🇺🇸 Patrick Pilet

Patrick Pilet is an established professional and FIA Platinum-graded driver competing primarily in multiclass endurance racing. He races for Porsche GT Team in the IMSA WeatherTech Championship, a professional series mixing amateur and professional entrants in shared-driver prototype and GT machinery. His career spans 21 seasons from 2004 onwards, with 178 starts across IMSA WeatherTech, the World Endurance Championship, the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie and several other endurance and single-seater categories.[1]

Over two decades Pilet has accumulated 16 wins and 53 podiums. His primary record is in IMSA WeatherTech, where he has taken eight wins and 21 podiums from 66 starts with Pfaff Motorsports. He has won at the Nürburgring in the Langstrecken-Serie four times and holds two wins in the World Endurance Championship from 35 starts. A podium finisher at Le Mans, he has also competed at Daytona, Sebring and Petit Le Mans, representing Porsche in major endurance campaigns across North America and Europe. His record in the WEC extends to 2025, where he currently competes; he has taken a first round of the season so far.[2]

On the IMSA grid Pilet regularly races alongside championship-winning professionals. He meets Antonio Garcia, a four-time IMSA WeatherTech champion and current GTDPRO title holder, and Richard Westbrook, the 2015 IMSA WeatherTech champion, on a sustained basis and remains closely matched with both. He has finished ahead of Kyle Kirkwood, an Indy NXT champion and established Indianapolis-car professional, three times across their meetings, and once beat Franco Colapinto in endurance racing; Colapinto holds Formula 1 credentials and competed in Formula 3 at the elite level.