BMW M Motorsport will be represented with a large contingent of teams, drivers, and cars in the 2025 GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS season. ROWE Racing and Team WRT will deploy BMW M works drivers. Additionally, customer teams Ceccato Racing, Century Motorsport, and Paradine Competition will take on the challenge in one of the world's most competitive GT racing series.
In the Endurance Cup, an impressive number of eight BMW M4 GT3 EVO cars will compete in the entire season consisting of five races. ROWE Racing, in car #98, will feature the BMW M works driver trio of Augusto Farfus, Jesse Krohn, and Raffaele Marciello. Also, three works drivers will pilot the #32 BMW M4 GT3 EVO for Team WRT: Ugo de Wilde, Kelvin van der Linde, and Charles Weerts. Jens Klingmann, as the seventh works driver, will participate in the full season, sharing the cockpit of the AlManar Racing by Team WRT #777 BMW M4 GT3 EVO with Al Faisal Al Zubair and Ben Tuck. WRT’s car #30 will be driven by Gustav Bergström, Gilles Stadsbader, and Etienne Cheli. Additional entries in the Endurance Cup include teams Ceccato Racing and Century Motorsport with one car each, and Paradine Competition with two BMW M4 GT3 EVO cars. In one of these cars, Darren Leung will receive support from BMW M works drivers, mainly Dan Harper, who, however, will not be able to compete in all races due to scheduling conflicts.
In the Sprint Cup, five BMW M4 GT3 EVO cars will compete in all five race events, three from Team WRT and two from Paradine Competition. Kelvin van der Linde and Weerts, Klingmann and Al Zubair, as well as Bergström and Stadsbader are the WRT drivers participating in both cups, competing for points and titles in the overall GT World Europe standings. In the Sprint Cup, Leung will also have a works driver – again mainly Harper – by his side.
Last season, six GT World Europe titles went to BMW M Motorsport teams and drivers. Team WRT won the overall team standings as well as the team standings in the Sprint Cup. The driver champion in the Silver Cup was Calan Williams, with the team title also going to WRT. In the Bronze Cup, Paradine Competition triumphed, as did the driver duo Harper/Leung in both the team and driver standings.
It will be fantastic to see so many BMW M4 GT3 EVO cars on the starting grid of the GT World Challenge Europe. We have very strong pro crews with which we aim to compete for overall victories and titles. Additionally, there are pleasingly many customer teams taking on the challenge in one of the strongest GT racing series in the world and also aiming for titles in all classes.
I am proud of the impressive line-up of BMW M Motorsport customer teams and drivers in the GT World Challenge Europe. We won several titles in different classes in 2024. We aim to build on this record and ideally even expand it.