Rebellion to concentrate on 2017 plans; single car for remainder of 2016
The most successful private team in the recent LMP1 era, Rebellion Racing, has announced that it will be running just one car in the FIA World Endurance Championship for the remainder of 2016 as the Swiss team makes parallel preparations for the 2017 season.
Rebellion Racing’s Rebellion R-One number 13 car will compete in the 2016 WEC “fly-away” races with its regular driver line-up of Alexandre Imperatori, Dominik Kraihamer and Mathéo Tuscher behind the wheel.
Bart Hayden, Rebellion Racing Team Manager: “The level of competition in LMP1 is being taken to ever greater heights by the Manufacturer entrants, so to improve our own competitiveness in the category, we feel the need to invest more time and resources into updating the Rebellion R-One cars ready for the 2017 season. As a small private team with limited resources, we have decided to focus on racing one car rather than two in the remaining FIA WEC events and this will allow us to put more effort into updating the cars for 2017.”
