🇮🇹 Riccardo Pera

Riccardo Pera is a professional endurance racing driver competing for Manthey 1st Phorm in the FIA World Endurance Championship's LMGT3 class, where he drove a Porsche 911 GT3 R. He holds FIA Silver grading, placing him among drivers developing towards the full-professional grades. His racing spans nine seasons from 2018 to 2026 across multiple international endurance series, including the World Endurance Championship, European Le Mans Series, Asian Le Mans Series, and GT World Challenge Europe.[1]

Pera won the 2025 WEC championship with Manthey 1st Phorm, his first title in the series. In 2026 he has taken three podiums from six rounds so far and currently sits seventh in the championship standings. Across his career he has taken 4 wins and 21 podiums from 85 starts. His strongest finishes came in European Le Mans Series, where he scored four podiums in twelve starts with GR Racing across 2024 and 2025, and in a single IMSA WeatherTech outing in 2026 where he won and took a second podium from five starts. He also scored a podium in the Le Mans Cup in 2019.[2]

Pera races regularly against established professionals in shared-car grids where amateurs and semi-professionals compete alongside graded drivers. He has been closely matched with Charlie Eastwood, a professional and FIA Gold driver who won the 2025 European Le Mans Series LMGT3 title, and with Francesco Castellacci, an FIA Silver professional with 74 WEC starts. Among stronger opposition, he has finished ahead of Matt Campbell, an FIA Platinum established professional and 2025 IMSA WeatherTech GTP champion, twice, and has beaten Scott McLaughlin, an FIA Platinum elite professional and two-time Supercars champion, once.