🇦🇷 Juuso Puhakka

Juuso Puhakka is a professional driver competing in shared-car endurance racing; he holds an FIA Silver grading, which sits below the full-professional Gold and Platinum grades. His indexed record spans four seasons from 2020 to 2023 across three series: GT World Challenge Europe with Attempto Racing and Toksport WRT, the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie with Schnitzelalm Racing, and a pair of starts in ADAC GT Masters with Madpanda Motorsport. He drove BMW M240i Racing cars in the Nürburgring series and competed in single-class fields mixing amateurs and professionals with graded drivers.[1]

Puhakka made 24 starts across these championships and took two podiums. Both came in his final season, 2023, during his three starts in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, where he finished 19th in the championship standings. His primary employment was with Toksport WRT, which fielded him for thirteen of his starts and has fielded established professionals including the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe champion Maro Engel.[2]

In his regular competition, Puhakka was closely matched with Jules Gounon, an established professional and FIA Platinum driver with extensive experience across multiple endurance and single-seater series. He typically finished ahead of Andrea Bertolini, an entry-level professional and three-time FIA GT Champion, though Bertolini's record includes 84 starts in the FIA GT Championship. Against the broader field he occasionally took results against established professionals; he beat Maro Engel four times across their meetings, and once finished ahead of Nico Müller, an established professional and DTM regular with 81 starts in that series.