JOTA Sport aims for successful defence of LM P2 title in Le Mans 24 Hours

2014 European Le Mans Series runners-up JOTA Sport currently lie third in this year’s series having finished second and third in the opening two races. In its Le Mans “dress rehearsal” at Spa-Francorchamps last month, JOTA dominated the regular FIA World Endurance Championship LM P2 competitors on its way to scoring an emphatic one-lap victory in the six-hour race. JOTA’s 2015 ELMS driver squad includes Filipe Albuquerque and Harry Tincknell alongside Dolan, Harry the third member of JOTA’s winning 2014 Le Mans trio.

With Albuquerque and Tincknell on “factory” duty with Audi Sport and Nissan NISMO respectively at Le Mans, Turvey and Evans feature in the team’s Le Mans line-up. Renault 3.5 and GP2 Series race winner Turvey, a McLaren Formula 1 test and development driver who is also competing in the Japanese Super GT Championship this year, will be making his third consecutive Le Mans appearance with JOTA. Evans, meanwhile, competes for JOTA for only the second time having made his team and sportscar race debut at Spa (2 May). The protégé of ex-Formula One race winner and Porsche “factory” driver Mark Webber is a GP2 and GP3 race winner and recently scored a GP2 podium finish in Barcelona.
 
JOTA recorded the fifth fastest LM P2 time in the “official” test day at Le Mans recently (31 May) – staged in continually changing weather conditions – and successfully passed the required technical checks today (7 June) staged in Le Mans town centre. First on-track action is Wednesday afternoon with qualifying around the 8.47-mile track for grid positions for the 56-cars contesting the 83rd running of the Le Mans 24 Hour on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The race is scheduled to start on Saturday at 2pm (UK time).
 
MEANWHILE JOTA Group Partner David Clark will proudly watch five-time Le Mans 24 Hour race winner Derek Bell drive his McLaren F1 GTR in a McLaren Automotive & McLaren Special Operations (MSO) “parade” lap prior to the start of this year’s race. Clark’s McLaren will be one of five examples of the McLaren F1 GTR that dominated the 1995 Le Mans race. Bell, his son Justin and Andy Wallace, finished third in Clark’s Harrod’s sponsored car.

Team Release, Photo JOTA Sport