🇧🇪 Ulysse De Pauw

Ulysse De Pauw is a professional endurance and circuit racing driver who raced across seven seasons from 2014 to 2023. He is FIA Silver-graded, placing him among drivers developing within the top tier of sportscar racing. De Pauw began his career in single-seater racing and moved into endurance and multiclass competition, latterly driving GT3 machinery for Boutsen VDS in GT World Challenge Europe and for AF Corse in the European Le Mans Series and WEC.[1]

De Pauw took 84 starts across GB3, GT World Challenge Europe, the European Le Mans Series, WEC, British GT Championship, and IMSA WeatherTech. He won five times overall: two wins in GB3 with Douglas Motorsport between 2019 and 2020, two in GT World Challenge Europe with Boutsen VDS, and one in the British GT Championship with RAM Racing in 2022. He scored 16 podiums in total. His most recent activity was the 2023 WEC season, where he finished ninth in the championship standings across five rounds.[2]

De Pauw's strongest work came against established professionals. He regularly beat Maro Engel, the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe champion, three times, and Charles Weerts, a multiple GT World Challenge Europe champion with four titles across 2020 to 2025, four times. In regular opposition, he usually finished ahead of Sasakorn Chaimongkol and Nazim Azman, both professional or entry-level professional drivers. Douglas Motorsport, where he spent the majority of his career, fielded established professionals alongside him and achieved 20 wins across the index with 34 drivers on its roster.