expand CLX Motorsport staff coverage

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+# WEC CLX Motorsport roster follow-up - 2026-07-18
+
+## Scope
+
+This pass revisited current CLX Motorsport personnel across its LMP2, LMP3,
+engineering, mechanic, driver-advisory, and race-operations functions. A person
+was added at medium confidence only when an exact public professional profile
+showed a current CLX Motorsport / COOL Racing role. Car numbers were recorded
+only where the source stated them directly.
+
+Only public static portraits were eligible. No video, video frame, reel, or
+video thumbnail was searched or used.
+
+## Added people
+
+| Person | Published English role | Scope | Confidence |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| Pablo Bono | `LMP2 Data Systems Engineer, cars #37 / #47` | Current profile explicitly covers CLX #37/#47 in ELMS, ALMS and the 24 Hours of Le Mans; dashboard entry is scoped to #37. | medium |
+| Julien Neveu | `LMP3 Program Manager` | Current CLX team-level role from January 2023. | medium |
+| Colas Bauer | `Race Engineer` | Current CLX team-level role from November 2024. | medium |
+| Thomas Boiron | `Data Engineer & Race Engineer` | Current COOL Racing - CLX Motorsport role from September 2022. | medium |
+| Antoine Bouvot | `Freelance ELMS Mechanic` | Current LMP2/LMP3 and Le Mans mechanic role; no car number inferred. | medium |
+| Ghislain Boetti | `Racing Driver Advisor` | Current advisor for CLX LMP2 and LMP3 drivers. | medium |
+| Théo Lopez Perez | `Team Manager, Michelin Le Mans Cup` | Current race-operations role, kept distinct from Tom Olmos's ELMS / Le Mans management role. | medium |
+
+The [official CLX team page](https://www.clx-motorsport.com/home-1-1-1) was
+extracted with Firecrawl and corroborates the team's current identity and
+program scope, but it does not publish an employee directory. Exact current
+professional profiles therefore provide the person-role evidence for this
+batch.
+
+## Avatar decisions
+
+Six exact-profile 200 x 200 JPEG images were downloaded, decoded, assembled
+into a contact sheet, and inspected at original resolution. Pablo Bono, Julien
+Neveu, Thomas Boiron, Antoine Bouvot, Ghislain Boetti, and Théo Lopez Perez all
+have attributable single-person static images and were adopted locally. Colas
+Bauer's result exposed only the platform default avatar, so it was rejected.
+
+## Holds
+
+- The old `Julien Neuveu` / `Technical director` record is not silently merged
+  into Julien Neveu's current `LMP3 Program Manager` profile because both the
+  spelling and role differ. Julien Neveu is published only at team level.
+- Antoine Martin remains held because searches found no current CLX profile
+  that closes the name, team, and role identity chain.
+
+## Tool state
+
+MySearch Exa and Firecrawl were both called successfully through
+`127.0.0.1:9874`. Firecrawl extracted the current Wix pages, including Programs
+& Drivers, About, Academy, Hospitality, and Contact. MySearch was used for
+discovery; the dashboard cites the actual public profile or team page rather
+than the proxy.