🇲🇨 Stéphane Richelmi

Stéphane Richelmi, a Monégasque professional, raced as an established professional across eleven seasons from 2007 to 2024. He is FIA Gold-graded, the highest level in sportscar and endurance racing. He spent most of his career in single-seater formulae before moving to multiclass endurance racing; his primary team was DAMS, where he ran 39 of his 61 GP2 starts, and his most recent work came with Vector Sport in WEC and European Le Mans Series LMP2 prototype racing.[1]

Richelmi's record spans open-wheel racing in Formula 3 Euro Series, Formula Renault Eurocup and Formula V8 3.5, plus 61 starts in GP2 Series where he took one win and four podiums. He moved to endurance racing in 2016 and became a two-time WEC champion; he won the 2016 championship with Signatech Alpine and the 2018 title with Jackie Chan DC Racing. He took six wins and twelve podiums across eighteen WEC starts and a single podium in six European Le Mans Series rounds in 2024, his last indexed season. His career total stands at 128 starts, 7 wins and 17 podiums.[2]

His single-seater career placed him among drivers of high calibre. He beat Pierre Gasly, who later became an elite professional and 2013 Formula Renault Eurocup champion, on three occasions. He was closely matched with Nathanael Berthon, a fellow professional and FIA Gold-graded driver, whilst usually finishing behind Stefano Coletti, another professional and Gold-graded regular from his open-wheel years. In endurance racing he raced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the MissionH24 hydrogen-fuelled prototype initiative in 2022.