🇨🇭 Alex Fontana

Alex Fontana is a Gold-graded professional racing in multiclass endurance championships and sprint GT racing. He drives GT3 cars for Lionspeed GP in GT World Challenge Europe, where he has competed since 2020, and races in the 24H Series and related international endurance events for TSUNAMI RT and Car Collection Motorsport. His FIA Gold categorisation places him among the top tier of sportscar and endurance drivers.[1]

Fontana's career spans 13 seasons from 2011 onwards across single-seaters and GT racing. He began in GP3 Series between 2011 and 2015 with 51 starts for Status Grand Prix, taking three podiums. His early career included one start in Formula E in 2014 and one in Formula V8 3.5 in 2015. He has since transitioned primarily to endurance and GT racing; GT World Challenge Europe is now his main series, where across 24 starts from 2020 to 2026 he has taken one win and four podiums. In the multiclass 24H Series he has competed four times since 2023. He has made appearances across the global endurance calendar, including the Asian Le Mans Series, the Nürburgring 24 Hours, and the Bathurst 12 Hour, and raced the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie four times.[2]

His regular GT World Challenge opponents include Jimmy Eriksson, a Silver-graded professional with experience across GP3, Formula 3 Euro and GP2, and Nick Yelloly, a Platinum-graded established professional who has raced extensively in IMSA and single-seaters including Formula V8 3.5 and GP3; Fontana typically finishes behind Yelloly but is closely matched with Eriksson. In endurance racing he has shared grids with drivers of vastly stronger pedigree; he has finished ahead of Max Verstappen once and ahead of IndyCar champion Alex Palou on five occasions, though in multiclass and shared-car endurance events where multiple drivers contribute to a single result.