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

By Miles Cooper November 21, 2024
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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.

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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.

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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.

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