In the upcoming GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS season, the Haupt Racing Team will line up in the Endurance Cup with two Ford Mustang GT3s under the name HRT Ford Performance. In the PRO Cup, car number 64 will contest the season with Thomas Drouet (FRA), Arjun Maini (IND) and Jann Mardenborough (GBR) at the wheel. David Schumacher, Finn Wiebelhaus (both GER) and Romain Andriolo (FRA) will be the drivers of the #65 sister car in the SILVER Cup.
- HRT enters two Ford Mustang GT3s in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
- Thomas Drouet, Arjun Maini and Jann Mardenborough in PRO Cup
- SILVER Cup with David Schumacher, Finn Wiebelhaus and Romain Andriolo
Since its foundation in 2020, the Haupt Racing Team has been successfully competing in the top-class GT World Challenge Europe. HRT will again be competing in the SRO-organized racing series in the 2025 season. The team from Drees, near the Nürburgring, will field two Ford Mustang GT3s in the Endurance Cup.
In the highly competitive PRO Cup, the #64 Ford Mustang GT3 will be raced by Arjun Maini, Thomas Drouet and Jann Mardenborough. Indian driver Arjun Maini has been competing for HRT in the GT World Challenge Europe since 2022 and is one of the more experienced drivers in the series. In 2024, Maini claimed a class podium at the 24 Hours of Spa and third place overall in the endurance classification of the GOLD Cup. New signing Thomas Drouet has also been racing in the GT World Challenge Europe for many years and has plenty of experience in the SRO series. Jann Mardenborough completes the powerful trio. The Briton will be a valuable addition to the team thanks to his many appearances in the GT World Challenge Europe, the British GT and the Japanese Super GT.
In the sister car with starting number 65, David Schumacher, Finn Wiebelhaus and Romain Andriolo will take their seat behind the wheel of the Ford Mustang GT3 in the SILVER Cup. Like his teammate Wiebelhaus, former DTM driver Schumacher contested an extensive racing program with Haupt Racing Team last season, achieving third place overall in the ADAC GT Masters and a race victory in the Nürburgring Endurance Series, among other successes. Wiebelhaus, gold medal winner at last year's FIA Motorsport Games, placed fourth overall in the ADAC GT Masters behind his teammate Schumacher, with one victory and two other podium finishes. The young Frenchman Romain Andriolo comes from single seater racing and achieved an excellent fourth place in the 2023 French Formula 4 Championship. Andriolo gained his first experience of GT3 racing with HRT at the 24H Dubai and will compete in the five races of the Endurance Cup together with Schumacher and Wiebelhaus.
The GT World Challenge Europe is considered one of the strongest GT racing series worldwide. Many of the best drivers and teams compete here in four different classes for championship points. The five events of the Endurance Cup include races lasting three, six and 24 hours. The highlight of the season is the Crowdstrike 24 Hours of Spa, which is known as the largest GT3 race in the world and is expected to feature a strong field of over 60 cars.
Ulrich Fritz, Chief Executive Officer Haupt Racing Team: “The GT World Challenge Europe is a highly competitive race series in which we have already celebrated a number of successes since the team was founded, including the 2023 championship in the Silver Cup sprint classification. We are now facing a new challenge with the Ford Mustang GT3, which we are happy to take on. We want to continue developing the car throughout the season. The GT World Challenge Europe is the ideal platform for this. The whole team is looking forward to the challenge with optimism.”
About HRT
The Haupt Racing Team (HRT) was founded in 2020 by racing driver and entrepreneur Hubert Haupt and has firmly established itself in international GT3 sport. Its greatest successes to date include the 2021 DTM Drivers' Championship, the 2023 GT World Challenge Europe Drivers' and Teams' Titles (Sprint and Silver Cup) and the 2023 and 2024 ADAC GT Masters Teams' Titles, as well as class wins and podium finishes in the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring and Spa-Francorchamps. From the 2025 season, HRT will run the Ford Mustang GT3 with factory support from Ford Performance in several high-profile racing series and championships. HRT is also actively involved in the promotion of young talent, covering the entire pyramid of driver development from entry into motorsport in the HRT Kart Team to the highest level of GT racing in the DTM. The joint operations center is the state-of-the-art HRT RACE BASE in Drees at the Nürburgring, where technical development projects and motorsport events of all kinds are also carried out.
