SMP Racing were participating in the European Le Mans Series in the LMP2 class, fielding a Dallara P217 chassis.

[5] Mikhail Aleshin had an arm injury during the first test at Ciudad del Motor de Aragón due to car failure.

[5] Prior the official launch at Bahrain the car was also tested by Kirill Ladygin, Vitaly Petrov, Viktor Shaytar and Sergey Sirotkin.

The debut of the car at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps was overshadowed by a qualifying accident involving DragonSpeed's driver Pietro Fittipaldi, in which he sustained fractures to both legs.

At Le Mans, DragonSpeed's #10 BR1 crashed at the exit of the Porsche curves with roughly 7:40:00 left in the race, retiring it from the event.