The Ferrari 499Ps return to the FIA World Endurance Championship for the 6 Hours of Spa, the second round of the world championship season, which takes place on Saturday 9 May at 2 p.m. (local time).

Three weeks after the opening round at Imola, the Prancing Horse Manufacturer’s crews head to Belgium and the historic circuit in the Ardennes forest, home to the race that precedes the most anticipated event of the season, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, scheduled for 13-14 June.

The number 51 499P of the official Ferrari – AF Corse team, shared by reigning World Drivers’ Champions Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi, returns to action after second place and pole position in Italy, while teammates Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen, who race in the number 50 sister car, start again from sixth place at Imola. Completing the Ferrari line-up entered in the Hypercar top class is the number 83 car, entered by AF Corse and driven by Prancing Horse official drivers Yifei Ye and Phil Hanson, together with Robert Kubica, who finished tenth at Imola.

The track. An iconic circuit, inaugurated in 1921 and considered Europe’s ‘university of racing’: the name Spa-Francorchamps fully belongs to the history of motorsport and endurance racing. At the Belgian circuit, Ferrari took its first win in the 24 Hours – now reserved for GT cars – in 1949, with the 166 MM of Luigi Chinetti and Jean Lucas. In recent years, however, in the FIA WEC, the Prancing Horse manufacturer has scored a total of four podiums, one pole position and one win at Spa since the 499P’s racing debut, the latter in 2025.

The 2025 race. Scheduled as the third round of the season, after Lusail in Qatar and Imola in Italy, the 2025 6 Hours of Spa remains indelible in the memory of the Tifosi and motorsport fans for the results achieved by the Ferrari 499Ps. In qualifying, the three crews qualified at the front, with Fuoco-Molina-Nielsen in pole position, ahead of Ye-Hanson-Kubica and Pier Guidi-Calado-Giovinazzi. The latter then crossed the line first to take their second consecutive win of the season, the third for the Maranello manufacturer.

The situation. Ferrari is second in the World Manufacturers’ Championship standings with 27 points, 13 points behind the leader; in the Drivers’ standings, Pier Guidi-Calado-Giovinazzi are second with 19 points (six points behind the leaders), Fuoco-Molina-Nielsen and Ye-Hanson-Kubica are sixth and tenth respectively, with eight and one point.

The programme. Thursday, 7 May will see the first two free practice sessions, each lasting 90 minutes, starting at 11 a.m. and 3.40 p.m.; on Friday 8, after the third free practice session (from 10.10 a.m. to 11.10 a.m.), Qualifying and Hyperpole for the Hypercar class are scheduled between 3.20 p.m. and 3.57 p.m. The 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps kicks off on Saturday 9 May, at 2 p.m. (local time).