British sportscar racers Ben Hanley and Matt Rao have been added to the Manor WEC team's driver lineup for the 6 Hours of Mexico next month.
Hanley, 32, and Rao, 23, will co-drive an ORECA 07-Gibson with ex-Formula 1 competitor Jean-Eric Vergne at round five of the World Endurance Championship.
Former Renault F1 development driver Hanley has made several one-off apperances in the WEC this season, starting with TDS Racing at the 6 Hours of Spa.
After representing his parent DragonSpeed squad at Le Mans, Hanley returned to the TDS fold at the Nurburgring in a car run under the G-Drive Racing banner.
The Mexico City event will mark his fourth drive in a different LMP2 entry this year.
Rao, meanwhile, started the WEC LMP2 season with Signatech Alpine, but was left without a drive after the French team cancelled one of its entries and moved Andre Negrao into Rao's seat in the existing car.
Rao started his sportscar career with Manor in 2016, when the team made its debut in the WEC.
The two Brits will replace Jonathan Hirschi and Tor Graves in the car with Vergne, while the sister ORECA's lineup of Simon Trummer, Roberto Gonzalez and Vitaly Petrov remains unchanged.
The 6 Hours of Mexico takes place on September 3rd at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City,
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