Automobile Club de l’Ouest, European Le Mans Series ruling body, has released the official entry list for the upcoming season of the major endurance championship in Europe, with some changes compared to last year and 41 cars on the grid between the three classes.
LMP2
The main category of the series will set a record with the biggest amount of entries the series has ever seen. Seventeen LMP2 cars will be on the grid.
One of the most important changes is that 2017 champions G-Drive are to line-up two full-time cars, with FIA Formula E current leader Jean-Éric Vergne to make his series debut on G-Drive new entry. United Autosports and Algarve Pro Racing also swith from one entry to two. The second APR entry will be shared with Rebellion Racing and will have current ALMS champions Harrison Newey and Thomas Laurent on the nº. 31 car.
There will also be new teams. Spanish teams Racing Engineering and AVF by Adrián Vallés will make their series debut. Racing Engineering will line-up the nº. 24 Oreca with GP2/F2 race winner Norman Nato as its only driver confirmed so far; while AVF will be one of the few Dallara entries. The other new team is Duqueine Engineering, which switches from LMP3 to LMP2.
There will be a total of 17 cars: Seven Orecas, six Ligiers and four Dallaras.
| Team | Car | Nº | Drivers |
| DragonSpeed | Oreca | 21 | Ben Hanley |
| Henrik Hedman | |||
| Nicolas Lapierre | |||
| United Autosports | Ligier | 22 | Filipe Albuquerque |
| Phil Hanson | |||
| TBA | |||
| 32 | William Owen | ||
| Hugo de Sadeeler | |||
| TBA | |||
| Panis Barthez Competition | Ligier | 23 | Timothé Buret |
| TBA | |||
| TBA | |||
| Racing Engineering | Oreca | 24 | Norman Nato |
| TBA | |||
| TBA | |||
| Algarve Pro Racing (APR – Rebellion Racing) | Ligier | 25 | Mark Patterson |
| Ate De Jong | |||
| TBA | |||
| Oreca | 31 | Richard Bradley | |
| Thomas Laurent | |||
| Harrison Newey | |||
| G-Drive Racing | Oreca | 26 | Roman Rusinov |
| Mattheu Vaxivière | |||
| Jean-Éric Vergne | |||
| 40 | James Allen | ||
| Enzo Guibbert | |||
| José Gutiérrez | |||
| IDEC Sport | Ligier | 27 | Patrice Lafargue |
| TBA | |||
| TBA | |||
| 28 | Paul-Loup Chatin | ||
| Paul Lafargue | |||
| TBA | |||
| Duqueine Engineering | Oreca | 29 | Marvin Klein |
| TBA | |||
| TBA | |||
| AVF by Adrián Vallés | Dallara | 30 | Henrique Chaves |
| Konstantin Tereshchenko | |||
| TBA | |||
| SMP Racing | Dallara | 35 | Viktor Shaitar |
| TBA | |||
| TBA | |||
| Graff | Oreca | 39 | Alexandre Cougnaud |
| Tristan Gommendy | |||
| Jonathan Hirschi | |||
| Cetilar Villorba Corse | Dallara | 47 | Andrea Belicchi |
| Roberto Lacorte | |||
| Giorgo Sernagiotto | |||
| High Class Racing | Dallara | 49 | Dennis Andersen |
| Anders Fjordbach | |||
| TBA |
LMP3
On LMP3 class, it will be eighteen cars that will fight for the title with United Autosports defending it. 2017 Michelin Le Mans Cup champions and runner-ups, DKR Engineering and Ecurie Ecose will make their series debut. BKH Motorsport also joins the series while the rest of the field stays the same. There will be a total of 15 Ligiers and three Normas.
| Team | Car | Nº | Drivers |
| United Autosports | Ligier | 2 | John Falb |
| Sean Rayhall | |||
| TBA | |||
| 3 | Matthew Bell | ||
| Anthony Wells | |||
| TBA | |||
| Cool Racing BY GPC | Ligier | 4 | Iradj Alexander |
| Alexandre Coigny | |||
| Gino Forgione | |||
| NEFIS by Speed Factory | Ligier | 5 | Timur Boguslavskiy |
| Aleksey Chuklin | |||
| Danil Pronenko | |||
| 360 Racing | Ligier | 6 | Ross Kaiser |
| James Swift | |||
| Terrence Woodward | |||
| Ecurie Ecosse | Ligier | 7 | Alex Kapadia |
| Colin Noble | |||
| Christian Olsen | |||
| DKR Engineering | Norma | 8 | Jean Glorieux |
| Alexander Toril | |||
| TBA | |||
| AT Racing | Ligier | 9 | Alexander Talkanitsa Jr. |
| Alexander Talkanitsa Sr. | |||
| TBA | |||
| Oregon Team | Norma | 10 | Andrés Méndez |
| TBA | |||
| TBA | |||
| Eurointernational | Ligier | 11 | Ricky Capo |
| Kay Van Berlo | |||
| TBA | |||
| 12 | Andrea Dromedari | ||
| Max Hanratty | |||
| TBA | |||
| Inter Europol Competition | Ligier | 13 | Martin Hippe |
| Jakub Smiechowski | |||
| TBA | |||
| 14 | Paul Scheuchner | ||
| Hendrik Still | |||
| TBA | |||
| RLR Msport | Ligier | 15 | John Farano |
| Rob Garofall | |||
| Job van Uitert | |||
| BHK Motorsport | Ligier | 16 | Jacopo Baratto |
| Francesco Dracone | |||
| TBA | |||
| Ultimate | Ligier | 17 | François Hériau |
| Jean-Baptiste Lahaye | |||
| Matthieu Lahaye | |||
| M. Racing – YMR | Ligier | 18 | Natan Bihel |
| Lauren Millara | |||
| TBA | |||
| Norma | 19 | Nicolas Ferrer | |
| TBA | |||
| TBA |
LMGTE
Like it happened last year, six LMGTE cars will be lined-up in 2018. Three Ferraris and three Porsches will fight for the GT title with Michelin Le Mans GT3 Cup champions Ebimotors joining the series and Krohn racing returning to the class.
| Team | Car | Nº | Drivers |
| Spirit of Race | Ferrari | 55 | Duncan Cameron |
| Matt Griffin | |||
| Aaron Scott | |||
| JMW Motorsport | Ferrari | 66 | Liam Griffin |
| TBA | |||
| TBA | |||
| Proton Competition | Porsche | 77 | Matteo Cairoli |
| TBA | |||
| TBA | |||
| 88 | Matt Campbell | ||
| TBA | |||
| TBA | |||
| Ebimotors | Porsche | 80 | Fabio Babini |
| TBA | |||
| TBA | |||
| Krohn Racing | Ferrari | 83 | Andrea Bertolini |
| Niclas Jönsson | |||
| Tracy Krohn |
Season will start the 15th of April at Paul Ricard Circuit in Le Castellet, France. It will be a six-race (4 Hours each) season that will come to an end in October, with the race in Portimao as the season ender. Pre-season testing is to begin the 9th of April at the same venue that will hold the first round.
