Giancarlo Fisichella will switch teams for the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship, signing with the Iron Lynx operation.
The ex-F1 driver and two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner will drive the team’s #60 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo alongside Claudio Schiavoni and Matteo Cressoni, who have both been retained from last year’s line-up.
Fisichella will embark on his eighth season racing Ferrari machinery in the FIA WEC and his fourth consecutive campaign in the GTE Am class.
He debuted in the championship in the inaugural season in 2012 and was part of Ferrari’s factory GTE Pro line-up for four years, sealing two GTE Pro class wins at Le Mans alongside further wins at Silverstone, Spa-Francorchamps, Interlagos and Bahrain.
After a few years away from the series, he returned to form a partnership with Francesco Castelacci and Thomas Flohr in GTE Am, first for Spirit of Race and later AF Corse. He was replaced by Nick Cassidy for the 2022 campaign.
The all-female Iron Dames crew, meanwhile, remains unchanged from the 2021 season. The #85 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo will be driven by Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting and Rahel Frey.
The Italian squad, also competing in the Ferrari Challenge, European Le Mans Series and GT World Challenge Europe, recently unveiled its updated colour schemes for the 2022 season, with the predominantly black liveries from last year inverted to create a significantly brighter on-track presence.
“We are thrilled to announce our driver line-ups and series we’ll be competing in for 2022, with some exciting additions and continuity that can only help push Iron Lynx and Iron Dames further forward in the coming year,” said team principal Andrea Piccini.
“We had such an incredible year in 2021, and we will approach the upcoming season with that same spirit. We know that it will be difficult to repeat the success of 2021 but this will be our target for this season.”
“The Iron Dames are also delighted to see the return of Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting and Rahel Frey across multiple championships for 2022.We are looking forward to more positive results, with all three drivers showing already great promise last year.”
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