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Rossi may give up WEC to downscale racing programme in 2025
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Rossi may give up WEC to downscale racing programme in 2025

By Miles Cooper October 30, 2024
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Seven-time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi may give up the World Endurance Championship to deal with the GT World Problem Europe as he seems to downscale his racing in 2025.

The BMW manufacturing unit driver has defined to Motorsport.com that he’s planning to chop again on the variety of races he contests from this yr’s 16 occasions primarily for household causes, which embody the approaching delivery of his second youngster.

This represents a shift in his place from earlier in 2024, when he outlined a want to proceed racing with the WRT crew in each WEC and the Endurance Cup leg of the GTWCE for a second season.

“I realised that 16 races is simply too many and I’m in the identical state of affairs as in MotoGP,” stated the 45-year-old Italian, who will likely be going into his fourth full season of automotive racing after his retirement from two wheels.

“I’m drained and my accomplice, Francesca, will get indignant as a result of I’m at all times on the highway.

“For 2025 my objective is to run 10 to 11 races: I should determine whether or not to do GTWCE or WEC.

“One is a world championship, so profitable the title has particular status, however within the Stephane Ratel Organisation races [GTWCE] the racing is de facto good with solely GT3 vehicles.”

Rossi may give up WEC to downscale racing programme in 2025

#46 Workforce WRT BMW M4 LMGT3: Ahmad Al Harthy, Valentino Rossi, Maxime Martin, #31 Workforce WRT BMW M4 LMGT3: Darren Leung, Sean Gelael, Augusto Farfus

Photograph by: Andreas Beil

Rossi’s expression of a want to scale back his racing actions is just not new, however he had beforehand described the 13 races of a programme combining WEC and the long-distance GTWCE occasions as “a very good quantity”.

He revealed on the similar time that he was unlikely to contest the Bathurst 12 Hours spherical of the Intercontinental GT Problem in February 2025 as he has performed for the previous two seasons as a result of it should battle together with his forty sixth birthday. Will probably be a big celebration, he identified, as a result of his race quantity all through his MotoGP profession was #46.

Now he has stated that his 2025 season “will begin in Bathurst”.

WRT boss Vincent Vosse clarified Rossi’s place to Motorsport.com: “Vale needs to scale back his variety of races and the one manner to try this is to do only one championship.

“It’s a resolution that needs to be taken: does he do WEC or GTWCE? It’s one thing that’s up within the air and actually isn’t clear in the mean time.

“There are numerous elements, and one is the BMW’s efficiency within the WEC, which hasn’t been what we have been anticipating, and one other is Valentino’s FIA driver categorisation.”

Rossi was downgraded from gold to silver standing for this yr, paving the best way for his transfer into the WEC in LMGT3, the place every automotive should run a bronze and a second non-professional who’s often a silver.

#46 Team WRT, BMW M4 GT3: Raffaele Marciello, Maxime Martin, Valentino Rossi

#46 Workforce WRT, BMW M4 GT3: Raffaele Marciello, Maxime Martin, Valentino Rossi

Photograph by: SRO

Requested whether or not a GTWCE marketing campaign may increase to incorporate the 5 occasions of the Dash Cup during which Rossi is a two-time race winner, Vosse replied: “That’s all a part of the dialogue and we don’t have a transparent feeling but.”

With the addition of the WEC to his programme this yr, Rossi contested solely two of the Dash weekends, at Manufacturers Hatch courtesy of his love for the circuit and his residence race at Misano.

Rossi has unilaterally introduced that he will likely be driving BMW’s M Hybrid V8 Hypercar class contender on the WEC rookie take a look at in Bahrain on 3 November.

BMW and WRT have but to verify the date of his promised run within the LMDh, although have clarified that it is going to be earlier than the top of the yr.

Vosse stated: “It seems like he’ll drive the prototype earlier than the top of the yr as we stated, and one of the best alternative for that appears just like the rookie take a look at.”

Rossi burdened that racing the LMDh sooner or later “is just not the objective I’ve set” however hinted at a want to race within the high class of the WEC.

“I might like to race in Hypercar as a result of it’s the MotoGP of prototypes,” he stated. “Possibly sooner or later there will likely be a spot in Hypercar – let’s see.”

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