🇬🇧 Benjamin Hanley

Benjamin Hanley is a British racing driver currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with United Autosports. Early in his career he was a Formula Renault 3.5 Series runner-up and a Renault Formula 1 junior driver, marking him as a promising single-seater talent before a lengthy hiatus from full-time competition. He returned to racing in 2016, shifting his focus to sports car endurance racing, and went on to compete part-time in the IndyCar Series across two seasons. His prototype experience also includes stints in the WEC's LMP1 class with DragonSpeed and Ginetta, giving him a broad background across different classes and machinery before settling into his current LMP2 program.[1]

At the top level of the record, Hanley has made three career starts in the WEC without yet securing a win, podium, or championship. In the 2026 season he has appeared in one round for United Autosports, without a win or podium, placing him P152 in the standings so far. His Racer Rating stands at 4,655, ranking him 666th among active drivers on the platform's Elo-style scale, reflecting a competitor who remains active in the sport while still building toward the results column at the WEC level. As an active driver with United Autosports, Hanley's ongoing WEC program represents the current chapter of a career that has spanned open-wheel junior formulae, IndyCar, and multiple classes of sports car prototype racing.[2]