🇧🇪 Charles Weerts

Charles Weerts is an elite professional racing driver competing in GT World Challenge Europe for Team WRT, where he drives BMW M GT3 machinery. Graded FIA Platinum, the top professional category for endurance and sportscar racing, Weerts has made GT3 racing his principal focus across a decade of competitive starts. He holds four GT World Challenge Europe championships with Team WRT, winning the title in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2025.[1]

Across 165 starts in indexed racing, Weerts has taken 26 wins and 62 podiums, the vast majority from GT World Challenge Europe. In that series alone, from 102 starts he has secured 22 wins and 51 podiums, establishing himself as a mainstay of the championship. His career began in ADAC Formula 4 in 2017, where he took a single win across two seasons before moving to GT racing. He has also contested multiclass endurance racing in the 24H Series and at Bathurst and the Nürburgring, taking a win in the 2024–2026 cycle of the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring and adding podiums in each venue.[2]

In GT World Challenge Europe, Weerts runs alongside established professionals and former champions. He is closely matched with Maro Engel, the 2024 series champion, a Platinum-graded driver with 89 starts in the series and experience across DTM and the Nürburgring endurance calendar. Against Christopher Haase, a fellow Platinum-graded professional with 84 series starts, Weerts typically finishes ahead. He has also beaten Max Verstappen twice in Nürburgring endurance racing, a generational talent from Formula 1; Liam Lawson, an elite professional from Formula 2 and Formula 1, eight times across shared endurance machinery. Recent form has seen him take two victories with Kelvin van der Linde at Misano in 2026.