🇫🇷 Jean-Karl Vernay

Jean-Karl Vernay is a French driver whose career has spanned open-wheel and touring car competition before a move into endurance racing. Coming up through Indy Lights, where he claimed the 2010 championship, Vernay later built a strong reputation in touring cars, winning the 2017 TCR International Series title and going on to compete in the World Touring Car Cup, where he finished fifth in the 2018 standings and took the WTCR Trophy in 2020. That background in production-based touring car racing established him as an experienced and versatile competitor before his current involvement with the World Endurance Championship.[1]

In the WEC, Vernay is now listed as retired after competing for Isotta Fraschini. Across his time in the series he made 5 career starts without recording a win or a podium finish, and he has not claimed a championship at this level. His 2026 season reflected that same output, with 0 wins and 0 podiums from 5 rounds and a final position of P51 in the standings. Racer DB assigns him a Racer Rating of 6,254, placing him 124th among active drivers on the platform's Elo-style scale, a figure that reflects a career built largely on his touring car and open-wheel achievements rather than results accumulated in endurance racing.[2]