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Ex-formula 1 driver Brendon Hartley looks set to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours two years after winning the race with Porsche. The two-time World Endurance Championship title winner, who raced for Toro Rosso in Formula 1 last year, appears on the verge of a deal to drive the British RLR Msport team’s LMP2 class ORECA-GIBSON 07… LMP1 refugee Alex Brundle is set to race for the United Autosports squad at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. The 28-year-old, who drove for the Ginetta LMP1 team at Le Mans in 2018, will race one of United’s LMP2 class Ligier-gibson JSP217S… Macau Grand Prix podium finisher and former Renault junior driver Sacha Fenestraz is to contest the Japanese Formula 3 Championship title this season. The 2017 Formula Renault Eurocup champion will dovetail this with a programme in the Super GT series, where he will drive a Nissan GT-R in the GT300 class with the Kondo Racing squad… Highly rated New Zealander Liam Lawson has won a place on the Red Bull Junior programme and will race in Formula European Masters this season. Lawson, who recently won the Toyota Racing Series in his home country, will line up with fellow Red Bull protege Yuki Tsunoda at Motopark in the Dtm-supporting series… Formula 4 racer Olli Caldwell is to remain with Prema Powerteam to contest the new Formula Regional European Championship. The 16-year-old British driver finished third in the Italian Formula 4 Championship with Prema last year – his first full season in car racing – and will contest the Italian-run Fregional series… The Greengt LMP2HG experimental hydrogen fuel-cell prototype that broke cover last year could race this season. The Swiss-based group behind the car, which was demonstrated at the Spa European Le Mans Series round last September, has expanded its partnership with Le Mans 24 Hours organiser the Automobile Club de l’ouest to create H24racing, an initiative designed to take the car into competition... The winner of each Extreme E series will not be known until months after the championship has finished because of its ‘docu-sport’ broadcast format.

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