Bumper entry in the Hypercar class as FIA WEC announces the 2023 entry list

The FIA World Endurance Championship has revealed its entry list for the 2023 season today, with 38 entries spread out in the now three classes, as the GTE Pro was withdrawn after last year.

In the headline Hypercar class, there are a total of 13 cars that have made the full-time entry for the season. The defending champions Toyota Gazoo Racing will field the usual number #7 and #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid entries with the unchanged line-up including the drivers´ champions Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa, and Sebastien Buemi in the #8 car.

The two Toyotas are joined by the two Peugeot Totalenergies Peugeot 9X8 #93 and #94 entries and the #708 Glickenhaus Racing Glickenhaus 007 entry, these five cars do remain from last season but for the 2023 season, they are joined by three new manufacturers, Cadillac Racing with the #2 Cadillac V-LMDh, Ferrari AF Corsa with #50 and #51 Ferrari 499P and Porsche Penske Motorsport with #5 and #6 Porsche 963.

Credit: Cadillac Racing

Besides the factory teams, Porsche also became the first manufacturer to sell LMDh cars for customer teams where two familiar names are being seen from the lower classes taking a step up. The LMP2 team Hertz Team JOTA is fielding the #38 Porsche 963 while GTE AM regulars Proton Competition is fielding the #99 Porsche 963.

After being denied an entry last season due to ByKolles using the revived Vanwall name with permission, the team is now seen on the list as the Floyd Vanwall Racing Team and will be making their debut with the #4 Vanwall Vandervell 680 LMH car this season instead while also the revived Isotta Fraschini was not granted a full-time entry with the Tipo 6 LMH-C car but aiming to make the debut later this season.

Credit: Le Mans 24 Hours

Over at the LMP2 class, there are 11 Oreca 07-Gibson cars entered for this season with the two Team WRT entries, the two United Autosports, and Prema Racing fielding two for this season while JOTA will be only running a single entry this season. Last season Alpine Elf Team raced in the Hypercar class with the grandfather Alpine A480 LMP1 car but this season they are stepping down to LMP2 with two re-branded Alpine A470-Gibson.

After the GTE Pro got defuncted last year, this year´s GTE AM sees a record entry of 14 cars. Team Project 1, Dempsey-Proton and Proton Competition will only field be fielding a single-entry Porsche 911 RSR-19 each Iron Lynx and their all-female Iron Dames team have switched from Ferrari to Porsche for this year. AF Corsa will field three Ferrari 488 GTE entries, D´Station Racing and NorthWest AMR will field an Aston Martin Vantage each, and Corvette Racing a single Corvette C8.R.

The 2023 WEC season will start with the annual Prologue at Sebring International Raceway on 11/12 March before the actual race season starts with 1000 Miles of Sebring the following weekend on 17 March.

