Ferrari 499P 2025 driver line-up

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Jan 7

Ferrari ends 2024 championship with third place in the Manufacturers’ standings and second in the Drivers’ with Fuoco, Molina, and Nielsen courtesy of their win at Le Mans following sister car’s victory in the centenary edition of 2023.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at 24 Hours of Le Mans: Ferrari 499P #51 wins in 2023, sister #50 in 2024.

After scoring six podiums in 2023 (#50 P3 Sebring, P2 Portimao, P2 Monza, P3 Bahrain; #51 P3 Spa, P1 Le Mans) Ferrari faced an increase in the number of competitors but also an improvement in their quality hence four podiums in 2024 (#50 P3 Spa and Austin, P1 Le Mans; #51 P3 Le Mans).

Looking for a third victory at Le Mans

In 2025, Ferrari aims to win the Manufacturers’ World Championship with the same lineups for a third consecutive season: #50 499P will be raced by Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina and #51 by James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi and Antonio Giovinazzi .

Antonello Coletta, Ferrari's head of sportscar racing: “They’re outstanding professionals who, besides taking our cars to the track, represent the Ferrari brand on a global level. The relationship that binds us to our official drivers is special. We are pleased with their work and the results we achieved together, as is clear with our decision to retain the six drivers who will compete in the official 499Ps next year.” Source: Ferrari

📷 © Luc Warnotte at 24 Hours of Le Mans. Top: James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi and Antonio Giovinazzi with Ferrari 499P in 2023. Bottom: Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, and Nicklas Nielsen with #50 in 2024.

2024

Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, and Nicklas Nielsen, who crewed Ferrari – AF Corse 499P #50 and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, received a trophy for finishing second in the 2024 FIA WEC Drivers’ Championship.

📷 © Luc Warnotte. left: P3 for Ferrari #50 at Spa; center: win at Le Mans; right: P3 at Lone Star Le Mans.

Second place in the championship was secured courtesy of the 50 points earned at Circuit de La Sarthe—where Fuoco, Molina, and Nielsen claimed Ferrari’s second consecutive victory in the world’s oldest and most prestigious endurance race—along with consistent performances across the season’s eight rounds, including third-place finishes at the 6 Hours of Spa and the Lone Star Le Mans. With the Le Mans win and only two podiums (Spa and Austin), the trio Fuoco-Molina-Nielsen was going to Bahrain with still a slight chance to win the drivers championship provided they won the race AND Porsche #6 team didn’t mark points. It didn’t turn that way.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at 24 Hours of Le Mans 2024. P3 for Pier Guidi, Calado, and Giovinazzi in the #51 499P.

These crucial points, combined with those of teammates Pier Guidi, Calado, and Giovinazzi—who finished third at Le Mans—also helped Ferrari clinch third place in the Manufacturers’ standings.

2023

These results earned Ferrari fourth place in the championship Drivers’ standings and contributed to second place in the Manufacturers’ standings.

The Ferrari 499P number 50’s calling card was a pole position in its FIA WEC debut, clocking the fastest qualifying time in round one at Sebring. Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, and Nicklas Nielsen repeated this result at Le Mans, taking the Hyperpole. These results, along with the four season podiums ( P2 at Portimao and Monza, P3 at Sebring and Bahrain) gave the crew third place in the standings of the Drivers’ championship and contributed to Ferrari’s runner-up spot in the Manufacturers’ championship.

“Sebring and Le Mans will always be two special weekends for me,” said Fuoco, whose qualifying laps earned him first place on the grid in the USA and France. “In America, we showed up with a Ferrari prototype after half a century. There were many unknowns because we faced competitors for the first time, and starting first in the race was a good way to kick off. All the spotlights were on us at Le Mans. When I stepped out of the 499P with pole position in my ‘pocket’, I was really elated.”

For Nielsen, the red ‘tide’ under the podium at Monza was one of the most exciting images of the year when, in midsummer, the drivers of the 499P number 50 finished second in the fifth round of the season. “We felt the warmth of the 65,000 spectators in the stands, many of whom, kitted out in red, waved flags with the Prancing Horse emblazoned on them,” recalled the 26-year-old Dane. “It was a great joy to race a Ferrari on the most famous and historic Italian circuit and witness that final track invasion.”

📷 © Luc Warnotte in 2023. left: P3 for #50 Ferrari 499P at Spa-Francorchamps. Right: victory for Calado-Giovinazzi-Pier Guidi at Le Mans.

On Sunday 11 June, after completing 342 laps of the La Sarthe circuit, a 13.626-kilometre ribbon of tarmac where motor racing legend has been created, Ferrari number 51 entered the annals of history, returning the Maranello-based manufacturer to overall victory after 58 years, the year it returned to the top class, half a century after its last appearance. “I won the race I dreamt of winning since I was a child,” said Pier Guidi. “When I crossed the line at Le Mans in first place, seeing the chequered flag waving in front of me,” says the 40-year-old Italian driver, “I relived in an instant the many moments that allowed us to achieve that result. Almost two years of intense work, sacrifices, professionalism, in which the whole team, from the drivers to the Hypercar programme managers, from the technicians to the mechanics, never stopped.” Source: Ferrari

Season starts February 28.

The 2025 WEC season again features eight races, starting in Qatar on 28 February and concluding on 8 November in Bahrain. The 93rd Le Mans 24 Hours takes place on 14-15 June while Ferrari’s home race, the 6 Hours of Imola, is on 20 April.

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