Mercedes-AMG reveals its strengths for the 2024 season

Everything is ready on the side of Mercedes-AMG in preparation for the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe season. After the Prologue at Castellet a few days ago, the German manufacturer has clearly defined the distribution of its drivers for theEndurance and the Sprint Cup, where 11 and 5 Mercedes-AMG GT3s are respectively expected.

In the Endurance Cup, 4 of them will fight for the win in the general classification with an entry in the Pro category. Among the drivers, we find one of the spearheads of Mercedes-AMG in the person of Jules Gounon, associated with Fabian Schiller and Luca Stolz at Team GetSpeed. Lucas Auer, Maro Engel and Daniel Morad will team up at Team MANN-FILTER. Haupt Racing Team will see Michele Beretta, Arjun Maini and Jusuf Owega take turns.

Finally, Mercedes-AMG welcomes a new structure with the arrival of Team Boutsen VDS into the fold. The No. 10 trio includes Frenchman Thomas Drouet, supported by Adam Christodoulou and Maximilian Götz.

On the Sprint side, and for his big debut in the championship, Lucas Auer will form a pair with Maro Engel in the No. 48 of Winward Racing. Engaged in a double program in GT World Challenge Europe, Team Boutsen VDS is represented by Maximilian Götz and Jules Gounon.

« The start of the GT World Challenge Europe season is always a highlight for me, recognize Christoph Sagemüller, boss of Mercedes-AMG Motorsport. The championship starts the season with a representative field of more than 50 cars from nine different brands. We obviously want to defend our title once again. The composition of our customer teams is fantastic (…) I look forward to a great season and wish all teams and drivers an exciting and fair competition. »

The start of the season is scheduled at Le Castellet on April 7 for the 3 Hours of Paul-Ricard, first round of the Endurance Cup, where Mercedes-AMG will put its titles (drivers and teams) on the line.

Endurance Cup crews

No. 2: Jules Gounon-Fabian Schiller-Luca Stolz; Team GetSpeed ​​(Pro)
No. 3: Anthony Bartone-James Kell-Yannick Mettler; GetSpeed ​​(Silver)
No. 9: Adam Christodoulou-Thomas Drouet-Maximilian Götz; Boutsen VDS (Pro)
No. 10: César Gazeau-Roee Meyuhas-Aurélien Panis; Boutsen VDS (Silver)
No. 48: Lucas Auer-Maro Engel-Daniel Morad; MANN-FILTER (Pro)
No. 57: Daan Arrow-Colin Caresani-Tanart Sathienthirakul; Winward Racing (Silver)
No. 60: Isa Al Khalifa-Martin Kodrić-Lewis Williamson; 2 Seas Motorsport (Gold)
No. 77: Michele Beretta-Arjun Maini-Jusuf Owega; Haupt Racing Team (Pro)
No. 79: To be determined; Haupt Racing Team (Silver)
No. 90: Patrick Assenheimer-Ezequiel Perez Companc-To be determined; Madpanda Motorsport (Silver)
No. 777: Al Faisal Al Zubair-Dominik Baumann-Mikaël Grenier; AlManar Racing by GetSpeed ​​(Gold)

Sprint Cup crews

No. 9: Maximilian Götz-Jules Gounon; Boutsen VDS (Pro)
No. 10: César Gazeau-Aurélien Panis; Boutsen VDS (Silver)
No. 48: Lucas Auer-Maro Engel; Winward Racing (Pro)
No. 57: To be determined; Winward Racing (Silver)
No. 90: To be determined; Madpanda Motorsport (Silver)

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