🇧🇪 Ulysse De Pauw

Ulysse De Pauw is a Belgian professional racing driver rated 4,313, placing him in the professional band; this denotes a driver who races at the sharp end of strong domestic and international fields and beats semi-professionals comfortably. His career spanned seven seasons from 2014 to 2024, with 84 starts yielding 5 wins and 16 podiums. De Pauw's FIA Silver grading places him within the professional tier of sportscar and endurance racing, a classification for drivers typically early in their careers at that level.[1]

De Pauw's racing was split between single-seaters and sportscars. His junior work in 2019 and 2020 came via GB3, where he scored 2 wins and 12 podiums across 44 starts for Douglas Motorsport; his main rivals there were professional and near-professional drivers such as Kiern Jewiss, a 2018 British F4 champion, whom he regularly outpaced, finishing ahead of him in 21 of 34 shared races. The transition to sportscars saw him compete in GT World Challenge Europe from 2021 to 2024, where he took 2 wins and 3 podiums in 21 starts for Boutsen VDS. He also raced in the European Le Mans Series and World Endurance Championship for AF Corse, accumulating 12 starts across both series without a podium finish; brief outings to the British GT Championship and IMSA WeatherTech rounded out his record. His average finishing position across all classified races was eighth, and he occasionally beat elite drivers such as Platinum-graded multiple GT World Challenge Europe champions Charles Weerts and Maro Engel in isolated results, though he did not maintain a winning record against them.[2]

De Pauw's most recent activity came in the 2023 WEC, where he finished 27th in five rounds before retiring from motorsport. His final recorded start was in the 2024 24 Hours of Spa with Boutsen VDS.