TF Sport submits entry for WEC 'super season'

Aston Martin customer team TF Sport has submitted an entry for the FIA World Endurance Championship 'super season' as it bids to step up from the European Le Mans Series.

TF Sport has raced in a variety of GT series since being formed in 2014, and narrowly lost out on the GTE title in the ELMS last year, as well as finishing seventh in class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The British team will now look to race in the WEC full-time from 2018 in the GTE-Am class, confirming on Monday that it has submitted an entry for the 2018-19 'super season' which starts at Spa on May 5.

"It’s a huge honour to be competing in the World Endurance Championship next year," sporting director Tom Ferrier said. "It’s by far our biggest ever programme and it underlines the strength of our team at every level. We have had huge success in the past two years in very tough championships such as Blancpain and ELMS so I feel we are ready to move up.

"We have a really big challenge in WEC but we’re confident that we will be competitive and deliver the results that we, our supporters and partners, now expect from us."

TF Sport confirmed it would continue to field Salih Yoluc and Euan Hankey if its WEC entry is accepted by the FIA and the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, with the duo being joined by Porsche Carrera Cup racer Charlie Eastwood.

"As a team, it is very exciting for all of us to be on the very highest stage of sports car racing. I'm really looking forward to exciting races and of course our first WEC win," said Yoluc.

"We've been quite unlucky in ELMS last year in so many ways, but I hope we were just suffering a little to make the future victories even sweeter, with a change in fortune.

“Being able to fight to be a world champion and also a 24 Hours of Le Mans winner is something very special and we'll do our best and make sure we enjoy the journey.”