🇺🇸 Gunnar Jeannette

Gunnar Jeannette is a retired American sportscar driver and team principal with a Racer Rating of 4,333, placing him in the professional band; this denotes a driver capable of winning at national championship level or the sharp end of strong feeder series, beating semi-professionals comfortably. He holds FIA Silver status, the grading for a professional-level driver in GT and endurance racing, typically early-career. His record spans eight seasons from 2012 to 2023 across three major series, comprising 38 starts, 2 wins, and 4 podiums, with a mean finishing position of tenth.[1]

Jeannette's career centred on IMSA WeatherTech competition, where he recorded 24 starts and both of his career wins, and WEC endurance racing, where he made 9 starts and scored a single podium. His most frequent rivals were established professionals and Gold-graded drivers such as Bryan Sellers, Madison Snow, and Andy Lally; against this cohort, Jeannette compiled a consistent but subordinate record, finishing behind Sellers and Snow in 17 of 24 meetings with each. He occasionally surpassed much stronger Platinum-graded champions, including Nick Cassidy, Nyck de Vries, and Sheldon van der Linde, though these victories were isolated results rather than patterns. His last competitive stint came in 2023 WEC, where he finished thirty-eighth in four rounds. Off track, Jeannette has served as team principal for AO Racing, the team that fielded him for most of his WeatherTech entries and his final WEC campaign.[2]