Thanks to the extraordinary result at the 8 Hours of Bahrain, the last race of the season, Ferrari has taken the Manufacturers’ title in the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship, 53 years after its last world title.
The triumph was twofold, with the FIA World Endurance Drivers’ Championship being taken by official drivers Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi at the wheel of the Ferrari – AF Corse 499P number 51, fourth at the chequered flag.
A historic achievement that arrives in the third year since Ferrari returned to the top class of endurance racing and which comes also thanks to the third place achieved by the sister car, number 50, driven by Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen.
John Elkann, Ferrari Chairman: “This milestone fills us with pride and represents the fulfilment of a dream – the culmination of a journey we began in 2022, when we decided to return to the top class of endurance racing.
It has been a journey that saw us win Le Mans three consecutive times, and brings us today not only two world titles, but the celebration of the strength of a team that worked as one, facing the relentless challenges of endurance racing with humility, and with the drive to improve every single day.”
World titles. For Ferrari this is its 24th world title in endurance, counting both overall and class wins since the FIA championship started in 1953. This is its ninth overall title which comes after the 1972 victory in the FIA World Championship for Makes taken by the Ferrari 312 P, the Sports Prototype model from which the 499P took the hypothetical baton in 2023.
This is the marque’s first overall Drivers’ title in the top class of endurance racing, which Ferrari participated in up until 1973, an era when only the Manufacturers’ title was awarded. For Pier Guidi and Calado, who have already enjoyed many seasons at the wheel of Ferrari’s GT cars, this is their fourth drivers’ crown, the 2025 title adding to their three LMGTE Pro class titles of 2017, 2021 and 2022.
In the FIA WEC, inaugurated in 2012, this year’s success marks Ferrari’s eighth Manufacturers’ title – their first overall – after the GT class successes of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021 and 2022. The tally of world Drivers’ titles rises to six, with Ferrari drivers in LMGTE Pro class having triumphed in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2025.
The historic FIA WEC result sees the return of a World Manufacturers’ title to Maranello 17 years after the Ferrari F2008 took the Formula 1 title in 2008, while the last Drivers’ title was won by Kimi Räikkönen in 2007.
