The entry list for the 1000 Miles of Sebring has been released, with 37 cars set to compete across the three categories for the opening round of the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship.
In the Le Mans Hypercar category, 11 cars are listed, with Cadillac, Ferrari, Porsche and Vanwall joining the returning marques from last season, Toyota, Glickenhaus and Peugeot.
Toyota’s driver crew from 2022 remains unchanged, as does Peugeot’s from the season finale in Bahrain. Glickenhaus returns with a single car and three of its regulars from last year, with Romain Dumas, Ryan Briscoe and Olivier Pla named. This is Glickenhaus’ second time competing in the FIA WEC on home soil, and Peugeot’s first time at Sebring with the 9X8.
It’s the rest of the class that we are seeing for the first time. Porsche’s pair of Penske-run factory 963s are listed, with full driver lineups. Ferrari’s factory 499Ps also appear for the first time, joined by single-car efforts from Cadillac Racing and Vanwall Racing.
Missing are the two customer Porsche 963s that were on the full-season entry list from JOTA and Proton. JOTA’s No. 38 is set to miss the opening two races of the campaign at Sebring at Portimao, the team forced to wait for the new car to arrive from Weissach where it is currently being built. Proton will also debut in the top class later in the season, though Christian Reid’s outfit is believed to be targeting a post-Le Mans debut at Monza for its challenger.
In LMP2 there will be 12 entries in LMP2 at Sebring, including JOTA with a pair of ORECA 07s, one (the No. 48) under the Hertz Team JOTA banner as a temporary measure until Spa when the “Mighty 38″will make its debut in LMH. Listed for the car are two of the three drivers set to drive for the team in Hypercar, Will Stevens and Yifei Ye, teamed with Silver-ranked German driver David Beckmann, who competed in F2 last year.
As always, the category attracts several high-profile names including former Formula 1 driver Daniil Kyvat who is entered with Prema Racing alongside French female driver, Doriane Pin. Another former F1 star, Robert Kubica, has been named to drive for Team WRT — the Belgian squad that won the LMP2 title in 2021 — which is returning with a two-car entry for 2023.