🇦🇷 José María López

José María López is an established professional and FIA Platinum-graded driver competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Akkodis ASP, racing LMP2 prototypes in a shared endurance format. Across 21 seasons since 2004, he has taken 49 wins and 101 podiums from 262 starts in international motorsport, building a career largely defined by sustained success in two distinct disciplines: touring cars and prototype endurance racing.[1]

López won three consecutive World Touring Car Championships with Citroën between 2014 and 2016, taking 29 wins and 48 podiums across 72 starts in that series. His move to the World Endurance Championship in 2017 established him at the highest level of prototype racing; he has since recorded 17 wins and 35 podiums from 65 starts for Akkodis ASP and won the 2021 WEC title with Toyota Gazoo Racing. That championship included victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, making him the second Argentine driver to claim that race in the modern era. He has also raced Formula E, taking two podiums across 23 entries, and earlier in his career competed in junior single-seater series including GP2, where he took one win from 27 starts.[2]

In touring cars, López regularly finished ahead of established professionals including Robert Huff, the 2012 World Touring Car Championship winner, and Tiago Monteiro, a Gold-graded driver with Formula 1 experience. His record in Formula E and the early single-seater ranks included finishes ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, both multiple Formula 1 champions, though in fields that mixed competitors of widely varying experience.