FIA GTE Am world champion Ben Keating is set to return to the FIA WEC for his home race at Circuit of The Americas on Sept. 1. The Texan, who has been competing full-time in IMSA’s LMP2 class this year with United Autosports, features on the event’s provisional entry list in LMGT3. He will take up the third seat in Proton Competition’s No. 88 Ford Mustang, which was previously filled by Giorgio Roda until São Paulo, where team owner Christian Ried stood in on short notice.
Keating has already featured in a WEC race this year, as part of United Autosports’ effort at the Le Mans 24 Hours in the LMP2 class. However, this will be his first regular WEC race outside of Le Mans since the 2023 season finale in Bahrain last November. There he drove with Corvette Racing in what was the final race for GTE cars globally.
The only other change on the provisional 37-car entry list comes in Hypercar. Harry Tincknell will rejoin Proton’s Porsche lineup alongside Neel Jani and Julien Andlauer after missing the trip to Brazil. That weekend he took part in the IMSA race at CTMP.
Lone Star Le Mans will be Tincknell’s fourth WEC race of the season with Proton. He also missed Round 3 at Spa.