The Briton, who triumphed on the French enduro in 2021, broke his ribs and collarbone in an incident on Thursday and will probably be unable to take up his place within the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hybrid.
Conway, 40, will probably be changed within the line-up for Le Mans on 15/16 June alongside Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries by Jose Maria Lopez.
Lopez returns to the line-up within the #7 automotive after being dropped on the finish of final season in favour of de Vries.
The Argentinian partnered Conway and Kobayashi to Le Mans victory in ’21, in addition to the WEC drivers’ title in 2019-20 and ’22.
Toyota Gazoo Racing has turned to the skilled Lopez quite than Ritomo Miyata, who’s the staff’s official check and reserve driver for the WEC.
The announcement from the Toyota Gazoo Racing squad on Friday afternoon contained no different particulars of Conway’s accidents, how they occurred or the possible recuperation time earlier than he can return to the cockpit.
It got here little greater than a day earlier than the 62-car Le Mans area is due on monitor for the official Take a look at Day on Sunday, which leads into race week.
#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 – Hybrid: Mike Conway
Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Images
Lopez, 41, stays below contract to Toyota and was attributable to race at Le Mans with sister model Lexus.
He’s driving certainly one of its LMGT3 class RC F GT3s entered by the Auto Sport Promotion staff along with Esteban Masson and Takeshi Kimura within the full WEC this yr.
Lopez spent six years as a part of the TGR prototype squad within the WEC, first within the LMP1 class after which in Hypercar.
His stick with the staff had been attributable to come to an finish on the finish of 2022: de Vries was scheduled to maneuver up from the position of check and reserve driver final yr to affix Conway and Kobayashi till he landed what turned out to be a short-lived alternative in Formulation 1 with AlphaTauri.
Miyata is racing for the Cool Racing LMP2 squad at Le Mans as a part of a programme encompassing the European Le Mans Sequence.