Eurasia Motorsport and Rick Ware Racing have announced that they will be teaming up to field an entry into the 2021 Rolex 24 at Daytona under the RWR Eurasia banner.
The operation, managed by Eurasia’s partner BAM Motorsport Management, will field a single Ligier JS P217-Gibson into the Florida endurance classic, ahead of a possible entry into the remainder of the Michelin Endurance Cup and IMSA LMP2 season.
Rick Ware Racing will meanwhile provide a US base and logistical and personnel support to the operation.
It will mark the first time that the Ligier chassis has been used in IMSA since 2018. The last two years, the LMP2 presence in the WeatherTech Sportscar Championship has been entirely populated by ORECA’s 07 chassis.
With Cetilar Racing entering their Dallara into the Rolex 24, three out of four LMP2 manufacturers will be represented on the grid.
“This is an exciting new venture for us at Eurasia Motorsport,” said Eurasia team principal Mark Goddard. “We’re currently shipping our two Ligier JS P217s to the factory in readiness for the Rolex 24.
‘The team will be based at the RWR facility in the US and we will be managing the programme from there with our own Race and Data Engineers as well as Race Mechanics.
“We will benefit from logistical and personnel support from RWR and we’re looking forward to this new challenge.”
The team has so far confirmed one driver for the team’s line-up: reigning Asian Le Mans Series LMP2 Am champion Cody Ware.
“I had the pleasure of meeting with Mark Goddard and David Madgwick early this year in the Asian Le Mans Series and I was really impressed with their programme there,” Ware said. “The Ligier P2 was fast week in and week out and the team as a whole were so professional.
“I followed their 24 Hours of Le Mans programme with interest to, so naturally, I’m excited to be working with Eurasia and the BAM team this year and really looking forward to heading to Daytona for the Roar and then the Rolex 24.”
“With my other race programmes, it is going to be a very busy season for me, but between my commitments to NASCAR and the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, I think it’s going to be a very cool 2021.”
