Ferrari will proceed with an unchanged Hypercar class driver line-up in subsequent yr’s World Endurance Championship.
Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s head of sportscar racing, confirmed on Sunday that the #50 499P Le Mans Hypercar will possible be raced in 2025 by Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina and #51 by James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi and Antonio Giovinazzi for a third consecutive season.
The announcement made on the Ferrari World Finals for its one-make drawback assortment at Imola adopted data launched on Saturday that Fuoco and Molina had renewed their manufacturing facility contracts for subsequent yr.
Calado and Pier Guidi had been granted contract extensions this time ultimate yr.
Coletta outlined that there was no motive to make modifications to the driving pressure roster for the third advertising marketing campaign by the manufacturing facility AF Corse workforce throughout the WEC.
“It is confirmed: #50 and #51 will not change – we will have the equivalent drivers,” he said. “The #50 and #51 will possible be exactly the equivalent.
#51 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi
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“We’re happy with the line-ups: we have acquired with every on the Le Mans 24 Hours [with #51 in 2023 and #50 in ’24].”
Coletta harassed the importance of “consistency and continuity” by the use of the drivers on its Hypercar squad.
“As soon as we started with the 499P and chosen our GT pilots some people weren’t snug,” he continued.
“Nonetheless even the sceptics have wanted to alter their minds. All six 499P drivers have acquired Le Mans, which I really feel validates our alternatives.”
There was no affirmation of the drivers for the #83 satellite tv for pc television for computer entry run by AF Corse on a purchaser basis and pushed this yr by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Robert Shwartzman
Coletta outlined a hope to “announce it merely sooner than the Bahrain race” [this yr’s WEC closing on 2 November.
He dominated out Arthur Leclerc, brother of Ferrari F1 driver Charles, racing the auto subsequent yr, regardless that he is scheduled to verify one in all many 499Ps throughout the WEC rookie verify at Bahrain the day after the season finale.
Coletta outlined that the youthful of the Leclerc brothers, who’s listed as a enchancment driver for the F1 workforce, nonetheless wished to check sportscar racing.
He was positioned by Ferrari for this yr throughout the endurance part of the Italian GT Championship, which he is contesting alongside his LMP2 commitments throughout the European Le Mans Sequence with Panis Racing.
“Our function is for Arthur to proceed to study endurance after which there might be the prospect for him to catch an opportunity in thought of one in all our prototypes eventually,” said Coletta.
Davide Rigon, Alessio Rovera, Daniel Serra and Lilou Wadoux, who’re all part of the Ferrari manufacturing facility roster of GT3 drivers, have moreover had their contracts extended into subsequent yr.
