Extreme Speed Motorsports has become the second TUDOR United SportsCar Championship team to announce they are taking on the world at Circuit of The Americas in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Corvette Racing announced earlier today they would enter an additional Corvette C7.R for Tommy Milner and Ricky and Jordan Taylor. Now ESM will follow – splitting its two-car effort between the TUDOR race and the six hour WEC event.

Continuing its success in the IMSA championship race, ESM’s TUDOR Championship entry, the No. 2 Tequila Patrón Honda Performance Development ARX-03b, will be driven by Ed Brown and Johannes van Overbeek. That race will take place at 11:35 a.m. CT on Saturday the 20th.

But it’s Saturday night that will hold the global fight, with Scott Sharp, Brown and Ryan Dalziel co-driving the flagship No. 1 Tequila Patrón Honda Performance Development ARX-03b in the Six Hours of Circuit of the Americas WEC race.

Becoming a global contender with approximately one month to prepare is not going to be easy for ESM, as the team will need to make several modifications to the No.1 entry that currently runs in the TUDOR Championship.

The team will run on different tires, a smaller restrictor, modify the aerodynamics and install a different electronics package to comply with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) rules package.

“This is exciting for ESM and Tequila Patrón to get a feel and a taste for the WEC and the one-off race at COTA,” Sharp said.

“This will be exciting for us to compete against other P2 cars from around the world and in a different series. The No. 1 car is pretty much out of the TUDOR points and the No.2 car is a little bit closer, the timing worked out well for us to compete in the WEC race and we want to see how we compete against some of the best sports car racers in the world. This will be a good experience for us; a good way to test the waters.”