Eight Mercedes-AMG GT3 cars in the Endurance Cup
Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing is entering the twelfth season of the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS with a first-class team and driver line-up. Mercedes-AMG, the Intercontinental GT World Challenge manufacturers' champion enters a total of eight Mercedes-AMG GT3, fielded by four Customer Racing Teams in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance.
GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
The first of five races in the Endurance Cup will be held at the Circuit Paul Ricard. The race start is on Saturday at 6 pm CEST. Further stops are Monza (30 May to 1 June), the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps (25 June to 29 June), the Nürburgring (29 August to 31 August) and the season finale in Barcelona (10 to 12 October). The field consists of a total of 60 cars from ten manufacturers, including eight Mercedes-AMG GT3. Four Pro cars will be competing for overall victory, while three cars will be represented in the Silver Cup and one car in the Bronze Cup. The Nordique Racing team is fielding a Mercedes-AMG GT3 in a racing series for the first time.
#9 Boutsen VDS
Boutsen VDS enters the #9 Mercedes with a new lineup of 3 Mercedes-AMG works drivers: Maximilian Götz (GER), Mikaël Grenier (CAN) and Maxime Martin (BEL) will drive the #9 Boutsen VDS Mercedes entry.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Francorchamps 2024. #9 Boutsen VDS
#17 Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed
Jules Gounon (AND), Fabian Schiller (GER) and Luca Stolz (GER) are another new Mercedes works trio who’ll compete with #17 Mercedes-AMG GT3.
#48 Mercedes-AMG Team MANN-FILTER
Same duo as last year for the #48 Mercedes with last year sprint champions Lucas Auer (AUT) and Maro Engel (GER) who’ll share the car with new Mercedes works driver Matteo Cairoli (ITA).
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Hockenheim 2024. Winning Winward Mercedes-AMG GT3 #48
#611 Nordique Racing
Nordique Racing is a new Mercedes cutomer team who’ll enter the #661 with the trio Edoardo Liberati (ITA), Yuichi Nakayama (JPN) and Kazuto Kotaka (JPN).
GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
The first round of the Sprint Cup will take place on 3 and 4 May at Brands Hatch. The 3.9 kilometre track south-east of London was also the first stop of the Sprint Cup in 2024. A total of four Mercedes-AMG GT3 from two different teams – Boutsen VDS and Winward Racing – will be on the grid. Further races will take place at Zandvoort (16 to 18 May), Misano (18 to 20 July), Magny-Cours (1 to 3 August) and Valencia (19 to 21 September).
Winward Racing
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Hockenheim 2024. Champions and Hockenheim Sprint winners Maro Engel and Lucas Auer.
Lucas Auer and Maro Engel from Team Winward Racing will be aiming to defend their Sprint Cup title with #48 Winward Racing Team MANN-FILTER. Gabriele Piana (FIA) and Rinat Salikhov (ITA) will drive sister #81 in Bronze class.
Boutsen VDS
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Francorchamps 2024. César Gazeau and Aurélien Panis with #10 Boutsen VDS
Maxime Martin (BEL) and Luca Stolz (GER) will share the #9 Mercedes in PRO and last year duo César Gazeau (FRA) - Aurélien Panis (FRA) will share #10 in Silver.
