🇪🇸 Marc Gene

Marc Gene is an established professional racing driver whose career spanned solo single-seater racing and shared-driver endurance competition. He raced in Formula 1 for Williams across six seasons from 1999 to 2004, taking 36 starts, and returned to international motorsport in the World Endurance Championship from 2012 to 2014 with Audi Sport Team Joest, where he competed in LMP1 and LMP2 prototypes in multiclass endurance races.[1]

Gene's single-seater career began in 1997 with four International Formula 3000 starts before his move to Formula 1 with Williams. His F1 tenure yielded no wins or podiums across 36 races in what was a field mixing professionals and semi-professionals at various career stages. He then spent several years away from indexed competition before a return to racing in the World Endurance Championship. In that series he took one win and four additional podium finishes from six starts, closing his racing career with a points position in the 2014 WEC standings after competing in two rounds.[2]

Against the established professionals he met regularly, Gene proved closely matched with Alexander Wurz, a driver with 69 Formula 1 starts and extensive WEC experience, while typically finishing behind David Coulthard, a more accomplished single-seater racer with 247 F1 starts. His record included isolated victories against stronger opposition; he beat Fernando Alonso once across their meetings, the two-time Formula 1 champion and 2018 WEC LMP1 champion, and Mark Webber once, the 2016 WEC LMP1 champion. Most of his Formula 1 career was spent with Minardi, a team that fielded 37 drivers across the indexed database with no race wins, its strongest driver being Alonso.