🇦🇹 Philipp Baron

Philipp Baron is a professional driver competing in international multiclass endurance and single-class sports car racing. He races Ferrari 488 and 296 Challenge cars in the Ferrari Challenge P class for Gohm Motorsport - Baron Racing Team, and shares a GT3 car in the 24H Series' multiclass endurance championship for Baron Motorsport. He holds an FIA Bronze grade, the amateur classification within endurance racing that typically denotes drivers racing alongside professionals.[1]

Baron's racing record spans from 2003 to the present. He contested 30 starts in Formula 3 Euro Series in 2003 and 2004 with Team Ghinzani, a field including amateurs and professionals. Since 2022 he has raced the 24H Series, a multiclass endurance championship across 13 countries where he has taken one win and two podiums from four starts. In Ferrari Challenge, his principal series, he has won once and taken seven podiums from twelve starts across the 2024 season, finishing third in the championship standings. His career totals stand at 46 starts, 2 wins, and 9 podiums.[2]

Baron regularly competes against established professionals; he has raced Robert Kubica and Nicolas Lapierre repeatedly in endurance competition and typically finishes behind both. In Ferrari Challenge he races in a field that draws from amateur and semi-professional entrants up to graded professionals in the same class. He finished ahead of Lewis Hamilton once during his early career in Formula 3 Euro Series, and beat Nico Rosberg once in the same series, though both encounters occurred early in careers that would carry both drivers to elite levels in single-seaters.