Matt Campbell, Nick Yelloly, and Tom Blomqvist are joining Ford's effort to win Le Mans overall for the first time since 1969. After almost 60 years away, Ford's return to the top class of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is just one more year off. The brand may not have shown its Oreca-based LMDh challenger off just yet, but the Blue Oval's factory team has already revealed three drivers: Mike Rockenfeller, Sebastien Priaulx, and former F1 driver Logan Sargeant.
Now, we know the other three drivers that will race the first prototype racing Coyote V-8 in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Matt Campbell, a long-time Porsche factory driver, joins the team after spending the past four seasons running factory-backed 963 prototypes in IMSA and the FIA World Endurance Championship. Campbell's career highlights include an overall win at the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona and a 2025 championship, won in two different Porsche Penske driver lineups.
View Price on AmazonHe also won an IMSA GTD Pro title in a Porsche GT car back in 2022. Nick Yelloly is the first of two drivers that will be jumping directly from Acura's shuttering IMSA GTP program to the new Ford operation. After coming up through the single-seater ladder, Yelloly moved into GT cars and became a fixture in BMW's GT3 racers throughout Europe before making a surprise appearance in the brand's factory IMSA GTP lineup in 2023.
Tom Blomqvist has been an anchor of the Acura GTP program since it split from Team Penske in the end of the IMSA DPi era. He won the 2022 DPi championship for Acura and Meyer Shank Racing before putting in a heroic final stint to win the 24 Hours of Daytona on the debut of LMDh-spec race cars in 2023. Campbell, Blomqvist, and Yelloly's exact places in the six-driver, two-car lineup have not yet been confirmed.
Specific lineups should be revealed at a later date, as will the car's actual name and design. Since Ford has not yet confirmed any sort of IMSA program for North America, the brand has no further open seats.
Source: roadandtrack.com
