The announcement was made in the wake of last weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours, which ended in disappointment for Dillmann as the Vanwall Vandervell Le Mans Hypercar’s Gibson engine suffered a terminal failure in the morning hours.
Dillmann was sharing the car with Esteban Guerrieri and Tristan Vautier, a last-minute replacement for 1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve, but the new car proved off the pace of its Hypercar competitors on its debut at La Sarthe.
The engine failure meant Dillmann has failed to finish in any of his four Le Mans starts for the Austrian-entered team.
“It’s important to say I have left Vanwall on good terms,” Dillmann told Autosport. “I have done a lot of races for the team and I just felt it was time to try something else.
“Of course, it’s a risk [to leave], because I don’t have anything else right now, but I felt I had to do this to try and get a seat elsewhere. I think I have it in me to do a good job for a team that is fighting at the front, and I want to push to be in this position.
“I’m not aiming to be a big star, but I think I can be a good asset to a team. I think I have proved how reliable I am in all conditions, and that I am a driver who can be counted on.”
Dillmann was keen to pay tribute to the Vanwall team and its founder Colin Kolles despite their lack of success together.
Source: Autosport