Reigning Champions Proton Return for 31-car Season Opener

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Creventic has revealed a 31-car entry list for the Michelin 12H Mugello, with six different manufacturers set to fight for overall GT3 victory.

Reigning series champions Proton Competition, previously entered under the Proton Huber Competition banner, is set to enter the race with a Porsche 911 GT3 R.

Herberth Motorsport will field a further two Porsche entries. The German squad recently took a second place overall in the Michelin 24H Series Middle East trophy, with a championship victory in the GT3 Pro-Am category

The Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo will be represented across five different teams.

GetSpeed are set to enter a pair of Mercedes-AMGs, with further entries coming from Hofor Racing, Viper Niza Racing, and retuning Italian team MP Racing.

Ajith RedAnt Racing – the team which competes with Indian film star Ajith Kumar – will also campaign a Mercedes-AMG.

Recent Middle East trophy GT3-Am champions Continental Racing by Simpson Motorsport will enter an Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II. Series regulars HAAS RT and Sainteloc Junior Team will also return to the event with Audi machinery.

Last season’s GT3-Am runner-up ARC Bratislava will compete with its Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO.

Era Motorsport will enter the sole Ferrari 296 GT3 on the grid, having taken a third-place podium at Mugello last year.

Aston Martin round out the six manufacturers on the grid with a single entry from E2P Racing.

Elsewhere on the entry list, the 992 class is set to see 11 entries, including the top three finishers from the 2025 race.

HRT Performance will field three Porsche 992 Cup cars, alongside a sister entry from QMMF by HRT Performance.

The GTX class sees a host of diverse entries, including class stalwarts Vortex V8, which will enter two of their Vortex 2.0 cars.

The Maserati name returns to Mugello with Dinamic Motorsport entering a Maserati MC20 GT2.

Italian team PB Racing will campaign for GTX victory in its Lotus Exige V6 Cup R.

The TCE-TCX class will see the SEAT Leon Cup Racer of asBest Racing challenge the Ligier JS2 R of Not Only Motorsport for class honours.

The weekend will be supported by actions from Creventic’s newly-named Prototype Cup Europe, as well as Radical Cup Europe and TCR Europe.

The opening round of the Michelin 24h Series kicks off on March 20-22 at Mugello.

The 12-hour race will take part across two days, with the first five-and-a-half hours taking place on Saturday, before an overnight break and the final six-and-a-half hours concluding the race on Sunday.

Source: Sports Car 365