Ligier LMP2 to make United SportsCar debut with HPD power at Austin
The Ligier LMP2 coupe will make its United SportsCar Championship debut in next month's Austin round with HPD power
The French OAK Racing team has confirmed that the Ligier JSP2 built by sister company Onroak Automotive will be on the grid for the penultimate USC round on September 20.
Tentative plans for OAK to run two cars for the final two rounds at Austin and Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in October are unlikely to come to fruition.
That means that the team's #42 entry will swap from the Morgan-Nissan LMP2 run since the start of the season to the Ligier-HPD, which was entered under the OAK Racing Team Asia banner in the Le Mans 24 Hours in June.
Team manager Philippe Dumas told AUTOSPORT: "It is not absolutely decided whether we will have one or two cars because the Morgan sustained a lot of damage [in the last USC round at] at Road America, but for sure we will run the Ligier.
"It was always the plan to show the Ligier in the US at the end of the year and we have an agreement with Honda Performance Development to do some more races."
The Ligier will be driven by Gustavo Yacaman and Alex Brundle, with Olivier Pla joining them for the Petit 1000-mile enduro in October.
OAK Racing's G-Drive entry in the World Endurance Championship will also be a Ligier over the Austin sportscar weekend.
Pla, Roman Rusinov and Julien Canal, who raced up to and including Le Mans in a Morgan, are swapping to the Ligier for the remainder of the WEC season.
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