla Lana, David Pittard, Nicki Thiim (Photo by: JEP / Motorsport Images)

GTE Am, now the only class for production-based machinery after the scrapping of GTE Pro, is made up of 14 cars, one up on last year’s 13.

Iron Lynx has made the predicted switch from Ferrari to Porsche for its GTE Am campaign with two 911 RSRs, one entered under the Iron Dames banner for the all-female line-up of Rahal Frey, Sarah Bovy and Michelle Gatting.

The move follows its announcement as Lamborghini’s partner for the Italian manufacturer’s WEC entry in the Hypercar class in 2024 with a new LMDh.

The British TF Sport will again run a pair of Aston Martin Vantage GTEs, even though reigning champion Ben Keating has moved to Corvette Racing for 2023.

It will run the Vantages under the D’Station Racing and ORT by TF banners.

AF Corse will run three Ferrari 488 GTE Evos alongside the two factory 499P LMHs, one under the banner of watchmaker Richard Mille which previously ran in P2 with Signatech.

Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Harry Tincknell is again down to drive one of the two Proton Porsches.

The seven-race 2023 WEC begins with the Sebring 1000 Miles on 17 March.

 Full 2023 WEC entry list

N°	Team	Car	Confirmed drivers
Hypercar - 13 cars * will miss Sebring opener
2	Cadillac Racing	Cadillac V-LMDh	Earl Bamber  Alex Lynn  Richard Westbrook
4	Floyd Vanwall Racing Team	Vanwall Vandervell 680	Tom Dillmann  Esteban Guerrieri Jacques Villeneuve
5	Porsche Penske Motorsport	Porsche 963	Dane Cameron Michael Christensen  Frederic Makowiecki
6	Porsche Penske Motorsport	Porsche 963	Kevin Estre Andre Lotterer  Laurens Vanthoor
7	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota GR010 Hybrid	Mike Conway  Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez
8	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota GR010 Hybrid	Sebastien Buemi  Brendon Hartley  Ryo Hirakawa
38*	Hertz Team JOTA	Porsche 963	Yifei Ye TBA TBA
50	Ferrari AF Corse	Ferrari 499P	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado  Antonio Giovinazzi
51	Ferrari AF Corse	Ferrari 499P	Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen
93	Peugeot TotalEnergies	Peugeot 9X8	Paul di Resta  Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne
94	Peugeot TotalEnergies	Peugeot 9X8	Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes  Nico Muller
99*	Proton Competition	Porsche 963	Gianmaria Bruni TBA TBA
708	Glickenhaus Racing	Glickenhaus 007	Romain Dumas TBA TBA
LMP2 - 11 cars
9	Prema Racing	Oreca 07-Gibson	Juan Manuel Correa TBA TBA
10	Vector Sport	Oreca 07-Gibson	Ryan Cullen TBA TBA
22	United Autosports	Oreca 07-Gibson	Phil Hanson  Filipe Albuquerque TBA
23	United Autosports	Oreca 07-Gibson	Oliver Jarvis  Tom Blomqvist Josh Pierson
28	JOTA	Oreca 07-Gibson	David Heinemeier Hansson Pietro Fittipaldi  Oliver Rasmussen
31	Team WRT	Oreca 07-Gibson	Sean Gelael TBA TBA
34	Inter Europol Competition	Oreca 07-Gibson	Jakub Smiechowski Fabio Scherer TBA
35	Alpine Elf Team	Alpine A470-Gibson	Matthieu Vaxiviere TBA TBA
36	Alpine Elf Team	Alpine A470-Gibson	Andre Negrao TBA TBA
41	Team WRT	Oreca 07-Gibson	Rui Andrade TBA TBA
63	Prema Racing	Oreca 07-Gibson	Doriane Pin TBA TBA
GTE Am - 14 cars
21	AF Corse	Ferrari 488 GTE	Stefano Costantini Simon Mann  Ulysse de Pauw
25	ORT by TF	Aston Martin Vantage	Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan  Charlie Eastwood
33	Corvette Racing	Corvette C8.R	Ben Keating  Nicky Catsburg TBA
54	AF Corse	Ferrari 488 GTE	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci TBA
56	Project 1 - AO	Porsche 911 RSR-19	PJ Hyett  Gunnar Jeanette TBA
57	Kessel Racing	Ferrari 488 GTE	Takeshi Kimura  Scott Huffaker  Daniel Serra
60	Iron Lynx	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Claudio Schiavoni TBA TBA
77	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Christian Ried TBA TBA
83	Richard Mille AF Corse	Ferrari 488 GTE	Luis Perez Companc TBA TBA
85	Iron Dames	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Rahel Frey  Sarah Bovy  Michelle Gatting
86	GR Racing	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Michael Wainwright TBA TBA
88	Proton Competition	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Harry Tincknell TBA TBA
98	NorthWest AMR	Aston Martin Vantage	Paul Dalla Lana TBA TBA
777	D'station Racing	Aston Martin Vantage	Satoshi Hoshino  Tomonobu Fujii  Casper Stevenson