Nicolas Mélin is a racing driver from France who last raced in Le Mans Cup for Racing Experience. Mélin has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 13 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,394 ranks Mélin 6301th of 40,308 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2020-10-10 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza LMP3 | P10 | +8 |
| 2020-09-19 | LE MANS LMP3 | P8 | +95 |
| 2020-09-18 | LE MANS LMP3 | P8 | +97 |
| 2020-08-08 | Spa-Francorchamps LMP3 | P8 | +63 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +123 | BARCELONA-CATALUNYA 2019 | Le Mans Cup | P6 |
| +113 | AUTODROMO DO ALGARVE 2019 | Le Mans Cup | P6 |
| +98 | LE MANS 2020 | Road to Le Mans | P8 |
| +95 | LE MANS 2020 | Road to Le Mans | P8 |
| +70 | LE MANS 2017 | Road to Le Mans | P13 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ▸Le Mans Cup | Racing Experience | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P20 | +70 | 3,413 |
| ▸Road to Le Mans | Racing Experience | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +193 | ||
| 2019 | ▸Le Mans Cup | Racing Experience | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P12 | +194 | 3,212 |
| ▸Road to Le Mans | Racing Experience | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | −147 | ||
| 2018 | ▸Road to Le Mans | CD Sport | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | −194 | 2,956 |
| 2017 | ▸Road to Le Mans | Duqueine Engineering | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | +1,753 | 3,103 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Anthony WELLSFIA Bronze | 4,160 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 31% |
| 🇬🇧 Colin NOBLEFIA Gold | 3,754 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 31% |
| 🇫🇷 Jacques WolffFIA Bronze | 3,680 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 38% |
| 🇩🇪 Laurents HörrFIA Gold | 4,339 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0% |
| 🇺🇸 John SchauermanFIA Bronze | 3,919 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 36% |
| 🇺🇸 James McGuireFIA Bronze | 3,905 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 45% |
| 🇫🇷 Adrien CHILAFIA Bronze | 4,650 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 11% |
| 🇧🇪 Eric DE DONCKERFIA Bronze | 4,553 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0% |
| 🇨🇦 Garett GristFIA Silver | 4,337 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% |
| 🇺🇸 Maurice SmithFIA Bronze | 4,102 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 33% |
| 🇸🇰 Yann EhrlacherFIA Gold, 3× champion | 5,369 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇩🇪 Alexander MattschullFIA Bronze, 1× champion | 5,334 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇧🇪 Ugo De WildeFIA Silver | 5,181 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,291 | 🇺🇸 Matt Frahm | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,395 |
| 6,292 | 🇺🇸 Ryan Eversley | GT4 America | 3,395 |
| 6,293 | 🇩🇪 Tim Vogler | 24H Series | 3,395 |
| 6,294 | 🇮🇹 Angelo Negro | 24H Series | 3,394 |
| 6,295 | 🇨🇦 Cole Powell | NASCAR Canada Series | 3,394 |
| 6,296 | 🇨🇭 Enea Frey | Formula Regional European | 3,394 |
| 6,297 | 🇨🇦 Jean-Frederic Laberge | GT World Challenge America | 3,394 |
| 6,298 | 🇸🇪 Jens Edman | World Touring Car Championship | 3,394 |
| 6,299 | 🇨🇦 Jonathan WOOLRIDGE | Le Mans Cup | 3,394 |
| 6,300 | 🇺🇸 Mike Goins | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,394 |
| 6,301 | 🇫🇷 Nicolas Mélin | Le Mans Cup | 3,394 |
| 6,302 | 🇯🇵 Takumi Sanada | Super GT | 3,394 |
| 6,303 | 🇮🇹 Alessandro Giardelli | Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup | 3,393 |
| 6,304 | 🇺🇸 Bobby Gossett | SCCA Majors | 3,393 |
| 6,305 | 🏳️ Brandon Watson | NASCAR Canada Series | 3,393 |
| 6,306 | 🇩🇪 Peter Sander | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,393 |
| 6,307 | 🇬🇧 Philip Lindberg | Asian Le Mans Series | 3,393 |
| 6,308 | 🇫🇷 Philippe Levy | FIA GT Championship | 3,393 |
| 6,309 | 🇭🇰 Daniel Philip Wells | Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia | 3,392 |
| 6,310 | 🇩🇪 Leonard Oehme | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,392 |
| 6,311 | 🇺🇸 Luke Baldwin | NASCAR Truck | 3,392 |
Nicolas Mélin is an entry-level professional racing driver competing in multiclass endurance championships; his FIA Bronze grade places him among amateur and semi-professional entrants in fields that include established professionals. He raced LMP3 prototypes for Racing Experience across Road to Le Mans and Le Mans Cup between 2017 and 2020, accumulating 13 starts in four seasons before retiring from the sport.[1]
His record against the regular competitors he faced shows him consistently finishing behind Anthony Wells, a Bronze-graded professional with substantial experience across Le Mans Cup, European Le Mans Series and Road to Le Mans, and Colin Noble, an entry-level professional Gold-graded driver with 47 Le Mans Cup starts to his name. Mélin finished ahead of Alexander Mattschull, an established professional and 2022 Le Mans Cup LMP3 champion, twice across their meetings, and beat Matthias Kaiser, a Silver-graded professional with nine World Endurance Championship starts, once. His team, Racing Experience, fielded 16 drivers across the indexed series and won 8 races, with professional Gary Hauser among its strongest entries.[2]