🇮🇹 Matteo Cairoli

Matteo Cairoli is an established professional racing driver competing in endurance and sprint circuits across Europe and beyond. Platinum-graded under FIA classification, he races for Emil Frey Racing in GT World Challenge Europe and for Iron Lynx in the World Endurance Championship. His primary machinery comprises GT3 and GTE cars in multiclass grids where amateurs and professionals race together.[1]

Across twelve seasons from 2014 to 2026, Cairoli has accumulated 131 starts and 11 wins. His record is built primarily on endurance racing; he holds 46 WEC starts with three wins and 13 podiums for Iron Lynx, and 28 GT World Challenge Europe starts with four wins and 10 podiums for Emil Frey Racing. He has taken two wins in the European Le Mans Series and one at the Nürburgring 24 Hours. His recent activity in WEC sees him currently 22nd in championship standings after three rounds in 2025. A single-car campaign in DTM this year has brought racing on road courses in a mixed-level national grid; early rounds have yielded wins.[2]

In WEC and GT World Challenge Europe, Cairoli races regularly against Benjamin Barker, a Gold-graded professional with extensive experience across the same series, and Thomas Flohr, a Bronze-graded WEC regular; he is closely matched with both. He has finished ahead of Laurens Vanthoor, a Platinum-graded established professional and three-time champion across IMSA and WEC, and Scott McLaughlin, an elite professional who won the Supercars Championship twice and has raced IndyCar at the highest level.