Ferrari will proceed with an unchanged Hypercar class driver line-up in subsequent 12 months’s World Endurance Championship.
Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s head of sportscar racing, confirmed on Sunday that the #50 499P Le Mans Hypercar will probably 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 3rd consecutive season.
The announcement made on the Ferrari World Finals for its one-make problem collection at Imola adopted information introduced on Saturday that Fuoco and Molina had renewed their manufacturing unit contracts for subsequent 12 months.
Calado and Pier Guidi had been granted contract extensions this time final 12 months.
Coletta defined that there was no cause to make modifications to the driving force roster for the third marketing campaign by the manufacturing unit AF Corse staff within the WEC.
“It’s confirmed: #50 and #51 won’t change – we can have the identical drivers,” he stated. “The #50 and #51 will probably be precisely the identical.
#51 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi
Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Pictures
“We’re proud of the line-ups: now we have gained with each on the Le Mans 24 Hours [with #51 in 2023 and #50 in ’24].”
Coletta harassed the significance of “consistency and continuity” by way of the drivers on its Hypercar squad.
“After we began with the 499P and selected our GT pilots some folks weren’t glad,” he continued.
“However even the sceptics have needed to change their minds. All six 499P drivers have gained Le Mans, which I believe validates our selections.”
There was no affirmation of the drivers for the #83 satellite tv for pc entry run by AF Corse on a buyer foundation and pushed this 12 months by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Robert Shwartzman
Coletta outlined a hope to “announce it simply earlier than the Bahrain race” [this 12 months’s WEC ultimate on 2 November.
He dominated out Arthur Leclerc, brother of Ferrari F1 driver Charles, racing the automobile subsequent 12 months, despite the fact that he’s scheduled to check one of many 499Ps within the WEC rookie check at Bahrain the day after the season finale.
Coletta defined that the youthful of the Leclerc brothers, who’s listed as a growth driver for the F1 staff, nonetheless wanted to study sportscar racing.
He was positioned by Ferrari for this 12 months within the endurance phase of the Italian GT Championship, which he’s contesting alongside his LMP2 commitments within the European Le Mans Sequence with Panis Racing.
“Our objective is for Arthur to continue to learn about endurance after which there is perhaps the possibility for him to catch a chance in one in all our prototypes sooner or later,” stated Coletta.
Davide Rigon, Alessio Rovera, Daniel Serra and Lilou Wadoux, who’re all a part of the Ferrari manufacturing unit roster of GT3 drivers, have additionally had their contracts prolonged into subsequent 12 months.
