Ferrari to make a British GT comeback with AF Corse-backed 296

Ferrari will finish its five-year hiatus from the British GT Championship as AF Corse is ready to contest the 2025 season full-time with a 296 GT3.

AF Corse will run the automotive underneath its Spirit of Race banner with drivers Duncan Cameron and Matt Griffin, who’ve six collection wins collectively and completed third within the 2010 standings. 

This staff/driver mixture additionally began Ferrari’s final British GT race, at Snetterton for the penultimate spherical of 2020, a 12 months the place Cameron and Griffin drove six of 9 rounds aboard a 488 GT3.

The duo are due to this fact set to have raced all 5 Ferrari GT3 fashions within the championship after beforehand utilizing the 488, 458 Italia, F430 Scuderia and first-generation F430.

“There aren’t too many locations we haven’t raced a Ferrari collectively,” mentioned Cameron. “Nevertheless it all started in British GT and I’m trying ahead to being again within the paddock this 12 months.

“We didn’t fairly handle to win with the 488 however very a lot intend to offer the 296 its first victory within the UK. It’s an unknown amount right here, which may play to our benefit.” 

Cameron and Griffin have already got expertise racing the 296, having taken a category victory at Circuit Paul Ricard in the course of the 2024 European Le Mans Collection.

“We all know the automotive, we all know the staff and we actually know one another,” mentioned Griffin.

“We’ve got to stand up to hurry on the Pirellis however in any other case we’re actually hoping to make a splash this 12 months with what’s a really succesful automotive.

“That’s confirmed by the 296 GT3 claiming 100 wins everywhere in the world in its first season of competitors final 12 months.”

A Ferrari was attributable to compete within the 2024 Silverstone 500 however the Sky Tempesta entry, additionally run by AF Corse, withdrew after its driver Alexander West crashed in first observe.

But intentions to deliver the historic Italian marque again to the British collection remained, with FF Corse announcing its plans to do so last August. 

Though the profitable Ferrari Problem outfit remains to be hopeful of contesting this season, it’s at present unclear if its efforts will prevail with AF Corse the primary of the 2025 entries to be introduced.

The nine-round season begins at Donington Park on 5-6 April and also will finish on the Leicestershire-based monitor on 4-5 October.