Marciello will deliver the curtain down on a six-season stint as a manufacturing unit driver with Mercedes on this weekend’s fifth version of the FIA GT World Cup in Macau, having first joined the German producer’s works roster in 2018.
The Italian pays tribute to Mercedes by sporting a particular black-and-silver helmet livery on the Guia Circuit, which can carry the marque’s well-known Three-Pointed Star image and footage of a few of his race-winning vehicles.
Marciello has additionally inscribed the phrase ‘Danke’ – German for ‘thanks’ – on prime of his helmet together with the names of all of the groups he has raced with throughout his time with Mercedes.
“I’m touched,” mentioned Marciello after his farewell was introduced throughout Mercedes’ end-of-season ‘Champions United’ occasion.
“As a farewell current I used to be given the Spa-winning automobile I drove as a mannequin automobile and AMG made a cool, very emotional movie for me.
“All of us had one other nice night collectively. I am very grateful to Mercedes-AMG as a result of with out them I would not be right here now.”
The information of Marciello’s exit from Mercedes comes forward of the anticipated announcement about him becoming a member of rival luxurious automobile marque BMW to drive the M Hybrid V8 within the World Endurance Championship and/or the IMSA SportsCar Championship subsequent yr.
The 28-year-old is known to have initially been becoming a member of Lamborghini for its personal top-level prototype undertaking with a Ligier-based LMDH automobile, before BMW stepped in to lure him away for its expanded 2024 programme.
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Marciello, Timur Boguslavskiy and Jules Gounon received the GT World Problem Europe Endurance Cup this yr
BMW has already been racing in IMSA’s GTP class this yr with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing and can take its Dallara LMP2-based LMDh contender to WEC subsequent yr in a programme run in affiliation with WRT.
Marciello will be a part of BMW after an illustrious GT profession that has seen him take a number of GT World Problem Europe titles, the 2022 GT Masters title together with outright honours on the Spa 24 Hours in 2022 and within the 2019 FIA GT World Cup.
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He made his debut in a prototype within the Daytona 24 Hours with a Excessive Class Racing ORECA within the LMP2 class.
His present contract with Mercedes was at all times as a consequence of expire on the finish of the 2023 season, Marciello having signed a three-year deal masking the 2021 to 2023 campaigns.