🇮🇹 Gabriele Piana

Gabriele Piana is a professional endurance racing driver rated 4,267, competing at FIA Silver level in international GT and sportscar racing. He drives for BLACK FALCON Team EAE in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, where he has been a fixture since 2014, and races Mercedes-AMG machinery for Winward Racing in GT World Challenge Europe and the 24H Series. His career spans multiclass and single-class endurance championships across Europe and Asia, with shared-drive cars typical of the format.[1]

Piana has accumulated 14 wins and 34 podiums across 103 starts since 2014. His primary output comes from the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, where he has 11 wins and 27 podiums in 60 starts, making him a consistent front-runner in that championship. He won the Nürburgring 24 Hours in 2019 and has taken three podiums there across seven starts, and recorded one victory and three podiums in nine starts in the 24H Series. In 2024 and 2025, he won the Michelin 992 Endurance Cup outright.[2]

Against the established professionals who share his grid, Piana typically finishes behind Platinum-graded rivals Maro Engel, 2024 GT World Challenge Europe champion, and Luca Stolz, both of whom race the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie and GT World Challenge Europe regularly. He has finished ahead of Nico Müller, an established professional with extensive DTM and Formula E experience, and twice ahead of Max Verstappen, the four-time Formula 1 world champion, in their limited shared entries in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie. He competes within Winward Racing, a team that has fielded 38 drivers including Verstappen and has recorded 42 wins across the index.