Wurz who is currently 41, who races with the Toyota Racing in World Endurance Championship will now compete in his final race in Bahrain at next weekends seasons finale of the WEC.
Wurz explained that 'feel the time is right to call it a day and bring my career as a racing driver to a close'. That means he will not be part of Toyota's 2016 WEC campaign.
He has called time on his career that includes two victories in the 24 Hours Le Mans wins with Peugeot and TWR Porsche.
Included a famous outright win with TWR-Porsche at his first attempt at Le Mans in 1996.
As-well, as a Formula 1 career which include three and half seasons at Benetton till the end of 2000. Includes a third place finish at the 1997 British Grand Prix in his third race where he replace Gerhard Berger for a few races due to Berger illness that season and then took over his drive for 1998.
Then moved to McLaren in 2001 as a test-driver, which included one Grand Prix outing at the 2005 San Marino Grand Prix, Wurz replaced an injured Juan Pablo Montoya and finished in third place in that race.
Then moved to Williams in 2006 as a test-driver then promoted as a full time driver in 2007 which include another third place finish at that seasons Canadian Grand Prix, then retire from Formula 1 at the end of the 2007 season focusing on with endurance racing with Peugeot in 2008. Then moving to Toyota in 2012.
In my opinion, this was a shock decision to hear, I thought he would do a few more seasons at least. But, a decision is a decision from Alexander Wurz and have to respect his decision from his long career in Motorsport. Good luck in retirement for Alexander Wurz, he will be highly missed.
End of post for now, new post soon. Bye.
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