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WEC champions Pier Guidi and Calado lead Risi GTD Pro lineup at Daytona

WEC champions Pier Guidi and Calado lead Risi GTD Pro lineup at Daytona

Pier Guidi and Calado will be joined for the season-opening round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship by WEC regular team-mate Daniel Serra and Davide Rigon, who lost his seat in the factory AF Corse GTE Pro team last year to Miguel Molina.

Giuseppe Risi’s Texas-based privateer team has been a regular entrant at Daytona in recent years against the factory teams in GTLM, which has been replaced this season by the GTD Pro class for GT3 machines with all-professional lineups.

Pier Guidi, Calado and Rigon took Risi’s GTE-spec Ferrari to fourth together with Jules Gounon at Daytona last year, while the aforementioned trio finished second in 2019 with Molina.

While no additional plans have yet been announced beyond Daytona, a Risi team statement said that further appearances “are under consideration”.

It has made 21 previous starts at the race, taking a single class win in 2002 when it ran a Lola B2K/40 to the SRP II victory in third overall.

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