Kessel Racing: Start with Ferrari women's team 🎥
PROMOTION Kessel Racing is fielding no fewer than four Ferraris in the Abu Dhabi 12-hour race. Among them one with three women, which includes Rahel Frey. For a few years now, the 12 Hours of Abu Dhabi has been a kind of season finale for endurance drivers on the second or third weekend of December. In 2018, the last international endurance race is part of the newly created sports car championship [...]
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For a few years now, the 12 Hours of Abu Dhabi has been a kind of season finale for endurance drivers on the second or third weekend of December. In 2018, the last international endurance race is part of the newly created Gulf Sports Car Championship. Kessel Racing from Grancia TI was always the winner at the last three events at the Yas Marina Circuit.
Due to the increased competition with a total of 18 GT3 sports cars - the short video shows this year's field - successfully defending the title will be difficult in Saturday's two-race event (9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. to 11:45 p.m.). Teams from Aston Martin (R-Motorsport from St. Gallen), Audi and McLaren are fielding all-new 2019 cars. However, with last year's winners Michael Broniszewski (Poland) and Davide Rigon as well as the third driver Alessandro Pierguidi (both Italy), the team from Ticino is once again well positioned in the top Pro class.
Three drivers in the Kessel Ferrari
A Kessel Ferrari 488 GT3 in the Pro-Am class will be driven by Rahel Frey from Switzerland, Manuela Gostner from Italy (a Ferrari Challenge specialist) and Michelle Gatting from Denmark. Rahel Frey is actually an Audi customer sports works driver. For this project, the Solothurn native was given the go-ahead to drive a different make without any connection to her own brand.
The effort is officially supported by the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission and could be the beginning of a larger women's project, such as a start in the GT-Am class at Le Mans.
Team boss Ronnie Kessel, however, is not looking that far ahead yet.
Ronnie Kessel: "Our former driver Deborah Mayer initiated this project, and so we made it possible together with the FIA. Now we'll wait and see how this race goes, and then we'll discuss it further. Someone has to finance the whole thing, because as a racing team we live from customer sport."
Swiss LMP3 quartet
In addition to six GT4 and five Cup cars, four LMP3 prototypes are still on the grid. Mauro Calamia, Roberto Pampanini, Nicolas Stürzinger and Stefano Monaco form a purely Swiss quartet on a Ligier-Nissan JS P3 from Villorba Corse. Their opponents are three Norma M30s from Graff Racing in France, seen in the picture above in the national colors.
