🇧🇪 Stoffel Vandoorne

Stoffel Vandoorne is an established professional racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship, driving a Peugeot Totalenergies hypercar. The Belgian driver competes at Platinum grade, the highest FIA categorisation for endurance racing. He is currently active across multiple categories after a sixteen-year racing career spanning single-seater championships and prototype racing.[1]

Vandoorne's record rests on three championship titles: the 2012 Formula Renault Eurocup with Josef Kaufmann Racing, the 2015 GP2 Series with ART Grand Prix, and the 2022 Formula E World Championship with Mercedes-EQ. In Formula E, where he has spent seven seasons from 2018 onwards, he has taken four wins and seventeen podiums across eighty-eight starts; his most recent team is Maserati MSG Racing. His earlier single-seater progression included fourteen starts in Formula V8 3.5 in 2013, where he won four races, and forty-two Formula 1 starts with McLaren between 2016 and 2018. In the WEC, he has raced for Peugeot since 2019, taking eight podiums across twenty-seven starts; he sits seventeenth in the championship standings with five rounds completed in the 2026 season so far.[2]

Vandoorne's regular competition includes drivers of significantly stronger rating. He races closely matched against Mitch Evans, an elite professional and Platinum-graded driver who has competed in 116 Formula E races and seventy-seven in GP2 Series, and against Norman Nato, an established professional and Gold-graded driver with extensive Formula E and WEC experience. He has finished ahead of Charles Leclerc, a generational driver and current Formula 1 front-runner, on four occasions. His early career with ART Grand Prix, which has fielded ninety-nine drivers across one hundred seventy-seven wins, connected him to teams at the front of junior racing; George Russell, the strongest driver that team has fielded, emerged from the same programme.