The Briton, who triumphed on the French enduro in 2021, broke his ribs and collarbone in an incident on Thursday and will likely be unable to take up his place within the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar.
Conway, 40, will likely 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 automobile 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 take a look at 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 probably 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 subject is due on observe for the official Take a look at Day on Sunday, which leads into race week.
#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 – Hybrid: Mike Conway
Photograph by: JEP / Motorsport Images
Lopez, 41, stays underneath contract to Toyota and was attributable to race at Le Mans with sister model Lexus.
He’s driving one among its LMGT3 class RC F GT3s entered by the French 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 function of take a look at and reserve driver final yr to affix Conway and Kobayashi till he landed what turned out to be a short-lived alternative in Components 1 with AlphaTauri.
Miyata is racing for Swiss LMP2 outfit Cool Racing at Le Mans as a part of a programme encompassing the European Le Mans Sequence.
A substitute for Lopez within the Lexus roster has but to be named.