Gianmaria Bruni has been a Porsche man since 2017, but it’s the first chapter of his sportscar career at Ferrari that he looks back on to pick a favourite team-mate. In his four years of sharing a car with Toni Vilander, the pair enjoyed great success, and enjoyed numerous collaborations outside their season-long campaigns in the FIA GT championship (2008-09) and World Endurance Championship (2014-15).
That the pairing was a good match is evidenced by their claiming two titles and as many Le Mans victories together – although their 2012 and 2014 triumphs could have been added to in 2011 and 2015 without mechanical gremlins interfering while leading in the closing stages. It also helped that during that time, Bruni says he and Vilander became “friends outside and inside the track”.
