🇧🇪 Andrea Barlesi

Andrea Barlesi is a professional racing driver who competed in touring cars and multiclass endurance racing. He raced in the World Touring Car Championship for SUNRED Engineering in 2012, where he started six rounds, and later competed in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, a national German multiclass endurance championship mixing amateur and professional entrants, between 2014 and 2015 driving BMW one-make cup cars and modified production-based race cars.[1]

Across three seasons on record, Barlesi made eleven starts and took one podium finish. His most recent indexed activity was the 2012 World Touring Car Championship, where he finished 26th in the season standings. The touring car grid included established professionals; he regularly finished behind both Alain Menu, a driver with 178 WTCC starts across two decades, and Yvan Muller, a four-time World Touring Car champion. In his Nürburgring endurance campaigns, Barlesi was occasionally competitive against higher-graded opposition, finishing ahead of the FIA Gold graded Katsumasa Chiyo once and the FIA Platinum graded Hiroaki Ishiura once, though both were drivers with substantially more experience in national-level and top-tier international racing.[2]