It has been revealed that the German manufacturer has put in for an extra entry for this year’s French enduro on 15-16 June to reprise its expanded assault in 2023 when the IMSA SportsCar Championship arm of its PPM operation joined the two-car WEC squad with a single Porsche 963 LMDh.
“We’re pushing,” PPM boss Jonathan Diuguid told Autosport.
“We ran three cars in 2023 and the results weren’t where we wanted them to be, but we saw the benefits of having three cars together on track, so that’s our goal.
“We’ve applied for three cars and we’ll see how it all shakes out.
“We’d be ecstatic if we were granted another entry, but it’s not in our hands.”
Manufacturers represented in the Hypercar class of the WEC are permitted to field additional cars at Le Mans on a non-points basis.
Porsche successfully took up this option last year with a car driven by three of its IMSA regulars, Nick Tandy, Felipe Nasr and Mathieu Jaminet.
But Duiguid conceded that a squeeze on entries in Hypercar with an increase in the field for the full WEC to 19 cars means that it is not a given that its request will be successful.
Source: Autosport