🇧🇪 Alessio Picariello

Alessio Picariello is an established professional endurance racing driver, FIA Gold graded, competing across multiple GT and sportscar series. He races primarily for Falken Motorsports in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, where he has 18 starts, and regularly competes for Proton Competition in the European Le Mans Series and for AO Racing in IMSA WeatherTech. His machinery spans GT3 and GTE cars in multiclass and single-class championships that mix amateur and professional entrants.[1]

Across nine seasons from 2016 onwards, Picariello has taken seven wins and 22 podiums from 92 starts in indexed racing. He won the European Le Mans Series GTE class in 2020 and 2023, and holds the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup overall title from 2025. His most recent indexed campaign was the 2023 WEC, where he finished 12th in the championship standings with one podium across the seven rounds. He has won races in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, ELMS, GT World Challenge Europe, IMSA WeatherTech, Bathurst 12 Hour and GT World Challenge Asia, and contested the Nürburgring 24 Hours on six occasions.[2]

In the professional endurance grid, Picariello runs closely matched against fellow Gold-graded drivers including the World Touring Car Championship and IMSA regular Augusto Farfus and the WEC and GT World Challenge Europe veteran Davide Rigon, a Platinum-graded 2016 WEC LMGTE Pro champion. He has finished ahead of drivers who have won championships elsewhere: IndyCar champion Alex Palou on two occasions, and the 2021 Indy NXT champion Kyle Kirkwood five times, though both drivers' primary racing lies in single-seater series outside his endurance sphere.