Ferrari will proceed with an unchanged Hypercar class driver line-up in subsequent yr’s World Endurance Championship.
Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s head of sportscar racing, confirmed on Sunday that the #50 499P Le Mans Hypercar can 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 facility contracts for subsequent yr.
Calado and Pier Guidi had been granted contract extensions this time final yr.
Coletta defined that there was no purpose to make modifications to the motive force roster for the third marketing campaign by the manufacturing facility AF Corse crew within the WEC.
“It’s confirmed: #50 and #51 won’t change – we can have the identical drivers,” he stated. “The #50 and #51 can be precisely the identical.
#51 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi
Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Photos
“We’re proud of the line-ups: we now have gained with each on the Le Mans 24 Hours [with #51 in 2023 and #50 in ’24].”
Coletta pressured the significance of “consistency and continuity” by way of the drivers on its Hypercar squad.
“Once we began with the 499P and selected our GT pilots some individuals weren’t completely satisfied,” 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 decisions.”
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 yr by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Robert Shwartzman
Coletta outlined a hope to “announce it simply earlier than the Bahrain race” [this year’s WEC final on 2 November.
He ruled out Arthur Leclerc, brother of Ferrari F1 driver Charles, racing the car next year, even though he is scheduled to test one of the 499Ps in the WEC rookie test at Bahrain the day after the season finale.
Coletta explained that the younger of the Leclerc brothers, who is listed as a development driver for the F1 team, still needed to learn about sportscar racing.
He was placed by Ferrari for this year in the endurance segment of the Italian GT Championship, which he is contesting alongside his LMP2 commitments in the European Le Mans Series with Panis Racing.
“Our goal is for Arthur to keep learning about endurance and then there might be the chance for him to catch an opportunity in one of our prototypes in the future,” said Coletta.
Davide Rigon, Alessio Rovera, Daniel Serra and Lilou Wadoux, who are all part of the Ferrari factory roster of GT3 drivers, have also had their contracts extended into next year.
