Wehrlein and Muller join Porsche line-up for WEC Spa 6 Hours

Porsche Formula E drivers Pascal Wehrlein and Nico Muller will join the German manufacturer’s factory Penske line-up for the Spa round of the World Endurance Championship next month.

Reigning FE world champion Wehrlein has been drafted in to drive one of the regular Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDhs at the Spa 6 Hours on 10 May ahead of his Le Mans 24 Hours debut in the additional PPM Hypercar entry for the WEC double-points round in June.

Porsche-contracted Muller, who has been placed with the Andretti team for the 2024/25 FE campaign, comes into the Hypercar line-up because he has been named as reserve driver for the three-car PPM squad at Le Mans.

Wehrlein will share the #6 PPM entry with 2024 WEC drivers’ champions Laurens Vanthoor and Kevin Estre at Spa, while former Peugeot Hypercar driver Muller will return to the series to race #5 together with Michael Christensen and Julien Andlauer.

The opportunity for Wehrlein and Muller to gain race experience of the 963 in the WEC before Le Mans has arisen because PPM has slimmed down its LMDh driver roster for 2025.

Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet, who respectively raced #6 and #5 at the Qatar and Imola WEC rounds this season, will not be available because they are competing full time in the IMSA SportsCar Championship with PPM’s US arm and will be on duty at Laguna Seca on the weekend of Spa.

They will return to the WEC squad for Le Mans on 14/15 June, but it is not planned for them to race in the six-hour events at Interlagos, Austin and Fuji when PPM will run two drivers only in each of its pair of 963s.

Wehrlein will make his Le Mans debut in the third PPM entry alongside Nick Tandy and Felipe Nasr.

The announcement of Wehrlein for Spa on Friday via social media comes after PPM left the door open at last weekend’s Imola WEC round for him to make an early debut in the series. 

The team also refused to confirm in Italy who would act as the reserve, a role filled by Campbell and Dane Cameron in 2023 and ’24 respectively. 

Wehrlein said: “In preparation for Le Mans, it is obviously first class that I can celebrate my debut in the WEC at Spa-Francorchamps and get to know the way PPM works even earlier – every competitive kilometre with the Porsche 963 counts.” 

Muller added that he was “super-happy to be supporting PPM as the official reserve driver at Le Mans – although, of course, I hope I won’t be needed”.

Both Wehrlein and Muller have already raced the 963, respectively driving at the Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours with the customer JDC-Miller MotorSports team.

They have both been involved in Porsche’s pre-Le Mans preparations, taking part in a 32-hour endurance test at the Aragon circuit in Spain in March.