Valentino Catalano is a racing driver from Germany who competes in Prototype Cup Europe for Gebhardt Motorsport. Catalano is a two-time champion (2024, 2025), with 14 wins and 34 podiums from 76 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,364 ranks Catalano 2302th of 40,349 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.
| 2026-07-05 | Nürburgring | P2 | +52 |
| 2026-07-04 | Nürburgring | P1 | +97 |
| 2026-06-21 | VIRginia International Raceway (AEC) P3 | P3 | −20 |
| 2026-05-09 | Circuit of the Americas (AEC) P3 | P3 | −1 |
| 2026-03-22 | Mugello | P5 | −103 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +174 | Lausitzring 2024 | Prototype Cup Germany | P1 |
| +134 | 4 Hours of Dubai 2023 | Asian Le Mans Series | P10 |
| +129 | LE MANS 2025 | Road to Le Mans | P3 |
| +128 | Sachsenring 2024 | Prototype Cup Germany | P1 |
| +122 | Norisring 2025 | Prototype Cup Germany | P1 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ▸Prototype Cup Europe | Gebhardt Motorsport | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 72 | — | +34 | 4,364 |
| ▸IMSA AirBNB Endurance Challenge | Gebhardt Motorsport USA Inc. | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +36 | ||
| 2025 | ▸IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge | GEBHARDT Intralogistics Motorsports | 11 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +273 | 4,294 |
| ▸Prototype Cup Germany | Gebhardt Motorsport | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 91 | P9 | +70 | ||
| ▸Le Mans Cup | Gebhardt Motorsport | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P11 | −316 | ||
| ▸Road to Le Mans | Gebhardt Motorsport | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +167 | ||
| 2024 | ▸Prototype Cup Germany | Gebhardt Motorsport | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 206 | P1 | +920 | 4,100 |
| ▸Prototype Winter Series | Gebhardt Motorsport | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P13 | −303 | ||
| ▸IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge | GEBHARDT Intralogistics Motorsports | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P10 | +37 | ||
| ▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | Adrenalin Motorsport Team Mainhatten Wheels | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P18 | −175 | ||
| 2023 | ▸Prototype Cup Germany | DKR Engineering | 12 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 130 | P4 | +16 | 3,622 |
| ▸Asian Le Mans Series | DKR Engineering | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +233 | ||
| 2022 | ▸European Le Mans Series | RLR MSport | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P14 | ↑50−237 | 3,373 |
| ▸Le Mans Cup | RLR MSport | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −83 | ||
| 2021 | ▸ADAC Formula 4 | BWR Motorsport | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P19 | +2,293 | 3,643 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Danny SoufiFIA Silver | 4,057 | 35 | 21 | 14 | 60% |
| 🇩🇪 Markus PommerFIA Silver | 3,678 | 26 | 13 | 13 | 50% |
| 🇩🇪 Jacob ErlbacherFIA Silver | 2,862 | 24 | 19 | 5 | 79% |
| 🏳️ Julien ApothélozFIA Silver | 4,321 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 48% |
| 🇨🇴 Oscar TunjoFIA Silver | 4,519 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 52% |
| 🏳️ Maxim Dirickx | 4,066 | 21 | 15 | 6 | 71% |
| 🇪🇸 Xavier LloverasFIA Silver | 3,966 | 19 | 6 | 13 | 32% |
| 🇮🇹 Riccardo Leone CirelliFIA Silver | 4,107 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 65% |
| 🇩🇪 Sven BarthFIA Silver | 3,974 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 82% |
| 🇺🇸 Brian ThienesFIA Bronze | 3,173 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 81% |
| 🇮🇹 Leonardo FornaroliHigher-rated, 2× champion | 6,605 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇬🇧 Taylor BarnardHigher-rated | 6,068 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇨🇭 Raffaele MarcielloFIA Platinum, 4× champion | 5,674 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 75% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,292 | 🇺🇸 Jon Wood | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,367 |
| 2,293 | 🇬🇧 Thomas Bscher | FIA GT Championship | 4,367 |
| 2,294 | 🇩🇰 David Heinemeier Hansson | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,366 |
| 2,295 | 🇺🇸 Jeremy Clements | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,366 |
| 2,296 | 🇩🇪 Tim Neuser | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,366 |
| 2,297 | 🇯🇵 Akira Iida | Super GT | 4,365 |
| 2,298 | 🇦🇹 Nicolas Schöll | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,365 |
| 2,299 | 🇧🇪 Sarah Bovy | European Le Mans Series | 4,365 |
| 2,300 | 🇬🇧 Donny Crevels | FIA GT Championship | 4,364 |
| 2,301 | 🇮🇹 Riccardo Paletti | Formula 1 | 4,364 |
| 2,302 | 🇩🇪 Valentino Catalano | Prototype Cup Europe | 4,364 |
| 2,303 | 🏳️ Abdulaziz Bin Turki Al Faisal | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,363 |
| 2,304 | 🇨🇭 Alex Rullo | Supercars Championship | 4,363 |
| 2,305 | 🇺🇸 Rod Randall | IMSA Pilot Challenge | 4,363 |
| 2,306 | 🇮🇹 Enzo Trulli | Asian Le Mans Series | 4,362 |
| 2,307 | 🇨🇦 Louis-Philippe Dumoulin | Porsche Endurance Challenge North America | 4,362 |
| 2,308 | 🇭🇰 Antares Au | WEC | 4,361 |
| 2,309 | 🇮🇳 Armaan Ebrahim | Indy NXT | 4,361 |
| 2,310 | 🇺🇸 Kenny Wilden | IMSA Pilot Challenge | 4,361 |
| 2,311 | 🇺🇸 Shane Hmiel | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,361 |
| 2,312 | 🇩🇰 Simon Birch | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,361 |
Valentino Catalano is a professional racing driver competing primarily in prototype sprint and endurance racing. FIA Silver graded, he races for Gebhardt Motorsport and its IMSA-based sister team GEBHARDT Intralogistics Motorsports, driving LMP3 and P3 prototypes across a mix of German national championships and international series. His rating of 4,364 places him as a professional competitor.[1]
Over six seasons since 2021, Catalano has built a record of 76 starts yielding 14 wins and 34 podiums. His breakthrough came in prototype racing; early seasons in ADAC Formula 4 and European Le Mans Series served as grounding, but his main career has unfolded in Prototype Cup Germany, where he took 5 wins and 16 podiums across 29 starts, culminating in the 2024 championship shared with Markus Pommer. That success translated immediately to IMSA, where he has contested 13 rounds of the VP Racing SportsCar Challenge and won the 2025 title. In that series alone he has posted 7 wins and 11 podiums, a strike rate that distinguishes it as his strongest campaign. His current activity includes four starts in Prototype Cup Europe and three in the IMSA AirBNB Endurance Challenge, from which he has taken a win and three podiums; he also claimed a podium across two Road to Le Mans entries in 2025.[2]
Catalano shares his regular competition in prototype racing with Danny Soufi, a professional and fellow FIA Silver driver who has won three championships across Prototype Winter Series and Prototype Cup Germany, with whom he runs closely matched; and with Markus Pommer, an entry-level professional and two-time Prototype Cup Germany champion with Formula 3 experience, also a regular and closely matched rival. His results include one podium finish ahead of Leonardo Fornaroli, an elite professional and reigning Formula 2 champion with 29 Formula 2 starts, and one ahead of Taylor Barnard, an established professional with Formula E experience.