Duval and Vautier will pilot the Mustang Sampling-backed #5 Cadillac DPi-V.R for the corpulent-season, with Bourdais becoming a member of his fellow Frenchman for four Michelin Endurance Cup races.
Bourdais was as soon as indubitably one of JDC’s corpulent-timers this season but is dropping abet to a ‘third man’ role for 2021 as a result of his NTT IndyCar Series commitments with A. J. Foyt Racing.
He began the year partnered with Joao Barbosa, who was as soon as all of sudden dropped for the final three races of the season and modified by Vautier.
Bourdais concluded the year fifth within the drivers’ standings, boosted by a flee of three straight podiums on the beginning of the coronavirus-impacted season.
Crew co-founder and CEO John Church commented: “We had rather little bit of an up and down year in 2020 but I contain we showed within the final drag of the year at Sebring a lot of momentum and the aptitude we contain as a community and that’s what we prefer to amass on for 2021.
“Consistency with our partners and line-up is a expansive portion of that, so we are all very angry so as to cope with the road-up together for one other flee on the championship in 2021.”
Duval within the meantime steps as much as a corpulent-time IMSA drive after contesting the Rolex 24 at Daytona, Petit Le Mans and the Sebring 12 Hours with JDC this year alongside his DTM commitments.
#5 JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillac DPi: Loic Duval
Photograph by: Art Fleischmann
The prolonged-time Audi driver had beforehand expressed his disinterest in continuing into the DTM’s new GT3-based mostly period and signalled his desire to return to prototype racing corpulent-time.
“I’m in actual fact chuffed and delighted to be abet with Mustang Sampling Racing/JDC-Miller MotorSports for the 2021 season after I joined the team in 2020 for the prolonged endurance races,” acknowledged Duval, who skipped a DTM round at Zolder to contest Petit Le Mans.
“Twenty-twenty was as soon as a engaging year for a lot of reasons and as a team we for sure had our up and downs but we began the season in actual fact sturdy at Daytona and had a lot of momentum in opposition to the pause of the season.
“So it’s sizable to be abet with Tristan and Seb in 2021, now as indubitably one of many corpulent-season drivers for the team because it for sure offers us consistency and to amass on the momentum we had.”
JDC’s announcement made no mention of plans to field a second Cadillac, as it did for the duration of the 2020 season with a wide variety of drivers – in conjunction with Vautier, Matheus Leist, Stephen Simpson and Chris Miller – taking it in turns on the wheel.
