🇫🇷 Esteban Masson

Esteban Masson is a professional endurance and single-seater racing driver, FIA Gold-graded, competing across multiple series at the top tier of international sportscar racing. He races for Akkodis ASP Team in the FIA World Endurance Championship's LMGT3 class, flying GT3 machinery, and for Forestier Racing by Panis in the European Le Mans Series, where he contests both the LMP2 prototype and LMGT3 classes. He serves as reserve driver for Toyota Racing in Hypercar.[1]

Masson won the 2025 European Le Mans Series championship with VDS Panis Racing, sharing the LMP2 car with Oliver Gray and Charles Milesi through a campaign that yielded seven wins and nine podiums across the season. His endurance record spans 35 starts in multiclass competition across ELMS and WEC since 2023, accumulating three wins and twelve podiums combined. Earlier, he won the 2021 French F4 championship with six wins from seventeen starts and claimed a podium in Formula Regional European after twenty-seven entries for Sainteloc Racing in 2022 and 2023. His 2025 campaign also includes entries in Super Formula Lights for TOM'S, where he has taken three podiums from fourteen starts, and brief outings in Asian Le Mans, the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie and IMSA. In the 2026 WEC season now underway, he has taken one podium from six rounds raced so far and sits twenty-first in the championship standings.[2]

The fields Masson races in endurance carry established professionals and semi-professionals shared with amateur entrants, a format which tempers what the overall statistics convey; his championship win reflects both his own pace and his co-drivers' contributions. In single-seater racing, he has finished ahead of generational-level drivers including Andrea Kimi Antonelli, the 2023 Formula Regional European champion and current Formula 1 driver, twice, and elite professional Scott McLaughlin, a two-time Supercars champion. Masson races regularly against Maceo Capietto and Owen Tangavelou, both professionals or near-professionals with comparable career paths through junior formula and endurance racing, and is closely matched with them across the circuits and series where they meet.