🇯🇵 Bertrand Baguette

Bertrand Baguette is an elite professional racing driver with FIA Platinum grading, grounded in endurance and GT racing. He competes primarily in Super GT for Team Impul, where he has spent the bulk of his career across 98 starts since 2014, and holds the 2022 Super GT GT500 championship won with that team. His 5,857 rating places him among the stronger professionals active in the sport.[1]

Baguette's record spans 22 seasons across multiple categories. He began in Formula Renault Eurocup in 2005 and won the Formula V8 3.5 championship in 2009 with International Draco Racing, taking six wins from 38 starts in that series. He contested IndyCar in 2010 and 2011, racing mainly on ovals, and moved to World Endurance Championship racing with OAK Racing from 2012 to 2013, where he won twice and finished second in the championship standings; his victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans came in the LMP2 class during this period. Super GT became his principal focus from 2014 onward, yielding five wins and 17 podiums, including the 2017 Suzuka 1000km. He remains active in the series.[2]

In Super GT, Baguette races in a field of established and elite professionals. He has been closely matched against Yuhi Sekiguchi, a Gold-graded professional and 2021 GT500 champion, and Kazuya Oshima, a Platinum-graded driver and 2016 GT500 champion. He has regularly finished ahead of Sho Tsuboi and Tadasuke Makino, both elite professionals who went on to win multiple championships. Team Impul has developed into one of the grid's stronger operations, and Baguette's longevity with the squad through its period of sustained competitiveness has made him one of its anchor drivers.