Lopez nominated the Toyota Hypercar Reserve for 24 hours by Lopez

Jose Maria Lopez The Toyota Hypercar Reserve Driver for the Blue-Riband event of the World Dheeraj Championship will be held on a 24-hour standby in the Le Men’s Mains next month.

Toyota Gazu Racing formally gave the role of 2021 Le Mans winner played last year when he replaced the injured Mike Conway On low notice ahead of test day.

Lopez, who is part of the LMGT 3 program of Toyota Sister Marks Lexus at WEC from last season, took the location of Conway Kamui Kobayashi And NYCK DE VRIES Despite his last race as a member of the full -time team in Bahrain last November, despite not operating GR010 Hybrid Le Mans Hypercar.

The trio eventually finished as runner -up with Lopez with Lopez, completing the last term in Circuit de La Sarahe, in which he came back only 14 seconds Nickels Nielsen 499p LMH in winner Ferrari.

This time, Lopez has been given a test outing in the Paul record in winter, TGR Europe’s Technical Director David Flauri said, “to speed it up with the car in the event of lezine being required for Le Mans on 14-15 June”.

“Jose Maria is veteran and is running with us in Le Mans several times,” said Panapa.

“That is the best option. If you need to jump into the car, there is not much preparation – we just have to go to the garage at the next door.”

Lopez was called last year when Conway was injured in a bicycle accident in the first week before Test Day in preference. Ritomo MiataWhich was Toyota’s official test and reserve driver.

This year, Toyota has not named a driver in the official position that had previous incumbents of the role, including Kobayashi and D Vies.

In 2025, Lopez #87 ASP Lakesus is sharing with RC FGT3 Clemens Schmid And Razan Umbrasasku in WEC.

Flori explained that Toyota-unalanded Yuchi Nakayama, who was standing for Ben barnatot Earlier this month, in the spa WEC round, in the sister #78 ASP entry, the ASP is in the list of potential replacement for lopez in ASP, she must be called to the hypercar squad.