As per tradition, with the 12H Mugello Hankook opens the sporting season at the Mugello International Circuit. Now in its tenth edition, the appointment with the 24H Series by Creventic is as packed as ever with nearly one hundred cars between the 12H and the FX2, FXPro, Supersport, Lotuis Cup and GT4 Italy classes.
Friday's practice and qualifying day divided by classes, with cars ranging from the powerful GT3 to GT4, GTX (Lamborghini Super Trofeo-KTM X-Bow GTX etc.) to TCR, both sequential and DSG.
As for the 12H Mugello, The race format, as usual is divided into two parts. The first will see the Start at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday and the stop at 7:00 p.m., with the cars doing parc fermé on the starting grid, until the re-start on Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. to end at 2:30 p.m.
As every year, it will be a good fight. Among the manufacturers at the start, Ferrari and Porsche hold the most overall victories at the Hankook 12H MUGELLO, with three wins each.
The Prancing Horse won in 2014 (AF Corse), 2017 and 2019 (both with Scuderia Praha). Porsche in 2015, 2020, and 2021 (all with Herberth Motorsport), while BMW, Audi, and even Renault had one race win each in 2016 (V8 Racing), 2022 (ST Racing), and 2023 (Haas RT), respectively.
Scrolling down the grid, two exceptional names jump out: nine-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb along with Romain Dumas, two-time winner of the 24H of Le Mans in the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup of the Orchid Racing team. For the first time at Mugello, Loeb will also share the adventure with partner Laurène Godey, who races in the Swiss team's other Porsche. "We had been talking with Romain (Dumas) for a long time about doing something together and this opportunity came up thanks to the Porche Orchid team in Geneva. We are here to have fun and it is nice to share this passion with Laurène as well. This is the first time for me at Mugello, a very beautiful and challenging track: you can never let your guard down. In the simulator you don't realize the height difference. Yesterday I tried the car for the first time." "The atmosphere in the pit box is very good, we had been talking to Seb for a long time about doing something together, and thanks to Porsche Genève we succeeded," Dumas related. "The goal is to have fun. We still have a nice lineup. Mugello is a very nice, difficult track. It has very fast corners and it would be very interesting to see a WEC race here."
