Mercedes-AMG has revealed its provisional factory driver line-up for the 2025 racing season. It features 10 drivers and includes two new names: Maxime Martin and Jayden Ojeda.
The news of Le Mans class-winner Martin’s move comes just five days after the Belgian’s departure from BMW’s works stable was announced. With this move, he has also become the first driver confirmed for the new Iron Lynx FIA WEC LMGT3 program with the Mercedes-AMG GT3. RACER understands he will also compete in the opening round of the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Daytona with GetSpeed in GTD PRO.
This new deal came together rapidly for Martin. He confirmed to RACER today that his talks with Stefan Wendl — the head of Mercedes-AMG Motorsport customer racing — began after he had made his decision to walk away from BMW.
25-year-old Australian Ojeda, meanwhile, gains works driver status with AMG after making a handful of GT3 appearances for the brand in 2024 in the Intercontinental GT Challenge and Asian Le Mans Series. His transition to GT racing comes after spending four seasons competing in Supercars between 2020 and ’23 with Garry Rogers Motorsport, Walkinshaw Andretti and Matt Stone Racing.
Elsewhere, French-Andorran racer Jules Gounon has been retained for 2025 and Daniel Juncadella has been released.
Gounon will continue to compete as a works driver for both Mercedes-AMG and Alpine. This has been made possible via an extension to the agreement between the two brands to allow him to race with Alpine in the WEC’s Hypercar class. In 2025 Gounon will become a full-season driver for the Alpine Endurance Team after acting as its reserve this year.
Juncadella, who is also a Corvette-contracted driver, will no longer remain part of AMG’s factory squad due to an expansion of his F1 simulator commitments.
The full 2025 Mercedes-AMG driver roster is as follows:
Ralf Aron (Estonia)
Philip Ellis (Switzerland)
Maro Engel (Germany)
Maximilian Gotz (Germany)
Jules Gounon (Andorra)
Mikaël Grenier (Canada)
Maxime Martin (Belgium)
Jayden Ojeda (Australia)
Fabian Schiller (Germany)
Luca Stolz (Germany)
There is more to come from Mercedes regarding its factory roster, which it says will “gradually be extended” in due course.