Round four of the 2025 Michelin 24H SERIES European Series this weekend is the 12H Paul Ricard with a 33 car entry including 17 GT3 cars, the first time since 2021 that the Series has visited the storied circuit in Southern France.
Overall GT3 championship leaders Scuderia Praha have confirmed Miroslav Vyboh, Dennis Waszek and Josef Kral for the Czech squad’s Ferrari 296 GT3, while fellow front-running Ferrari team Era Motorsport, from the USA, will field its regular line-up of Kyle Tilley, Dwight Merriman, Jake Hill and Ryan Dalziel.
The UAE’s Dragon Racing make a first appearance in this year’s European Series with one of their Ferrari 296 GT3, the #98 entry for Xollie Letlaka, Axcil Jefferies and Stuart White.
No fewer than five Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II cars feature too for Paul Ricard, headed by Lithuania’s Juta Racing whose #71 car of Tim Muller, Nicola Michelon and Arunas Geciauskas is currently second in GT3 overall. The team also runs a second car in France for Francois Beziac, Tom Jackson and Ameerh Naran.
Britain’s Continental Racing by Simpson Motorsport enters Vasily Vladykin, Andrey Solukovtsev and David Pogosian in its Audi, while HAAS RT, the Antiguan flagged Michelin 12H Misano winners, run father and son Peter and Nicolas Guelinckx in its Audi R8.
French squad Sainteloc Junior Team and drivers Michael Doppelmayr, Pierre Kaffer and Elia Erhart make a very welcome return to the Michelin 24H SERIES with an Audi R8 and are joined by Ernst Inderbitzin and Philippe Chatelet.
HOFOR Racing is the highest placed of the Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO entries and the Swiss team’s line-up of Michael Kroll, his daughter Chantal Prinz and her husband Alexander Prinz will again by joined by Maximilian Partl. Belgium’s Red Ant Racing will field brothers Yannick and Ayrton Redant, Kobe de Breucker and Kenneth Heyer in its Mercedes-AMG.
Viper Niza Racing, from Malaysia, runs its striking Mercedes-AMG for regular trio Douglas Khoo, Dominic Ang and Melvin Moh, while French squad TFT Racing has entered a Mercedes-AMG for Nico Bastian, Benjamin Paque, Patrick Charlaix and Jordan Boisson.
Porsche is represented by Germany’s Proton Huber Competition and Herberth Motorsport. The former will feature Jorg Dreisow, Manuel Lauck and Klaus Bachler in its Porsche 911 GT3 R (992), while father and son Ralf and Dennis Bohn partner Daniel Allemann, who is returning to active competition having previously retired, and Alfred Renauer at Herberth.
Add too Spain’s E2P Racing fielding Pablo Burguera, Antonio Sainero and Oliver Campos in its Aston Martin Vantage GT3. Lithuania’s RD Signs – Siauliai Racing Team enters a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO for Audrius Butkevicius, Paulius Paskevicius, Vaidas Miciuda and Paulius Ruskys, and New Zealand’s Prime Speed Sport joins the grid with Nick Foster, Jono Lester, Heremana Malmezac and Miika Panu teaming-up with its similar Lamborghini.
Points leaders in 992, RPM Racing, will be looking to consolidate their advantage during the penultimate race of the season and the German-entered team will field Tracy Krohn, Niclas Jonsson and Philip Hamprecht in the #907 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992).
Red Camel-Jordans.nl from The Netherlands bring the regular family line-up of Ivo Breukers and sons Luc and Rik, along with trusty team-mate Fabian Danz, while French team SebLajoux Racing, third in the standings, fields Sebastien Lajoux, Stephane Perrin, Paul Meijer and Carlos Rivas. The French team has entered a sister car, driven by Jeremy Faligand and brothers Jean-Laurent Navarro and Pierre Arnaud Navarro.
Danish team Holmgaard Motorsport enters Magnus and Jonas Holmgaard, Marco Gersager, Martin Vedel Mortensen and Patrick Steen Rasmussen, with Indian-entered Ajith Kumar Racing by Red Ant running world-famous Kollywood actor Ajith Kumar, Fabian Duffieux and Mathieu Detry.
Belgium’s Muhlner Motorsport enters its No.921 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) for regular drivers Martin Rump, Julian Hanses and Valters Zviedris. German team HRT Performance, meanwhile, has named Silvain Pastoris and Jassim Al-Thani, and fellow German squad 9und11 Racing enters Georg Goder, Ralf Oehme and Martin Schluter.
Lionspeed GP, meanwhile, will make its first appearance of the season and features a quality three driver line-up in its #957 car. The German outfit has confirmed Porsche factory driver, and former ADAC GT Champion, Patric Niederhauser alongside Patrick Kolb and Jose Garcia.
The GTX and GT4 classes are both ‘small but perfectly formed!’
Venture, the clear leaders of GT4, field the British squad’s usual quartet of Neville Jones, Christopher Jones, Matthew George and Matthew Higgins while Belgium’s family trio of Rob, Chris and Mark Verhoeven will challenge in the Hamofa Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 EVO (G82).
Vortex V8 has entered a boosted three car attack on its home event, with the GTX class leading #701 Vortex 2.0 of Lionel Amrouche, Philippe Bonnel and Cyril Calmon joined by a #702 car featuring Philippe Burel, Franck Lefevre and Solenn Amrouche, daughter of Lionel. The team’s #703 car will be piloted Vortex owners and siblings Arnaud and Olivier Gomez and they are partnered by Tom Pieri.
Graff Racing gives a Michelin 24H SERIES European Series debut for its Nova NP02 in GTX. The little prototype racer has had race reviews in the Ultimate Cup but will be pegged back here with 100kg of ballast and a hefty cut in fuel fill flow rate to take the edge of the performance of the lightweight little prototype. The car will be piloted at Circuit Paul Ricard by trio Eric Trouillet, Luis Sanjuan and Sebastien Page.
Creventic Track Day sessions get the action underway on Thursday, 3 July. Testing and free practice follows on a busy Friday, 4 July, ahead of the qualifying sessions which will begin at 15.30 local time. On Saturday, 5 July, the Michelin 12H PAUL RICARD will commence at 10.00 local time with LIVE coverage at the Creventic Motorsports TV YouTube channel or through www.24hseries.com
