2025 6 Hours of Abu Dhabi

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The layout of the Yas Marina Circuit, where the race was held.

The 2025 6 Hours of Abu Dhabi (formally known as the Michelin 6 Hours Abu Dhabi), was the 5th running of the 6 Hours of Abu Dhabi, an endurance race that took place at the Yas Marina Circuit on 19 January 2025. The race was the second and final round of the 2025 Middle East Trophy.

Date Time (local: GST) Event Duration
Saturday, 18 January 11:30 - 13:00 Free Practice 90 Minutes
17:40 - 18:35 Qualifying 3x15 Minutes
Sunday, 19 January 10:30 - 16:30 Race 6 Hours
Source:[1]

Entries

Team Car Engine No. Drivers Class
GT3
United Arab Emirates Manamauri Energy by Ebimotors Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6 1 Italy Fabrizio Broggi PA
Italy Sabino de Castro
Romania Sergiu Nicolae
Italy Cosimo Papi
China Climax Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 2 China Lu Wei Am
China Zhang Yaqi
China Mike Zhou
Germany Haupt Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 4 Saudi Arabia Reema Juffali PA
Germany Salman Owega
Germany Finn Wiebelhaus
Germany SMP Racing[N 1] 7 Vitaly Petrov[a] P
Dennis Remenyako[a]
Sergey Sirotkin[a]
Alexander Smolyar[a]
Germany Team Motopark Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 5 Netherlands Nigel Schoonderwoerd P
Hungary Levente Révész
Netherlands Yelmer Buurman
South Africa Into Africa Racing by Dragon Racing[N 2]
United Arab Emirates Dragon Racing[N 2]
Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari F163 3.0 L Turbo V6 8 Zimbabwe Axcil Jefferies PA
South Africa Xollie Letlaka
South Africa Stuart White
United States Blake McDonald
Porsche 911 GT3 R (991.2) Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 98 United Kingdom Glynn Geddie PA
United Kingdom Jim Geddie
United Kingdom Phil Keen
Switzerland Hofor Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 11 Switzerland Michael Kroll Am
Switzerland Chantal Prinz
Germany Alexander Prinz
Germany Timo Rumpfkeil
Germany Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 16 Viktor Shaytar[a] PA
Sergey Stolyarov[a]
Italy Gabriele Piana
Sergei Borisov[a]
87 Sergei Borisov[a] PA
Italy Gabriele Piana
Rinat Salikhov[a]
Viktor Shaytar[a]
Antigua and Barbuda HAAS RT Audi R8 LMS Evo II Audi DAR 5.2 L V10 21 United Arab Emirates Alexander Bukhantsov[b] PA
Canada Ramez Azzam
United Arab Emirates Omar Jackson
Belgium The Bend Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 Evo BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Turbo V8 32 Timur Boguslavskiy[a] P
Australia Yasser Shahin
Belgium Charles Weerts
United Kingdom Optimum Motorsport McLaren 720S GT3 Evo McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8 33 United Kingdom Tom Ikin P
United Kingdom Mikey Porter
United Kingdom Andrew Gilbert
United Kingdom WeBuyAnyPhone.com Racing by Simpson Motorsport[N 3]
United Arab Emirates Continental Racing with Simpson Motorsport[N 3]
BMW M4 GT3 BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Turbo V8 38 United Kingdom James Kaye Am
Zimbabwe Ameerh Naran
United Kingdom Darren Ridge
Audi R8 LMS Evo II Audi DAR 5.2 L V10 69 David Pogosyan[a] Am
Kyrgyzstan Andrey Solukovtsev[b]
Cyprus Vasily Vladykin
Slovakia ARC Bratislava Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo Lamborghini DGF 5.2 L V10 44 Slovakia Adam Konôpka Am
Slovakia Miro Konôpka
Slovakia Matej Konôpka
Czech Republic Scuderia Praha Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari F163 3.0 L Turbo V6 56 Czech Republic Josef Král PA
Slovakia Matúš Výboh
Slovakia Miroslav Výboh
United Kingdom Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8 58 United Kingdom Adam Smalley P
Monaco Louis Prette
China Zhou Yiran
Germany Proton Huber Competition Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6 73 Germany Jörg Dreisow Am
Germany Manuel Lauck
Luxembourg Gabriel Rindone
New Zealand Earl Bamber Motorsport Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo Aston Martin M177 4.0 L Twin-Turbo V8 77 Indonesia Setiawan Santoso PA
United Kingdom Jamie Day
Thailand Tanart Sathienthirakul
Ukraine Dinamic GT by Tsunami RT Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6 79 Italy Fabio Babini PA
Italy Giuseppe Ghezzi
Germany Johannes Zelger
Germany Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6 80 Hong Kong Antares Au P
Netherlands Loek Hartog
Germany Joel Sturm
