2025 marks the tenth season of the Michelin Le Mans Cup and for the first time the series will feature three classes, with Silver and Gold rated drivers able to compete together in LMP3. The grid for the first 2-hour race in Barcelona on Saturday 5 April will feature a mammoth 44 cars, 19 LMP3, 17 LMP3 Pro/Am and 8 GT3.
In another first for the MLMC the LMP3 grid for the 2025 season will see all four chassis manufacturers represented, with the new Ligier JS P325, Duqueine D09, Adess AD25 and Ginetta G61-LT-P325-EVO all present in Barcelona and all powered by the Toyota V6 Twin Turbo engine. The new engine has also allowed the MLMC races to return to 120-minute duration instead of the 110-minute races seen in previous seasons.
Reigning champions COOL Racing return to defend their title under a new name of CLX Motorsport, with 2024 Drivers Champion David Droux partnering Cedric Oltramare in the no97 Ligier. The Swiss team will also run a second car in the top class.
2024 Vice Champions R-ACE GP will also run two cars in LMP3, the French team choosing to run the Duqueine D09 chassis for both entries. Last year’s Vice Champion Hadrien David will be joined by Hugo Schwarze in the no85 Duqueine.
2023 Champions Team Virage also return with two cars in the LMP3 category. Sacha Lehmann and Theo Micouris will pilot the no16 Ligier and Samir Ben and Willian Karlsson will race the no74 entry.
2021 Team Champions Nielsen Racing have elected to race the new Adess AD25, with two entries in LMP3. Former drivers champion Colin Noble will race the no7 Adess-Toyota, with fellow British driver Tom Fleming joining him.
Four-time Team Champions DKR Engineering will run the only Ginetta G61 on the grid, with Wyatt Brichacek and Freddie Tomlinson sharing the driving duties for the Luxembourg-flagged team.
Newly crowned Asian Le Mans Series LMP3 Champions Bretton Racing will run one Ligier JS P325 in LMP3, with another in LMP3 Pro/Am, with Swiss driver Gregory De Sybourg and Britain’s Haydn Chance in the no26 Ligier-Toyota in LMP3.
Spain’s Maximus Mayer will race in the no20 High Class Racing Ligier this season, the 2024 Road To Le Mans race winner partnering Denmark’s Philip Lindberg for the Danish team.
Spanish team CD Sport will also run a pair of Duqueine D09s, one in LMP3 and one in LMP3 Pro/Am, with an all-French driver lineup in the no30 entry of Thomas Imbourg and Arthur Rogeon.
French teams ANS Motorsport and Forestier Racing by VPS will each run two Ligier-Toyotas in LMP3, while 23Events Racing and Reiter Engineering will each run a pair of Ligiers, one in LMP3 and one in LMP3 Pro/Am.
TS Corse and Gebhardt Motorsport will each run a single Duqueine D09 to complete the 19-strong LMP3 grid in Barcelona.
2022 MLMC LMP3 Team Champions Racing Spirit of Leman return to the Michelin Le Mans Cup with a single Ligier-Toyota for Dominik Schraml and Sebastian Schmitt.
2023 MLMC LMP3 Drivers Champion Gillian Henrion will race alongside race winner Eric De Doncker in the no98 Motorsport98 Ligier.
2019 ELMS LMGTE Champion Fabien Lavergne will partner fellow Frenchman Romano Ricci in the no86 R-ACE GP, the only Duqueine D09 on the LMP3 Pro/Am grid.
Inter Europol Competition will entry two cars in LMP3 Pro/Am with the no43 Ligier being driven by 24 Hours of Le Mans LMP2 winner Jakub Smiechowski.
Rinaldi Racing will also enter a pair of Ligiers in the LMP3 Pro/Am category, with Australian Griffin Peebles joining Austria’s Steve Parrow in the no66 car.
P4 Racing, High Class Racing, GG Classics, M Racing and More Motorsport will each run a single Ligier JS P325 and complete the 17 car entry for the LMP3 Pro/Am class.
The eight entries for the GT3 class will see plenty of action between four of the leading GT3 manufacturers.
Reigning champions AF Corse will enter a single Ferrari 296 GT3 with Italian Elisio Donno and Monaco’s Alessandro Cozzi sharing the driving duties in the no51 entry.
Former champions Kessel Racing will run a pair of Ferrari 296s, with David Cleto Fumanelli being joined by Turkish driver Murat Ruhi Çuhadaroglo in the no33 car, while Andrea Belicchi and Lorenzo Ferdinando Innocenti will pilot the no17 Ferrari.
The fourth Ferrari 296 GT3 will be entered by Catalan team Biogas Motorsport, who return for a second season with Josep Mayola Comadira and Marc Carol Ybarra.
There will be two Porsche 911 GT3 Rs on the grid. 2017 MLMC GT3 Champions Ebimotors will run one car for Romanian drivers Fabrizio Broggi and Nicolas Sergiu.
The second 911 will be racing in the distinctive Iron Dames livery, with F1 Academy Champion Marta Garcia Lopez racing at home in Barcelona alongside Vanina Ickx in the no83 Porsche 911 GT3 R.
Austrian outfit Team Motopark will run the only Mercedes-AMG GT3 on the grid for Lukas Donner and Heiko Neumann.
The final entry for the opening round of the 2025 Michelin Le Mans Cup is the Code Racing Development Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO with Baily Voisin the lead driver.
CLICK HERE for the provisional entry list for Round 1 of the 2025 Michelin Le Mans Cup.
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