🇧🇪 Yani Stevenheydens

Yani Stevenheydens is a Belgian professional-level racing driver with a Racer Rating of 4,273, placing him in the professional band; this rating reflects a driver capable of winning at national championship level and beating semi-professional fields comfortably. He holds FIA Silver status, the professional-level grading for GT and endurance racing, denoting a driver early in a career at the top tier of sportscar competition. Across 39 starts from 2023 to 2025, Stevenheydens has scored 6 wins and 17 podiums, working primarily in single-seater feeder series before transitioning to GT racing.[1]

His record in French F4 across 2023 and 2024 shows consistent front-running form; 6 wins and 17 podiums across 37 starts establishes him as a race winner in that field. The calibre of his competition there is evidenced by his head-to-head records against drivers in shared races. He finished ahead of Taito Kato, the 2024 French F4 champion, in 8 of their 8 meetings, and ahead of Hiyu Yamakoshi and Evan Giltaire, both substantially stronger drivers by rating, in multiple encounters. Against a regular cohort of semi-professional rivals including Frank Porte, Leonardo Megna, and Jason Leung, Stevenheydens maintained a dominant pattern, finishing ahead in the vast majority of shared races. His average finishing position of P6.7 across all classified starts reflects his typical placement near the sharp end of the fields he has raced in.[2]

The 2025 Spanish F4 campaign has marked a step down, with two starts yielding no podiums and a finish of P27 in the most recent round. His current programme places him in the GT4 European Series with Elite Motorsport, representing his entry into professional-level sportscar racing; recent reporting suggests he has also prepared for a return to single-seater competition in the Eurocup-3 series.