Lilou Wadoux set to tackle 24H Daytona, IMSA Endurance Cup GTD class with AF Corse

Ferrari factory driver Lilou Wadoux will compete in the 2025 IMSA Endurance Cup, starting with the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, piloting the #21 AF Corse Ferrari 296 in the GTD class.

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Ferrari factory driver Lilou Wadoux will return to the IMSA Endurance Cup, starting from the Rolex 24H of Daytona, aboard the #21 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3, therefore combining her European campaign in ELMS with a North American program.

One of the highest rated female drivers in the world, Wadoux has made history on numerous occasions - becoming the first ever woman to win a race in the FIA World Endurance Championship, when she took class victory at the 2023 6H of Spa, then claimed another historic achievement with the LMP2 class win at this year's 6H of the Glen, in her first IMSA success.

Lilou stepped up from the Alpine Europa Cup in 2022, making a remarkable leap into the LMP2 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The young Frenchwoman highly impressed and was selected as the first ever female Ferrari factory driver.

Since then, Wadoux has raced as part of the Ferrari factory team in most of the highest level GT competitions in the world: WEC, IMSA, GT World Challenge Europe, Intercontinental GT Challenge and, this year, in the Japanese premier series SuperGT - where she became the first woman in nearly 30 years to step on the podium.

After one race in the IMSA LMP2 class in 2023, at Watkins Glen, she returned for a four-event campaign in 2024, again aboard the Richard Mille AF Corse LMP2 Oreca. Following her historic result at the 6 Hours of the Glen, she was back in the top ten at Road Atlanta with a sixth place.

Wadoux is now set to make her first GTD class start at the upcoming Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, where she will team up with Simon Mann - who recently achieved his first win in FIA WEC - and fellow Ferrari factory driver Alessandro Pier Guidi. The trio, who are also set to contest the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup, will be joined at Daytona by Wadoux's Super GT teammate, Kei Cozzolino.

The #21 AF Corse Ferrari 296 secured a second place in last year's edition of the 24 Hours of Daytona, with Mann, Cozzolino, Heriau and Molina.

Lilou is therefore set to contest a double program in 2025, having also announced her entry in the European Le Mans Series aboard the #50 AF Corse Ferrari 296 LMGT3, with gold-rated Riccardo Agostini and bronze-rated Custodio Toledo.

Wadoux is so far the fifth female driver to be announced for the Daytona endurance classic, following the Iron Dames' line up of Rahel Frey, Sarah Bovy, Karen Gaillard and Michelle Gatting.

The 24H of Daytona is scheduled for January 25th-26th, with four more rounds featuring in the IMSA Endurance Cup, including the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen, the Tirerack.com Battle on the Bricks and the Motul Petit Le Mans.