United Autosports has completed its driver line-up for the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship, with Grégoire Saucy set to be partnered in the #59 McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo by returning team-mate James Cottingham and new recruit Sébastien Baud.
Cottingham, Saucy and Nicolas Costa combined to score a trio of top four finishes in the inaugural season of FIA WEC’s LMGT3 division last year, with the Briton – who celebrates his 41st birthday today – placing inside the top five in the Hyperpole session on four occasions and helping to secure an all-United front row lockout for the Bahrain finale. Cottingham is aiming to build upon that early promise in his sophomore campaign in the series.
Frenchman Baud arrives at the team from TF Sport, with whom he reached the rostrum at the end of his FIA WEC rookie season in Bahrain last November and won the Goodyear Wingfoot Award at Imola for achieving the fastest LMGT3 stint average during the race. Prior to that, the 24-year-old contested the GT4 European Series and GT World Challenge Europe – narrowly missing out on the Endurance Cup crown in the latter’s Bronze Cup category in 2023.
Baud, Cottingham and Saucy will be joined in the sister #95 car by the already announced Marino Sato, Sean Gelael and Darren Leung. There is exactly one month to go until the campaign kicks off with the traditional ‘Prologue’ group test in Qatar, followed by the curtain-raising encounter at the same circuit a week later.
