🇵🇹 Pedro Lamy

Pedro Lamy is a Platinum-graded professional endurance racing driver who spent most of his career with Aston Martin Racing. His record spans 24 seasons from 1992 to 2020, with the bulk of his indexed starts coming in the WEC, where he won four world championships across two decades of competition. He also contested Formula 1 for Minardi between 1993 and 1996, becoming the first Portuguese driver to score a championship point, and raced single-seater and GT machinery in the years between his open-wheel career and his endurance specialisation.[1]

Lamy won the 1993 International Formula 3000 championship with Crypton Engineering as a semi-professional competitor, then moved into Formula 1 and Formula 3 Macau before transitioning to sports cars. His GT career began in the FIA GT Championship in 1997, where he took four wins and seven podiums across shared-car racing; he was the 2005 FIA GT champion with Larbre Compétition. The WEC became his principal series from 2012 onward, and he won 19 races there, taking world championships with Aston Martin Racing in 2015 and 2017. He also raced the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie and made appearances in IMSA WeatherTech and the 24H Series, collecting 50 podiums across all series.[2]

His endurance racing brought him into regular competition with a field that included professional and silver-graded drivers. Emmanuel Collard and Christian Ried, both multiple WEC champions in the LMGTE Am category and endurance specialists with extensive race records, were regular opponents; Lamy typically finished ahead of them. He also beat Mark Webber, an elite professional and 2016 WEC LMP1 world champion, on at least one occasion, and Alain Prost, a four-time Formula 1 world champion, once in their time on the same grid.