United States Era Motorsport Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari F163 3.0 L Turbo V6 81 United Kingdom Jake Hill PA
United States Dwight Merriman
United States Kyle Tilley
Austria Baron Motorsport Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 86 Italy Edoardo Bacci Am
Italy Angelo Nero
Monaco Philippe Prette
Iran Masoud Jaberian
Australia GWR Australia Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 96 Australia Brett Hobson Am
Australia Justin Mcmillan
Australia Michael Sheargold
Germany Tresor Attempto Racing Audi R8 LMS Evo II Audi DAR 5.2 L V10 99 Germany Alex Aka P
China Yi Deng
Belgium Jef Machiels
GTX
Australia 111 Racing IRC GT GM LS3 6.2 L V8 111 Australia Jake Camilleri
Australia Darren Currie
Australia Grant Donaldson
France Vortex V8 Vortex 2.0 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 701 France Lionel Amrouche
France Philippe Bonnel
France Gilles Courtois
702 France Arnaud Gomez
France Olivier Gomez
United Arab Emirates Saalocin by Kox Racing KTM X-Bow GT2 Audi 2.5 L I5 748 Netherlands Peter Kox
Netherlands Nico Pronk
Netherlands Dennis Retera
United Kingdom Scott Sport Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 750 Canada Keith Frieser
Denmark Mikkel Mac
United Kingdom Aaron Scott
992
France SebLajoux Racing Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 888 France Stephane Perrin Am
France Sebastien Lajoux
Hong Kong Liu Kaishun
Netherlands Paul Meijer
992 China Ling Kang P
China Lu Zhiwei
China Cao QiKuan
Netherlands Red Camel-Jordans.nl Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 909 Netherlands Ivo Breukers P
Netherlands Luc Breukers
Netherlands Rik Breukers
Switzerland Fabian Danz
France TFT Racing Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 911 France Jordan Boisson Am
France Patrick Charlaix
Belgium Benjamin Paque
Austria Razoon – More Than Racing Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 914 Denmark Simon Birch P
Poland Artur Chwist
Austria Daniel Drexel
Italy Fulgenzi Racing Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 917 Italy Enrico Fulgenzi Am
United Arab Emirates Alessandro Giannone
Italy Andrea Girondi
United Arab Emirates RABDAN by Fulgenzi Racing 971 United Arab Emirates Saif Alameri Am
United Arab Emirates Salem Alketbi
Austria Christopher Zöchling
Belgium Mühlner Motorsport Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 918 Estonia Martin Rump P
Latvia Valters Zviedris
Germany HRT Performance Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 928 Alexey Denisov[a] Am
Sergey Titarenko[a]
Victor Titarenko[a]
929 Qatar Jassim Al-Thani Am
Qatar Ahmed Al-emadi
Belgium Gilles Thiers
930 United States Gregg Gorski Am
Germany Alex Renner
United Kingdom Jonathan Simmonds
Qatar QMMF by HRT 974 Qatar Ibrahim Al-Abdulghani Am
Qatar Abdulla Ali Al-Khelaifi
Qatar Ghanim Al-Maadheed
Germany Julian Hanses
Belgium Speed Lover Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 978 Belgium Wim Meulders Am
Belgium Gilles Renmans
Belgium Rik Renmans
United Kingdom Toro Verde GT Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 995 United Kingdom Graeme Mundy Am
United Kingdom Steve Laidlaw
United Kingdom Callum Davis
GT4
Germany SRS Team Sorg Rennsport Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport Porsche MDG 4.0 L Flat-6 427 Ukraine Oleksiy Kikireshko
Germany Jan-Niklas Stieler
United States Arthur Simondet
United Kingdom Simpson Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 Gen II BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Twin Turbo I6 438 Japan Takashi Hata
Japan Taiyo Ida
Japan Kenji Suzuki
Germany WS Racing BMW M4 GT4 Gen II BMW S58B30T0 3.0 L Twin Turbo I6 470 Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen
United States Keith Gatehouse
Romania Tudor Tudurachi
United Arab Emirates Continental TTR Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 Evo BMW B58B30 3.0 L Twin-Turbo I6 496 Stanislav Nonikov[a]
Ilya Sidorov[a]
Australia Cameron Mcleod
TCX
Germany AsBest Racing SEAT León Cup Racer Volkswagen EA888 2.0 L I4 102 United Arab Emirates Ahmed Al Khaja
India Fahad Nasir Khan
United Arab Emirates Johny Khazzoum
France Chazel Technologie Course Alpine A110 Cup Alpine Renault TCe M5Pt 1.8 L Turbo I4 110 France Michel Abattu
France Felix Crepet
France Stephane Lipp
France Guillaume Masset
193 France Frederic de Brabant
France Louka Desgranges
Russia Ivan Ovsienko
Source:[2]
GT3 entries
Icon Class
P GT3-Pro
PA GT3-Pro Am
Am GT3-Am
992 entries
Icon Class
P 992-Pro
Am 992-Am

