Nick Cassidy has officially been confirmed as a new works driver at Peugeot TotalEnergies in FIA World Endurance Championship, as a new race driver for the 2026 season.
The British racing driver is making his sportscar return, after having done so in Japan, where he won the Super GT Championship in 2017, but also some racing on this side of the globe, including races in the FIA WEC.
He has raced in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, where he has finished 2nd, 3rd, and 2nd in the standings during the previous three seasons.
Cassidy will be testing the 9X8 in the real work next week, where there will be a test at Circuit Of The Americas, following the 6-hour race this weekend at the track in Austin, Texas.
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Nick Cassidy has already been in the simulator to learn the car and systems, and will now have to convert it into the real world.
Peugeot has not revealed who he is going to replace at the team.
But the fact is, a lot of drivers who currently compete in the Hypercar category in the FIA WEC, across several teams, have their contracts running out at the end of this current season. So that could potentially lead to a lot of changes from the 2025 to 2026 lineups at several teams.
Jean-Eric Vergne, Mikkel Jensen, Paul Di Resta, Malthe Jakobsen, Loic Duval, and Stoffel Vandoorne are the six current drivers at Peugeot TotalEnergies in the FIA WEC, and they are all back behind the wheel in the USA this weekend in the race, after Vergne and Vandoorne missed the round in Brazil due to clashing Formula E commitments.
