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Old 12 Jul 2022, 09:17 (Ref:4119211)   #101
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I'll admit I don't pay much attention to the FE driver market, but according to this Antonio Felix Da Costa is going to become a Porsche driver next season.

And given he's pushing hard for FE and WEC to iron out their calendar clashes, I reckon he's got a seat lined up in the JOTA Porsche. Not exactly shocking news I know.

https://the-race.com/formula-e/drive...e-wec-clashes/
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Hardly a surprise but Lambo have announced their first two LMDh drivers -

https://twitter.com/Lamborghini/stat...28752234680323

Caldarelli and Bortolotti

I always thought it was a shame we didn't see Caldarelli in an LMP1 earlier in his career. And Bortolotti was absolutely rapid at Le Mans this year in his P2 debut.
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Old 21 Jul 2022, 13:03 (Ref:4120031)   #104
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Wonder if any of the Audi drivers are under consideration at Lambo. Surely a few of them will find a berth somewhere with all these new programs.
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Wonder if any of the Audi drivers are under consideration at Lambo. Surely a few of them will find a berth somewhere with all these new programs.
Yeah it's pretty ironic that Rene Rast and Nico Muller were among the first to be announced of any '23 drivers and never even got on track.

Audi's GT3 offering seems to be in a gradual decline so I wonder if they are looking elsewhere, perhaps alongside WRT.
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Hardly a surprise but Lambo have announced their first two LMDh drivers -

https://twitter.com/Lamborghini/stat...28752234680323

Caldarelli and Bortolotti

I always thought it was a shame we didn't see Caldarelli in an LMP1 earlier in his career. And Bortolotti was absolutely rapid at Le Mans this year in his P2 debut.
I will be very disappointed if any Lamborghini driver’s name doesn't end in an i.

Crikey that was a hard sentence to write, but I wanted those negatives.
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Alpine saying Alonso will join their LMDh team when he departs F1.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/al...ends/10342110/

Hopefully he'll be on the grid in 2024 when it debuts. Also an interesting nugget about their development drivers. They have quite a decent crop at the moment who could be in line for sportscars.
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I had wondered about that.

Hypercar/GTP also a useful place to put young single seater drivers for Alpine, Ferrari, GM, Honda etc if they can't move up. Interesting times.
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Old 28 Jul 2022, 10:20 (Ref:4120720)   #109
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So Seb Vettel is leaving F1 at the end of season, question is will he turn up in WEC in red car....
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Old 28 Jul 2022, 11:25 (Ref:4120725)   #110
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So Seb Vettel is leaving F1 at the end of season, question is will he turn up in WEC in red car....
Seemed a bit of a falling out towards the end, maybe 2024 WEC with the team he got his first F1 chance with.
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Old 29 Jul 2022, 21:17 (Ref:4120891)   #111
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So Seb Vettel is leaving F1 at the end of season, question is will he turn up in WEC in red car....
I am thinking in the lines of his F1 begining.
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Alpine saying Alonso will join their LMDh team when he departs F1.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/al...ends/10342110/

Hopefully he'll be on the grid in 2024 when it debuts. Also an interesting nugget about their development drivers. They have quite a decent crop at the moment who could be in line for sportscars.
Surely a change of plan...

https://www.astonmartinf1.com/en-GB/...tin-f1-in-2023
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Surely it'll a be Flintstone Hypercar as 99% of any potential budget will have to be allocated to Spanish footpower...
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BMW plans on staying inhouse for all their GTP driver needs:

https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/b...or-gtp-lineup/

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BMW’s factory roster this year consists of: Nicky Catsburg, Jake Dennis, Connor De Phillippi, Stef Dusseldorp, John Edwards, Philipp Eng, Augusto Farfus, Timo Glock, Erik Johansson, Jens Klingmann, Jesse Krohn, Sheldon van der Linde, Alexander Sims, Bruno Spengler, Marco Wittmann and Nick Yelloly. There is also the BMW Junior Team trio of Dan Harper, Max Hesse and Neil Verhagen.
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I still think its incredibly sad that there is no more Team Schnitzer. Surely they would have been the choice to run the BMW LMDh...?
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I still think its incredibly sad that there is no more Team Schnitzer. Surely they would have been the choice to run the BMW LMDh...?
I'm not sure about that, surely BMW would have kept Schnitzer on in that case?

The current partnerships suggest that manufacturers are looking for teams that are more self-sufficient than Schnitzer were, seeing as they had to fold when BMW pulled the plug.
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Seems to be the common approach so far. We've not had a single flashy or leftfield driver announcement. On the one hand it's great to see these sportscar and manufacturer stalwarts getting these seats. But on the other, I do like to be surprised. And I've yet to be surprised.
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Endurance-Info reporting that Raffaele Marciello has signed for an Italian manufacturer in Hypercar. However, Ferrari seems to be concentrating on their current factory GT drivers to fill up the seats. Could Marciello be the Isotta Fraschini driver?
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Could Marciello be the Isotta Fraschini driver?
No disrespect to that programme but he's one of the top GT3 drivers in the world. He should be with a fully fledged manufacturer. Lambo would be my guess as he'd be able to test the car and race GTs next season.
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Lamborghini?
Together with Bortolotti and Caldarelli

https://gt-place.com/2022/08/03/raff...u-lamborghini/
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Seems to be the common approach so far. We've not had a single flashy or leftfield driver announcement. On the one hand it's great to see these sportscar and manufacturer stalwarts getting these seats. But on the other, I do like to be surprised. And I've yet to be surprised.
Surely Magnussen was a surprise with Peugeot? (Although that deal went belly up)
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Together with Bortolotti and Caldarelli

https://gt-place.com/2022/08/03/raff...u-lamborghini/
Sorry! I understood the deal was for 2023 so ruled out Lambo
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Antonio Felix Da Costa was unveiled as a Porsche FE driver today.



Surely he's only a few steps away from being in a 963 in some capacity. Jota Hertz would still be my guess.
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Surely he's only a few steps away from being in a 963 in some capacity. Jota Hertz would still be my guess.
If he's not in the Jota Porsche I'd be extremely surprised, even before his Formula E announcement.
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