GARY WATKINS
GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE
Le Mans 24 Hours winner Alessandro Pier Guidi will return to the GT World Challenge Europe full time this season after a two-year absence. The Italian will race a factory AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 in a bid to follow up on his 2020 and 2021 titles in the Endurance Cup leg of the series.
Pier Guidi (right), who contested one GTWCE enduro last year, will race in the five long-distance races alongside fellow works drivers Davide Rigon and Alessio Rovera in the Pro class. Rigon and Rovera were part of Ferrari’s 2023 GTWCE campaign, like this year mounted under the AF Corse-Francorchamps Motors banner, but raced different cars.
The drive alongside his World Endurance Championship programme with the 499P Le Mans Hypercar also gives Pier Guidi the chance to add another Spa 24 Hours victory to his CV. His last-gasp win in the centrepiece round of Endurance Cup anchored his title success in 2021 together with Nicolas Nielsen and Come Ledogar at the wheel of an Iron Lynx-entered 488 GT3 Evo run by AF.
A second factory car will be entered for the GTWCE enduros and shared by new-for-2024 Ferrari signing Thomas Neubauer, former Bentley works driver Vincent Abril and David Vidales. The Spaniard has moving into sportscars after racing in Super Formula Lights last year.
The confirmation of the AF line-ups for the 2024 GTWCE was timed to coincide with last we
