Macéo Capietto (born 12 January 2006) is a French racing driver competing in the

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Iron Lynx Iron Lynx Motorsport Lab is an Italian auto racing team founded by Andrea Piccini, Deborah Mayer, Claudio Schiavoni and Sergio Pianezzola. The team is based in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna. They primarily participate in sports car racing, and are a sis ...

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in the LMP2 class, and will compete in the

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with the same team. He is also an automotive engineering student scheduled to graduate in 2027 from ESTACA.

Early and personal life

Born in Montereau and based in

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, the most populous region of France. He is the son of

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team manager and former karting driver Guillaume Capietto, and To-Play founder Wanessa Capietto. He now lives in the south of Paris where he studies automotive engineering at ESTACA, whilst perusing his motorsport career.

Junior racing career

Karting

Following in the footsteps of his father, Capietto started competing in karting from a very young age. After spending two seasons in Minikart in which he came 3rd in the French Cup, he graduated to Minimes where he became the regional Île-de-France champion. In 2018 moved onto the international scene where he was coached by

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. He came runner-up to

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in the 2019 French Junior Karting Championship, and in his last year of karting, driving for Kosmic Racing, he came 6th in the World Junior Championship having fought for the podium in the early stages and working his way back up the order after a mid-race off track excursion. The same year, he finished runner-up to

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in the

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Formula 4

In 2021 Capietto joined the

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to make his single-seater debut. Despite his inexperience, he achieved his first F4 victory in only his fourth race at the

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circuit. Taking four wins across the season and leading the championship entering the last round, ahead of title rival

. Having won the FIA Championship the previous day, Capietto needed to finish ahead of his rival to win the French Championship. After a race long battle between Hugh Barther and Masson, Capietto caught up to the leading group. In a last lap scrap with Barther, Capietto ended up coming together in controversial fashion with Masson: pole-sitting Masson remained in the lead of the race and the standings until the last lap when the pair collided, putting Masson out of the race and provisionally handing Capietto the title. However, following an investigation by the race stewards, Capietto was later disqualified from all results of that weekend and thus stripped of both titles. He ended up 3rd in the standings, behind champion Masson and Hugh Barter, and therefore losing both the super licence points and the championship winning bonus of 100k€. In late 2021 Capietto also made two appearances in the

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with

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. He scored two rookie podiums in the final round of the season at

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climbing more than 50 positions over the 3 races.

Formula Regional

2022

After testing for several teams during the winter, Capietto moved into the

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in 2022, partnering Pietro Armanni and

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at Monolite Racing. He was the only driver to score points for the team this season, with a best result of 7th in Mugello and a best qualifying of 6th in Spielberg.

2023

Capietto switched to Race Performance Motorsport for the

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. Where he scored a his maiden FRECA podium and finished 8th in the standings.

2025

Capietto is set to return to the

in 2025 with CL Motorsport, for the second and final four rounds of the championship.

Endurance racing career

2024: ELMS & Le Mans debut

For 2024, Capietto competed in the

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for the LMP2 class. He would be partnered alongside

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and

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. He would take his first win in the series during the 4 Hours of Mugello after storming from 6th to first during the first part of his stint. In 2024, he participated in his first 24h of Le Mans where he briefly led during the first hour before having to retire at the beginning of the night due to an electrical issue.

Karting record

Karting career summary

Complete CIK-FIA Karting European Championship results

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

Racing record

Racing career summary

* Season still in progress.

Complete French F4 Championship results

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

Complete Italian F4 Championship results

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

Complete Formula Regional European Championship results

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

Complete European Le Mans Series results

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

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

References

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