🇦🇷 Nicolás Varrone

Nicolás Varrone is an Argentine professional sportscar driver competing at the established professional level, with a Racer Rating of 5,382. He holds FIA Gold categorisation, the designation for full professionals in endurance and GT racing. Since 2019, across seven seasons and 77 starts, Varrone has accumulated six wins and thirteen podiums, with an average finishing position of P10.3 across all classified races.[1]

Varrone's record is built primarily on endurance racing. He has contested the FIA World Endurance Championship since 2022 with TF Sport, recording three wins and five podiums from eighteen starts; this is his most extensive series involvement. He also competes in IMSA WeatherTech competition for Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports, a factory role that reflects his standing in the category, with one win and four podiums from fourteen starts there. In European Le Mans Series he secured one win and two podiums in eleven starts for AF Corse. Earlier in his career he contested GB3 in 2019 and 2020, accumulating one win and two podiums from thirteen starts. In 2026, Varrone entered Formula 2 with Van Amersfoort Racing, a single-seater switch that represents a departure from his core strength; across fourteen starts there he has recorded no wins or podiums.[2]

Varrone's head-to-head record among established endurance rivals is mixed. Against Julien Andlauer, a Gold-graded champion, Varrone finished ahead in seven of twenty-one shared races but behind in fourteen. He showed relative consistency against Sarah Bovy and Michelle Gatting, with comparable ahead and behind tallies in twenty shared races each. Over twenty-five shared races with Davide Rigon, a Platinum-graded professional and champion, Varrone slightly favoured his competitor, finishing behind in thirteen encounters against twelve ahead. In isolated instances he has beaten significantly stronger drivers; he finished ahead of Kyle Kirkwood, an elite professional, on five occasions, and has single victories over Maro Engel and Scott McLaughlin, both Platinum-graded champions. These occasional results against the top tier reflect moments of competitive performance rather than a pattern of sustained superiority against that level.