The Martini colours will be back on track next season with GPX Racing. If the 2022 program is not yet 100% decided, GPX Martini Racing will be in GT3. 2021 was the year of novelties for GPX Martini Racing: a new technical partner, a new crew and a new title partner. The mayonnaise quickly took off with a victory for Mathieu Jaminet, Matt Campbell and Earl Bamber at the second GT World Challenge Europe meeting at Paul Ricard.

The rest was more complicated for the crew of the Porsche 911 GT3 R. With only two small points won at the 24 Hours of Spa two years after a flamboyant success, the team led by Pierre-Brice Mena, who now relies on ART Grand Prix for the technical part, has blown hot and cold.

2021 started well with a victory at the Dubai 24 Hours followed by a very good performance in the Asian Le Mans Series.

"Out of ten races in 2021, we have won four," Pierre-Brice Mena told Endurance-Info. "The ratio is good, but we still have a taste of bitterness. We know that the GT World Challenge championship is complicated. Out of five races, we have one win and three retirements. It lacked some ingredients to be 100% efficient. What's positive is that we had the potential to play for the podium in every race.”

The Martini Racing GPX season started with a puncture at Monza, then a victory at Paul Ricard, a rack and pinion problem at Spa, a track exit at the Nürburgring. Without a penalty, the championship could have ended with another victory in Barcelona.

"In Barcelona, we had to take risks and the car was connected a little too early to fill the tank," says Pierre-Brice Mena. "We didn't want to finish P2 or P3. The balance sheet for the whole season remains positive."

2022 will see another year of collaboration with ART Grand Prix. Martini will once again be the title partner of the team aiming for the Intercontinental GT Challenge or gt World Challenge Europe.

On the other hand, GPX Racing will not defend its victory at the Dubai 24 Hours and there will also be no Asian Le Mans Series in February.

In the long run, the 24 Hours of Le Mans remains clearly a goal to be achieved, but not at any price: "Le Mans remains on our shelves, but we are not the only ones. We hope to have the support of Porsche. For Le Mans, the two questions are: when? How? If we go there, it would certainly be in GT. We also have to look at what will be proposed in terms of regulation. We won't do it at any price."