McLaren Racing has added its last full-time driver to the McLaren Hypercar Group. From 2027, rising star Malthe Jakobsen will compete within the FIA World Endurance Championship within the new McLaren MCL-HY.
The younger Dane has emerged as one in all endurance racing’s brightest younger skills, constructing a powerful file of success from single-seaters to worldwide prototype competitors. Profitable the Danish Method 4 championship, he then went on to safe the European Le Mans Collection LMP3 title at simply 18 years previous.
By the next season, Jakobsen’s standout performances had earned him a manufacturing facility position with Peugeot Sport in WEC, establishing him as one of the crucial promising drivers of his era with the potential to attain main success on the highest stage of the game. Regardless of being the youngest of the Peugeot Sport lineup, Jakobsen proved to be one of many quickest on the roster. This put him on the radar of the McLaren Hypercar Group’s staff principal James Barclay who signed him for McLaren’s return to the highest class of sports activities automobile racing.
“I’m tremendous excited to affix the staff,” stated Malthe Jakobsen. “It feels unbelievable to be a part of this venture and this model, specifically because it competes throughout WEC, F1 and IndyCar in pursuit of the
Triple Crown. This historical past of the staff, together with the Le Mans win in 1995, is so particular and will probably be an honour to symbolize McLaren on a worldwide stage. James, Richard and Zak have created a powerful staff of drivers and workers and I’m actually wanting ahead to working with all of them.”
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