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Porsche reveals remaining Hypercar driver for 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours
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Porsche reveals remaining Hypercar driver for 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours

By Miles Cooper March 25, 2025
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Reigning Formulation E world champion Pascal Wehrlein has stuffed the vacant seat within the third manufacturing unit Porsche Penske Motorsport Hypercar entry for the Le Mans 24 Hours in June. 

The German, who’s in his fifth season of Formulation E with Porsche, will contest the double-points spherical of the World Endurance Championship on 14-15 June alongside Nick Tandy and Felipe Nasr aboard the #4 PPM Porsche 963 LMDh. 

Wehrlein, who drove for Sauber and Manor in Formulation 1, will make his Le Mans debut after racing a 963 for the primary time on the Daytona 24 Hours IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener in January with the JDC-Miller MotorSports buyer squad. 

Porsche reveals remaining Hypercar driver for 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours

#85 JDC Miller MotorSports Porsche 963: Tijmen Van Der Helm, Gianmaria Bruni, Pascal Wehrlein, Bryce Aron

Picture by: Courtesy of IMSA

PPM has eight drivers on its LMDh roster throughout WEC and IMSA, that means it has had to usher in a further title for its expanded Le Mans assault.

Porsche Motorsport boss Thomas Laudenbach mentioned: “The Porsche driver roster is completely top-tier and extremely deep. It solely is sensible to leverage our sturdy personnel from the FE manufacturing unit staff for the third PPM entry at Le Mans. 

“Pascal Wehrlein has totally satisfied us together with his efficiency in testing and his participation within the Daytona 24 Hours. Because the reigning FE world champion, he has earned his Le Mans debut on the wheel of a Porsche 963.”

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Wehrlein, 30, described the prospect to compete at Le Mans “as a dream come true”.

“Porsche has such an iconic motorsport heritage; I’m extraordinarily grateful for this chance,” he added.

“I’m wanting ahead to this main problem as a result of, not like in FE, I must share every thing within the Porsche 963 that I’d usually tailor particularly to myself: seating place, set-up, technique and extra.

“I wish to add main titles in different sequence to my FE world championship victory, however my main purpose is to do a robust job for the staff and study as a lot as potential.” 

Pascal Wehrlein, TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team

Pascal Wehrlein, TAG Heuer Porsche Formulation E Workforce

Picture by: Andrew Ferraro / Motorsport Pictures

The naming of Wehrlein within the #4 Penske 963 completes the entry checklist within the 21-strong Hypercar class for Le Mans, spherical 4 of WEC 2025.

Porsche has additionally introduced that his Formulation E team-mate, Antonio Felix da Costa, will return to Le Mans after a 12 months’s absence. 

The German constructor has said that the Portuguese will likely be racing in LMP2 aboard an ORECA-Gibson 07, with out confirming the staff. 

Da Costa was a fixture on the Le Mans grid from 2018 to 2023, successful the LMP2 class with Jota in 2022. Porsche stopped him competing within the race final 12 months to ensure that him to concentrate on Formulation E.

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