🇫🇷 Philippe Bonnel

Philippe Bonnel is an entry-level professional racing in international multiclass endurance series. He competes in the 24H Series, where he drives Vortex machinery in the GTX and SP3 classes alongside semi-professional and professional co-drivers in a field mixing amateurs through graded professionals. He holds an FIA Bronze grade, the amateur classification in endurance racing. His primary team is Vortex, which has fielded 44 drivers and taken 20 wins across the index.[1]

Bonnel won the 24H Series championship in 2025, taking five wins and 24 podiums across 29 starts in the series since 2019. He made a single appearance in the Bathurst 12 Hour in 2024. His 30 career starts are concentrated in the 24H Series, a multiclass championship run across 13 countries and contested by amateur and semi-professional entrants alongside graded professionals in the same race.[2]

In the fields Bonnel races, he runs closely matched against semi-professional and entry-level professional regulars; he is evenly split with Daniel Drexel, a FIA Silver driver with 13 24H Series starts, and with Paulius Paskevicius, an entry-level professional with 14 starts in the series. He has finished ahead of stronger drivers including Roman Rusinov, a professional and two-time WEC LMP2 champion with 57 WEC starts, and Simon Birch, a FIA Silver professional with credentials in GT World Challenge Europe and GT Winter Series.