MotorSports
Sep 16, 2025
  • Motorsports News
  • Formula 1
  • IndyCar
  • NASCAR
  • Rally
  • SportsCars
  • Touring
  • WEC
Font ResizerAa
MotorSportsMotorSports
Search
  • Categories
  • Forums
  • More Foxiz
    • Blog Index
    • Sitemap
Sign In Sign In
Follow US
Made by ThemeRuby using the Foxiz theme. Powered by WordPress
WEC’s Iron Dames to make Porsche return for 2025 after yr with Lamborghini
SportsCars

WEC’s Iron Dames to make Porsche return for 2025 after yr with Lamborghini

By Miles Cooper November 21, 2024
SHARE
- Advertisement -

The all-female Iron Dames World Endurance Championship LMGT3 entry will swap from Lamborghini to Porsche for subsequent season with the title-winning Manthey crew.

Affirmation that the Iron Dames programme, which has to this point yielded one class win and an extra 4 podiums within the WEC, is transferring producers got here on Thursday, the day after the Iron Lynx mum or dad squad introduced that it’s becoming a member of forces with Mercedes for its 2025 LMGT3 marketing campaign.

Learn Additionally:

The announcement implies that the Iron Lynx organisation, which beforehand fielded the Dames automotive, is increasing its illustration in LMGT3 from two to 3 entries subsequent yr.

The transfer was extensively anticipated after Iron Dames WEC common Michelle Gatting tried out in one of many two Manthey Racing Porsche 911 GT3-Rs on the official collection rookie check in Bahrain earlier this month, together with Celia Martin.

Gatting will race the 911 GT3-R subsequent yr alongside common team-mate Rahel Frey, the pair returning for his or her fifth WEC campaigns with Iron Dames.

Martin strikes as much as the WEC to fill the necessary berth for a bronze-ranked driver after a season with the Dames racing a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 within the Le Mans Cup on the European Le Mans Sequence undercard.

WEC’s Iron Dames to make Porsche return for 2025 after yr with Lamborghini

#92 Manthey Purerxcing Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3: Gilian Henrion, Celia Martin, Michelle Gatting

Photograph by: JEP / Motorsport Photographs

The 33-year-old takes the place of Iron Dames stalwart Sarah Bovy, who has been upgraded to silver standing for 2025.

Iron Lynx already has established hyperlinks with Porsche. It switched to the German producer from Ferrari for its 2023 marketing campaign in GTE Am after the announcement that it might be partnering Lamborghini for a wide-ranging programme together with the Italian producer’s transfer into the prototype ranks in 2024 with a brand new LMDh.

The Dames additionally contested the ELMS this yr with Porsche in a continued tie-up with Proton.

Iron Lynx founder Deborah Mayer mentioned: “Returning to Porsche and collaborating with Manthey represents a brand new milestone for the Iron Dames. I’ve full confidence in Manthey’s experience and dedication to excellence, which completely match our ambition to shine on the highest degree.

“We’re dedicated to writing a brand new chapter within the Iron Dames’ endurance racing historical past, demonstrating that ladies have their rightful place on the prime of the game and galvanizing generations to come back.”

#85 Iron Dames Porsche 911 RSR - 19: Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting, Rahel Frey

#85 Iron Dames Porsche 911 RSR – 19: Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting, Rahel Frey

Photograph by: JEP / Motorsport Photographs

Manthey managing director Nicolas Raeder added: “We’re proud to hitch forces with the Iron Dames in FIA WEC subsequent yr. We now have all the time admired the undertaking and have had many thrilling however honest on-track duels with them prior to now.”

Martin defined that she was fulfilling an ambition by racing within the WEC with the Iron Dames.

“After I began my journey in motorsport, I all the time hoped that sooner or later I might compete in top-level GT and endurance racing,” she mentioned. “When you had requested me for my final dream, it might be this – FIA WEC and Iron Dames, and to prime it off with Manthey as nicely, it’s actually a dream come true.”

