🇨🇱 Benjamin Hites

Benjamin Hites is an entry-level professional competing in multiclass endurance racing at the Nürburgring, where he races for BLACK FALCON Team ZIMMERMANN in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, and also competes in single-class GT endurance series in Europe. Graded FIA Silver, he sits below the full-professional ranks in sportscar racing. His primary machinery across his career has been GT3 and GT4 cars, and latterly BMW M240i and Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars in the demanding 15-class grid at the Nürburgring.[1]

Hites has raced across seven seasons since 2020, with 61 starts and four wins. His record is built mostly on GT World Challenge Europe with GRT Grasser Racing Team between 2020 and 2023, where he ran 31 races in the pro-am field. He took two wins in ADAC GT Masters in 2023, also with Grasser, and has five podiums from eleven starts in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie since 2024, where he has won twice. He also raced the IMSA WeatherTech series in 2021–2023 and made two starts in Road to Le Mans in 2022. His most recent campaign came from the Nürburgring 24 Hours in 2024 and 2025 with PROsport Racing.[2]

Hites regularly beats Andrea Bertolini, a three-time FIA GT champion with 84 FIA GT Championship starts, and finishes ahead of Chris Froggatt, a professional with 63 GT World Challenge Europe starts. He has finished ahead of Kyle Kirkwood, an elite professional who won the 2021 Indy NXT championship and has 86 IndyCar starts, and of Matt Campbell, a Platinum-graded driver who is the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech GTP champion and has raced 46 IMSA rounds. His team, GRT Grasser Racing Team, has won 28 races across the index and fields drivers including the established professional Jordan Pepper.