🇫🇷 Sébastien Baud

Sébastien Baud is a French professional endurance racing driver competing at FIA Silver level, a grading for professional-standard competitors typically early in their career in sportscar and GT racing. His rating of 4,283 places him as a professional, though at the lower end; he has earned his place in the top-flight endurance championship through consistent work in GT racing rather than outright pace. Across five seasons from 2022 to 2026, Baud has made 34 starts in three series with two podium finishes and no wins. His average finishing position of P17.6 reflects a career spent in the midfield; he rarely contends for victory but maintains the consistency expected of a professional driver.[1]

Most of Baud's racing has come in GT World Challenge Europe, where he made 16 starts for Comtoyou Racing across four seasons without reaching the podium, competing against a field that included multiple champions such as Charles Weerts. His move to the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2024 with United Autosports brought better results; he scored both career podiums in 16 WEC starts through 2025, though these came in a significantly weaker field than he faced in GT. His most frequent rivals in endurance racing include established professionals such as Valentino Rossi, Alessio Rovera, and Mattia Drudi, all rated higher than Baud; he holds a losing record against each of them across 20 to 23 shared races, finishing ahead of them only occasionally. A 2026 campaign in IMSA WeatherTech remains nascent at two starts. Baud has made rare appearances among elite-level drivers, finishing ahead of Formula 3 champion Lance Stroll and Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin once each, but these isolated results against much stronger drivers do not alter the pattern of a professional career built on steady midfield running rather than front-running pace.[2]