Julien Da Costa, Sebastien Gimbert and Freddy Foray have signed with Honda for 2014.

Honda has revealed that it will contest the 2014 FIM Endurance World Championship with an all-new rider line-up and the clear aim of securing the title victory.

French endurance racing experts Julien Da Costa, Freddy Foray and Sebastien Gimbert will form a formidable three-man squad for the five-round series, competing aboard the 2014 Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade.

The three riders have an impressive collective track record in EWC with no fewer than seven championship titles between them.

Da Costa is a three-time EWC champion – most recently in 2013 – and has placed first at the Le Mans 24-hour three times and the Bol d’Or 24-hour twice. The 32-year-old was also French Superbike Champion in 2012.

Foray meanwhile secured back-to-back Endurance World Championships in 2010 and 2011 and is no stranger to the Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade, having competed in the 2013 German IDM series and the final two rounds of the 2013 British Superbike season aboard the machine.

Dual French Superbike Champion Gimbert raced for official Honda teams from 1995-2001. The 36-year-old rider secured the EWC title in 2004 and has placed second overall in the championship in the last two years.

Honda’s new direction in EWC supersedes the three-year Honda TT Legends project, which has seen road racing specialists compete in the Isle of Man TT, North West 200 and World Endurance events under the same banner.

The outfit secured some impressive results and in doing so successfully raised the profile of the Endurance World Championship and Honda’s involvement in the series.

The 2014 team will continue to be run from the same UK base and will re-focus its strategy on challenging for the championship title.