🇨🇱 Benjamin Hites

Benjamin Hites is a semi-professional endurance racer from Chile, graded FIA Silver, competing in European multiclass and single-class GT championships. He races for BLACK FALCON Team ZIMMERMANN in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, driving BMW M240i Racing and Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars in shared-driver format, and currently holds a rating of 3,835.[1]

His career spans seven seasons from 2020 onward across five series. He spent his first four years in GT World Challenge Europe with GRT Grasser Racing Team, accumulating 31 starts without a podium finish. His breakthrough came in 2023, when he made his first run in ADAC GT Masters, also with GRT Grasser; he took two wins and three podiums from ten starts in that single-class championship. He raced the IMSA WeatherTech series once, with five starts in the GTD class in 2021 and 2022, and made two starts in the Road to Le Mans in 2022. His most recent activity places him in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie since 2024, where he has recorded one win and three podiums from nine starts in BMW and Porsche machinery. His career total stands at three wins and six podiums from 59 starts.[2]

He regularly outfinishes two established GT drivers: Andrea Bertolini, a three-time FIA GT champion with extensive experience across that series, GT World Challenge Europe, and the World Endurance Championship, and Chris Froggatt, who has logged 62 starts in GT World Challenge Europe. Among the strongest drivers he has beaten once are Kyle Kirkwood, an elite professional who won the 2021 Indy NXT championship and has raced IndyCar, and Charles Weerts, a Platinum-graded driver who won GT World Challenge Europe four times between 2020 and 2025.