Lineups Confirmed in Updated 24H Dubai Entry

Creventic has released an updated entry list for the 21st running of the Michelin 24H Dubai, with several contending lineups confirmed across the 34-car GT3 category.

In total, 68 cars are set to contest the Middle Eastern enduro on Jan. 16-18, half of which have been entered into the headline GT3 class.

Defending winners Team WRT will contest the event with a pair of BMW M4 GT3 EVOs, headlined by the No. 669 entry that features newly signed BMW factory driver Jordan Pepper.

Pepper will share driving duties with compatriot Kelvin van der Linde as well as Anthony McIntosh, Ben Tuck and Fran Rueda.

The sister No. 27 BMW will notably be spearheaded by former Audi factory driver Christopher Haase, who will reunite with the Vincent Vosse-led squad for the first time since 2021.

Haase, who won the Blancpain Endurance Series title driving for WRT in 2012, will team up with Stanislav Minsky, Mathieu Detry, Thomas Kiefer and Julian Hanses.

Darren Leung, meanwhile, returns to the event one year after taking both overall victory with WRT and the GT3-Am win with Paradine Competition, having been confirmed as the first driver aboard his own team’s No. 991 BMW.

Mercedes-AMG and Porsche account for over half the GT3 entries with ten cars each, with the former represented by the likes of Grove Racing by GetSpeed and Winward Racing, which both previously already revealed their lineups.

Elsewhere in the Mercedes-AMG camp, 2016 Nürburgring 24 winner Manuel Metzger joins Michelin 24H Series stalwarts Hofor Racing, while Earl Bamber Motorsport’s No. 8 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo will be driven by Setiawan Santoso, Zhou Bihuang, Kerong Li and Tanart Sathienthirakul.

The Earl Bamber-owned squad has also entered a single Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo, which Adrien D’Silva will share with newly named Porsche Motorsport Asia Pacific Selected Driver Enzo Trulli as well as Dorian Boccolacci and Alessandro Ghiretti.

Antares Au will share one of Herberth Motorsport’s two Porsche with Loek Hartog, Joel Sturm and Ralf Bohn, while Origine Motorsport’s Car Collection-operated entry will be piloted by Bo Yuan, Ye Hongli and Deng Yi.

Benjamin Goethe and Thomas Fleming headline Optimum Motorsport’s No. 74 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo, with Harry George and Tanner Harvey teaming up with former Motul Petit Le Mans class winner Patrick Liddy aboard the sister No. 77 car.

Series stalwarts Michael Doppelmayr, Elia Erhart and Pierre Kaffer return to share the No. 16 Sainteloc Junior Team Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II with Swen Herberger and Stephane Tribaudini, while Alex Aka has been added to the No. 69 Continental Racing by Simpson Motorsport entry.

Dragon Racing contests its home race with a two-car effort that bears similarity to its presence in the Gulf 12 Hours earlier this month.

This includes its Into Africa Racing effort for Xolile Letlaka and Stuart White, who are joined by Arnold Neveling as well as Jim and Glynn Geddie, who return to top-level GT3 competition after previous stints in British GT.

Giacomo Altoe and Oscar Ryndziewicz, meanwhile, share the No. 88 Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo with Khaled Al Marzouq and Ramez Azzam.

Three GT3 entries have not yet had any drivers named: Sainteloc’s second Audi, the No. 89 Lionspeed GP Porsche and No. 13 Team Motopark Mercedes-AMG.

The GT4 field for the event consists of five cars, with a pair of Porsche entries from Razoon – More than Racing and Team Sorg Rennsport joined by the No. 444 Circuit Toys Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2, No. 445 Cerny Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 EVO and No. 478 CWS Engineering Ginetta G56 GT4.