Maranello, 18 January 2022 |
Ferrari will look to add a new chapter of success in North
America’s premier endurance event with the 60th running of the
24 Hours At Daytona (Jan. 29-30) to open the 2022 IMSA
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The event has
attracted a bumper 61-car grid including three representatives of
the Prancing Horse marque, led by the no. 62 Ferrari 488 GT3
Evo 2020 of Risi Competizione which will compete in the
new-for-2022 GTD Pro category. The new GTD Pro class will
feature cars built or modified to international GT3 specification
with all-pro driver lines ups, while GTD continues as a class for
GT3 cars with Pro-Am lineups. |
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The no. 62 entry of Risi Competizione will be the sole representative of the marque in the GTD Pro category
and will be driven by an all-factory driver line up of Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Daniel Serra and
Davide Rigon. As only two drivers may take part in the 100-minute qualifying race, that burden will fall to
Rigon and Serra. Meanwhile, there will be two additional Ferraris competing in the GT-Daytona category with
the no. 21 entry powered by AF Corse and the no. 47 entered by Cetilar Racing. Both GTD entries will
also make use of the Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020. The AF Corse entry makes its return after a heartbreaking
end to the 2021 edition to the race with a familiar line up of Simon Mann, Nicklas Nielsen, Toni Vilander
and Luis Perez Compac, of which Vilander and Compac will handle qualifying duties. For Cetilar Racing it
will be an all-Italian driver line up of Roberto Lacorte, Alessio Rovera, Giorgio Sernagiotto and Antonio Fuoco,
with Sernagiotto and Fuoco handling qualifying responsibility. |
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Mario Andretti and Jacky Ickx won overall in 1972 the 6 hour race in a Ferrari 312 PB, while
Gianpiero Moretti, Arie Luyendyk, Mauro Baldi and Didier Theys scored a popular triumph in 1998
(24h race) in a Kevin Doran-prepared Ferrari F333 SP. Ferrari’s most recent class victory was in 2014
in the then newly created GTD category, with Pier Guidi part of the lineup for the Level Five Motorsports
Ferrari F458 Italia GT3. |
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