Ferrari has announced today during its Finali Mondiali event at Imola that it has renewed the factory contracts for six drivers currently in its endurance racing stable: Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, Daniel Serra, Davide Rigon, Alessio Rovera and Lilou Wadoux.
“We are very happy to have renewed the contracts for the core of our official drivers,” commented Antonello Coletta, the global head of Ferrari Endurance and Corse Clienti, “a choice that guarantees continuity and stability for our team, one of the fundamental aspects allowing us to achieve major results.”
For Fuoco and Molina, this news comes in the wake of their overall victory at the 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours back in June with the #50 Ferrari AF Corse 499P.
“I’m really proud of this news, we started this programme with Ferrari three years ago, we have a lot more to achieve,” Fuoco told reporters shortly after the announcement at Imola.
“Winning Le Mans is a good result but we want more, so we decided to continue on this project and I really hope we have more good results in the future.”
Molina added: “It’s very important to have continuity on what we built up in the last three years. The results are there and this always helps.
“This is a very positive matter for the future and I am really happy to continue my career at Ferrari for the coming years and I am really proud to continue with this group in this brand. We need to keep working, we have more to achieve.”
These contract extensions follow the multi-year renewals announced between November 2023 and January 2024 for three of its current factory Hypercar drivers, 2024 Le Mans winner Nicklas Nielsen and Centenary Le Mans winners James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi.
This news does not confirm the five drivers in question for factory 499P drives next year (that decision and announcement will come later), however, you can reasonably expect that they will return to the FIA WEC’s top class for the third season of the programme.
As for the other four drivers which had their renewals made public today, their extensions follow successful 2024 seasons and standout results racing with Ferrari.
40-year-old Serra and 38-year-old Rigon won the GTD Pro class at the Rolex 24 Hours with Risi Competizione at the start of the year.
Rovera, 29, has been competing around the world in the FIA WEC, GT World Challenge Europe, IMSA and in the ELMS’ LMP2 Pro/Am class. He will fight for the P2 Pro/Am class title later today in Portimao with AF Corse.
And Wadoux has been competing in both IMSA’s LMP2 class and Super GT GT300 during the year. With a second place finish at the Sugo 300 km in September, the 23-year-old became the first woman to stand on the podium of the Japanese championship since it took this name in 2005.
