Ferrari has announced that it has renewed the factory contracts for six drivers currently in its endurance racing stable – Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, Daniel Serra, Davide Rigon, Alessio Rovera and Lilou Wadoux – today at its Finali Mondiali event at Imola.
“We are very happy to have renewed the contracts for the core of our official drivers, a choice that guarantees continuity and stability for our team, one of the fundamental aspects allowing us to achieve major results,” said Antonello Coletta, the global head of Ferrari Endurance and Corse Clienti.
For Fuoco and Molina, this news follows their overall victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours back in June with the No. 50 Ferrari AF Corse 499P.
“I’m really proud of this news, we started this program with Ferrari three years ago, we have a lot more to achieve,” Fuoco said. “Winning Le Mans is a good result but we want more, so we decided to continue on this project and I really hope we have more good results in the future.”
Molina added: “It’s very important to have continuity on what we built up in the last three years. The results are there and this always helps.
“This is a very positive matter for the future and I am really happy to continue my career at Ferrari for the coming years, I am really proud to continue with this group in this brand. We need to keep working, we have more to achieve.”
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These contract extensions follow the multi-year renewals announced between November 2023 and January 2024 for three of its current factory Hypercar drivers, 2024 Le Mans winner Nicklas Nielsen and Centenary Le Mans winners James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi.
This news does not confirm the five drivers in question for factory 499P drives next year (that decision and announcement will come later), however, you can reasonably expect that they will return to the FIA WEC’s top class for the third season of the program.
As for the other four drivers whose renewals were made public today, their extensions follow successful 2024 seasons and standout results racing with Ferrari. Serra and Rigon won the GTD PRO class at the Rolex 24 At Daytona with Risi Competizione at the start of the year.
Rovera, 29, has been competing around the world in the FIA WEC, GT World Challenge Europe, IMSA and in the ELMS’ LMP2 Pro/Am class. He will fight for the P2 Pro/Am class title today in Portimao with AF Corse.
Wadoux, meanwhile, has been competing in both IMSA’s LMP2 class and Super GT GT300 during the year. With a second-place finish at the Sugo 300 km in September, the 23-year-old became the first female driver to stand on the podium of the Japanese championship since it took this name in 2005.