🇫🇷 Jules Gounon

Jules Gounon is an established professional racing in international GT and endurance racing, graded Platinum by the FIA. He races for Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing in GT World Challenge Europe, where he has spent most of his indexed career, and for Alpine Endurance Team in the FIA World Endurance Championship. His primary machinery is the Mercedes-AMG GT3.[1]

Gounon's record spans twelve seasons from 2014 onward across multiple series. In GT World Challenge Europe he has taken 7 wins and 22 podiums from 63 starts. In the ADAC GT Masters he won 6 races from 25 starts; in British GT, 2 wins from 12 starts. His endurance racing includes 20 WEC starts with Alpine, yielding 1 win, and 23 IMSA WeatherTech entries with GetSpeed, producing 4 wins. Away from the major championships, he has competed in the multiclass 24H Series and the Nürburgring 24 Hours, winning the Bathurst 12 Hour twice in the PRO class. His 2026 season in WEC has brought him a win so far across six rounds, and he currently sits tenth in the championship standings.[2]

His regular opponents in GT World Challenge Europe include Raffaele Marciello, a three-time champion in single-seaters and GT racing who remains closely matched against him, and Maro Engel, who won the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe title and shares a similar level of performance. Gounon has finished ahead of elite-level drivers including Kyle Kirkwood, an Indy NXT champion with significant IndyCar experience, and Pascal Wehrlein, a Formula E champion and former Formula 1 driver, though these remain individual meetings rather than sustained head-to-heads.