Mateo Llarena

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Mateo Llarena
Mateo Llarena.jpg
Nationality Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemalan
Flag of Italy.svg Italian
Born (2004-02-26) 26 February 2004 (age 20)
IMSA Sportscar Championship career
Debut season2021
Current teamNTE Sport SSR
Racing licence FIA Silver Driver.png FIA Silver
Car number42
Previous series
2021
2020
2018–2019		 Italian GT Championship
Porsche Supercup
NACAM Formula 4 Championship

Mateo Llarena (born 26 February 2004) is a Guatemalan-Italian racing driver. He currently competes in the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. [1]

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Career

Karting

Llarena began go karting at the age of four. [1] He won two National Karting Championships and the FIA Americas Award before transitioning to open wheel racing. In 2014 and 2016 he became champion in Cadet category of the Guatemalan Karting Champiosnhip with the team Mazzotti Corse.[ citation needed ]

Formula 4

In 2018 he made his single-seater debut by competing in the 2018–19 NACAM Formula 4 Championship with Telcel RPL Racing. [2] He would finish the season in thirteenth. His best race result was a seventh place at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.[ citation needed ]

Sports car racing

At the age of 14 he made his car racing debut by competing in some races of the Toyota Yaris Cup Guatemala. [3] [4] In 2019 he won the National Motorsport Championship at 15 years old, making him the youngest in history to win this tournament in Guatemala and Central America, earning his second FIA Americas Award. [3]

The 2019 season also saw Llarena receive an invitation from Porsche AG to participate in the 2020 Porsche Supercup. He competed for the German-based team MRS GT-Racing and finished seventeenth overall in the championship. [5] At the age of 16, Mateo became the youngest ever driver to compete in the Porsche Supercup. [6] [7]

In 2021 Llarena made his debut in the IMSA SportsCar Championship [8] He competed in the LMP3 class with Performance Tech Motorsports. [8] [9] [10] At the 2021 WeatherTech 240 at The Glen he became the youngest ever pole sitter in the IMSA SportsCar Championship. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] Since 2021 he has also been part of the Lamborghini GT3 junior program after competing in the 2021 Italian GT Championship with Imperiale Racing. [3] [17] [18]

In 2022 he competed in the 24 Hours of Daytona with T3 Motorsport North America, driving a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo in the GTD class. [17] [19] He then joined NTE Sport/SSR to compete in the 12 Hours of Sebring.[ citation needed ]

In 2023 Llarena joined Vincenzo Sospiri Racing to compete in the Italian GT Sprint Championship after competing in the championship with Imperiale Racing in the two previous years. [20] [21] Together with his teammate Baptiste Moulin he finished the season fifth in the GT3 Pro classification after scoring two podiums throughout the season. [22]

In 2024 he joined GRT Grasser Racing Team to compete in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup for the first time. [1] [23] [24]

Personal life

Llarena studied at IE University in Madrid. [21] [25] In 2023 Llarena received two Guinness World Records for becoming the youngest Porsche Supercup driver in 2020 and the youngest IMSA SportsCar Championship pole-sitter in 2021. [26] [27] In 2024 Llarena to compete under an Italian racing license since he lived in Italy and had received Italian citizenship. [1]

Racing record

Career summary

SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPolesF/LapsPodiumsPointsPosition
2018Toyota Yaris Cup Guatemala - Am921237710th
2018-19 NACAM Formula 4 Championship Telcel RPL Racing1100001813th
2019Campeonato Nacional Guatemala - GT4Team Gulf Oil 95398771st
Chase for the Trigon Trophy Super GT SeriesTLM Racing100002317th
Porsche GT3 Cup Trophy Argentina100000NC†
2020 Porsche Supercup MRS GT-Racing80000417th
2021 Italian GT Sprint Championship - GT3 Pro-Am Imperiale Racing70001446th
IMSA SportsCar Championship - LMP3 Performance Tech Motorsports5020083813th
2022 IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD T3 Motorsport North America1000039744th
NTE Sport/SSR10000
Italian GT Endurance Championship - GT3 Pro Imperiale Racing30103??
2023 Italian GT Sprint Championship - GT3 Pro Vincenzo Sospiri Racing 81002525th
2024 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup GRT Grasser Racing Team
24H Series - GT3 ARC Bratislava

† As Llarena was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

Complete Porsche Supercup results

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

YearTeam12345678Pos.Points
2020 MRS GT-Racing RBR
19		 RBR
24		 HUN
15		 SIL
19		 SIL
18		 CAT
14		 SPA
19		 MNZ
24		18th4

Complete GT World Challenge Europe results

GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup

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

YearTeamCarClass1234567Pos.Points
2024 GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Silver LEC
44		 SPA
6H
50		 SPA
12H
47		 SPA
24H
37		 NÜR
MNZ
JED
12th*14*

* Season still in progress.

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