The total line-up at Manthey, which is part-owned by Porsche, has but to be introduced forward of the scheduled reveal of the 2025 WEC entry listing on Friday.

Learn Additionally:

The championship-winning line-up of Alex Malykhin, Joel Sturm and Klaus Bacher, which ran beneath the Manthey PureRxcing banner, won’t be returning.

Belarusian Malykhin has additionally been upgraded to silver standing and can transfer into LMP2, starting with a programme within the 2024-25 Asian Le Mans Sequence beginning at Sepang subsequent month.

Whether or not Lamborghini shall be represented within the WEC’s LMGT3 class subsequent yr is unclear. It seems unlikely that the Italian model shall be a part of the Hypercar grid with its SC63 LMDh.

- Advertisement --
TAGGED:DamesIronLamborghiniPorschereturnWECsyear
Previous Article Sergio Perez condemns father’s homophobic remarks about Ralf Schumacher Sergio Perez condemns father’s homophobic remarks about Ralf Schumacher
Next Article Komatsu: “Everyone towards” Audi F1 price cap wage breaks for 2026 Komatsu: “Everyone towards” Audi F1 price cap wage breaks for 2026
Leave a Comment Leave a Comment

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


- Advertisement -
Genesis Magma Racing’s Hypercar Program: The Final Countdown!
Genesis Magma Racing’s Hypercar Program: The Final Countdown!
WEC
WRC 2025 Rd.10 Preview | 2025 | PRESS RELEASE | WRC – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing
WRC 2025 Rd.10 Preview | 2025 | PRESS RELEASE | WRC – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing
Rally
Exciting Lineup Unveiled: Meet the 2025 Drivers of PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports!
SportsCars
Exciting Lineup Unveiled for North Wilkesboro: May 2025 CARS Tour LMSC!
Exciting Lineup Unveiled for North Wilkesboro: May 2025 CARS Tour LMSC!
Touring
IndyCar Not Racing in Mexico City for 2026 – Frontstretch
IndyCar Not Racing in Mexico City for 2026 – Frontstretch
IndyCar
Sergio Perez of Cadillac F1 to Kick Off LA Dodgers Game with Ceremonial First Pitch!
Sergio Perez of Cadillac F1 to Kick Off LA Dodgers Game with Ceremonial First Pitch!
Motorsports News

Categories

Archives

November 2024
MTWTFSS
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627282930 
« Oct   Dec »

You Might Also Like

Peugeot Faces Challenges After Final Le Mans Test: “We’re Lacking Performance
SportsCars

Peugeot Faces Challenges After Final Le Mans Test: “We’re Lacking Performance

By Jackson Lee June 18, 2025
Blaney had no warning earlier than his second engine failure of the yr
NASCAR

Blaney had no warning earlier than his second engine failure of the yr

By Miles Cooper March 24, 2025
BMW marks fiftieth anniversary of Sebring win with GTP pole for 12h race
SportsCars

BMW marks fiftieth anniversary of Sebring win with GTP pole for 12h race

By Miles Cooper March 14, 2025
Leclerc’s ex-engineer turns into Cadillac technical director in WEC and IMSA
SportsCars

Leclerc’s ex-engineer turns into Cadillac technical director in WEC and IMSA

By Miles Cooper January 14, 2025
VP Racing SportsCar Challenge Enriches COTA’s Thrilling IMSA Legacy!
SportsCars

VP Racing SportsCar Challenge Enriches COTA’s Thrilling IMSA Legacy!

By William Green May 7, 2025
Lyn St. James, a nearly-forgotten all-female racing series, and what ‘makes it’ in racing
SportsCars

Lyn St. James, a nearly-forgotten all-female racing series, and what ‘makes it’ in racing

By Caleb Wilson April 1, 2025

MotorSports-News

@2024 – All Right Reserved.
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Username or Email Address
Password

Lost your password?