🇧🇷 Andre Negrao

Andre Negrao was an established professional endurance racing driver, gold-graded by the FIA, who spent his later career in the World Endurance Championship with Alpine. He joined WEC in 2017 and remained with the programme through 2023, taking five wins and 24 podiums across 43 starts. Negrao also raced single-seaters in the 2010s, including Formula Renault Eurocup, Formula V8 3.5 and GP2 Series, before competing in Indy NXT in 2016.[1]

Negrao won the WEC championship twice, in 2019 and 2022, both times driving the Alpine. His early career in junior categories saw modest returns; he took two podiums from 40 Formula V8 3.5 starts between 2011 and 2015, competed in 38 GP2 Series rounds, and collected five podiums across 17 Indy NXT starts in 2016. His strength lay in endurance racing, where the consistency of his podium finishes across multiple seasons, alongside two world titles, marked him as one of Alpine's cornerstone drivers.[2]

Negrao's single-seater record placed him amid a field that mixed semi-professionals with graded drivers. He regularly finished behind established rivals such as Arthur Pic and Stoffel Vandoorne, who went on to compete in Formula E and Formula 1 respectively. He did beat Pierre Gasly, now an elite professional and Formula 1 driver, multiple times in their shared Formula V8 3.5 and junior racing, and finished ahead of Oliver Rowland, who became a Formula E champion, in their Formula Renault Eurocup meetings. His final WEC season in 2023 ended with a 20th-place championship standing across seven rounds.