{"id":663516,"date":"2026-01-14T18:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/663516\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:25:24","slug":"valentino-rossi-de-retour-en-gt-world-challenge-europe-avec-wrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/663516\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentino Rossi de retour en GT World Challenge Europe avec WRT"},"content":{"rendered":"

L\u2019absence du num\u00e9ro 46 sur la liste des engag\u00e9s du WEC 2026 ne laissait que peu de place au doute : Valentino Rossi ne sera pas pr\u00e9sent dans la s\u00e9rie mondiale cette saison en LMGT3.<\/p>\n

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Une non-participation qui permettait de mieux cerner le programme 2026 du pilote officiel\u00a0BMW M Motorsport, qui vient de prolonger son contrat avec la firme bavaroise pour trois ans. L’Italien poursuivra son aventure en\u00a0GT World Challenge Europe\u00a0avec le\u00a0Team WRT, au volant d’une BMW M4 GT3 EVO.<\/p>\n

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L\u2019information a \u00e9t\u00e9 confirm\u00e9e lors de la pr\u00e9sentation du programme MotoGP du\u00a0Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team \u00e0 Rome<\/a>, moment choisi par le nonuple champion du monde moto pour \u00e9voquer \u00e9galement son avenir en GT3.<\/p>\n

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Sans surprise, Rossi rempilera avec la structure belge dirig\u00e9e par\u00a0Vincent Vosse\u00a0et\u00a0Yves Weerts, avec laquelle il entamera sa\u00a0cinqui\u00e8me saison cons\u00e9cutive \u00e0 temps plein.<\/p>\n

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Si sa pr\u00e9sence en GT World Challenge Europe est act\u00e9e, le format exact de son engagement reste \u00e0 pr\u00e9ciser. Aucune communication n\u2019a encore \u00e9t\u00e9 faite quant \u00e0 une participation en\u00a0Endurance Cup, en\u00a0Sprint Cup, ou sur l\u2019int\u00e9gralit\u00e9 des dix meetings du championnat.<\/p>\n

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La saison 2025 avait vu Valentino Rossi cibler certains rendez-vous majeurs, notamment les\u00a024 Heures de Spa – \u00e9preuve phare du calendrier – ainsi que le meeting Sprint de\u00a0Misano, o\u00f9 il s\u2019\u00e9tait impos\u00e9 \u00e0 domicile en compagnie de\u00a0Raffaele Marciello.<\/p>\n

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Avant de retrouver les circuits europ\u00e9ens, le pilote transalpin lancera sa saison 2026 d\u00e8s le mois de f\u00e9vrier \u00e0 l\u2019occasion des\u00a012 Heures de Bathurst, manche d\u2019ouverture de l\u2019Intercontinental GT Challenge. Il y partagera le volant d’une BMW M4 GT3 EVO du Team WRT avec\u00a0Raffaele Marciello\u00a0et\u00a0Augusto Farfus, soit un \u00e9quipage exp\u00e9riment\u00e9. Pour rappel, il reste sur une deuxi\u00e8me place en Australie, d\u00e9j\u00e0 en compagnie de Lello, et avec Charles Weerts en 3e pilote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Reste d\u00e9sormais \u00e0 savoir si Valentino Rossi sera en plus au d\u00e9part des\u00a024 Heures du Mans\u00a0en juin prochain. Bien qu’engag\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019ann\u00e9e en WEC avec une paire de BMW, Team WRT dispose encore de la possibilit\u00e9 de d\u00e9poser un dossier afin d\u2019aligner une\u00a0troisi\u00e8me M4 GT3 EVO\u00a0en LMGT3 pour la classique sarthoise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L\u2019absence du num\u00e9ro 46 sur la liste des engag\u00e9s du WEC 2026 ne laissait que peu de place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1586],"tags":[4208,4214,11,4198,4197,4207,4215,4209,4194,1777,674,4195,4211,4196,1011,27,4216,4201,4205,4200,4221,4204,4212,4206,4217,2191,4218,4203,4219,12,4210,25,4213,4199,4220,4202],"class_list":{"0":"post-663516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"tag-24h-nurburgring-vln","9":"tag-24h-series","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-adac-gt-masters","12":"tag-asian-le-mans-series","13":"tag-british-gt","14":"tag-club-des-pilotes-des-24h-du-mans","15":"tag-dtm","16":"tag-endurance-info","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-european-le-mans-series","20":"tag-ffsa-gt","21":"tag-fia-wec","22":"tag-fr","23":"tag-france","24":"tag-green-racing","25":"tag-gt-open","26":"tag-gt-sports-club","27":"tag-gt-world-challenge-america","28":"tag-gt-world-challenge-asia","29":"tag-gt-world-challenge-europe","30":"tag-gulf12","31":"tag-imsa","32":"tag-intercontinental-gt-challenge","33":"tag-le-mans","34":"tag-le-mans-classic","35":"tag-ligier-european-series","36":"tag-michelin-le-mans-cup","37":"tag-news","38":"tag-porsche-carrera-cup-france","39":"tag-republique-francaise","40":"tag-sport-paddle","41":"tag-super-gt","42":"tag-supercar","43":"tag-ultimate-cup-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}