REBELLION Racing have announced their full driver lineup for the forthcoming78th edition of Le Mans 24 Hours.American Marco Andretti will drive alongside Frenchman Nicolas Prost and Neel Jani
from Switzerland in the #12 Lola-Rebellion LMP1 during the legendary Le Mans race.The son of Michael Andretti and grandson of racing legend Mario Andretti will havehis first drive in the Lola-Rebellion when he joins the team during the official Le MansSeries test days at the Paul Ricard High Tech Test Track on 7th and 8th March.With their highly talented driver squads, mixing strong experience of the Le Mansrace and young guns, the Swiss team is, once again, demonstrating its ambition forsuccess in la Sarthe.
Marco (Michael) Andretti was born March 13, 1987 in Nazareth, Pennsylvania in theUSA. He won the 2004 Barber Formula Dodge National and Southern class. In2005 he raced in the Star Mazda series and also competed in six races in the IndyPro Series, winning three of them. Marco moved to Indy Racing League in 2006,earning the Rookie of the Year performance at Indianapolis 500 and finishing secondin the race. From that time, Marco's career has been focused on Indy RacingLeague finishing 7th in the series in 2006 and 2008 and scoring another Indy 500podium in 2008.
Aside from IRL, in 2006 and 2007 Marco Andretti took part in Honda F1 testing and in2008 he raced with the Acura LMP2 at the Sebring 12 Hours and Petit Le Mans, onboth occasions delivering great performances in a prototype. Marco was also A1Team USA driver during the 2008-09 A1 Grand Prix season.
Team Manager, Bart Hayden, welcomed Marco to the team, "we believe that Marcowill fit perfectly with his two co-drivers in the #12 Lola-Rebellion. He has shown thathe has the ability to compete at the highest level of motorsport. All three drivers inthe #12 car raced at the same time in the A1GP series so they know each other fromthose days. When we get to Le Mans, Marco will be able to draw on the experienceof the rest of the guys in the team and we are looking forward to seeing him in the carat the Paul Ricard test in March."
