After a period where there has been little good news on the LMP2 front for the FIA WEC here’s something to strike an upbeat tone.

Strakka Racing’s delayed start to the season in their brand new Nissan engined Dome S103 coupe is about to burst into life.

The car was testing at a (very!) rainy Silverstone earlier this week with Jonny Kane at the wheel amongst a rather surprised array of British GT competitors and with the car safely back at base the team are now planning a further 3 days of testing (with all three drivers) at Spa prior to the Le Mans Test Day in less than three weeks time.

“We continue to follow our scheduled test plan and next week our aim is to get all drivers valuable seat time,” says sportscar team manager Karl Patman. “Although track conditions were quite extreme, in a lot of respects, it’s a great proving ground for what Le Mans sometimes has to offer and the car performed very well.”

Alongside the track running, Strakka Racing is benefitting from its new, bespoke in-house LMP simulator, racking up over 16,000km to date. “Every week, we receive new information from DOME and correlating this to the growing volume of data acquired on track, we now have an increasingly accurate model to accelerate development and driver acclimatisation,” added Karl.

The new car certainly looks the part.

Stay tuned to DSC later today meanwhile for a VERY special Strakka competition!