WILL STEVENS
Professional Racing Driver
Will is a FIA Platinum rated professional racing driver. Now in his third year as an Official McLaren F1 Test & Development Driver, Will’s distinguished career has been charted from the early days as a European and Asia Pacific Karting Champion, through the top junior single seater categories through to his F1 debut in 2014 followed by a full F1 season in 2015.
Since F1, Will moved to Endurance and GT racing. Wins in WEC and Blancpain soon followed and highlighted with a second place in LMP2 in his first Le Mans 24 hours in 2016 followed in the subsequent year with a victory at Le Mans with JMW Ferrari in the GTAM category.
2019/2020 has started strongly with Will taking 4 podiums out of 5 races in the WEC LMP2 class with the Jackie Chan DC racing squad run by Jota and now with both WEC and ELMS restarting after the delay from Covid-19 he has an eye also on the WEC LMP2 title and a successful campaign with Panis Racing in ELMS.
Having enjoyed multiple race victories, pole positions, podiums and fastest laps in every category throughout his career Will’s pedigree, his speed, race craft and technical ability is widely recognised and demonstrated by his continued role at McLaren F1 Team.
Career
The Present

After a successful start, the global pandemic put the brakes on 2019/2020 WEC season and Will turned his attention from on-track to on-screen racing.
Read moreMcLaren

In 2018, Will was approached by the prestigious McLaren F1 Racing Team to take up a Test and Development role, a position he still holds to date.
Read moreLife after F1

After F1 Will’s career moved towards top level sports cars achieving multiple podium positions and a class win in the world’s premier endurance race.
Read moreFormula 1

Will refers to the experience and knowledge gained through this period of his career as ‘an experience which will remain with me throughout my life’.
Read moreCaterham F1 Years

After successfully leading Caterham’s simulator programme, the team provided Will with his first experience of F1 racing in the 2014 F1 World Championship.
Read moreThe Junior Categories

Racing against the top junior drivers in the world, Will achieved wins in every category against many competitors now well established in F1, FE and WEC.
Read moreThe Karting Years

Will started his career in karts, achieving the triple crown of the European, Asia-Pacific and International Open Championship titles in 2007 in KF2.
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