Ex-Caterham Formula 1 team boss Manfredi Ravetto has j⛦oined the ByKolles LMP1 squad as team principal for the upcoming 2018/19 World Endurance Championship ‘super 𓂃season’.

The 42-year-old Italian worked at Caterham during the team’s final F1 season in 2014 and has previously had extensive involvement in a nღumber of Colin Kolles-led pro🅺jects, ranging from DTM to F1. 

Ravetto will take up his new position with immediate effect as ByKolles returns to LMP1 for 2𒆙018/19, alongside eight other privateer operations and the sole-remai🥀ning manufacturer, Toyota, in WEC’s premier class. 

ByKolles ran a single entry for the first four rounds of the 2017 camp🐷aign, before skipping the second half of the season to f🌺ocus its efforts on 2018/19. 

"We look forward to the coming tasks of WEC season with enthousiasm. In particular, we perceive the Le Mans events, which will see our team this year in June ent🌸ering it for the eighth time, as special highlights," ByKolles 🌄chief of race operations Boris Bermes said ahead of the upcoming ‘super season’.

"We significantly changed and improved our package in recent months and our Enso🥃 CLM P1/01 car has been provided with extensively tested updates so that we can expect to be at the top﷽ in a competition which is becoming more and more exciting.”

2014 ELMS champ༒ion Oliver Webb, who contested the opening fo𓄧ur races of 2017 with ByKolles, has been confirmed as the team’s first driver for its 2018/19 assault.