2006 FIA GT Champions AF Corse, to be known as AF Corse Motorola for the 2007 season, will be returning to defend their GT2 title with two Ferrari 430 GT2 cars piloted by four top drivers. For 2007, the nr 50 Ferrari 430 GT2 will be driven by Toni Vilander and Dirk Müller, while the nr 51 car will be in the hands of Gianmaria Bruni and Stéphane Ortelli.

Returning to the team after racing for them at the 24 Hours of Spa is Stéphane Ortelli. The driver from Monaco, double FIA N-GT Champion in 2002 and 2003, said he was very pleased to be back in the Championship after two years away. 36 years old, Ortelli has an exceptional record in the Championship. He has been on the podium more often than any other driver, with 35 podiums in all classes. He has 15 wins, including the overall victory in the 2003 Proximus 24 Hours of Spa, in a GT2 car. He also shares the lead for the number of pole positions (all classes) with Christophe Bouchut, at 11 to date. 

Toni Vilander also has experience with the team, having raced for them in the final round of 2006, where he finished second with eventual Champion Jaime Melo. The Finnish driver, 26 years old, won the Italian GT Championship with Scuderia Playteam Sarafree last year.  He raced in Mugello with Playteam’s Maserati MC 12, and qualified third, leading the race for the first hour. New to the FIA GT Championship this year, but a familiar face in the Super Racing Weekend paddocks, is Dirk Müller.
 

The German driver competed with success in the FIA European and World Touring Car Championships for BMW, finishing second  in both 2004 and 2005. This year marks a return to his endurance roots, as Müller won the Porsche Carrera Cup in 1998, the GT class of the ALMS in 2000 and has known endurance success, including the 2004 edition of the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring.

“This is where I started, really,” Muller said. “I grew up in long-distance races. For me right now, I’ve been made very welcome in AF Corse Motorola. I already feel as if I’ve been here for a couple of years.  To be behind the wheel of a Ferrari makes me really proud – it’s every boy’s dream. The level of the car is really high. The category is going to be very tough this year, and I’m really looking forward to it.”

The fourth member of the squad is new to GT racing, but has plenty of top-level experience behind the wheel. Gianmaria Bruni, 25 years old from Italy, has had an impressive career in single-seaters, up to and including Formula One, having driven for Minardi in 2004. For the last two years he has had a successful career in GP2.