Ricardo Feller (born 1 June 2000) is a Swiss racing driver who currently competes in the

ADAC GT Masters The ADAC GT Masters is a grand tourer-based auto racing series founded by the international Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO) and supported by the German ADAC automotive club. Similar to an earlier ADAC GT Cup series in the 1990s, the new GT ...

and

GT World Challenge Europe GT World Challenge Europe (known as the Blancpain GT Series between 2014 and 2019) is a sports car racing series organised by SRO Motorsports Group. It features grand tourer racing cars modified from production road cars complying with the FIA's GT ...

Career

Early career

Feller began karting in 2011, competing in the Supermini class of the Switzerland-based Bridgestone Cup. The following year, he expanded his karting program, taking second overall in the Supermini class of the 2012 Swiss Karting Championship. In 2016, at the age of 15, Feller stepped into single-seater formula cars for the first time in his career, joining

Mücke Motorsport Mücke Motorsport is an auto racing team based in Germany, which is also known as ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg. History Single-seaters Mücke Motorsport was formed by Peter Mücke in 1998 to run his son Stefan Mücke in the German Formula BMW ADAC ...

(branded as ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg) for the

2016 ADAC Formula 4 Championship The 2016 ADAC Formula 4 season was the second season of the ADAC Formula 4. It began on 16 April at Oschersleben and finished on 2 October at Hockenheim after seven triple header rounds. Teams and drivers Race calendar All rounds were part of ...

season.

Sports car racing

For 2017, Feller made the transition to

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, competing in the 2017 ADAC GT Masters alongside teammate Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky with the new-for-2017 Audi Sport Racing Academy team. With his appearance in the opening round, Feller became the youngest driver in series history. Although the duo failed to score a point in 2017, Feller rejoined

for the 2018 season, sharing his

Audi R8 LMS The Audi R8 is a mid-engine, 2-seater sports car, which uses Audi's trademark quattro permanent all-wheel drive system. It was introduced by the German car manufacturer Audi AG in 2006. The car is exclusively designed, developed, and manufact ...

with

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factory driver

Christopher Haase Christopher Haase (born 26 September 1987 in Kulmbach) is a German professional racing driver. He became the FIA GT3 European Champion in 2009, racing for Lamborghini and Reiter Engineering, and raced in GT1 for the first time in 2010. He achi ...

. Later that year, Feller made his debut in the

, taking part in the Sprint Cup for Belgian Audi Club Team WRT. He and co-driver Adrien de Leener would score their first and only victory of the season at the

Nürburgring The is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Formula One, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long "North loop" track, built in the 1920s, around t ...

in September. To begin 2019, Feller made his debut at the

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, driving for Land Motorsport. This opportunity grew into a full Michelin Endurance Cup campaign for himself and co-drivers

Christopher Mies Christopher Mies (born 24 May 1989) is a professional German racing driver who currently competes for Audi Sport in GT3 series such as ADAC GT Masters and GT World Challenge Europe. Career Mies began his career in 2006 in the Toyota Yaris Cup ...

and

Daniel Morad Daniel Morad (born April 24, 1990) is a Canadian-Assyrian racecar driver. He is notable for winning the 2007 American Formula BMW championship, the 2010 World Championship in the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals in La Conca, Italy, And the 2017 ...

. They recorded a best finish of second in the season finale at

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. Later that year, Feller scored his first race victory in the

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. For 2020, Feller joined

Emil Frey Racing Emil Frey Racing is a Swiss racing team and racecar constructor. The team is named after the Emil Frey Gruppe, a Swiss car dealership for Jaguar, Lexus and other marques. Emil Frey Racing was founded in 2011, competing in the Blancpain GT Series ...

, competing in the Pro class of the

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. After competing with

during the 2020 season, Feller returned to Land Motorsport for the

2021 ADAC GT Masters The 2021 ADAC GT Masters was the fifteenth season of the ADAC GT Masters, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded by the German automobile club ADAC. Montaplast drivers Ricardo Feller and Christopher Mies won the title in a closely-fough ...

season. Reunited with co-driver Mies, the two claimed three race victories en route to the overall championship, with Feller also taking the Junior categorization title as well. With

, Feller scored the

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Silver class title, driving alongside Alex Fontana and

Rolf Ineichen Rolf Ineichen (born 2 May 1978) is a Swiss racing driver who currently competes in the GT World Challenge Europe and the ADAC GT Masters. Career Business ventures Ineichen serves on the board of directors at OTTO'S AG, a Swiss discount departme ...

. The trio scored two class victories and three podiums from five races en route to their title. For 2022, Feller joined Audi Sport's factory roster, taking part in the DTM with Team Abt Sportsline. He had reportedly received multiple offers ahead of the 2022 season, but elected to sign a factory contract with Audi. At

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in June, he claimed his first career DTM pole. He would go on to win that race, in the process scoring his first series victory. Feller would score one additional podium in 2022, finishing 15th in the championship. Following his rookie season, Feller stated he was pleased with the year, and believed that the team had potential in the near future to challenge more frequently for race victories. Outside of his DTM commitments, Feller competed part-time in the ADAC GT Masters, driving for Land-Motorsport alongside Jusuf Owega when DTM and GT Masters dates didn't clash. His Audi factory driver duties also saw him take part in several one-off endurance events, including the

Bathurst 12 Hour The Bathurst 12 Hour, currently known as the Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour for sponsorship reasons, is an annual endurance race for GT and production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, in Bathurst, Australia. The race was first held in ...

with

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Team

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, the

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with Attempto Racing, and the

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with Team Phoenix. For the final round of the

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, he deputized for

Team WRT W Racing Team (WRT) is a Belgian auto racing team founded in 2009 by engineer and former head of Volkswagen Motorsport René Verbist, racing driver Vincent Vosse, and entrepreneur Yves Weerts. Since 2010 the team campaigns Audi R8 LMSs in severa ...

Kelvin van der Linde Kelvin van der Linde (born 20 June 1996) is a South African racing driver currently competing as a substitute driver in Formula E with the ABT Team. He made his GT Masters debut in 2014, also winning the championship that year, a feat he repe ...

, who was unwell.

Racing record

Career summary

Complete GT World Challenge Europe results

GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup

GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results

(

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

(

) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

References

External links

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