Chadwick switches to ELMS with LMP2 seat for 2025

Jamie Chadwick will return to sportscar racing in 2025 after signing a cope with the IDEC Sport LMP2 group within the European Le Mans Sequence.

The three-time W Sequence champion was introduced as a part of a 44-car ELMS grid on Tuesday on the French squad that gained the ELMS title in 2019 with Paul-Loup Chatin, Memo Rojas and Paul Lafargue.

Chadwick has spent the previous two seasons racing in Indy NXT for Andretti International, taking a breakthrough win at Street America and ending seventh within the standings.

The 26-year-old had her first IndyCar take a look at at Barber Motorsport Park in September and told Autosport that progression to the top tier of US open-wheel racing was a “realistic possibility”, however will now embark on a primary full season in sportscars since 2015. 

That 12 months she teamed up with Ross Gunn aboard a Beechdean Aston Martin Vantage to say the GT4 title in British GT.

Chadwick beforehand examined LMP2 equipment for the Richard Mille Racing Crew in 2021, when she accomplished 26 laps within the World Endurance Championship’s post-season rookie take a look at in Bahrain.

Lafargue can even marketing campaign a second IDEC entry in 2025, as a part of a 21-car LMP2 grid of ORECA-Gibson 07s break up between 14 professional entries and 7 pro-am entries.

The 2024 ELMS P2 champions, AO by TF, will swap to the pro-am class with PJ Hyett switching from the IMSA SportsCar Championship. It can face off in opposition to the AF Corse squad that clinched the pro-am division this 12 months, with returning line-up Francois Perrodo, Alessio Rovera and Matthieu Vaxiviere.

Alpine WEC drivers Ferdinand Habsburg and Charles Milesi are the primary nominated drivers for Nielsen Racing and VDS Panis Racing respectively.

WEC LMGT3 champion Alexander Malykhin will make his prototype debut and swap to the ELMS with Nicolas Lapierre’s newly renamed CLX Motorsport squad, previously often called Cool Racing, following his revised driver grading from bronze to silver.

Two-time World Touring Automobile Cup champion Yann Ehrlacher will in the meantime return to the ELMS for the primary time since 2019, driving a Ligier for his uncle Yvan Muller’s M Racing outfit in LMP3.

The third-tier prototype class could have a brand new spec Toyota twin-turbo V6 engine subsequent 12 months, ready by ORECA, changing the outgoing Nissan models which have powered LMP3 automobiles since 2020. 

The category can even have new chassis following the top of the earlier homologation cycle, permitting Ginetta to return to the championship for the primary time since 2016 with DKR Engineering.

The LMGT3 class will function the Mercedes-AMG GT3 for the primary time – the Iron Lynx squad committing to a single entry with former Peugeot Hypercar racer Gustavo Menezes as its first nominated driver.

McLaren can even be current courtesy of United Autosports with a single 720 Evo in LMGT3, that includes manufacturing facility driver Marvin Kirchhofer. The British squad has additionally dedicated to 2 LMP2 entries, with group common Ben Hanley set to steer its Professional class assault.