A full-season entry list for the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship has been revealed. It features a total of 36 cars, with an even split of 18 cars each in Hypercar and LMGT3.
Although the cap for entries was boosted to 40 cars for 2025, up from 37 in 2024, Lamborghini and Isotta Fraschini’s withdrawal from the championship and JOTA’s move to Cadillac have seen the field remain static at 36 cars. In Hypercar, eight major manufacturers have signed up for the campaign, all with two factory cars apiece as per the new “two-car” rule which is being introduced for 2025.
The headline addition comes in the form of Aston Martin THOR Team’s pair of LMH-spec Valkyrie AMR-LMHs, which will bring screaming notes from the car’s normally aspirated non-hybrid V12 engine to the grid. The car will make its global debut in February at Qatar.
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The entry list also confirms the departure of the Lamborghini Iron Lynx SC63 program, which bows out after a single year with a single full-season car in 2024.
With no funding package and alternative service provider secured in time, the Italian marque is stepping away from the FIA WEC entirely, even in LMGT3 where the Iron Dames program is heading to Porsche and Iron Lynx is bringing Mercedes-AMG into the championship for the first time.
Elsewhere, Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA’s V-Series.Rs are now formally entered into the WEC following the split between GM and Chip Ganassi Racing at the end of the 2024 racing seasons in IMSA and WEC. The two Cadillacs will race with numbers No. 12 and No. 38, moving over from JOTA’s Porsche effort. The entry lists Alex Lynn in the No. 12 and Earl Bamber in the No. 38.
JOTA’s move and the plans for a second Porsche 963 from Proton Competition not coming off leaves just two “private” cars entered in the championship’s top class for 2025: Proton’s No. 99 Porsche and AF Corse’s No. 83 Ferrari 499P.
The remaining entries in the class are taken by Toyota GAZOO Racing, Porsche Penske Motorsport, Ferrari AF Corse, Peugeot TotalEnergies, BMW Team WRT and Alpine Endurance Team.
LMGT3, meanwhile, sees a stable 18-car field assemble again, with eight of the nine 2024 manufacturers returning for the category’s second year.
Mercedes-AMG replaces Lamborghini via the switch for Iron Lynx which came together at the 11th hour. Porsche, BMW, Ferrari, Lexus, Corvette, Aston Martin, McLaren and Ford are all back for more, though there have been some team changes.
Pure Rxcing will not return to defend its crown and the EMA moniker is gone from the second car. instead, Iron Dames will race with Porsche alongside a 911 LMGT3.R 992 for Manthey 1st Phorm and Ryan Hardwick.
Another change is found at Aston Martin, with D’Station stepping away and ELMS and Le Mans Cup regular Racing Spirit of Léman taking its place. The Swiss team’s Vantage LMGT3 has Derek Deboer named against it and will run alongside Heart of Racing’s single car.
The other manufacturers have found stability, with WRT (BMW), Vista AF Corse (Ferrari), AKKODIS ASP (Lexus), TF Sport (Corvette), United Autosports (McLaren) and Proton Competition (Ford) all signed up for another campaign.
The 2025 FIA WEC season will get underway with the second running of the Qatar 1812km, on Feb. 28.