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| Founded | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Base | Piacenza |
| Teamprincipal(s) | Amato Ferrari |
| Current series | FIA World Endurance Championship GT World Challenge Europe European Le Mans Series WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Asian Le Mans Series International GT Open British GT Championship |
| Former series | Italian Superturismo Championship FIA GT Championship FIA GT1 World Championship World Series Formula V8 3.5 (as Spirit of Race/SMP Racing) DTM |
| Current drivers | FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar 50.  Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen51.  James CaladoAntonio GiovinazziAlessandro Pier Guidi83.  Robert KubicaPhil Hanson Yifei YeLMGT3 54. Francesco Castellacci Thomas FlohrDavide Rigon55.  François Heriau Simon MannAlessio Rovera |
| Teams' Championships | 2006,2007,2008,2009 FIA GT2,2011 ILMC LM GTE-Pro,2012,2013,2014,2017 FIA WEC GTE-Pro,2020,2024 GTWC Endurance,2021 DTM. |
| Drivers' Championships | 2006,2007,2008 FIA GT2,2011 FIA GT3,2013,2014,2017 FIA WEC GTE-Pro,2020,2024 GTWC Endurance |
| Website | https://afcorse.it/ |
AF Corse is an Italianauto racing team founded by former racing driverAmato Ferrari in 1995 inPiacenza. Strongly linked to theMaserati andFerrari brands, AF Corse currently competes in theFIA World Endurance Championship,GT World Challenge Europe,European Le Mans Series,Asian Le Mans Series, andInternational GT Open, and are four-time champions of the GT2 class of the formerFIA GT Championship.[1] The team has also entered cars under Advanced Engineering, AT Racing, PeCom Racing, Spirit of Race, Formula Racing,8Star Motorsports and MR Racing, and in association withMichael Waltrip Racing (AF Waltrip).
In 1995, Amato Ferrari (no relation to the family ofEnzo Ferrari and hisFerrari car company) retired from driving and chose to concentrate on team management, initially entering theItalian Superturismo Championship. Following the series' demise in 1999, Ferrari launched a new team known as AF Corse (in English, "AF Racing"), named for his initials. The team turned tosports car racing, and within a year was contracted byMaserati. AF Corse was tasked with the development, maintenance, and transport of the Trofeo Cup, aone-make series based on theMaserati Coupé. The company would continue in this position until 2005.[citation needed]
During 2004, Maserati approached AF Corse about running their latest development in sports car racing: the newMaserati MC12 for the internationalFIA GT Championship. The team aided Maserati in testing and developing the car before running the two new racers in their home event atImola. Drivers Fabrizio de Simone,Andrea Bertolini,Mika Salo, andJohnny Herbert were all assigned to the team, eventually earning AF Corse two victories before the season ended.[2] Once the development of the MC12 was satisfied, the company returned to running the Trofeo Cup, as well as running a Maserati Light in the 2005Italian GT Championship.[citation needed]
AF Corse returned to the FIA GT Championship in 2006. This time however they would be running the latest Ferrari offering, theFerrari F430, as well as competing in the series' lower category, the GT2 class. Salo was retained in the driving line-up, while newcomersRui Águas,Jaime Melo, andMatteo Bobbi completed the standard line-up. Victory was earned in the team's debut atSilverstone, and another two were earned over the season, including at theSpa 24 Hours. AF Corse won the class championship, beating fellow Ferrari competitor Scuderia Ecosse.[3] The company retained their connection to Maserati however, entering a trio of cars in the newFIA GT3 European Championship.[citation needed]
As defending champions, AF Corse remained in the FIA GT Championship in 2007, although much on the team changed. While the Ferrari F430s remained, all new drivers were introduced to the team.Dirk Müller,Toni Vilander,Gianmaria Bruni, andStephane Ortelli took over driving duties for the season, whileMotorola announced their full sponsorship of the squad. The two cars dominated the2007 season, winning nine of the ten events on the schedule and wrapping up another championship.[1]
For 2008, AF Corse expanded to a three car team in the GT2 class. Vilander and Bruni are retained in the lead car, while Biagi returns to the squad to be joined by Christian Montanari in the second entry. The third car will be run under the Advanced Engineering name, withArgentinianMatías Russo andLuís Pérez Companc.[citation needed]
