Vicente Potolicchio is a racing driver who last raced in WEC for 8 Star Motorsports. Potolicchio is a two-time champion (2012, 2013), with 5 wins and 12 podiums from 18 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,587 ranks Potolicchio 1559th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2014-05-03 | SPA FRANCORCHAMPS · LMGTE Am | P8 | −37 |
| 2014-04-20 | SILVERSTONE · LMGTE Am | DNF | −35 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | ▸WEC | 8 Star Motorsports | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P48 | −73 | 3,674 |
| 2013 | ▸WEC | 8 Star Motorsports | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +108 | 3,747 |
| 2012 | ▸WEC | Starworks Motorsports | 8 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +139 | 3,639 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇷 Luis Perez-companc | 3,584 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 67% |
| 🇱🇺 Jean-Karl Vernay | 4,514 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 75% |
| 🇨🇭 Pierre Kaffer | 3,859 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 75% |
| 🇬🇧 Jamie Campbell-walter | 3,746 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% |
| 🏳️ John Martin | 3,658 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% |
| 🇩🇪 Christian Ried | 3,633 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 63% |
| 🏳️ Christian Zugel | 3,524 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 88% |
| 🇫🇷 Raymond Narac | 3,518 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 75% |
| 🇺🇸 Elton Julian | 3,516 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 88% |
| 🏳️ Tor Graves | 3,511 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% |
Vicente Potolicchio is a retired Venezuelan endurance racing driver with a professional career spanning three seasons in the FIA World Endurance Championship between 2012 and 2014. Competing primarily for 8 Star Motorsports in the LMP2 class, he accumulated 18 starts, five wins and twelve podium finishes, averaging a classified third-place result. His career peaked in 2012 and 2013, when he won both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring in consecutive years; he was crowned champion in both those seasons. By the Elo-style Racer Rating scale, Potolicchio ranks at the professional field level, placing him among the mid-tier competitors in a series dominated by former and active Formula 1 drivers and other top-tier international professionals.[1]
Against his most frequent rivals in the WEC, Potolicchio held a consistently winning record. He finished ahead of Jean-Karl Vernay, a Platinum-graded professional, in six of their eight encounters, and outfinished both Pierre Kaffer, a Gold-graded driver, and Christian Ried, a four-time champion, in similar proportions. His head-to-head against Luis Perez-Companc, another Bronze-graded rival, showed the same pattern across nine shared races. Over the course of his career he also defeated considerably stronger drivers on isolated occasions, including the two-time Platinum champion Bertrand Baguette and former Formula 1 driver Martin Brundle.[2]
Potolicchio's form declined noticeably in 2014, when he failed to score points or podiums across two final WEC starts before retiring from racing. His three-season professional career in endurance motorsport concluded with titles in both years he contested a full campaign.