Riccardo Pera

Riccardo Pera
Pera at the Red Bull Ring in 2023
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1999-07-04) 4 July 1999 (age 24) Lucca, Italy
FIA World Endurance Championship career
Debut season	2018–19
Current team	GR Racing
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Car number	86
Starts	33 (34 entries)
Wins	1
Podiums	10
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	4th in 2021

Riccardo Pera (born 4 July 1999) is an Italian racing driver who most recently competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship with GR Racing.^[1] He previously finished as runner-up of the 2019 European Le Mans Series in the GTE class and the 2021 champion of the Italian GT Sprint Championship in the GT4 Pro-Am category.^[2]^[3]

Racing record

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2017	Porsche Carrera Cup Italia	EbiMotors	14	5	2	3	10	174	2nd
2018	European Le Mans Series - LMGTE	EbiMotors	6	1	1	2	4	58.5	7th
2018–19	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Am	Dempsey-Proton Racing	2	1	0	0	2	40	14th
2019	European Le Mans Series - LMGTE	Dempsey-Proton Racing^[4]	6	1	0	0	3	76	2nd
	Le Mans Cup - GT3	EbiMotors	1	0	0	0	1	18	11th
	Italian GT Sprint Championship - GT4		2	1	0	0	2	32	9th
	Italian GT Endurance Championship - GT4		2	1	1	1	2	32	5th
2019–20	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Am	Dempsey-Proton Racing	8	0	0	0	2	107.5	5th
2020	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Am	Dempsey-Proton Racing	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	2nd
	Porsche Carrera Cup Italia	EbiMotors	2	0	0	0	1	13	12th
	Italian GT Endurance Championship - GT3	EbiMotors	3	0	0	0	0	5	18th
2021	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Am	Team Project 1^[5]	5	0	0	0	3	78	4th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Am	Team Project 1^[5]	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
	Italian GT Sprint Championship - GT4 Pro-Am	EbiMotors	6	6	3	3	6	120	1st
	GT4 European Series - Pro-Am	EbiMotors	1	0	1	0	0	1	23rd
2022	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Am	GR Racing^[6]^[7]	5	0	0	0	0	50	10th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Am	GR Racing^[6]^[7]	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	4th
	Italian GT Sprint Championship - GT Cup	EbiMotors	6	2	1	1	3	0	NC†
2023	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Am	GR Racing	7	0	0	0	2	64	6th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Am	GR Racing	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd
	Porsche Supercup	Ombra Racing	2	0	0	0	0	8	21st
	Italian GT Sprint Championship - GT Cup Pro-Am	Ombra Racing	3	0	1	1	2	0	NC†
2023–24	Asian Le Mans Series - GT	GR Racing	4	0	0	1	0	6	25th
2024	European Le Mans Series - LMGT3	GR Racing

^† As Pera was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.
^* Season still in progress.

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2018	EbiMotors	LMGTE	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	LEC 3	MNZ 3	RBR 3	SIL Ret	SPA 1‡	ALG Ret	8th	58.5
2019	Dempsey-Proton Racing	LMGTE	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	LEC 3	MNZ 1	CAT 6	SIL 7	SPA 2	ALG Ret	2nd	76

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2018–19	Dempsey-Proton Racing	LMGTE Am	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SPA	LMS	SIL	FUJ	SHA 3	SEB	SPA 1	LMS	14th	40
2019–20	Dempsey-Proton Racing	LMGTE Am	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 5	FUJ 5	SHA 11	BHR 6	COA 5	SPA 2	LMS 2	BHR 7	5th	107.5
2021	Team Project 1	LMGTE Am	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	SPA DNS	ALG 2	MNZ 4	LMS Ret	BHR 3	BHR 3			4th	78
2022	GR Racing	LMGTE Am	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	SEB	SPA 6	LMS 3	MNZ 12	FUJ 12	BHR 6			10th	50
2023	GR Racing	LMGTE Am	Porsche 911 RSR-19	Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6	SEB 7	PRT 11	SPA 12	LMS 3	MNZ 3	FUJ 8	BHR 8		6th	64

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2020	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Matt Campbell Christian Ried	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Am	339	25th	2nd
2021	Team Project 1	Matteo Cairoli Egidio Perfetti	Porsche 911 RSR-19	GTE Am	84	DNF	DNF
2022	GR Racing	Ben Barker Michael Wainwright	Porsche 911 RSR-19	GTE Am	340	37th	4th
2023	GR Racing	Ben Barker Michael Wainwright	Porsche 911 RSR-19	GTE Am	312	29th	3rd

^ Goodwin, Graham (11 January 2023). "FIA WEC Reveal 38 Car Full Season Entry – 13 Hypercars For Breakthrough Season". Dailysportscar. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
^ Rodriguez, Christian (2021-10-13). "Italian GT Mugello: Ferrari and Agostini claim Sprint championship". GT REPORT. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
^ "ELMS". www.europeanlemansseries.com. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
^ "2019 European Le Mans Series — 4 Hours of Le Castellet Provisional Entry List" (PDF). European Le Mans Series. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
^ "Pera Joins Perfetti And Cairoli In #56 Project 1 Porsche". www.dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
^ Plümer, Jonas (9 February 2022). "FIA WEC: GR Racing präsentiert 2022er Aufgebot". GT-Place.com (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-10.
^ "Looped crew at GR Racing". endurance-info.com (in French). 8 February 2022. Retrieved 2023-01-10.

Teams and drivers that are set to compete in the LMGT3 class of the 2024 World Endurance Championship

Heart of Racing Team	Team WRT	Vista AF Corse	United Autosports
27. Ian James / Daniel Mancinelli / Alex Riberas	31. Augusto Farfus / Sean Gelael / Darren Leung 46. Ahmad Al Harthy / Maxime Martin / Valentino Rossi	54. Francesco Castellacci / Thomas Flohr / Davide Rigon 55. François Heriau / Simon Mann / Alessio Rovera	59. Nicolas Costa / James Cottingham / Grégoire Saucy 95. Josh Caygill / Nico Pino / Marino Sato

Iron Lynx	Iron Dames	Proton Competition	Akkodis ASP Team
60. Matteo Cressoni / Franck Perera / Claudio Schiavoni	85. Sarah Bovy / Michelle Gatting / Doriane Pin	77. Ben Barker / Ryan Hardwick / Zacharie Robichon 88. Dennis Olsen / Mikkel O. Pedersen / Giorgio Roda	78. Timur Boguslavskiy / Kelvin van der Linde / Arnold Robin 87. Takeshi Kimura / José María López / Esteban Masson

TF Sport	Manthey EMA	Manthey Pure Rxcing	D'Station Racing
81. Rui Andrade / Charlie Eastwood / Tom van Rompuy 82. Sébastien Baud / Daniel Juncadella / Hiroshi Koizumi	91. Richard Lietz / Morris Schuring / Yasser Shahin	92. Klaus Bachler / Alex Malykhin / Joel Sturm	777. Erwan Bastard / Marco Sørensen / Clément Mateu

Other drivers:

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