Pastor Maldonado has quꦯit Jota’s LMP2 lin🅷e-up in the week leading up to the new FIA World Endurance Championship season.

Ex-Formula 1 driver and one-time grand prix winner Maldonado had been d🔯ue to continue to race alongside Roberto Gonzalez and Anthony Davidson following a first campaign together through the 2018✱-19 WEC ‘super season’.

The trio moved from the closed DragonSpeed LMP2 squad to Jota’s in-house effort, running the #38 Oreca 07 Gibson, with the nᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚew season starting this Sunday at Sil🔯verstone.

However, Maldonado will not feature in the line-up after co🗹nfirming in the week prior to the race that he had wit💮hdrawn, citing a failure in “reaching a balance agreement between the parties”.

Now without a racing programme, Ma﷽ldonado said he hoped to “give news about my future soon”.

The Venezuelan driver will be replaced in Jota’s line-up by Antonio Felix da Costa, who 𓂃previ🧸ously raced in the WEC with BMW through its single season GTE-Pro factory programme in ’18-19.

Felix da Costa is reportedly in line to take up a drive🍸 with DS Techeetah in Formula E for the series’ sixth season,𝔉 which would require a complete split with BMW.