In 2010, theFIA GT Championship was dissolved and two new championships were born from it. The GT1 class of the former series became theFIA GT1 World Championship while the GT2 class formed theFIA GT2 European Championship. The GT2 series was suspended due to lack of entries. As a result, the AF Corse team joined theLe Mans Series. For the2010 season, the team fielded three Ferrari F430 GT2s for the series' GT2 class. DriversMatías Russo andLuís Pérez Companc campaigned the #94 Ferrari withToni Vilander and former Grand Prix driversJean Alesi andGiancarlo Fisichella in the #95.ALMS regulars, with theRisi Competizione team,Jaime Melo andGianmaria Bruni drove the Ferrari #96.[citation needed]
In 2011 AF Corse entered theIntercontinental Le Mans Cup with brand new Ferrari 458 Italia GT2s as well as theFIA GT3 European Championship with Ferrari 458 Italia GT3s. AF Corse won the ILMC in the GTE-Pro category, including the final round atPetit Le Mans. It also won the FIA GT3 driver's championship withFrancisco Catellaci andFederico Leo.[citation needed]
The team also joined theInternational GT Open for the2010 season in the Super GT class, which is largely reminiscent of the GT2 rules in theLe Mans Series. The team fields two Ferrari GT2 cars for driversJack Gerber &Rui Águas in the #6 car andPierre Kaffer andÁlvaro Barba in the #8 Ferrari. AF Corse will also field a third Ferrari (#7) for theAT Racing team with driversAlexander Talkanitsa and his sonAlexander Talkanitsa Jr.[citation needed]
For 2012, AF Corse competed in a variety of sports car championships throughout Europe and globally, including theFIA World Endurance Championship andGT1 World Championship with Ferrari F458 Italia GT2s and Ferrari F458 Italia GT3s, including a co-branded for GTE-Am class car withMichael Waltrip Racing, AF Waltrip. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, amateur driverPiergiuseppe Perazzini collided with the No. 8 Toyota driven by overall-contenderAnthony Davidson, sending the Toyota airborne at the Mulsanne Corner. Perazzini's Ferrari also flipped and landed on its roof after hitting the tyre barrier. Davidson suffered two broken vertebrae in the crash but was able to pull himself from the car in the immediate aftermath of the accident - though of course he was forced to abandon the race.[4] The AF Corse #51 car driven byGianmaria Bruni,Giancarlo Fisichella andToni Vilander won the GTE Pro race beating Corvette, Porsche and Aston Martin.
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In 2023, AF Corse andScuderia Ferrari announced a partnership to field the marque's new499P hypercar in that year's edition of theFIA World Endurance Championship. After a successful season that year, including winning atLe Mans in the centenary edition – and Ferrari's first Le Mans in the top class in 50 years – the team decided to field a yellow-coloured privateer entry, and drafted inRobert Kubica,Robert Shwartzman andYifei Ye to pilot the #83 machine. They led much of the2024 edition of Le Mans, before retiring with an engine failure.[5] In the2025 Le Mans 24h, the yellow #83 won, while #51 and #50 were beaten by one of thePorsche 963 which are built according to slightly different rules (LMDh), and running not only in the WEC, but also in North American IMSA-series.
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The collaboration with the Ferrari Hypercar team has largely been a success, at Le Mans in particular, with each of the three cars (#51, #50, #83) winning the marquee event from2023 to2025. Thisthreepeat means that all nine of their works drivers, mostly unchanged across the years, have won the race:Antonio Fuoco,Miguel Molina andNicklas Nielsen in car #50, andAlessandro Pier Guidi,James Calado andAntonio Giovinazzi in car #51, andRobert Kubica,Yifei Ye andPhil Hanson in car #83.[6]
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 |  Liam Lawson | 16 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 227 | 2nd | 1st |
 Alex Albon | 14 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 130 | 6th | |||
| Nick Cassidy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 16th | |||
| 2022 | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 | Nick Cassidy | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 64 | 13th | 7th |
 Felipe Fraga | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 60 | 16th | |||
 Ayhancan Güven | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 23rd | |||
| Sébastien Loeb | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32nd |
| Year | Entrant | Class | Car | Driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Points | Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | AF Corse | LMGTE Pro | Ferrari 458 Italia | SEB | SPA | LMS | SIL | SÃO | BHR | FUJ | SHA | 201 | 1st | ||
 Olivier Beretta | 71 | 3rd | 4th | 4th | DNF | 4th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | ||||||
| Andrea Bertolini | |||||||||||||||
| Marco Cioci | |||||||||||||||
| Gianmaria Bruni | 51 | DSQ | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | DNF | ||||||
