🇫🇷 Esteban Masson

Esteban Masson is a professional-level endurance racing driver and a competitive amateur in single-seaters, rated 4,938 on the Elo scale; this places him among professional drivers who form the front-running tier of national championships or the sharp end of strong feeder series, though his record sits primarily in sportscar racing where he holds an FIA Gold categorisation. His career spans seven seasons from 2019 onwards with 91 starts across multiple disciplines. In French F4 in 2021, he won six races and ten podiums to claim the championship; this was his strongest single-series result. Since moving to endurance racing, Masson has competed extensively in the World Endurance Championship from 2023 to 2026, scoring three podiums across 15 starts, and in the European Le Mans Series from 2024 onwards, where he has established himself as a race winner with seven victories from 15 starts for Forestier Racing by Panis. His average finishing position across all starts stands at ninth.[1]

In Formula Regional European, a considerably stronger field than French F4, Masson failed to convert to wins across 27 starts in 2022 and 2023, finishing with one podium against Sainteloc Racing. This result shows the ceiling he encountered in single-seater progression. His head-to-head record against established rivals reveals a mixed picture: he has beaten the FIA Silver-graded Owen Tangavelou 24 times against 15 losses, and notably outscored FIA Silver-graded Matías Zagazeta 24 to 1 across 25 races; conversely, he trails fellow FIA Gold professional Maceo Capietto 19 to 26 across 45 shared races, and sits behind higher-rated drivers such as Roman Bilinski (5,909) and Lorenzo Fluxá (5,271). Against genuinely elite drivers, Masson has occasionally finished ahead: he beat Andrea Kimi Antonelli twice, and has single victories over Scott McLaughlin and António Félix da Costa, though these are isolated results rather than patterns.[2]

Masson turned to Super Formula Lights in 2025 with TOM'S, a team with a strong competitive record across its 34 race wins and 22 drivers, though his tenure there yielded three podiums from 14 starts without a victory. His 2026 campaign in WEC continues to progress through mid-year, where he has recorded one podium from four rounds and has recently secured consecutive pole positions in European Le Mans qualifying, including at Imola and Le Mans, signalling growing form in single-lap performance within the championship.