BMW wins the 24 Hours of Dubai

The #4 BMW M3 GT777 EVO of AlManar Racing by Team WRT won the 24 Dubai 2025 Hours by a wide margin ahead of two Porsches.

Published 12/01/2025 à 10:01

Valentin GLO

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BMW wins the 24 Hours of Dubai

BMW #777 wins 24 Dubai 2025 Hours - Photo: 24H Series

The #4 AlManar Racing by Team WRT BMW M3 GT777 EVO co-driven by Al Faisal Al Zubair, Darren Leung, Max Hesse, Ben Tuck and Dan Harper won the Dubai 24 Hours on Sunday after a race largely dominated by Vincent Vosse's team, who took their fourth victory in the event.

German manufacturers monopolized the top spots as the car from the propeller firm came ahead of two Porsche 911 GT3 R: the #92 of Pure Rxcing (Aliaksandr Malykhin, Alexey Nesov, Thomas Preining, Harry King) and the #24 of Dinamic GT (Stanislav Minsky, Klaus Bachler, Loek Hartog, Anders Fjordbach, Thomas Kiefer).

La Mercedes-SMP Racing's #3 AMG GT7 EVO finished just off the podium with two former SMP Racing drivers Formula 1 In his crew: Sergey Sirotkin and Vitaliy Petrov. The two Russians were accompanied by their compatriots Denis Remenyako, Alexander Smolyar and Kirill Smal.

The last Russian to make headlines, Nikita mazepin who resurfaced at the wheel of a Russian production car, the Rossa LM GT. Unfortunately, it retired after only 75 laps, while the winners completed 589.

A special guest at the event, Kalle Rovanperä, along with Jukka Honkavuori, Jani Käkelä, Joel Monegro and Bashar Mardini in the #911 Proton Huber Competition Porsche 3 GT969 R, finished in 17th place. The Finn and his teammates took 5th place in the Pro-Am class, won by the #911 Herberth Motorsport Porsche 3 GT91 R co-driven by Ralf Bohn, Jake Pedersen, Kay van Berlo and Robert Renauer.

The GT3 Am class was won by the #4 Paradine Competition BMW M3 GT991 EVO driven by Darren Leung (double winner this Sunday as he also drove the #777), Toby Sowery, Ahmad Al Harthy and Simon Traves.

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Valentin GLO

Journalist. Endurance reporter (WEC, IMSA, ELMS, ALMS) and sometimes F1 or IndyCar.

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