🇦🇹 Clemens Schmid

Clemens Schmid is a Silver-graded professional sportscar driver with a Racer Rating of 4,447, placing him among professional-level competitors typically early in their endurance racing career. His rating reflects the standard of the field he competes in; he finishes on average in the mid-pack and has built a record against established professionals, though typically from behind. Schmid races for teams fielding drivers of proven calibre; GRT Grasser Racing Team, where he spent much of his early sportscar career, has won races across the sport and fielded stronger drivers than him, yet he has appeared consistently enough to accumulate results against elite company.[1]

Schmid's breakthrough came in the World Endurance Championship starting in 2024, where he has earned both of his career wins and all of his podium finishes across 15 starts. This shift to WEC has marked a genuine step up from his previous campaigns in GT World Challenge Europe and ADAC GT Masters, where he completed over 50 starts without a podium. His head-to-head record across multiple seasons shows him consistently finishing behind Platinum-graded drivers who are among the strongest in endurance racing; he has raced 62 times alongside Maro Engel, a former champion rated at Platinum, finishing ahead just 11 times and behind 51. Similar patterns hold against other elite rivals such as Mirko Bortolotti and Luca Stolz. However, Schmid has occasionally beaten some of the strongest drivers in the sport; he has finished ahead of multiple Platinum-graded champions including Charles Weerts four times and Thomas Preining on six occasions, though these results remain exceptions rather than a consistent pattern.[2]

His career trajectory shows a driver who has spent several seasons building experience in European GT racing before finding success at the endurance level. Schmid's 2024 and 2025 WEC seasons included a podium finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2026, a race that sits at the pinnacle of the discipline. He remains active in WEC through 2026, continuing to compete at what remains his strongest competitive level.