🇮🇹 Davide Rigon

Davide Rigon is a Platinum-rated endurance and sportscar driver; his rating of 3,944 places him in the professional tier. This categorisation reflects a driver who competes full-time in GT and endurance racing at a high level but does not rank among the elite professionals who contend for wins consistently or beat much stronger rivals regularly. Over eighteen seasons and 196 starts, Rigon has built a career centred on the WEC, where he has raced for AF Corse since 2013 and accumulated 7 wins and 30 podiums across 83 entries. He holds one championship, won in 2016, and has extended his sportscar racing into IMSA WeatherTech, the European Le Mans Series, the GT World Challenge, and the Asian Le Mans Series, where he has recorded 5 additional wins and 21 more podiums. His head-to-head record against regular rivals reflects his position in the field: against Jonathan Adam and Gianmaria Bruni, both strong professionals, he has finished ahead more often than behind; against established champions such as Richard Lietz, Klaus Bachler, and Nicky Catsburg, the record tilts against him, though not by margins that suggest a gap in class rather than the expected result of sustained competition among professionals of similar standing.[1]

Rigon's single-seater foundation was modest. He ran six races in Formula V8 3.5 without scoring and contested seventeen GP2 Series starts from 2009 to 2011 without a podium, evidently finding his level in endurance racing rather than open-wheel competition. The bulk of his career has been spent in WEC with AF Corse, a pairing that has endured for thirteen years and produced the 2016 championship that marks his headline achievement. His record against elite-level drivers reinforces the calibre of his environment: he has finished ahead of Sergio Perez, an elite professional and former Formula 1 front-runner, on four occasions, and has occasional results against championship-level rivals such as Kyle Kirkwood, beaten seven times. These moments illustrate the nature of sportscar racing, where shared fields and team context can put professionals of different overall standing on the same grid; they do not establish him as a threat at their level overall. Currently active in 2026, Rigon continues to race in WEC and has returned to IMSA for selected rounds, maintaining the steady, professional career in long-distance racing that has defined his adult years in motorsport.[2]