🇯🇵 Benoît Tréluyer

Benoît Tréluyer was an established professional endurance racing driver, rated Platinum by the FIA. He spent the bulk of his career in the World Endurance Championship with Audi Sport Team Joest, driving LMP1 prototypes in a series that mixed professional and amateur competitors across five classes. He also raced multiclass endurance in Super GT, where he shared a purpose-built GT500 car with teammates for NISMO, and made single-seater appearances in Formula 3 and DTM.[1]

Tréluyer won three WEC world championships with Audi in 2012, 2013 and 2015, taking 10 wins and 24 podiums across 39 starts in the series from 2012 to 2016. He was also a three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In Super GT, he took 8 wins and 12 podiums in 32 starts for NISMO between 2008 and 2011. His earliest indexed appearances came in Formula 3 at Macau in 2001, where he took two podiums in three races. A single DTM start in 2020 rounded out a career of 75 starts across four series.[2]

The company he kept in endurance racing was strong. Tréluyer was a regular and closely matched opponent of Loïc Duval, a Platinum-graded professional and 2010 Super GT GT500 champion with extensive experience across WEC, DTM and Super GT. He also raced frequently alongside Björn Wirdheim, a fellow established professional and 2003 International Formula 3000 champion. He finished ahead of Nico Hülkenberg, an elite professional and double champion in junior single-seaters, in their only meeting. Over eight WEC races against Mark Webber, a former Formula 1 driver and 2016 WEC LMP1 champion, Tréluyer took eight finishes ahead of him.