The WRT BMW squad has announce♍d that MotoGP legend Valentino🐼 Rossi will add the Bathurst 12 Hour to his 2025 car racing programme.

Rossi confirmed earlier this month that he would be focusing his factory BMW programme 🥂on the LMGT3 class of the Worl🌜d Endurance Championship.

Last year he did a dual campaign in the WEC and the GT World Challenge Europe with WRT🐈, but felt the amount of events he was doing was too much given his family commitments and his desire toꦿ have more MotoGP presence this season.

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Rossi said last year that he was intending to race in the Bathurst 12 Ho﷽ur endurance event - part of the Intercontinental GT Challenge - but nothing had been coꦆnfirmed.

WRT has now confirmed Rossi’s return to the event in a BMW M4 GT3 EVO, in which hꦡe’ll be partnered with Raffaele Marciello and Charles Weertz.

Rossi previously competed at the event with WRT in 2023 and 2024, taking a best of fifth o🍒utright last year in a BMW he shared with Marciel💦lo and Maxime Martin.

In an exclusive interview with mahbx.com, 🌠WRT team boss Vincent Vosse said discussions were ongoing with Rossi about doing some GT events outside of the eight-round WEC calendar.

“There are some pl🥂ans, there are some ideas, but they are not confirmed,” he said.

“But, of course, there are some special r🦩aces thꦍat he enjoys. Those kinds of weekends he loves to do it.”

Rossi made hiꦍs WEC debꦛut last year and managed two podiums in the #46 car he shared with Martin and Ahmad Al Harthy.

He will be reunited with Al Harthy in 2025, while double Nurburgring 24 Hoওurs winner Kelvin van der Linde replaces Martin in the line-up.

On Rossi electing to focus on WEC over the GT World Challenge Europe, Vosse told Crash: “E𝓡verything is coming from age, personal situation, professional situation. VR46, the company, the MotoGP team is growing.

“It probably needs a bit of special attention this year because they will have one new rider to the team [Franco Morbidelli] and they are entering a new era,🌜 I would say, as a team.

“Vale himself is also entering a new era because he had ꦐhis second child a few days ago.

“Probably he also feels that🅺 last year he did a bit too much💎 in terms of racing weekends.

“So, he wanted to redu🧔ce the number o🦩f weekends and we had to decide what would be the best for him.

“And discussing with him, we decided WEC would be a v💎ery good p🌄latform for him.”