The Vaillante Rebellion team will unveil their full Le Mans 24 Hours livery in Brussels on 27 April as part of the pre-publicity for the Spa Francorchamps round of the 2017 FIA WEC.

After running an interim livery at the Prologue (above) and at Silverstone, the team will use one of their 2016 Rebellion R-One chassis to showcase the Michel Vaillant-themed colour scheme but the team’s Orecas will still race at Spa in the earlier colour scheme.

The actual race cars will first be seen in the new livery at the Le Mans Test Day on 4 June.

As a point of information for those not well versed in motorsport-themed French comic books whist the famous (and fictional) hero is named Michel Vaillant, the marque of cars he drives are most often dubbed Vaillante.