Fresh off a highly competitive start to the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship season, which saw the Wakefield-based team finish 2nd and 7th in the LMGT3 class after Round 1 in Qatar, the ACO has now confirmed that the team had received four invitations to the 2025 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In addition to the two invitations in the LMGT3 category for the team’s World Endurance Championship entries, United Autosports will also field a two-car entry in the LMP2 category with one entry in the Pro/Am category. In the team’s #23 Pro/Am car Oliver Jarvis and Daniel Schneider will be joined by Benjamin Hanley, regular European Le Mans Series teammate Marino Sato being part of the #95 car’s LMGT3 driver line-up.
In the #22 the only driver to be confirmed on the current provisional entry list is Renger van der Zande. The Durch driver will be making his debut for United Autosports.
In the LMGT3 class the driver line-ups are unchanged from the current WEC entries with James Cottingham, Grégoire Saucy and Sébastien Baud driving the team’s #59 McLaren 720S GT3 and Darren Leung, Sean Gelael and Marino Sato piloting the sister #95 car.
Cottingham, Saucy and Baud on the podium at the Qatar 1812 KM (Photo: WEC)
2024 saw victory for United Autosports in the LMP2 class with the #22 car driven by Bijoy Garg, Oliver Jarvis and Nolan Siegel taking the chequered flag ahead of the #34 Inter Europol Competition entry.
“The confirmation of our four-car entry is fantastic news!” said United Autosports CEO Richard Dean. “We love racing at Le Mans and, following our second LMP2 entry last summer, we are fired up for even more success in 2025. The scale of the operation to run four cars across the LMP2 and LMGT3 classes is hugely impressive and this year, on the 30th anniversary of McLaren’s Le Mans debut and race victory, preparations are already in full flow at United Autosports HQ.”
Making his debut at Le Circuit de la Sarthe will be Brazilian pilot Daniel Schneider who is about to embark on his third LMP2 Pro/Am season with United Autosports.
“Racing at le Mans is a pinnacle moment in any driver’s career and I feel incredibly fortunate to be part of such a prestigious event with a team that has such a rich history of success,” said Daniel Schneider. “This is a dream come true and I couldn’t be more grateful for the trust and support from everyone at United!
“I’m also thrilled to share this journey with my amazing teammates, Olly and Ben. Having such talented and committed co-drivers by my side is both motivating and inspiring. I know we’ll push each other to be at our absolute best and I can’t wait to hit the track together. See you at Le Sarthe!”
For double LMP2 Le Mans winner and ex-Audi factory driver Oliver Jarvis, the excitement of racing in the world’s greatest endurance race does not diminish with time.
“There is nothing like racing at Le Mans,” said Oliver Jarvis. “This will be my 14th year – and I can tell you, the magnitude of contesting such a legendary race never fades! Last year we took victory with United Autosports and that is, of course, the goal again – this time in the LMP2 Pro/Am class with my ELMS co-driver Danial Schneider, who will be making his Le Mans 24 Hour debut, and Ben Hanley who I’ve known for years and is a driver you want on your side.”
The 93rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans gets underway on June 14.
