New Russian luxury marque AURUS will enter motorsports with G-Drive Racing in 2019
A new luxury car manufacturer on the international market, AURUS, will enter the 2019 European Le Mans Series plus the WEC’s TOTAL 6 Hours of Spa and 24 Hours of Le Mans with the Russian G-Drive Racing team.
2015 LMP2 WEC Champions and multiple ELMS Champions (2016,2017, 2018), G-Drive will run an LMP2 AURUS 01 for the remainder of the 2019 season which includes the final round of the WEC Super Season at Le Mans in June.
The No.26 race car, equipped with a 4.2-litre 600 bhp atmospheric V8 engine, was designed by ORECA. The driver line-up for this new chapter in Russian motorsport history will be Russian Roman Rusinov, French star Jean-Eric Vergne and Dutchman Job van Uitert.
