Williams Formulation 1 boss James Vowles will return to endurance racing when he contests the 2025 Gulf 12 Hours with Storage 59 on 14 December.
The 46-year-old final raced competitively in 2022 when he entered all 4 rounds of the Asian Le Mans Collection with the Storage 59 squad, aboard its McLaren 720S GT3.
Vowles will race the Evo spec of that McLaren this December at Yas Marina Circuit, which comes only a week after the 2025 F1 season ends on the identical Abu Dhabi venue.
He’ll drive alongside 2024 Professional-Am winner Alexander West, two-time Worldwide GT Open Professional-Am champion Marco Pulcini and that championship’s 2025 Am runner-up Mark Sansom.
Vowles stated: “The prospect to placed on a race helmet once more is one thing I relish. Storage 59 is a staff I do know properly from our time collectively in 2022.
“The Gulf 12 Hours is a unbelievable occasion with a aggressive grid. It is going to be a pleasure to share the automotive with Alex, Mark and Marco, and to expertise racing from the motive force’s seat once more.”
#188 Storage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 EVO: Guilherme Oliveira, Shaun Balfe, Thomas Fleming, Jack Hawksworth
Picture by: Eric Le Galliot
Vowles joined Williams in 2023, which means he was nonetheless the technique director of Mercedes when he contested the Asian Le Mans Collection, the place he scored two factors throughout the rounds in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
That added to saloon racing he had finished in the UK again in 2015, whereas having additionally finished present runs at occasions like Goodwood Competition of Velocity – this yr, he tried the hillclimb within the 1992 F1 world-championship-winning Williams.
Storage 59’s staff boss Andrew Kirkaldy stated: “We totally loved working with James throughout the 2022 ALMS marketing campaign.
“His method and professionalism, and naturally his information of technique, made it a really satisfying collaboration.
“Bringing him again for the Gulf 12 Hours is one thing we’re all enthusiastic about, and we’re trying ahead to seeing what we will obtain collectively in Abu Dhabi.”
Storage 59 was based in 2016 and has since competed throughout numerous championships like GT World Problem Europe, Intercontinental GT Problem, ALMS and British GT.
It specialises in working McLaren, Ferrari or Aston Martin GT automobiles, and for 2026 is ready to enter GT World Problem and the World Endurance Championship.
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