A full-season entry record for the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship has been revealed. It incorporates a whole of 36 automobiles, with a fair break up of 18 automobiles every in Hypercar and LMGT3.
Though the cap for entries was boosted to 40 automobiles for 2025, up from 37 in 2024, Lamborghini and Isotta Fraschini’s withdrawal from the championship and JOTA’s transfer to Cadillac have seen the sphere stay static at 36 automobiles. In Hypercar, eight main producers have signed up for the marketing campaign, all with two manufacturing unit automobiles apiece as per the brand new “two-car” rule which is being launched for 2025.
The headline addition comes within the type of Aston Martin THOR Crew’s pair of LMH-spec Valkyrie AMR-LMHs, which is able to carry screaming notes from the automotive’s usually aspirated non-hybrid V12 engine to the grid. The automotive will make its international debut in February at Qatar.
The entry record additionally confirms the departure of the Lamborghini Iron Lynx SC63 program, which bows out after a single yr with a single full-season automotive in 2024.
With no funding bundle and various service supplier secured in time, the Italian marque is stepping away from the FIA WEC fully, even in LMGT3 the place the Iron Dames program is heading to Porsche and Iron Lynx is bringing Mercedes-AMG into the championship for the primary time.
Elsewhere, Cadillac Hertz Crew JOTA’s V-Collection.Rs at the moment are formally entered into the WEC following the break up between GM and Chip Ganassi Racing on the finish of the 2024 racing seasons in IMSA and WEC. The 2 Cadillacs will race with numbers No. 12 and No. 38, shifting over from JOTA’s Porsche effort. The entry lists Alex Lynn within the No. 12 and Earl Bamber within the No. 38.
JOTA’s transfer and the plans for a second Porsche 963 from Proton Competitors not coming off leaves simply two “non-public” automobiles entered within the championship’s prime class for 2025: Proton’s No. 99 Porsche and AF Corse’s No. 83 Ferrari 499P.
The remaining entries within the class are taken by Toyota GAZOO Racing, Porsche Penske Motorsport, Ferrari AF Corse, Peugeot TotalEnergies, BMW Crew WRT and Alpine Endurance Crew.
LMGT3, in the meantime, sees a steady 18-car area assemble once more, with eight of the 9 2024 producers returning for the class’s second yr.
Mercedes-AMG replaces Lamborghini through the change for Iron Lynx which got here collectively on the eleventh hour. Porsche, BMW, Ferrari, Lexus, Corvette, Aston Martin, McLaren and Ford are all again for extra, although there have been some group adjustments.
Pure Rxcing is not going to return to defend its crown and the EMA moniker is gone from the second automotive. as an alternative, Iron Dames will race with Porsche alongside a 911 LMGT3.R 992 for Manthey 1st Phorm and Ryan Hardwick.
One other change is discovered at Aston Martin, with D’Station stepping away and ELMS and Le Mans Cup common Racing Spirit of Léman taking its place. The Swiss group’s Vantage LMGT3 has Derek Deboer named in opposition to it and can run alongside Coronary heart of Racing’s single automotive.
The opposite producers have discovered stability, with WRT (BMW), Vista AF Corse (Ferrari), AKKODIS ASP (Lexus), TF Sport (Corvette), United Autosports (McLaren) and Proton Competitors (Ford) all signed up for one more marketing campaign.
The 2025 FIA WEC season will get underway with the second working of the Qatar 1812km, on Feb. 28.
