🇫🇷 Rino Mastronardi

Rino Mastronardi is a professional endurance racing driver, FIA Silver-graded, who raced for Iron Lynx across European Le Mans Series and Le Mans Cup competition from 2020 to 2021. He drove GT3 cars in the Le Mans Cup and GTE machinery in the European Le Mans Series, both multiclass championships in which his car was shared with teammates.[1]

Mastronardi won the Le Mans Cup GT3 class in 2020 and the European Le Mans Series LMGTE class in 2021, taking three wins in each series across thirteen starts. He took fifteen podium finishes from twenty-five starts across all indexed racing, including a single podium from three WEC starts. His record spans from a single FIA GT Championship appearance in 1999 to his final racing in WEC in 2021, where he finished fourteenth in the season standings.[2]

In the fields he raced, Mastronardi typically finished ahead of regular opponents including David Perel and Claudio Schiavoni, both established endurance drivers. He secured isolated results against stronger-graded professionals, notably a finish ahead of Franco Colapinto, an FIA Platinum-graded driver who has raced Formula 1, and Maro Engel, a Platinum-graded championship winner and established professional in GT World Challenge Europe with extensive single-seater experience.