On the day after the Bahrain 8 Hours, the final round of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2025, the Sakhir circuit will on Sunday, 9 November host the Rookie Test, offering several drivers the opportunity to test Hypercars and GT cars entered in the World Endurance Championship.

Lilou Wadoux will drive the number 51 499P, entrusted during the year to Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi. The Ferrari official driver will thus have the chance to test in Bahrain for the second time – following her 2023 experience – the Le Mans Hypercar of the Ferrari – AF Corse team. Taking part in the Rookie Test at the wheel of the number 83 499P fielded by AF Corse will be another official driver of the Maranello manufacturer, Alessio Rovera, who has already participated this year in the FIA WEC with the number 21 296 LMGT3 of Vista AF Corse.

Rovera, born in 1995, has so far collected one success in the FIA WEC (Spa 6 Hours) and two podium finishes (24 Hours of Le Mans, Fuji 6 Hours) during the 2025 season, and arrives in Bahrain lying second in the LMGT3 drivers’ standings together with teammates François Heriau and Simon Mann, in contention for the title.

In the sporting career of the driver from Varese, an official Ferrari driver since 2022 – who, besides playing a key role in Competizioni GT, took part in the development of the 499P in the months prior to its race debut in March 2023 – feature five overall wins and sixteen class victories (including that at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2021, in LMGTE Am), as well as the Drivers’ and Team titles in the GT World Challenge Europe – Endurance Cup clinched in 2024 with the AF Corse – Francorchamps Motors 296 GT3.

Wadoux, born in 2001 in Amiens (France), became the first female Ferrari official driver in endurance racing in 2023; in the same year she won the Spa 6 Hours together with Alessio Rovera and Louis Perez-Companc in the 488 GTE; in 2025 she clinched the Drivers’ title – alongside Alessandro Pier Guidi and Simon Mann – and the Team title, in the GTD class of the IMSA Sportscar Championship – Endurance Cup, driving the AF Corse 296 GT3.