United commits to full-time WEC effort

WEC

The Anglo-american United Autosports squad has pushed the button on a full-time graduation to the World Endurance Championship. The team, which has never made any secret of its ambition to move up from the European Le Mans Series, will join the WEC in the LMP2 ranks for the start of the 2019-20 season in September.

United, co-owned by Mclaren boss Zak Brown, will make the step up with its successful ELMS pairing of Filipe Albuquerque and Phil Hanson, winners of two rounds of the series in 2018, and a third driver who has yet to be confirmed. The duo, who will contest this year’s ELMS, will continue to drive a Ligier-gibson JSP217 on their graduation to the WEC.

“It has been the aim for United to enter the world series for a while, but everything needed to fall into place so we could do it at the right time,” said Brown. “We feel that now is the right time. We have developed a great relationship with

Phil and Filipe and they make a fantastic pairing.”

United has yet to confirm whether it will continue in the P2 class of the ELMS beyond the end of 2019.