🇨🇭 Raffaele Marciello

Marciello is an established professional racing driver competing in endurance sportscar racing at the highest level, where he holds the FIA Platinum grade. He races primarily for Rowe Racing in GT World Challenge Europe and for BMW M Team WRT in the FIA World Endurance Championship, driving GT3 cars in multiclass fields that mix amateurs with graded professionals. His record spans sixteen seasons from 2011 to the present, with 306 starts across multiple series.[1]

Marciello's breakthrough came in single-seater racing early in his career. He won the 2013 FIA Formula 3 European championship with Prema Powerteam, taking 20 wins from 46 starts in that series, and added a further six wins in the concurrent Formula 3 Euro Series that year. He progressed through GP2 with RUSSIAN TIME from 2014 to 2016, accumulating 14 podiums across 58 starts but securing only one win. Since transitioning to endurance racing in 2018, he has established himself as a consistent front-runner in GT racing. He won the 2022 ADAC GT Masters and the 2023 GT World Challenge Europe championship with Rowe Racing, taking 18 wins across 76 starts in the latter series. In 2024 he joined BMW M Team WRT for the World Endurance Championship, where he currently leads an in-progress 2026 season campaign with one win and two podiums so far from four rounds raced.[2]

Among his peers in GT and endurance racing, Marciello typically finishes ahead of established professionals such as Sven Müller, an FIA Gold-graded driver who has contested over 110 races across multiple GT and single-seater series. He runs closely matched with Christopher Haase, another FIA Platinum-graded endurance professional with whom he regularly competes in GT World Challenge Europe and the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie. Across his career he has beaten stronger drivers including Alex Palou, the four-time IndyCar champion, and Pierre Gasly, an elite professional and Formula Renault Eurocup champion, though such victories have been occasional rather than routine.