Colin Caresani
Colin Caresani is a Dutch racing driver. He is the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup Silver Cup champion.
Career
Caresani started karting at the age of nine, most notably finishing fifth in the 2018 Rotax Euro Trophy in the Junior class.Stepping up to car racing in 2019, Caresani finished runner-up in the Ford Fiesta Sprint Cup in his first season in cars. Over the next two years, Caresani won the Ford Fiesta Sprint Cup in 2020 and the BMW M2 CS Racing Cup Benelux in 2021.
In 2022, Caresani joined Project 1 to compete in the final season of the DTM Trophy. After finishing third at the Lausitzring, Caresani won both races at Imola to take the points lead from Tim Heinemann. Keeping the points lead through Norisring, Caresani took pole at the Nürburgring but was only able to convert it into a fourth-place finish. Having fallen to second in points after not scoring podiums at the Nürburgring and Spa, Caresani won both the opening races of the last two rounds of the season at Red Bull Ring and Hockenheimring to end runner-up in the standings.
During 2023, Caresani made his ADAC GT Masters debut at the Nürburgring round for Schnitzelalm Racing alongside Marcel Marchewicz. In his only round in the series, Caresani scored a best result of fifth in race two.
The following year, Caresani made his GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup debut for Winward Racing alongside and Tanart Sathienthirakul. Caresani finished on the podium in every race he contested, which included class wins at Le Castellet and Monza, en route to the Silver Cup title with a race to spare.
For his Silver Cup title defence, Caresani switched to GetSpeed ahead of 2025. The Dutchman also joined AKM Motorsport alongside Florian Scholze and Tanart Sathienthirakul to compete in the 2025 Italian GT Endurance Championship. Racing in the first three rounds in the former and ending the year 35th in the Silver Cup standings, Caresani found more success in the latter, scoring a class win at Imola to end the season sixth in the GT3 Pro-Am points.
Karting record
Karting career summary
Racing record
Racing career summary
Complete ADAC GT Masters results
| Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | DC | Points |
| 2023 | Schnitzelalm Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | HOC 1 | HOC 2 | NOR 1 | NOR 2 | NÜR 1 11 | NÜR 2 5 | SAC 1 | SAC 2 | RBR 1 | RBR 2 | HOC 1 | HOC 2 | 26th | 16 |
Complete GT World Challenge Europe results
GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pos. | Points |
| 2024 | Winward Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | Silver | LEC 19 | SPA 6H 14 | SPA 12H 19 | SPA 24H 28 | NÜR 25 | MNZ 9 | JED | 1st | 102 |
| 2025 | GetSpeed | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | Silver | LEC 29 | MNZ 47† | SPA 6H 68† | SPA 12H 68† | SPA 24H Ret | NÜR | BAR | 35th | 6 |