🇫🇷 Jean-Baptiste SIMMENAUER

Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer is a professional racing driver, graded FIA Gold, competing in international endurance racing. He races GT3 and prototype machinery across the GT World Challenge Europe, European Le Mans Series, and Le Mans Cup for teams including Inter Europol Competition and SMC Motorsport. His principal recent experience comes from multiclass endurance grids where he shares cars with co-drivers across formats ranging from single four-hour races to 24-hour events.[1]

Across nine seasons from 2017 to 2026, Simmenauer has taken two wins and six podiums from 93 starts. His record in single-driver sprint racing remains limited; the bulk of his indexed career lies in endurance championships where shared driving obscures individual pace. He won the 2024 24H Series GT3 class race for Team WRT and took a podium at the 2026 Bathurst 12 Hour in the SIL class driving GT3 machinery for Volante Rosso Motorsport. His other podium finishes came across the Asian Le Mans Series, Le Mans Cup, and the 24H Series again. In the GT World Challenge Europe, where he made 28 starts for Team WRT across 2022 and 2023, he secured one podium from a full season's racing.[2]

In the established professional fields he races, Simmenauer regularly finishes ahead of entry-level professionals such as Philipp Sager across shared competition. Against Thomas Neubauer, an established Gold-graded professional with 72 GT World Challenge Europe starts, he remains closely matched. He has twice beaten Nico Müller, a Platinum-graded established professional with substantial Formula E and DTM experience, and once finished ahead of Maro Engel, a 2024 GT World Challenge Europe champion who races at the same Platinum level. His active status places him in the current endurance grid as the 2025 WEC season progresses.