Sam Tordoff to combine BTCC and ELMS duties in 2015

The 25-year-old, who has swapped from Triple Eight to West Surrey Racing for his third full season in the BTCC, will race a Ferrari 458 Italia for the British JMW Motorsport in the five-round ELMS.

He will share the GTE car with George Richardson, who is staying with the team for a second season, and Porsche Carrera Cup GB graduate Rob Smith.

Tordoff said: "I have wanted to get into GT racing now for a number of years, and this season the stars have aligned and it's finally possible!

"It is important for me to try and break the mould to show that I am not just a touring car driver."

Richardson, who finished third in GTE with JMW in last year's ELMS, said he believed JMW's line-up made them "championship contenders" in 2015.

Tordoff and Smith got their first experience of JMW's Ferrari at Estoril at the end of last year.

Tordoff's WSR team-mate Andy Priaulx, who completed the first test of his BTCC return last week, is also dovetailing his tin-top programme with an ELMS drive.

The three-time world champion will race a factory-backed, Marc VDS-run BMW Z4 GTE.

Tordoff will have to miss the Paul Ricard ELMS round in September, which clashes with the Rockingham BTCC round.