🇯🇵 Benoît Tréluyer

Benoît Tréluyer was a professional endurance racer, FIA Platinum graded, who competed over eleven seasons from 2001 to 2016. He drove prototypes for Audi Sport Team Joest in the World Endurance Championship, the series where he made his mark with three titles across 2012, 2013 and 2015. Before establishing himself in WEC, Tréluyer raced in Japanese single-seater and sportscar series; he won the 2008 Super GT season with NISMO and took multiple podiums in both Super GT and Formula 3 Macau.[1]

Across his indexed career, Tréluyer started 73 times and finished on the podium 38 times, including 18 wins. His record in WEC, where he spent five seasons from 2012 to 2016, showed ten victories and 24 podiums from 39 starts, establishing him as a consistent front-runner in the LMP1 prototype class. In Super GT, a Japanese national endurance series where he raced from 2008 to 2011, he took eight wins and 12 podiums across 30 shared-car starts for NISMO. His career began in single-seater racing; he competed in Formula 3 Macau in 2001 and made a single DTM start in 2020. His final indexed season was 2016 in WEC, where he finished eighth in the championship standings.[2]

At the front of the WEC grid Tréluyer raced among the strongest endurance drivers of his era. He was closely matched with Loïc Duval and Kazuki Nakajima, both Platinum-graded professionals who were regular opponents across multiple series. He finished ahead of Naoki Yamamoto, who became a multiple Super GT and Super Formula champion, and outpaced Bertrand Baguette, an elite professional and former sportscar champion. Tréluyer's three WEC titles placed him among the top drivers in multiclass prototype racing during the early 2010s.