🇨🇳 Yifei Ye

Yifei Ye is an established professional racing driver in international endurance and sportscar racing, rated 5,813 on the Elo scale. He holds an FIA Gold grading and competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for AF Corse as a Ferrari factory driver. His primary series across his career have been Formula Renault Eurocup, European Le Mans Series, and the WEC, in which he races LMP2 prototypes and shared-car endurance machinery.[1]

Ye's indexed record spans eleven seasons from 2015 to 2026, with 130 starts across multiple series. He took the 2021 European Le Mans Series championship with Team WRT, driving a shared LMP2 car; in that title year he scored three wins and seven podiums from twelve starts. In the WEC, where he has raced since 2021 for AF Corse, he has three wins and four podiums from thirty starts. His earlier single-seater career included Formula Renault Eurocup, where he took two wins and thirteen podiums across forty-three starts for Josef Kaufmann Racing between 2017 and 2018, and a season in Formula 3 in 2019. In the current 2026 WEC season, he sits 13th in the championship standings after five rounds run to date.[2]

Ye has raced consistently against entry-level professionals throughout his career. He was closely matched with Alex Peroni across their shared seasons in junior single-seaters, and has regularly finished ahead of fellow entry-level professional Raul Guzman. In Formula Renault Eurocup he drove for Josef Kaufmann Racing, the same team that fielded Lando Norris during his rise through the junior categories; Ye finished ahead of Norris once across their overlapping races in that series. He has beaten Oscar Piastri, a generational-level driver and Formula 2 champion, on sixteen occasions in shared endurance grids where both drivers were part of multiclass fields.