Berry joins Iron Lynx for WEC

Martin Berry is set to join Italian Mercedes-AMG partner team Iron Lynx for all but one of the remaining FIA World Endurance Championship races this season, filling the third seat in the No. 61 AMG LMGT3. The 47-year-old Australian racer takes over from Proton Competition co-owner Christian Ried, who took the wheel at Qatar and Imola as a favor for Iron Lynx after its WEC effort with AMG for 2025 came together extremely late.

The deal will see Berry make his FIA WEC debut at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps next weekend. He will then make his first start at the Le Mans 24 Hours next month, before also competing in the rounds at Circuit of The Americas, Fuji and Bahrain later in the season. He will miss the 6 Hours of São Paulo in July due to a clashing commitment. Ried is understood to be stepping back in for that race in his absence.

This adds to Berry’s current ELMS LMGT3 program with Iron Lynx, which got off to a flying start in Barcelona last month when he took class pole for the season opener.

“It’s a dream come true for me and another step on this journey that started just a few years ago. It’s good to be with Iron Lynx too, I feel really good in the car and the team feels like a family,” Berry told RACER at Le Castellet ahead of the second round of the ELMS season, which airs live on RACER Network starting at 5:35am ET on Sunday. “I’ve got a 16-year-old son who just started F4, and the big dream is to maybe do Le Mans together one day.”