36 Cars Feature on Provisional 2025 Entry List

The FIA World Endurance Championship has published a provisional entry list for the 2025 season featuring 36 cars.

Released on Friday, four days after entries for the new season closed, the list features an even split between Hypercar and LMGT3 entries, marking a reduction of one from last year’s full-season entry – but maintaining the same number of cars seen in the final three rounds of 2024 following the mid-season withdrawal of Isotta Fraschini.

That’s despite the WEC having previously set out a target for the field to reach as many as 40 cars, including the potential for a 22-car field in Hypercar.

The entry list confirms the withdrawal of Lamborghini, with the remaining eight manufacturers, including newcomer Aston Martin, each fielding two works cars each.

These will be joined by just two non-factory entries, the third-string No. 83 AF Corse Ferrari 499P and a sole Porsche 963 from Proton Competition, which had been aiming to expand to a second customer entry but finally will stick with one car.

Toyota, Ferrari and Porsche have their full driver lineups named on the entry list in line with each manufacturer’s respective previous announcements, while AF Corse’s full trio, including the recently-confirmed Robert Kubica, is also present.

For Porsche, only the primary two drivers for each of its works cars, Julien Andlauer/Michael Christensen in the No. 5 and Laurens Vanthoor/Kevin Estre in the No. 6, are named, but Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet have been confirmed as additional drivers for selected races including the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The remaining manufacturers in Hypercar only have a single driver named for each car, despite Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA and Peugeot’s full driver rosters for the upcoming season – although not the exact crews – already being known.

Alex Lynn and Earl Bamber are listed separately as the respective first drivers for the No. 12 and No. 38 Cadillacs, with Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne fulfilling the same role for Peugeot’s No. 93 and No. 94 cars.

Harry Tincknell and Alex Riberas are named for Aston Martin’s two entries in line with the British manufacturer’s announcement made on Thursday.

Elsewhere, BMW has named Dries Vanthoor and Rene Rast as the first drivers for the No. 15 and No. 20 entries respectively, while Alpine has nominated Paul-Loup Chatin for the No. 35 car and Charles Milesi for the sister No. 36.

Neel Jani is the sole driver named for the No. 99 Proton Porsche.

Racing Spirit of Leman Replaces D’station Racing in LMGT3

The LMGT3 portion of the entry list features two-car entries from each of the nine participating manufacturers, also reflecting Iron Lynx’s switch from Lamborghini to Mercedes-AMG machinery as announced on Wednesday.

It also confirms the withdrawal of D’station Racing, with the Japanese outfit being replaced as one of Aston Martin’s two partner squads alongside Heart of Racing Team by European Le Mans Series outfit Racing Spirit of Leman.

American Derek DeBoer, who drove for the Swiss-flagged team in the European Le Mans Series this year, is the sole named driver for what is now the No. 10 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo.

Only AF Corse has full driver crews named for both cars, with the Ferrari squad maintaining an entirely unchanged lineup across its pair of Ferrari 296 GT3s, although Manthey has also confirmed the crews for its pair of Porsche 911 GT3 Rs.

The remaining teams all have single drivers per crew named, in all but one case (Ben Barnicoat in the No. 78 Akkodis ASP Lexus RC F GT3) featuring an existing member of the car from the 2024 season.

Interestingly, BMW Team WRT’s second entry is now the No. 32, not the No. 46. When approached by Sportscar365 about what this means for Valentino Rossi’s future in the series, a BMW spokesperson stated that the brand will ‘release its driver lineups later.’

The 2025 WEC season is due to begin with the season-opening Qatar 1812km on Feb. 28, with the two-day Prologue test taking place just prior on Feb. 21-22.