Alain Valente and Luka Nurmi complete Emil Frey Racing’s driver line-up for 2024

Safenwil – Switzerland 08 th April 2024

Emil Frey Racing is delighted to have filled the last two cockpit positions for the 2024 season. The Swiss team has brought in the previous year´s ADAC GT Masters runner-up Alain Valente into the team alongside Jean-Luc D'Auria. Emil Frey Racing will therefore contest the ADAC GT Masters, which kicks off at the last weekend of April in Oschersleben, with a Swiss driver duo.

In the Italian GT, the young Finn Luka Nurmi will line up alongside Jasin Ferati, the 2021 Ferrari Challenge world champion. The AF Corse racing team will organize the Italian GT Championship, and the Emil Frey Racing Academy will support the drivers. The season starts with a sprint weekend in Misano on the first weekend in May.

Swiss driver Alain Valente debuted in the ADAC GT Masters last year after a successful stint in GT4 Germany. After consistent Top-10 results, three podium finishes and a race win at the Hockenheimring, the 27-year-old wants to build on his successes with Emil Frey Racing and is aiming for the championship title.

Emil Frey Racing has signed Luka Nurmi, an experienced Ferrari Challenge driver and Italian GT driver. The highly talented 19-year-old Finn finished runner-up in the Pro-Am class last year and is aiming for the title in the Pro category in the 2024 season. Emil Frey Racing looks forward to working with Alain Valente and Luka Nurmi.

2024 OVERVIEW CHAMPIONSHIPS and DRIVERS

DTM:

#14 Jack Aitken

#69 Thierry Vermeulen

ADAC GT Masters:

#14 Jean-Luc D´Auria / Alain Valente

Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup:

#69 Giacomo Altoè / Thierry Vermeulen

#14 Konsta Lappalainen / Ben Green

Italian GT:

Jasin Ferati / Luka Nurmi

TEAM QUOTES Emil Frey Racing

Lorenz Frey-Hilti, Team Principal: "We are delighted that our driver line-up is now completed with the signing of two more highly talented drivers. Both drivers performed well last season. We are excited and looking forward to the season together."

DRIVER QUOTES

ADAC GT Masters Ferrari 296 GT3 #14

Alain Valente (Switzerland): "I'm delighted to be competing in the ADAC GT Masters for the second year in a row. Last year, I was runner-up in the championship and would now like to build on these results again together with Emil Frey Racing and Ferrari. I am very proud to be part of the team. I didn't know my new team-mate Jean-Luc D'Auria before our first day of testing together, but I'm really looking forward to working with him. He makes a very good impression with enormous speed, and I think that if everything fits together, we can achieve something good. I'm hoping for a few race wins and of course to be right at the front at the end of the championship - and we'll do everything we can to achieve that."

Italian GT Ferrari 296 GT3

Luka Nurmi (Finland): "As runner-up in the Pro-Am class in 2023, I am obviously aiming to win the series in the Pro class. It will be challenging, but together with Emil Frey Racing we will work hard to achieve this. But of course, it's all about developing as a racing driver and the Emil Frey Racing Academy is the best place to do that. And I am very happy that the team will be working with AF Corse, a family that I have got to know very well over the last four years. It is always a privilege to drive a Ferrari. My favourite track is undoubtedly Mugello. I won the Ferrari Challenge world title there in 2021 and I've always been very strong there."