🇯🇵 Christian Klien

Christian Klien is an entry-level professional racing driver, FIA Platinum graded, competing in endurance and sportscar racing. He races primarily for JP Motorsport in GT World Challenge Europe, a single-class championship mixing amateur and professional drivers in shared-car endurance format, and has recently taken solo drives in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie for Eastalent Racing Team.[1]

Klien's indexed career spans 22 years from 2003 to 2025, beginning with 16 starts in Formula 3 Euro Series in 2003, where he took three wins and eight podiums. Since 2014 he has raced in endurance and sportscar championships; a three-start stint in WEC in 2014–2015 left him 15th in the season standings. His longest recent commitment has been GT World Challenge Europe, where he has contested 20 rounds across four seasons from 2020 to 2023, alongside shorter stints in DTM, ADAC GT Masters, Super GT, 24H Series, and the Nürburgring 24 Hours.[2]

In regular competition against elite professionals including the 2016 WEC LMP1 champion Mark Webber and two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso, Klien has been closely matched with Webber across shared rounds and usually finishes behind Alonso. He has on occasion finished ahead of Nico Rosberg, the 2016 Formula 1 champion, in their meetings. His Formula 1 career placed him among drivers fielded by Red Bull, a team that has won 131 races and whose roster has included Max Verstappen.