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Valentino Rossi will compete in the World Endurance Championship in 2024 with leading BMW squad WRT
Seven-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi will compete in the World Endurance Championship in 2024. He will continue to race in GT3 and won’t yet fulfill his ambition to compete in the top-line Hypercar class. Rossi retired from MotoGP competition as a rider at the end of 2021 and shifted his focus to a career in sportscars. He has spent two seasons with the WRT outfit, driving Audi and BMW cars. Rossi achieved his first GT World Challenge win and a class win in the Road to Le Mans race. In the WEC, Rossi will campaign his BMW M4 GT3. The series’ provisional 2024 entry list includes 19 cars in the Hypercar class and 18 cars in LMGT3. Among the confirmed drivers in the LMGT3 class are Jose Maria Lopez, Dani Juncadella, Davide Rigon, and Marco Sorensen. The Hypercar class will feature competitors such as Toyota, Ferrari, Porsche, Cadillac, Peugeot, BMW, Alpine, and Lamborghini. The ByKolles-run Vanwall Racing team did not secure a place in the Hypercar class.
