🇲🇨 Arthur Leclerc

Arthur Leclerc is an established professional racing driver, rated 5,831, competing in international GT and endurance racing. He holds the FIA Gold grading, the second-highest tier in sportscar competition. Leclerc races for AF Corse in the GT World Challenge Europe, piloting a GT3 car, and has also competed in IMSA WeatherTech and the European Le Mans Series in LMP2 prototypes. His career spans seven seasons from ADAC Formula 4 through the single-seater ladder to sports-cars, with 111 starts across multiple series.[1]

His path through the junior categories showed steady progress. In ADAC Formula 4, he took a win among eight podiums in 17 starts. He graduated to Formula 3, where he won three races and claimed five podiums from 38 starts for Prema Racing, the team that fielded his brother Charles. A season in Formula 2 in 2023 yielded one podium from 26 starts. He then moved to endurance racing, winning once in the European Le Mans Series in 2024 before shifting focus to GT World Challenge Europe in 2025 and 2026, where he has taken one win and two podiums from 23 starts. He has also competed in IMSA WeatherTech, his first entry in that series coming in 2025.[2]

Throughout his junior single-seater years, Leclerc ran consistently against established professionals. He matched Roman Staněk and Jak Crawford, both established professionals with extensive careers in Formula 2 and Formula 3, closely enough that neither driver gained clear superiority over the other. In the GT World Challenge Europe, he operates in a grid that includes former and current professional endurance racers. Kyle Kirkwood, an elite professional and multiple-series champion, was on a GT grid Leclerc raced; Leclerc finished ahead of him once. His record shows a professional operating at the level his Gold grading reflects, sustained across multiple categories of racing and in competition with drivers of comparable or stronger standing.