Toyota driver Anthony Davidson will return to the FIA World Endurance Championship after the Le Mans 24 Hours, driving for the DragonSpeed LMP2 squad.
The 2014 WEC champion was dropped from Toyota’s LMP1 workforce to make means for McLaren F1 driver Fernando Alonso, with Davidson as an alternative shifting right into a check and reserve driver function.
However the Briton has secured a deal to contest the rest of the 2018/2019 WEC superseason with DragonSpeed from the Six Hours of Silverstone in August.
Davidson will share DragonSpeed’s LMP2 Oreca 07 contender with fellow ex-F1 driver Pastor Maldonado and silver-rated Mexican driver Roberto Gonzalez. The 38-year-old has 10 WEC wins to his title from his time at Toyota, 5 of which got here final season.
Nathanael Berthon will race for the Franco-American outfit on the 2018/19 WEC opener at Spa-Francorchamps in addition to contesting Le Mans in June, earlier than handing over the seat to Davidson.