FIA World Endurance Championship race-winners Sean Gelael and Darren Leung will switch from BMW to McLaren for the series’ 2025 campaign, as the pair join forces with the incumbent Marino Sato in United Autosports’ #95 entry to tackle the LMGT3 category.
Gelael and Leung spent last season competing alongside Augusto Farfus in the #31 Team WRT BMW, triumphing at Imola and finishing runners-up in-class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
FIA Silver-graded Gelael – who began his career at the age of ten as a rally navigator for his father – rose through the ranks in single-seater circles before making his sportscar debut in the 2015-16 Asian Le Mans Series, winning both races he started. Alongside his burgeoning success in endurance racing, the Indonesian conducted a number of Formula 1 tests for Toro Rosso between 2017 and 2019.
The forthcoming campaign will mark Gelael’s fifth full season in FIA WEC and his second at LMGT3 level. To-date, the 28-year-old has achieved four victories, ten further podium appearances – including a brace of second places at Le Mans – and has twice finished as championship runner-up.
Former British GT Champion Leung – who additionally clinched the crown in the ‘Bronze’ division of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup last year – has accumulated an impressive haul of trophies during his four seasons of competitive racing thus far. The 37-year-old Brit reached the rostrum on his Le Mans debut last summer, and is aiming to build upon that early promise in what will be just his second campaign in FIA WEC.
United Autosports CEO Richard Dean is confident that in Gelael, Leung and Sato – who between them tallied one win, three podiums, four top five finishes and ten top ten results in LMGT3 last season – the team has a strong trio with which to head into battle in 2025.
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