For the MAK Sponsored Driver Jacopo Guidetti the time has come for the big leap into the ‘elite’ of Gran Turismo racing. After winning the overall title in the Italian GT Sprint Championship last year, the 20-year-old driver from Lombardy will face in the 2023 season a new challenge in the Fanatec GT World Challenge Sprint Cup, the prestigious continental series of SRO Motorsports Group that sees the best international competitors at the start.

A new chapter that will see Guidetti once again protagonist together with Nova Race, the team directed by Christian Pescatori with which he has been competing for two seasons now, and with his team-mate Leonardo Moncini, who will share with him the cockpit of the Honda NSX GT3 Evo also during the five stages that will compose the calendar of the next year. In all this, there will be renewed support from JAS Motorsport, which has confirmed its full confidence in the talented young duo that last year achieved the objective of the tricolour title.

“I’m really happy to be able to undertake this new challenge – declares Guidetti – and I can’t wait to start a path that promises to be demanding but at the same time very stimulating. With the Nova Race team we already have a consolidated feeling that allows us to work in full harmony, as well as with my teammate: for all of us it will be an ambitious step, since we will land in the highest GT competition at international level, but this should not frighten us given the good things we have been able to build in the recent past. I am really proud to be racing with the Honda brand in this competition, and I have to thank everyone who has expressed their trust in me: from JAS Motorsport for their irreplaceable support, to all the team members and sponsors who have believed in me. Now it’s about working hard and trying to learn as quickly as possible in a new and extremely competitive environment”.

Jacopo Guidetti’s season will officially start with collective tests, scheduled at the Paul Ricard circuit in Le Castellet (France) on 7-8 March. The season’s debut will instead take place at the historic Brands Hatch (UK) track on 13-14 May, before tackling the Italian round at Misano on 15-16 July. After the summer break, the engines of the Sprint series will be switched on again on 2-3 September for the German round at the Hockenheim circuit, before going to Spain on 16-17 September at the ‘Ricardo Tormo’ circuit in Valencia and closing the season at Zandvoort (Netherlands) on 14-15 October.