Английская Википедия:Charles Milesi

Charles Milesi (born 4 March 2001) is a French racing driver who currently competes in the LMP2 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship for Alpine. He is the son of Patrice Milesi who is also a racing driver.

Career

Early career

After success in karting, Milesi's driving career began in 2017 in Formula Renault. For two years, he competed in various series of this racing formula. In 2018, he reached seventh place in the Formula Renault Eurocup.^[1]

In 2019, at the end of the 8 Hours of Bahrain, a WEC rookie test was organized on the same circuit. Milesi thus had the opportunity to make his first laps in the hands of a prototype for the Dutch team Racing Team Nederland.^[2]

In 2020, following the withdrawal of Alexandre Cougnaud and a positive test at the end of the 2020 Castellet 240 with Graff Racing, Milesi had the opportunity to join this same team in order to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the hands of an Oreca 07 in the LMP2 category with Vincent Capillaire and James Allen as co-drivers.^[3]^[4] Unfortunately, in their first participation, Milesi could not see the checkered flag after going off the track in the last hour of the race when Allen was at the wheel. With this first experience in the hands of an LMP2 and following the withdrawal of the Mexican driver Memo Rojas,^[5] Milesi had the opportunity to join the American team DragonSpeed in order to participate in the 4 Hours of Monza.^[6] This race went in the best possible way because the car finished in 3rd position. Unfortunately, a problem with the height of the non-compliant diffuser, the car was disqualified at the end of the race.^[7] Milesi then finished his year by taking part in the final of the Michelin Le Mans Cup with the CD Sport team in the hands of a Ligier JS P320.^[8]

Milesi also competed in the Super Formula Championship in the back end of 2020, racing for Buzz Racing with B-MAX.^[9]

Endurance racing

2021

In 2021, Milesi started his season participating in the 24 Hours of Daytona with the Dutch team Racing Team Nederland in the hands of an Oreca 07 in the LMP2 category with Dutch drivers Giedo van der Garde, Шаблон:Ill and Job van Uitert as teammates.^[10] That year, the Frenchman's main campaign would lie in the FIA World Endurance Championship, where he partnered Robin Frijns and Ferdinand Habsburg at newcomers Team WRT.^[11] Having started the season slowly with tenth and fourth at Spa-Francorchamps and Portimão respectively, the team would bounce back with a maiden podium at the 6 Hours of Monza, where, despite being categorized as a silver driver amongst a slew of platinum and gold drivers, Milesi scored pole position in the LMP2 class.^[12]^[13] Encouraged by the result, the outfit performed strongly during the 24 Hours of Le Mans, leading into Sunday afternoon before encountering issues that meant that the sister WRT car looked to be on course to win the race.^[14] However, due to an car failure, the No. 41 WRT stopped on the final lap, meaning that Milesi, Frijns and Habsburg were able to take the lead and win the race, finishing less than a second ahead of the Nr. 28 Jota car.^[15] Another win followed at the 6 Hours of Bahrain, which put the team into the championship lead,^[16] before Milesi and his teammates were able to claim the LMP2 world title one week later at the 8 Hours of Bahrain.^[17]^[18]

Near the end of the year, Milesi also competed in two rounds of the European Le Mans Series with Cool Racing, where he scored back-to-back pole positions.^[19]

2022

The following year, Milesi would remain in the WEC, moving to the Richard Mille Racing Team to drive alongside Lilou Wadoux and Sébastien Ogier.^[20] With those two drivers being rookies to the LMP2 car, the team struggled, ending up ninth in the teams' standings, having finished ninth at Le Mans.^[21]

2023

Milesi remained with the outfit that had rebranded to the Alpine Elf Team for the 2023 season, this time being partnered by Julien Canal and Matthieu Vaxivière.^[22]

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Podiums	Points	Position
2017	French F4 Championship	FFSA Academy	18	4	2	4	7	118	7th
	Formula Renault NEC	R-ace GP	11	1	0	0	3	97	6th
	Formula Renault Eurocup	R-ace GP	5	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2018	Formula Renault Eurocup	R-ace GP	20	2	2	2	4	122.5	7th
	Formula Renault NEC	R-ace GP	4	0	1	1	1	0	NC†
	Toyota Racing Series	MTEC Motorsport	15	0	0	0	1	504	11th
2019	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	YTB by Carlin	15	0	0	0	0	13	9th
2020	Super Formula	Buzz Racing with B-Max	3	0	0	0	0	0	21st
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	SO24-HAS By Graff	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	DragonSpeed USA	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2021	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	Team WRT	6	3	1	0	4	151	1st
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Team WRT	1	1	0	0	1	N/A	1st
	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Cool Racing	2	0	2	2	0	22	17th
	IMSA SportsCar Championship - LMP2	Racing Team Nederland	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC‡
2022	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	Richard Mille Racing Team	6	0	0	0	0	30	12th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Richard Mille Racing Team	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	9th
	Le Mans Cup - LMP3	AT Racing Team	1	0	0	0	0	12	17th
2023	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	Alpine Elf Team	7	0	0	4	2	83	7th
2024	FIA World Endurance Championship - Hypercar	Alpine Endurance Team
2024	IMSA SportsCar Championship - LMP2	TDS Racing	1	0	0	0	0	205	13th*

^‡ Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP2 Championship.
^* Season still in progress.