Credit: Le Mans 24 Hours

2023 FIA World Endurance Championship full-season entry list.

Number	Country	Team	Car	Drivers	Country	Class
#2	USA	Cadillac Racing	Cadillac V-LMDh	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook	New Zealand Great Britain Great Britain	Hypercar
#4	Austria	Floyd Vanwall Racing Team	Vanwall Vandervell 680	Tom Dillmann Esteban Guerrieri Jacques Villeneuve	France Argentine Canada	Hypercar
#5	Germany	Porsche Penske Motorsport	Porsche 963	Dane Cameron Michael Christensen Frederic Makowiecki	USA Denmark France	Hypercar
#6	Germany	Porsche Penske Motorsport	Porsche 963	Kevin Estre Andre Lotterer Laurens Vanthoor	France Germany Belgium	Hypercar
#7	Japan	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota GR010 Hybrid	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Great Britain Japan Argentine	Hypercar
#8	Japan	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota GR010 Hybrid	Sebastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Switzerland New Zealand Japan	Hypercar
#38*	Great Britain	Hertz Team JOTA	Porsche 963	Yifei Ye TBA TBA	China TBA TBA	Hypercar
#50	Italy	Ferrari AF Corsa	Ferrari 499P	Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen	Italy Spain Denmark	Hypercar
#51	Italy	Ferrari AF Corsa	Ferrari 499P	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Antonio Giovinazzi	Italy Great Britain Italy	Hypercar
#93	France	Peugeot Totalenergies	Peugeot 9X8	Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne	Great Britain Denmark France	Hypercar
#94	France	Peugeot Totalenergies	Peugeot 9X8	Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes Nico Muller	France USA Switzerland	Hypercar
#99*	Germany	Proton Competition	Porsche 963	Gianmaria Bruni TBA TBA	Italy TBA TBA	Hypercar
#708	USA	Glickenhaus Racing	Glickenhaus 007	Romain Dumas TBA TBA	France TBA TBA	Hypercar
#9	Italy	Prema Racing	Oreca 07-Gibson	Juan Manuel Correa TBA TBA	USA TBA TBA	LMP2
#10	Great Britain	Vector Sport	Oreca 07-Gibson	Ryan Cullen TBA TBA	Ireland TBA TBA	LMP2
#22	USA	United Autosports	Oreca 07-Gibson	Phil Hanson Filipe Albuquerque TBA	USA Portugal TBA	LMP2
#23	USA	United Autosports	Oreca 07-Gibson	Oliver Jarvis Tom Blomqvist Josh Pierson	Great Britain Great Britain USA	LMP2
#28	Great Britain	JOTA	Oreca 07-Gibson	David Heinemeier Hansson Pietro Fittipaldi Oliver Rasmussen	Denmark Brazil Denmark	LMP2
#31	Belgium	Team WRT	Oreca 07-Gibson	Sean Gelael TBA TBA	Monaco TBA TBA	LMP2
#34	Poland	Inter Europol Competition	Oreca 07-Gibson	Jakub Smiechowski Fabio Scherer TBA	Poland Switzerland TBA	LMP2
#35	France	Alpine Elf Team	Alpine A470-Gibson	Matthieu Vaxiviere TBA TBA	France TBA TBA	LMP2
#36	France	Alpine Elf Team	Alpine A470-Gibson	Andre Negrao TBA TBA	Brazil TBA TBA	LMP2
#41	Belgium	Team WRT	Oreca 07-Gibson	Rui Andrade TBA TBA	Portugal TBA TBA	LMP2
#63	Italy	Prema Racing	Oreca 07-Gibson	Doriane Pin TBA TBA	France TBA TBA	LMP2
#21	Italy	AF Corsa	Ferrari 488 GTE	Stefano Costantini Simon Mann Ulysse de Pauw	Italy USA Belgium	GTE AM
#25	Oman	ORT by TF	Aston Martin Vantage	Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan Charlie Eastwood	Oman USA Ireland	GTE AM
#33	USA	Corvette Racing	Corvette C8.R	Ben Keating Nicky Catsburg TBA	USA Netherlands TBA	GTE AM
#54	Italy	AF Corsa	Ferrari 488 GTE	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci TBA	Switzerland Italy TBA	GTE AM
#56	Germany	Project 1 – AO	Porsche 911 RSR-19	PJ Hyett Gunnar Jeanette TBA	USA USA TBA	GTE AM
#57	Switzerland	Kessel Racing	Ferrari 488 GTE	Takeshi Kimura Scott Huffaker Daniel Serra	Japan USA Brazil	GTE AM
#60	Italy	Iron Lynx	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Claudio Schiavoni TBA TBA	Italy TBA TBA	GTE AM
#77	Germany	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Christian Ried TBA TBA	Germany TBA TBA	GTE AM
#83	Italy	Richard Mille AF Corse	Ferrari 488 GTE	Luis Perez Companc TBA TBA	Argentine TBA TBA	GTE AM
#85	Italy	Iron Dames	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting	Switzerland Belgium Denmark	GTE AM
#86	Great Britain	GR Racing	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Michael Wainwright TBA TBA	Great Britain TBA TBA	GTE AM
#88	Germany	Proton Competition	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Harry Tincknell TBA TBA	Great Britain TBA TBA	GTE AM
#98	Great Britain	NorthWest AMR	Aston Martin Vantage	Paul Dalla Lana TBA TBA	Canada TBA TBA	GTE AM
#777	Japan	D’station Racing	Aston Martin Vantage	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Casper Stevenson	Japan Japan Great Britain	GTE AM

* = will not race in Sebring