AF Corse-Francorchamps Motors has announced an expanded GT World Challenge Europe programme for 2025, with a two-car Pro class effort in both the Endurance and Sprint Cup elements.
In the Endurance Cup, defending champions Alessandro Pier Guidi and Alessio Rovera remain in the #51 Ferrari 296 GT3. Joining them is Vincent Abril, who moves across from the sister car full-time after a successful one-off appearance alongside Pier Guidi and Rovera at Monza last season.
Abril and Rovera will also share the #51 in the Sprint Cup, as a part of AF Corse’s first Pro class effort in the short-distance races since a part-season campaign in 2016.
In the #50 (which previously ran as #71) we find an all-new trio of Eliseo Donno, Antonio Fuoco and Arthur Leclerc for the Endurance Cup. Of them, only 2024 Le Mans winner Fuoco has previous Endurance Cup experience, having last contested the series in 2023.
19-year-old Donno steps up to Pro competition after an impressive Sprint Cup campaign with the team last season in the Silver Cup, headlined by three class wins and an overall pole position at the Hockenhiemring.
Leclerc made his GT3 debut last year, winning the Endurance element of the Italian GT Championship aboard Scuderia Baldini’s 296 GT3. For 2025, he’ll embark on a full season in GT World Challenge Europe, with him also contesting the Sprint Cup alongside Thomas Neubauer. Neubauer drove for AF Corse-Francorchamps Motors in the Endurance Cup last season.
The 2025 GT World Challenge Europe campaign gets underway at Circuit Paul Ricard on 11-13 April, with the Prologue test taking place at the same venue on 10-11 March.
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