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its entry list for the 2023 season today, with 38 entries spread out in the now three classes, as the GTE Pro was withdrawn after last year.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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |