Jacques Villeneuve will not finish the World Endurance Championship (WEC) season with his Vanwall team. The 1 F1997 world champion announced his decision less than a week after the formalization of his replacement for the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Frenchman Tom Dillmann, Argentinian Esteban Guerrieri and another Frenchman, Tristan Vautier, who replaces Villeneuce. The Vanwall boss Colin Kolles justified this choice to the weekly AUTOhebdo: "There are two reasons for our decision. The first is that he does not have enough mileage in our car because of various circumstances"