Ferrari has renewed its multi-year contract with Antonio Giovinazzi, who will proceed to symbolize the Prancing Horse as official driver in WEC and reserve driver for the F1 workforce.
The collaboration between the Italian and the Maranello outfit, which has seen him distinguish himself in races and wins of specific significance, together with the Centenary 24 Hours of Le Mans win in June 2023, when Ferrari – on its return to the highest class of endurance racing after half a century – gained the fourth spherical of the FIA WEC with the 499P quantity 51 entrusted to Giovinazzi, Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado.
Giovinazzi is presently engaged within the WEC for the third consecutive season, with the crew talked about, sharing one of many two 499Ps entered by the official Ferrari – AF Corse workforce.
Up to now, the motive force from Apulia has taken half in 20 World Endurance Championship races (19 within the high class) with Ferrari, reaching three wins: at Le Mans in 2023 and on the 6 Hours of Imola and Spa, in 2025; the monitor document additionally consists of 3 Hyperpoles (on the COTA in 2024, in Qatar and in Italy within the present season) and seven podiums. The 31-year-old driver had his Le Mans debut in 2018 when he raced with a Ferrari 488 GTE.
“Eight years in the past, I started my journey with Ferrari, which for me is way more than a workforce: it is a household,” mentioned Giovinazzi. “Renewing right now means persevering with a problem that will get me charged up daily, in an surroundings the place individuals, teamwork and ambition matter.
“Being an official driver within the WEC and the third driver in Method 1 is a dedication that I’m honoured and excited to undertake,” he added. “I need to thank Ferrari for his or her continued religion in me: rising in these workforce colors is actually particular.
“I can not anticipate the subsequent chapters of this story, which I’ll embark on with the dedication, ardour and starvation for outcomes which have at all times been a part of me.”
