In LM P1 

- Marc Lieb, winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2016 is back this year. As a reserve driver for Porsche LMP Team, he will be taking part in the Test Day. He is scheduled to take the wheel of both Porsche 919 Hybrid during the course of the day. The German driver has a new role with Porsche: he will be responsible for client competition.

- James Rossiter will no longer be driving the #4 CLM P1/01 with ByKolles Racing Team. He will be replaced by Marco Bonanomi.

In LM P2 

- Paul-Loup Chatin will be joining Paul and Patrice Lafargue and David Zollinger in the #17 Ligier JS P217 for IDEC Sport Racing.

- Simon Gachet is once again reserve driver for Panis-Barthez Compétition. The young Frenchman is already part of the team. He drives the Ligier #16 JS P217 in the European Le Mans Series in LM P3.

- G-Drive Racing has announced two new recruits for the #26 Oreca 07 – Gibson: John Martin, who has raced the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice before and Laurens Vanthoor, Porsche GT works driver.

- Matthieu Vaxivière will be back, having recovered from a foot injury. A few days ago, Nick Catsburg, Volvo factory driver in WTCC, tested TDS Racing’s #28 Oreca 07 and will be at the Test Day as the team’s fourth driver. Emmanuel Collard and François Perrodo are the two other official drivers.

 - SMP Racing has added Maurizio Mediani as fourth driver, to back up Sergey Sirotkin, Mikhail Aleshin and Victor Shaytar. Robert Kubica gave the Dallara P217 a shakedown at Monza but the Test Day will be its first real outing.  

- Nick de Bruijn is to take the wheel of Keating Motorsport’s Riley Mk 30, joining Jeroen Bleekemolen, Ben Keating and Ricky Taylor. The Dutchman is familiar with the circuit, having contested Le Mans last year in the Oreca 05 Nissan for Eurasia Motorsport.

- Algarve Pro Racing has also announced an extra driver for the #45 Ligier JS P2: Dean Koutsoumidis, who joined the team for the 2016-17 Asian Le Mans Series.

LM GTE Pro 

- Porsche works driver Laurens Vanthoor will be busy this weekend. He will be testing the G-Drive Racing #26 Oreca 07 - Gibson, as well as both factory Porsche 911 RSRs.

LM GTE Am

- Christian Ried will be in the #77 Porsche 911 RSR for Dempsey-Proton Racing for the race, but for the Test Day he will be driving the team’s other two cars: #88 and #93. 

- JMW Motorsport has changed chassis: out goes the Ferrari 458 Italia, in comes the 488 GTE. Robert Smith, Dries Vanthoor and Will Stevens are the named drivers. However, JMW’s 2012 ELMS champion Jonny Cocker will also take the wheel of the #84. He took a win for the British team in ELMS at Monza.

Photo: SMP Racing’s #27 Dallara P217 will be making a maiden appearance at the Test Day.