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Le Mans / ALMS
ALMS: Rebellion Planning Expanded Program For 2013
Petit Le Mans-winning team evaluating partial-season ALMS entry, including planned two-car effort at Sebring...
Neel Jani, Nicolas Prost and Andrea Belicchi took Rebellion's Lola B12/60 Toyota to victory at Petit Le Mans. (Photo: John Dagys)
After claiming a breakthrough first overall victory at the Petit Le Mans, Rebellion Racing is looking to return to the American Le Mans Series next year, and potentially not just for its marquee event.
SPEED.com has learned that the Anglo-Swiss squad is considering a partial-season ALMS program in addition to its planned FIA World Endurance Championship attack, which would see the team's brace of Lola B12/60 Toyotas in high use next year.
Team manager Bart Hayden indicated plans are in place to kick off the 2013 season with a two-car effort at the Twelve Hours of Sebring, with the possibility of leaving one of its LMP1 contenders in the U.S. for additional rounds later in the year.
"We feel like we're being torn both ways," Hayden said of the team's plans for next year. 'There's obviously a big part of me that wants to do WEC because of the prestige and the fact that it's the World Championship.
"But then you go to America and get wrapped up in the ambiance there and you win the race and you know that in every race, you have a chance of the outright victory. When you're a racer, that's why you go racing.
"If we could find some way of putting together a program that gave us the best of both worlds, then I think we'd like to do that. We're looking to at that now and are looking to see whether we can utilize what we've got to do that."
While Rebellion's Sebring plans are not officially finalized, Hayden admitted he's 90 percent certain they will take part in the ALMS season-opener, which is expected to see an influx of European entries, despite it no longer being a round of the FIA WEC.
Additional ALMS races will depend on the team's budget, although it seems unlikely they will be able to defend their Petit Le Mans title, due to a WEC conflict that same weekend.
"I think we'd like to try and pick some nice events and do those if we can," Hayden said. "It's a shame Petit coincides with Fuji; it's a real shame. But there are other events out there. Maybe in the big gap to Le Mans and Brazil, we could try and fit one or two of those [ALMS races] in."
The addition of Rebellion's Lola-Toyota to the ALMS P1-class grid would come as a considerable boost, with only Muscle Milk Pickett Racing and Dyson Racing expected again as full-season entrants in the depleted prototype category.
The team is also considering a move to hybrid power, following in the footsteps of Dyson Racing, which debuted a Flybrid mechanical flywheel hybrid system at VIR this year.
John Dagys is SPEED.com’s Sportscar Racing Reporter, focusing on all major domestic and international championships. You can follow him on Twitter @johndagys or email him at
SPEED.com has learned that the Anglo-Swiss squad is considering a partial-season ALMS program in addition to its planned FIA World Endurance Championship attack, which would see the team's brace of Lola B12/60 Toyotas in high use next year.
Team manager Bart Hayden indicated plans are in place to kick off the 2013 season with a two-car effort at the Twelve Hours of Sebring, with the possibility of leaving one of its LMP1 contenders in the U.S. for additional rounds later in the year.
"We feel like we're being torn both ways," Hayden said of the team's plans for next year. 'There's obviously a big part of me that wants to do WEC because of the prestige and the fact that it's the World Championship.
"But then you go to America and get wrapped up in the ambiance there and you win the race and you know that in every race, you have a chance of the outright victory. When you're a racer, that's why you go racing.
"If we could find some way of putting together a program that gave us the best of both worlds, then I think we'd like to do that. We're looking to at that now and are looking to see whether we can utilize what we've got to do that."
While Rebellion's Sebring plans are not officially finalized, Hayden admitted he's 90 percent certain they will take part in the ALMS season-opener, which is expected to see an influx of European entries, despite it no longer being a round of the FIA WEC.
Additional ALMS races will depend on the team's budget, although it seems unlikely they will be able to defend their Petit Le Mans title, due to a WEC conflict that same weekend.
"I think we'd like to try and pick some nice events and do those if we can," Hayden said. "It's a shame Petit coincides with Fuji; it's a real shame. But there are other events out there. Maybe in the big gap to Le Mans and Brazil, we could try and fit one or two of those [ALMS races] in."
The addition of Rebellion's Lola-Toyota to the ALMS P1-class grid would come as a considerable boost, with only Muscle Milk Pickett Racing and Dyson Racing expected again as full-season entrants in the depleted prototype category.
The team is also considering a move to hybrid power, following in the footsteps of Dyson Racing, which debuted a Flybrid mechanical flywheel hybrid system at VIR this year.
John Dagys is SPEED.com’s Sportscar Racing Reporter, focusing on all major domestic and international championships. You can follow him on Twitter @johndagys or email him at
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