Ranking the top 10 Hypercar drivers of the 2025 WEC

With the World Endurance Championship grid growing in strength and quality in depth, it created plenty of opportunities for drivers to shine during the 2025 season.

And while this list is dominated by factory Ferrari drivers, the top 10 covers standout performers from a range of manufacturers and entries.

10=. Mikkel Jensen/Malthe Jakobsen

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Mikkel Jensen reinforced a position he has held since the start of the Peugeot 9X8 programme early on in 2025. He was again the standout driver in the French manufacturer’s line-up. But through the season a pretender for his crown emerged in the form of Malthe Jakobsen. The younger of the two Danes, who was still only 21 at the start of the campaign, came on strong through his maiden season in the Hypercar ranks. With his end-of-season performances, Bahrain in particular, fresh in the mind, it has propelled him into the Autosport Hypercar Top 10. The pity for Peugeot is that Jensen is off to pastures new next season and Jakobsen seems likely to follow him out the door at the end of 2026.

9. Earl Bamber

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When Jota took over Cadillac’s factory WEC entries for the new season, it seemed relaxed about Earl Bamber’s run of mistakes through the end of 2023 and the start of 2024 with the Ganassi. It was just about creating the right environment, it reckoned. Few teams are more of a true team than the British operation and Bamber thrived with the change in scenery. He wasn’t a match for Alex Lynn in the team’s sister car in qualifying, but there wasn’t much between them in the races. At Interlagos as Jota swept to a 1-2, the difference over 50 laps was just three thousandths.

8. Charles Milesi

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The Frenchman continued where he left off at the end of 2024 as the standout driver at Alpine. So it seemed only right that he should secure the French manufacturer’s first WEC victory with the Signatech-run A424 LMDh at Fuji. There was certainly a heavy slice of luck involved in the pits, but when the chips were down, he still had to deliver — and with only two fresh tyres under him — to secure the win.

7. Antonio Giovinazzi

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A brace of pole positions, fastest factory Ferrari driver at the Le Mans 24 Hours (as second fastest overall) and an impressive drive at Fuji that on another day would have all but given him and his team-mates the world title would ordinarily have put Antonio Giovinazzi much higher up this list. But over the course of the season, he wasn’t always up there among the fastest AF Corse drivers. But the margins were definitely fine in the Ferrari camp.

6. Alessandro Pier Guidi

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It might seem strange that Alessandro Pier Guidi makes this list — as well as the Autosport Top 50 — given that his mistakes arguably cost the Ferrari factory squad victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours and then made its life more difficult as it attempted to secure the end-of-season silverware at Bahrain courtesy of his nightmare race at Fuji. Yet those lows were outweighed by a couple of out-of-this-world performances of which Pier Guidi seems so often capable. He nailed his targets when he had to pull a gap on the sister car at Spa and somehow managed to haul his 499P Le Mans Hypercar back up to fifth at Austin after a puncture.

5. Antonio Fuoco

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Antonio Fuoco is no stranger to this list: he was #1 back in the maiden season of the Ferrari 499P. After a year’s absence, he makes a return with a more modest ranking. He had a strong rather than the superlative season compared with 2023. He falls behind #50 team-mate Nicklas Nielsen in the pecking order compared with the Autosport Top 50 which took his extra-curricular activities at the GT World Cup in Macau and the GT World Challenge Endurance Cup into account.

4. Nicklas Nielsen

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Separating the factory Ferrari drivers wasn’t easy and probably explains why, with four entries, they seem over-represented in this list. Nicklas Nielsen shaded his team-mates in the red 499Ps over the course of the full season by virtue of his consistency and absence of mistakes. There weren’t the highs of some of the others, nor the lows, just a series of high-level performances. Nielsen nails it race after race.

3. Kevin Estre

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Kevin Estre can be excused the mistakes in qualifying that left the best of the Porsche Penske Motorsport entries down the grid at the final two races. For a start, he made amends in his Porsche 963 LMDh at Fuji with a charge that resulted in a third-place finish that suddenly thrust him and full-season team-mate Laurens Vanthoor into genuine contention for the title. It wasn’t quite as good as the charge that propelled him up the order early doors at the Le Mans 24 Hours after more qualifying woes — not of his making, but the team’s. He was equally impressive at the end of the race, while his prowess in tricky conditions sealed victory in Austin.

2. Alex Lynn

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Three pole positions for Alex Lynn, not to mention another trio of top-five qualifying spots, with Jota on its ascent to the factory ranks was impressive. It seemed at times that he was dragging more out of the Cadillac V-Series LMDH than seemed possible, and not always when he was headed for pole position. Yet the Brit was much more than a qualifying specialist over the course of the season. Nowhere was his race pace more evident than at the Le Mans 24 Hours where he was a match for or slightly better than hometown hero Sebastien Bourdais in the sister Caddy.

1. Robert Kubica

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Impressive all year, Robert Kubica saved his best for the most important race of the year in the Ferrari satellite entry run by AF Corse. His performance at the Le Mans 24 Hours was spectacular and gets him the top spot in our Hypercar rankings. The Pole anchored the winning car’s victory on a weekend that he had a clear margin over the factory Ferrari drivers. He made them look a bit ordinary, to be honest. More to the point, he saved Ferrari’s bacon. Without him it wouldn’t have secured that Le Mans hat-trick with the 499P Le Mans Hypercar.

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