From the 2024 season, Yifei Ye will be an official Ferrari driver. The 23-year-old Chinese driver’s sporting programme with the Prancing Horse will be announced shortly. Born in Xi’an (China), after his experience in single-seaters, Ye has competed in prototypes in various international endurance series over the last three seasons. In 2023, he debuted in the top class of the FIA WEC in an LMDh prototype, competing in five world championship races. The young man’s career includes three appearances at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Four titles in different categories stand out in Ye’s list of victories. The driver became the French Formula 4 champion in 2016, winning 14 of the 23 races on the calendar, and did likewise in the Euroformula Open in 2020 with 11 seasonal triumphs. In 2021, the first Chinese driver to join the Maranello factory team ended the year with two championships’ wins, both at the wheel of LMP2-class prototypes, in the European Le Mans Series and the Asian Le Mans Series: Yifei was the first driver to win both championships in a year.
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