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Pier Guidi, Bertolini complete Ferrari Le Mans line-up

Alessandro Pier Guidi and Andrea Bertolini have been selected by Ferrari to race for the GTE Pro AF Corse squad in this year's Le Mans 24 Hours.

#51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE: Gianmaria Bruni, James Calado

#51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE: Gianmaria Bruni, James Calado

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#66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari F458 Italia: Andrea Bertolini
#51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE: Gianmaria Bruni, James Calado
#50 AF Corse, Ferrari 488 GT3: Alessandro Pier Guidi
#71 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE: Davide Rigon, Sam Bird
LMGT Am podium: class winners #72 SMP Racing Ferrari 458 GTE: Andrea Bertolini, Viktor Shaitar, Alexey Basov with SMP owner Boris Rotenberg, second place #77 Dempsey Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR: Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Long, Marco Seefried, third
#29 Pegasus Racing Morgan - Nissan: Inès Taittinger, Remy Striebig, Leo Roussel
#99 Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage V8: Andrew Howard, Darren Turner, Alex MacDowall

The two Italians join the #51 and #71 entries respectively, which are the two 488 Italia machines entered for the full World Endurance Championship season.

Pier Guidi, 32, therefore joins Gianmaria Bruni and James Calado in the #51, while Bertolini, 42, lines up alongside Sam Bird and Davide Rigon in the WEC points-leading #71 car.

Bertolini has contested Le Mans for the last four years in GT class Ferrari machinery, winning the GTE Am class with Viktor Shaitar and Aleksey Basov last season, while Pier Guidi will be making his Le Mans debut.

Matteo Malucelli was also recently confirmed by Ferrari to be racing at La Sarthe alongside Giancarlo Fisichella and Toni Vilander in the #82 Risi Competizione GTE Pro entry.

Full entry list confirmed

With the ACO having now issued the final entry list for next month's race, all 180 drivers for the 60 entries have now been confirmed, including the following last-minute additions:

  • Remy Streibig and Leo Roussel will join Ines Tattinger at Pegasus Racing in the #28 Morgan-Nissan
  • Matt Griffin and Aaron Scott join Duncan Cameron in AF Corse's #55 GTE Am class entry
  • The #57 Team AAI Corvette will be driven by Johnny O'Connell, Oliver Bryant and Mark Patterson
  • Aston Martin's line-up is completed by Liam Griffin and Gary Hirsch in the #99 GTE Am entry

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