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How Ferrari's British star reached Le Mans-winning heights

Le Mans 24 Hours winner. That’s the tag that’s now nailed firmly ahead of the name James Calado, and has been since Ferrari’s victory in the centenary running of the French enduro last summer. Only it should really be, as the man himself points out, three-time Le Mans winner.

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Ferrari names unchanged WEC Hypercar line-up for 2024

Le Mans 24 Hours winners James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi and Antonio Giovinazzi will again share the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar run by the factory AF Corse squad, while the sister #50 entry will be raced by Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina. Pier Guidi and Fuoco…

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Ferrari 'proud' of Bahrain WEC podium with third-best car

The Italian manufacturer closed out its first season in the Hypercar class with a third-place result in the Bahrain 8 Hours, with the #50 499P of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen securing the best-of-the-rest spot behind the dominant Toyota GR010 HYBRID LMH cars.

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Calado: Ferrari "scratching its head" over Bahrain WEC pace

The winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours with Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi has conceded that the Italian manufacturer’s 499P Le Mans Hypercar is lacking pace in all areas after neither of the two AF Corse-run cars were on the pace in the opening two sessions of free…

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WEC Monza: Pier Guidi Ferrari shades Jota Porsche for top spot in FP1

Le Mans 24 Hours winner Pier Guidi snared the top spot aboard the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar by just 0.003s over Ye’s Porsche 963 LMDh in a 90-minute session that was red flagged with a little over two minutes left on the clock.

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Ferrari to approach Monza WEC with "humility" after Le Mans win

The Prancing Horse scored a historic first outright Le Mans win in 58 years last month, also marking the first triumph in the WEC for its new 499P LMH contender.

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Pier Guidi feared “everything was lost” before Ferrari Le Mans win

Pier Guidi and his team-mates in the #51 Ferrari 499P, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi, made history for the Prancing Horse by beating the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID by one minute and 27 seconds in a chaotic and attritional race.

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Pier Guidi thought “everything was lost” with off before Le Mans 24 Hours win

Pier Guidi and his team-mates in the #51 Ferrari 499P, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi, made history for the Prancing Horse by beating the Toyota GR010 HYBRID by one minute and 27 seconds in a chaotic and attritional race.

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Le Mans 24 Hours: Ferrari beats Toyota in race of attrition

On the Italian manufacturer's return to top-flight competition at the Circuit de la Sarthe with the new 499P Le Mans Hypercar, the #51 crew delivered Ferrari its first outright Le Mans win since Masten Gregory and Jochen Rindt took top honours in 1965.

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Le Mans 24 Hours: Ferrari locked in tense battle with Toyota as 21 hours pass

The race for the overall win took a fresh twist in the 19th hour when the leading #51 Ferrari 499P failed to get away immediately after its pitstop as Antonio Giovinazzi handed over to Alessandro Pier Guidi, requiring a power cycle to get going again.

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Le Mans 24h, H21: Ferrari locked in tense battle with Toyota

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Le Mans 24 Hours: Toyota locked in lead battle with Ferrari

As daylight broke over the Circuit de la Sarthe, Ryo Hirakawa led Alessandro Pier Guidi by 12s with nine hours to go, the gap between them fluctuating in the heat of battle.

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Le Mans 24h, H15: Toyota leads in close battle with Ferrari

As daylight broke over the Circuit de la Sarthe, Ryo Hirakawa led Alessandro Pier Guidi by 12s with nine hours to go, the gap between them fluctuating in the heat of battle.

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Le Mans 24 Hours: Peugeot leads, Ferrari spins, #7 Toyota out in hour 9

Nico Muller led the race at the nine-hour mark in the #94 Peugeot 9X8, ahead of Ryo Hirakawa in the #8 Toyota GR010, Alex Lynn’s Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R and the Ferraris of polewinner Antonio Fuoco and Alessandro Pier Guidi.

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Le Mans 24h, H9: Peugeot leads, Ferrari spins, #7 Toyota out

Nico Muller led the race at the nine-hour mark in the #94 Peugeot 9X8, ahead of Ryo Hirakawa in the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID, Alex Lynn’s Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R and the Ferrari 499Ps of polewinner Antonio Fuoco and Alessandro Pier Guidi.

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Ferrari's Pier Guidi spins out of Le Mans 24 Hours lead, #7 Toyota taken out

The #51 Ferrari 499P was holding a comfortable lead of some 47 seconds at the head of the field over the Peugeot of Nico Muller when Pier Guidi lost control heading into the first chicane on the Mulsanne straight.

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Ferrari spins out of Le Mans lead as Toyota loses a car

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Le Mans 24 Hours: Porsche leads Ferrari as darkness falls after hour 6

Nick Tandy was at the head of the field aboard the #75 Porsche 963 as the race reached quarter-distance, 1.7s ahead of the #51 Ferrari 499P of Alessandro Pier Guidi, shortly before making a pitstop.

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Le Mans 24h, H6: Porsche leads Ferrari as darkness falls

Nick Tandy was at the head of the field aboard the #75 Porsche 963 as the race reached quarter-distance, 1.7s ahead of the #51 Ferrari 499P of Alessandro Pier Guidi, shortly before making a pitstop.

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Ferrari surprised by lap time for Le Mans 24 Hours pole

Ferdinando Cannizzo, Ferrari’s sportscar racing technical director, explained that the 3m22.982s lap with which Antonio Fuoco claimed the pole for this weekend’s blue riband round of the World Endurance Championship exceeded expectations.

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Ferrari didn’t expect lap time for Le Mans 24 Hours pole

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Calado: Ferrari "could have fought Toyota for victory" at WEC Spa

The Briton, who sealed third place on the final lap of the Spa 6 Hours with Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi, told Autosport that “maybe we could have given them a fight” but for the three extra pitstops the #51 Ferrari 499P made in comparison with the winning Toyota.

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Autosport 2022 Top 50: #19 Alessandro Pier Guidi

1st in World Endurance Championship (GTE); 1st in Gulf 12 Hours

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How hobbled Ferrari denied Porsche an era-ending WEC title

Despite its gearbox falling apart, Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado managed to reach the finish of the World Endurance Championship's Bahrain 8 Hours as the fifth classified GTE runner, doing enough to secure the drivers' and manufacturers' GT titles in the swansong for the GTE Pro division. Here's how…

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Porsche frustrated by double FCY blow in WEC title decider

Michael Christensen admits luck wasn’t on Porsche’s side after twice losing ground to title rival Ferrari during full-course yellow periods in the Bahrain World Endurance Championship decider.

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