The French producer’s reserve driver will race the #35 Alpine A424 LMDh for a second race in a row as Habsburg continues to recover from the back injuries sustained in testing at the end of March.
Habsburg was initially listed within the automotive alongside Charles Milesi and Paul-Loup Chatin on the publication late final month of the entry checklist for the Belgian spherical of the WEC, however his identify has now been changed by Gounon’s.
It’s understood that the choice has been made for Habsburg to completely concentrate on his restoration after which rebuilding health in time for the Le Mans 24 Hours WEC spherical on 15-16 June.
Habsburg fractured two lumbar vertebrae throughout an Alpine pre-Le Mans endurance take a look at at MotorLand Aragon and was subsequently dominated out of final month’s Imola WEC spherical.
Alpine group boss Philippe Sinault hinted on the Italian race that Habsburg might be slot in time for the Spa 6 Hours on 11 Might, saying that he was “anticipating excellent news”.
The accident wherein Habsburg sustained the accidents resulted from a technical failure, which Alpine has but to clarify, at Flip 7 of the Spanish facility.
Proton Competition Porsche driver Harry Tincknell will miss Spa as anticipated, regardless of showing on the unique model of the entry checklist.
It has been determined by his employer, Multimatic Motorsports, that his GT Daytona Professional class marketing campaign with Ford within the IMSA SportsCar Championship will take priority over the WEC programme with Proton.
Meaning the Briton shall be at Laguna Seca this weekend racing a Multimatic-run Ford Mustang GT3 alongside full-season team-mate Mike Rockenfeller.
Tincknell’s absence signifies that Neel Jani and Julien Andlauer will race the automotive as a duo.
The #99 entry shall be one in every of 5 vehicles within the 19-strong Hypercar class entry with solely two drivers for the six-hour race.
Affirmation that Peugeot wouldn’t be changing Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne, who shall be on responsibility with DS Penske within the Berlin System E Championship occasion, for Spa got here with the publication of the entry checklist final month.