🇮🇹 Valentino Rossi

Valentino Rossi, the legendary former nine-time Grand Prix motorcycle racing world champion, has transitioned to sportscar racing with Team WRT starting in 2022. His FIA Silver grading places him among professional-level drivers in GT and endurance racing; his Racer Rating of 5,452 ranks him as an established professional, the calibre of driver who wins regularly in strong fields. Across five seasons and 58 starts, Rossi has claimed three wins and twelve podiums, with an average finishing position of ninth. His record shows a driver competing credibly against full-time sportscar professionals; he has beaten platinum-graded champions including Maro Engel on six occasions, and has finished ahead of elite drivers such as Lance Stroll and Edoardo Mortara, though these remain isolated results against much higher-rated rivals rather than patterns of dominance.[1]

Rossi's racing has centred on GT World Challenge Europe, where he contested 40 races across five seasons for Team WRT and secured three wins alongside six podiums. His head-to-head records against the field's regulars reveal a mid-pack competitive level within the class; against platinum-graded professionals such as Charles Weerts, the multiple GT World Challenge Europe champion, Rossi finished ahead in nine races but behind in twenty-seven from their 36 shared starts. Against Christopher Haase and Patric Niederhauser, both platinum professionals, Rossi held roughly even head-to-head records of nineteen ahead and seventeen behind against Haase, and eighteen ahead and seventeen behind against Niederhauser. He also raced in WEC for fifteen starts across 2024 and 2025, earning four podiums without a win, and contested the Bathurst 12 Hour three times, recording two podiums. His 2025 WEC season yielded two podiums across eight rounds while finishing nineteenth overall.[2]