| Giancarlo Fisichella | |||||||||||||||
 Toni Vilander | |||||||||||||||
| LMGTE Am | Niki Cadei | 81 | 3rd | DNF | |||||||||||
| Piergiuseppe Perazzini | |||||||||||||||
 Matt Griffin | |||||||||||||||
| AF Corse - Waltrip |  Rui Águas | 61 | 4th | DNS | 6th | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 108 | 4th | ||||
| Robert Kauffman | |||||||||||||||
| Brian Vickers | |||||||||||||||
| 2013 | AF Corse | LMGTE Pro | Ferrari 458 Italia | SIL | SPA | LMS | SÃO | COA | FUJ | SHA | BHR | ||||
| Olivier Beretta | 71 | 2nd | 3rd | 5th | DNF | 3rd | 5th | 5th | 3rd | 105 | 5th | ||||
 Kamui Kobayashi | |||||||||||||||
| Toni Vilander | |||||||||||||||
| Gianmaria Bruni | 51 | 5th | 1st | 6th | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | 1st | 145 | 1st | ||||
| Giancarlo Fisichella | |||||||||||||||
| Matteo Malucelli | |||||||||||||||
| LMGTE Am | Marco Cioci | 61 | 8th | 8th | 2nd | DNF | 7th | 7th | 6th | 3rd | 76 | 7th | |||
 Jack Gerber | |||||||||||||||
| Matt Griffin | |||||||||||||||
| 2014 | AF Corse | LMGTE Pro | Ferrari 458 Italia | SIL | SPA | LMS | COA | FUJ | SHA | BHA | SÃO | ||||
| Davide Rigon | 71 | 5th | 3rd | DNF | 5th | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 5th | 98 | ||||
 Pierre Kaffer | |||||||||||||||
| Olivier Beretta | |||||||||||||||
| Gianmaria Bruni | 51 | 4th | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | DNF | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 168 | ||||
| Giancarlo Fisichella | |||||||||||||||
| Toni Vilander | |||||||||||||||
| LMGTE Am | Sam Bird | 81 | 3rd | 6th | DNF | 7th | DNF | DNS | 2nd | 3rd | 5th | 68 | |||
| Michele Rugolo | |||||||||||||||
 Stephen Wyatt | |||||||||||||||
| Marco Cioci | 61 | 6th | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 5th | DNS | 6th | 6th | 4th | 102 | ||||
 Luis Pérez Companc | |||||||||||||||
| Mirko Venturi | |||||||||||||||
| Lorenzo Casè | 60 | 8th | DNF | ||||||||||||
| Raffaele Giammaria | |||||||||||||||
| Peter Mann | |||||||||||||||
| Jean-Marc Bachelier | 62 | 14th | |||||||||||||
| Howard Blank | |||||||||||||||
| Yannick Mallégo |
| Founded | 2011 |
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| Folded | 2013 |
| Teamprincipal(s) | Michael Waltrip Rob Kauffman |
| Former series | FIA World Endurance Championship (2012) Rolex Sports Car Series (2012–2013) |
| Noted drivers | Michael Waltrip (WEC/RSCC)Rob Kauffman (WEC/RSCC)Rui Águas (WEC/RSCC)Travis Pastrana (RSCC)Brian Vickers (WEC)Clint Bowyer (RSCC) |
AF Corse-Waltrip, also known asAF-Waltrip, is a former professional sportscar team. The company was a 50–50 partnership betweenMichael Waltrip RacingNASCAR co-ownersMichael Waltrip andRob Kauffman. In 2011, Michael Waltrip Racing entered into a technical alliance with AF Corse to provide them sportscars to race in theFIA World Endurance Championship andRolex Sports Car Series. AF Corse-Waltrip shut down their sportscar team in 2013 to concentrate onNASCAR.
| Year | Class | Car | Engine | Driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | LMGTE Am | Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 | Ferrari 4.5 L V8 | 61 | SEB | SPA | LMS | SIL | SÃO | BHR | FUJ | SHA | 4th1 | 1081 | |
| Rui Águas | 4 | DNS | 4 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Rob Kauffman | 4 | DNS | 4 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Michael Waltrip | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Brian Vickers | DNS | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Marco Cioci | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Piergiuseppe Perazzini | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Matt Griffin | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Enrique Bernoldi | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Xandy Negrão | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Francisco Longo | 3 |
^1 There was no drivers championship that year, the result indicates team rank in the LMGTE Am Trophy.
| Year | Class | Car | Engine | Driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | GT | Ferrari 458 Italia | Ferrari 4.5 L V8 | 56 | DAY | BIR | HOM | NJ | BEL | LEX | ELK | WAT | IMS | WAT | MON | LGA | LIM | |||
| Rui Águas | 35 | 11 | 14 | 15 | ||||||||||||||||
| Robert Kauffman | 35 | 11 | 14 | 15 | ||||||||||||||||
| Travis Pastrana | 35 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Michael Waltrip | 35 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | GT | Ferrari 458 Italia | Ferrari 4.5 L V8 | 56 | DAY | TXS | BIR | ATL | BEL | LEX | WAT | IMS | ELK | KAN | LGA | LIM | ||||
| Rui Águas | 17 | 14 | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Robert Kauffman | 17 | 14 | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Clint Bowyer | 17 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Michael Waltrip | 17 |
