{"id":654698,"date":"2026-05-07T03:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654698\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:51:16","slug":"ex-f1-driver-jack-doohan-to-make-24-hours-of-le-mans-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654698\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-F1 driver Jack Doohan to make 24 Hours of Le Mans debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HFzcpDkWMAA04eZ.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Doohan to make 24 Hours of Le Mans debut\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Doohan (middle) with his Nielsen Racing teammates Roy Nissany (right) and Edwards Pearson (left) at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.<\/p>\n<p>The provisional entry list features a total of 62 cars split across Hypercar, LMP2, and LMGT3.<\/p>\n<p>Doohan will expand his European Le Mans Series program to the FIA World Endurance Championship with Nielsen Racing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.contentstack.io\/v3\/assets\/blte77f57883ea46be1\/blt212d09a1205ec787\/69973ed8c9b89800084dd044\/Le-Mans-Entry-List-2026-V2.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to see the full 24 Hours of Le Mans entry list<\/p>\n<p>He will join David Heinemeier Hansson of Denmark and Great Britain\u2019s Edward Pearson in the #24 car, with this year\u2019s LMP2 field featuring 19 cars.<\/p>\n<p>United Autosports\u2019 McLaren 720S GT3 has been removed from the reserve list, meaning Australian Garnett Patterson\u2019s chances of a Le Mans debut have been dashed.<\/p>\n<p>Bronze driver Martin Berry makes his Le Mans return with Iron Lynx in a Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Belgium\u2019s Maxime Martin and Angola\u2019s Rui Andrade.<\/p>\n<p>Yasser Shahin continues his FIA World Endurance Championship campaign with Manthey Racing in The Bend-backed Porsche 911 GT3 R with Riccardo Pera (Italy) and Richard Lietz (Austria).<\/p>\n<p>The only notable year-on-year absentees for Australia are father-son duo Stephen Grove and Brenton Grove who joined Iron Lynx in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Three New Zealanders are entered \u2013 all of whom are in the Hypercar class.<\/p>\n<p>Brendon Hartley returns with Toyota alongside S\u00e9bastien Buemi (Switzerland) and Ryo Hirakawa (Japan) in the #8 Toyota TR010.<\/p>\n<p>Cadillac satellite squad Team Jota has Earl Bamber among its ranks in the #38 V-Series.R with S\u00e9bastien Bourdais (France) and Jack Aitken (Great Britain).<\/p>\n<p>Nick Cassidy will make his Hypercar debut at Le Mans. He\u2019ll partner Paul Di Resta (Great Britain) and Stoffel Vandoorne (Belgium) in the #93 Peugeot 9X8.<\/p>\n<p>The 24 Hours of Le Mans takes place on June 13-14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/250635\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777348516_29_250635.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Doohan (middle) with his Nielsen Racing teammates Roy Nissany (right) and Edwards Pearson (left) at Circuit de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,2045,806,805,803,804,7499,85],"class_list":["post-654698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jack-doohan","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot4","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}