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Wadoux to Pilot PONOS 296 GT3 in GT300 Class

FIA WEC class winner set to embark on Japanese adventure in Ferrari 296 GT3…

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FIA World Endurance Championship class winner Lilou Wadoux will embark on a new program with PONOS Racing in Super GT next year.

Wadoux will share the cockpit of a Ferrari 296 GT3 with Japanese driver Kei Cozzolino in the GT300 class of the eight-round series next year, which kicks off with a round at Okayama in April.

The French driver experienced a breakthrough season in WEC this year, becoming the championship’s first-ever female race winner when she took the GTE-Am class victory at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

Wadoux rounded out the year by testing the Ferrari 499P at the WEC Rookie Test in Bahrain.

Outside of WEC, Wadoux has been competing in several high-profile GT3 races including the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa with AF Corse and Indianapolis 8 Hour with Conquest Racing.

Wadoux will share the cockpit of the car with veteran driver Cozzolino, who was notably part of the lineup for the PONOS-liveried Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Evo that contested the 24 Hours of Le Mans in GTE-Am this year.

Yorikatsu Tsujiko, who served as the Bronze-rated driver in that lineup, will act as team general director and is also the CEO of video game company PONOS Corporation, after which the team is named.

Sportscar365 understands that longtime Nissan GT300 squad Gainer will operate the entry. Ferrari, meanwhile, returns to the Super GT grid for the first time since 2022.

Davey Euwema is Sportscar365's European Editor. Based in The Netherlands, Euwema covers the FIA World Endurance Championship, European Le Mans Series and Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS, among other series.

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