Listen to this article Merhi is replacing Japanese racing legend Satoshi Motoyama alongside Yoshiaki Katayama for the remainder of the 2022 season, a change LeMans belatedly admitted was necessary due to a budget shortfall after news of the move initially broke by way of an entry list reveal. Read Also: It marks the start of a new challenge for the Spanish driver, who has had a fairly nomadic career since his one and only F1 season with the minnow Marussia team in 2015. After a single season in the LMP2 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship with Manor in ’16, he then spent two years trying to re-establish himself in single-seaters in Formula 2. Following a year spent mostly on the sidelines he returned to the LMP2 ranks at the end of 2019, making two WEC starts in Eurasia Motorsport’s uncompetitive Ligier in 2020 and then joining G-Drive Racing for a partial European Le Mans Series campaign last year. But at the end of the season Merhi was back in a single-seater, only this time taking on the S5000 Tasman Series in Australia. It was there he first came into contact with Katayama, with whom he was partnered at Team BRM for the two round, six-race mini-series. Merhi was back in a single-seater last winter when he took on the S5000 Tasman Series “The SUPER GT opportunity came because I met ‘Yoshi’ racing in Australia in S5000,” Merhi told Motorsport.com. “We worked a bit together, I tried to help him as much as I could to help him improve in that kind of car. “Then he called me a few days ago asking if I would lik …