GP2 race winner Jon Lancaster will make his sportscar debut with the Greaves Motorsport LMP2 team in this weekend’s Bahrain World Endurance Championship finale.

The 24-year-old Briton, who has undertaken a part season with the German Hilmer team in GP2 this year, will drive the Greaves Zytek-Nissan Z11SN together with Bjorn Wirdheim and Nissan GT Academy winner Wolfgang Reip.

Lancaster has joined the Greaves line-up after testing with the team at the beginning of the 2011 season.

“I did something like 10 laps straight at Paul Ricard with a view to doing the Le Mans 24 Hours, which didn’t happen,” he told AUTOSPORT.

“We’ve stayed in touch. Now they’ve got a bit of backing, so when they called me last week, I jumped at the chance.”

Lancaster revealed that he was evaluating a full-time move into sportscars for next season alongside options in single-seaters.

“This is about opening up new options for me,” he explain.

“I’m pushing hard on a few other things, which could involve Formula 1, but I need a back-up plan.

“Sportscars is a fantastic option, because the WEC is really taking off and there are lots of manufacturers involved. It is something I have got to look at.”

Reip, who raced in the FIA GT Series and the Blancpain Endurance Series this year with a RJN Nissan GT-R, follows team-mate Mark Shulzhitskiy into the Greaves line-up.

Reip is being evaluated, like Shulzhitskiy at Shanghai earlier this month, for a drive at next year’s Le Mans 24 Hours.