🇫🇷 Valentin Hasse Clot

Valentin Hasse-Clot is an established professional racing driver, FIA Gold-graded, competing in multiclass endurance racing. He drives GT3 and GTE machinery for Racing Spirit of Léman in the European Le Mans Series and for Car Blanche in IMSA WeatherTech, with a primary focus on the Le Mans Cup and international endurance competitions. His career spans 12 seasons from 2015 to the present, accumulating 103 starts across multiple series.[1]

Hasse-Clot won the 2023 Le Mans Cup with Racing Spirit of Léman. In the European Le Mans Series, where he has raced since 2023 for the same team, he holds one win and three podiums from 20 starts. He has taken a further win in IMSA WeatherTech competition, adding three podiums there from 14 starts. The Le Mans Cup and Road to Le Mans, endurance formats allied to Le Mans itself, account for nine of his 22 career podiums across five wins. He has also competed in WEC, where he secured one podium in ten starts; in GT World Challenge Europe; and in single-seater racing early in his career with Formula Renault Eurocup and Italian Formula 4.[2]

His regular opposition in endurance racing includes Charlie Eastwood, a 2025 European Le Mans Series LMGT3 champion and WEC regular, against whom he typically finishes behind, and Davide Rigon, a former WEC LMGTE Pro champion and Platinum-graded professional; Hasse-Clot and Rigon are closely matched. He has beaten stronger drivers once apiece, among them Scott McLaughlin, a two-time Supercars champion and IndyCar veteran with Platinum grading, and Franco Colapinto, a Platinum-graded driver who competed in Formula 1. His team, Racing Spirit of Léman, fields established-level drivers and has taken 18 wins across the indexed record. For 2027, Car Blanche has confirmed a full-season move to IMSA GTD Pro with Aston Martin.