Recent McLaren Formula 1 junior Nyck de Vries will make his FIA World Endurance Championship debut later this year after being named as part of Racing Team Nedeꦉrland's line-up for the upcoming season.

De Vries, 23, will spen🌞d a second season in Formula 2 through 2018 after signing for Prema Racing, b🐼ut will balance his commitments later in the year with three WEC appearances following the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Racing Team Nederland will make its full WEC debut in 2018 in the LMP2 class after a one-off appearance at Le Mans last year, with Giedo van der Garde and Jan Lammers set to join team owner Frits van Eerd in the #29 Dallara P217 for the opening two rounds of the🐠 season.

Lammers will then step back from th🍬e seat to make way for de Vries for the third round of the 13-mꦚonth 'super season' at Silverstone on August 19, with the youngster taking over for the remainder of the campaign.

De Vr๊ies will not feature in the pre-seas🧜on WEC 'Prologue' test at Paul Ricard due to a clash with his F2 commitments in Bahrain.

The new WEC season kicks off on May 5 at Spa.