Brazilian · Born 1992 · #7 Porsche 963 · Porsche Penske Motorsport
Felipe Nasr co-drove the #6 Porsche 963 to victory at the 2025 12 Hours of Sebring alongside Laurens Vanthoor and Nick Tandy. He returns in 2026 — now in the #7 car — seeking to make it back-to-back Sebring wins for himself and Porsche Penske Motorsport.
Felipe Nasr was born in Brasília, Brazil in 1992, into a country with one of motorsport's most passionate racing cultures. Brazil has produced three Formula 1 World Champions — Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, and Ayrton Senna — and the pressure and expectation on Brazilian racing drivers to follow in those footsteps is immense.
Nasr worked his way through the European racing ladder — Formula 3, GP2 — before securing an F1 seat with Sauber (now Alfa Romeo/Stake F1) for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. His 34 F1 race starts included several notable points-scoring performances, including a fifth-place finish in Australia in his debut race — an extraordinary result for a driver in mid-field machinery.
After F1, Nasr transitioned to sportscar racing in North America — a path followed by many drivers whose F1 chapters end before they felt ready to stop. IMSA's endurance events proved to be the perfect fit for his smooth, consistent driving style. In prototype racing, the ability to maintain pace over long stints without destroying tires or making mistakes is at least as valuable as single-lap speed.
Nasr quickly established himself as one of IMSA's elite prototype drivers. His three Rolex 24 at Daytona victories mark him as one of the Daytona specialists, and his 2025 Sebring win completed a remarkable haul of North American endurance wins. He has become the standard-bearer for Brazilian drivers in American motorsport.
His 2024 Rolex 24 victory demonstrated his consistency at the highest level — winning two years running at Daytona is an achievement very few drivers manage. Combined with the Sebring win, Nasr has become one of the most decorated active endurance drivers in North America.
Endurance racing rewards a specific set of qualities: tire management over long stints, precise traffic management in multi-class fields, mechanical sympathy that preserves the car over hours of racing, and mental focus that can sustain peak performance through the night and into the following day. Nasr possesses all of these traits.
His F1 background gives him exceptional car control precision and the ability to extract the maximum from machinery. His Brazilian racing culture instilled adaptability and racecraft. His years in IMSA have added track-specific knowledge and strategic intelligence. The combination makes him exceptionally dangerous in any endurance race he enters.
Nasr also speaks four languages fluently — Portuguese, English, Italian, and Spanish — a reflection of his education and international career that helps him communicate effectively across different engineering teams and co-driver combinations throughout his career.
Nasr joined Sauber F1 for 2015 and immediately scored points on debut with a fifth place in Australia. His 34 F1 starts demonstrated consistent professionalism in mid-field machinery. When Sauber's financial difficulties ended the partnership, Nasr's F1 chapter closed — opening the IMSA door that ultimately led to far more wins than his F1 career might have provided.
Brazil has given motorsport three Formula 1 World Champions. Ayrton Senna (3 titles), Nelson Piquet (3 titles), and Emerson Fittipaldi (2 titles) are among racing's all-time legends. Brazilian drivers grow up with this heritage as both inspiration and pressure. Nasr carries that tradition into endurance racing, and his Sebring and Daytona victories honor that legacy in a different arena.