WIM – SECOND ASSAULT ON THE ELMS FOR THE IRON DAMES

The Iron Dames crew of Manuela Gostner, Rahel Frey and Michelle Gatting will over all over again workforce up for his or her 2d season-long assault on the European Le Mans Sequence in a Ferrari 488 in the LMGTE category, this twelve months riding for the Iron Lynx workforce. The trio performed an spectacular fourth of the 20 registered crews final season and might per chance per chance presumably over all over again be supported by the FIA Girls in Motorsport Commission as they arrangement for more podium placings and one other step up the leaderboard.

Final twelve months Gostner, Frey and Gatting climbed the podium twice with two 2d positions in Le Castellet and Silverstone, and performed fourth on one other twice all over the six-round sequence. With a twelve months of skills racing collectively, and in the reduction of the wheel of a 488 GTE Ferrari, the crew is targeted on elevating their game even additional and focusing on an invite to essentially the most attractive patience plug of them all, the 24 Heures du Mans.

“It’s ravishing news that Manuela, Rahel and Michelle can invent on their skills from final twelve months and place all that records right into a essential assault on the sequence,” said Michèle Mouton, President of the FIA Girls in Motorsport Commission. “Plenty of the preliminary studying curve is now in the reduction of them and having consistency in a plug programme obviously helps tremendously.

“It’s no doubt interesting to absorb two a success podium-combating all-feminine crews on the grid at every ELMS plug,” added Mouton, relating to the Richard Mille Racing Group’s entry spearheaded by Katherine Legge in the LMP2 category. “I don’t be conscious a time when this has took position and it’s far evidence of the development being made for, and by females in our sport.”

This renewed participation has been conceivable thanks to Iron Dames venture leader Deborah Mayer, entrepreneur and GT driver and a huge supporter of females in the sport. She is going to join Gatting in a 2d Ferrari for the Michelin Le Mans Cup. The 2020 European Le Mans sequence kicks off with pre-season testing in Barcelona on 30/31 March sooner than the contenders utilize on six events at some of Europe’s most iconic circuits:

· 4 Hours of Barcelona – 5 April

· 4 Hours of Monza – 10 May per chance

· 4 Hours of Le Castellet – 19 July

· 4 Hours of Silverstone – 6 September

· 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps – 20 September

· 4 Hours of Portimão – 18 October