Ex-Components 1 driver Pastor Maldonado will make his return to motorsport with the DragonSpeed LMP2 squad for the 2018/2019 World Endurance Championship superseason.
The 33-year-old Venezuelan, who made 95 begins for Williams and Lotus between 2011-2015, will contest the total WEC 2018/19 superseason – together with a debut look on the 24 Hours of Le Mans – alongside Mexican Roberto Gonzalez in DragonSpeed’s #31 Oreca 07 prototype. The workforce is but to announce its third and remaining driver.
Maldonado, who claimed his solely F1 pole and victory on the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix for Williams, has not raced competitively since his remaining outing for Lotus on the 2015 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, earlier than dropping his seat to Kevin Magnussen for the 2016 season.
He acted as Pirelli’s take a look at driver for 2017, serving to the Italian tyre producer with the primary stage of its F1 tyre growth work.
The 2018/19 WEC season begins with the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on Might 5.