🇯🇵 Jules Gounon

Jules Gounon is an established professional sportscar driver competing at Platinum level, the FIA's highest grading within GT and endurance racing. His Racer Rating of 5,373 places him among the top tier of full-time professionals in that discipline. Across twelve seasons since 2014, Gounon has accumulated 18 wins and 50 podiums from 173 starts, competing primarily in GT World Challenge Europe, where he has scored six victories for Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing, and in IMSA WeatherTech, where he has taken four wins for GetSpeed. His career reflects consistent performance among strong fields; he averages a classified finish of P8.9, and his most frequent rivals are established Platinum-graded drivers such as Maro Engel, Raffaele Marciello and Dries Vanthoor, against whom he maintains competitive but losing head-to-head records across dozens of shared races.[1]

Gounon's record shows the shape of a driver who specialises in endurance and GT racing. He has contested the FIA World Endurance Championship since 2019 for Alpine Endurance Team without a victory, accumulating two podiums across 18 starts, while his venture into ADAC GT Masters in 2021 and 2022 proved productive; he won six races and scored seven podiums in 25 starts with Drago Racing Team ZVO. His more recent entry into DTM in 2024 has yielded three podiums from 17 starts without a win, placing him at the sharper end of that single-seater field but not among its front-runners. Occasional outings in British GT Championship, Asian Le Mans Series and the Bathurst 12 Hour have varied his portfolio, though these represent smaller portions of his racing activity.[2]

Gounon remains actively campaigning in both WEC and GT World Challenge Europe in 2026. His current season in WEC shows four rounds completed without a win, while recent headlines note pole position at Misano in GT World Challenge Europe, indicating continued competitive pace in the championship that forms the backbone of his professional racing programme.