Free Practice

Class No. Entrant Driver Time
GT3 16 Germany Winward Racing Italy Gabriele Piana 1:52.693
GTX 750 United Kingdom Scott Sport Denmark Mikkel Mac 1:54.051
992 914 Austria Razoon – More Than Racing Denmark Simon Birch 1:56.585
GT4 470 Germany WS Racing Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen 2:03.504
TCE 193 France Chazel Technologie Course Russia Ivan Ovsienko 2:09.151
Source:[3][4]
  • Note: Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Qualifying

Qualifying results

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos. Class No. Team Avg
1 GT3 Pro/Am 87 Germany Winward Racing 1:52.648
2 GT3 Pro 7 Germany SMP Racing 1:53.195
3 GT3 Pro/Am 8 South Africa Into Africa Racing by Dragon Racing 1:53.308
4 GT3 Pro 33 United Kingdom Optimum Motorsport 1:53.448
5 GT3 Pro 99 Germany Tresor Attempto Racing 1:53.541
6 GT3 Pro/Am 16 Germany Winward Racing 1:53.606
7 GT3 Am 2 China Climax Racing 1:53.764
8 GT3 Pro 32 Belgium The Bend Team WRT 1:53.933
9 GT3 Pro 58 United Kingdom Garage 59 1:53.978
10 GT3 Pro 80 Germany Herberth Motorsport 1:54.053
11 GT3 Pro 5 Germany Team Motopark 1:54.149
12 GT3 Pro/Am 1 United Arab Emirates Manamauri Energy by Ebimotors 1:54.434
13 GT3 Pro/Am 4 Germany Haupt Racing Team 1:54.470
14 GT3 Am 69 United Arab Emirates Continental Racing with Simpson Motorsport 1:54.574
15 GT3 Am 86 Austria Baron Motorsport 1:54.982
16 GT3 Am 77 New Zealand Earl Bamber Motorsport 1:55.043
17 GT3 Pro/Am 21 Antigua and Barbuda HAAS RT 1:55.622
18 GT3 Am 73 Germany Proton Huber Competition 1:55.798
19 GT3 Pro/Am 98 United Arab Emirates Dragon Racing 1:55.900
20 GT3 Pro/Am 79 Ukraine Dinamic GT by Tsunami RT 1:56.014
21 GT3 Am 11 Switzerland Hofor Racing 1:56.096
22 GT3 Pro/Am 81 United States Era Motorsport 1:56.163
23 GTX 750 United Kingdom Scott Sport 1:56.344
24 GT3 Am 96 Australia GWR Australia 1:56.347
25 GT3 Am 44 Slovakia ARC Bratislava 1:56.376
26 992 Pro 909 Netherlands Red Camel-Jordans.nl 1:56.939
27 GT3 Pro/Am 56 Czech Republic Scuderia Praha 1:57.406
28 992 Pro 918 Belgium Mühlner Motorsport 1: 57.426
29 992 Am 974 Qatar QMMF by HRT 1:57.845
30 992 Am 888 France SebLajoux Racing 1:58.052
31 992 Am 971 United Arab Emirates RABDAN by Fulgenzi Racing 1:58.232
32 992 Am 917 Italy Fulgenzi Racing 1:58.283
33 992 Pro 914 Austria Razoon – More Than Racing 1:58.705
34 GTX 748 United Arab Emirates Saalocin by Kox Racing 1:58.951
35 992 Am 911 France TFT Racing 1:59.057
36 992 Am 928 Germany HRT Performance 1:59.650
37 GT3 Am 38 United Kingdom WeBuyAnyPhone.com Racing by Simpson Motorsport 2:00.498
38 GTX 111 Australia 111 Racing 2:00.562
39 992 Am 992 France SebLajoux Racing 2:00.726
40 992 Am 978 Belgium Speed Lover 2:01.054
41 992 Am 930 Germany HRT Performance 2:01.518
42 992 Am 929 Germany HRT Performance 2:02.085
43 GTX 701 France Vortex V8 2:02.500
44 GT4 496 United Arab Emirates Continental TTR Racing 2:03.226
45 GT4 470 Germany WS Racing 2:05.776
46 GT4 438 United Kingdom Simpson Motorsport 2:07.461
47 GT4 427 Germany SRS Team Sorg Rennsport 2:07.529
48 TCE 193 France Chazel Technologie Course 2:09.885
49 TCE 102 Germany AsBest Racing 2:11.478
50 TCE 110 France Chazel Technologie Course 2:11.770
51 GTX 702 France Vortex V8
52 992 Am 995 United Kingdom Toro Verde GT
Source:[5]

Race

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