Ferrari has announced a contract extension with Lilou Wadoux.
The 24-year-old French racing driver has impressed everybody, since she stepped onto the big sportscar scene in 2022 with Richard Mille Racing Team. She made a huge jump back then, after “only” having driven in Alpine Elf Europe Cup, which is a GT4-like car. So the step up into LMP2 needed some coaching. Some of that coaching was done by Malthe Jakobsen, who taught her the art of LMP2 cars.
Wadoux made her FIA WEC debut in 2022, and was teammates with multiple Rally World Champion Sebastien Ogier. That wasn’t a big success, and the team ended shutting down after that season. But Ferrari was quick at signing her, and made her a Ferrari works driver.
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They didn’t have to wait long for the first success, where she was the first woman to win a race in the FIA WEC, which happened at Spa Francorchamps in 2023 in the GTE Am category – half a year prior to Iron Dames being the first team, with an all-female team to win, at the season finale.
She has been to Japan in the Super GT championship, before she won the 2025 Michelin Endurance Cup in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with the AF Corse team, who also won the GTD race at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, together with Simon Mann and Alessandro Pier Guidi. This was the first female driver to win in the GT category since Katherine Legge in 2018 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Wadoux had one previous win in the LMP2 category in 2024 at Watkins Glen, where she teamed up with Nicklas Nielsen and Luis Perez Companc.
The 2026 programme for Lilou Wadoux has not been announced yet, but the Richard Mille AF Corse team is once again on the entry list for the European Le Mans Series, without all drivers being named. She is not on the entry list for the IMSA opening round at Daytona, which will be run next week.
