A British racer who won Le Mans, the Nurburgring 24, Spa and Daytona overall and built his career on Porsche factory seats.
Nick Tandy is a British endurance driver whose overall wins include Le Mans in 2015, the Nurburgring in 2018, Spa in 2020 and Daytona in 2025. He is the only driver to have completed that set, and he has raced for Porsche and Corvette.
Nick Tandy is a British driver who races for Porsche in IMSA's sportscar series. He holds the endurance Grand Slam of overall victories: Le Mans in 2015, the Nurburgring 24 Hours in 2018, Spa in 2020 and Daytona in 2025. No other driver has collected all four.
Further overall wins came at Petit Le Mans in 2015 and at Sebring in 2025. The Sebring result made him the first driver to win the Big Six endurance races. He has also claimed class wins at several Petit Le Mans and Sebring events, and at Daytona in 2014.
Who is Nick Tandy?
Nicholas Tandy was born on 5 November 1984 in Bedford, England. He now lives in Felmersham, Bedfordshire, with his wife and two children. Most of his biggest results have come in long-distance endurance races, where the overall win is the hardest to secure.
His route into racing began in short-oval Ministox, where he followed his older brother Joe. Joe's influence shaped his early years, and the two brothers raced together in the family team.
The only driver to win Le Mans, the Nurburgring 24, Spa and Daytona overall, and the first to take the Big Six.
How did Tandy start in motorsport?
He began in Ministox at the age of eleven in 1996, and he won the Midland region almost straight away. In 1997 he moved to the East Anglian region and finished as runner-up. A year later he was runner-up in the world championship, behind Joe, and third in the national title.
He improved in 1999 by winning the Spedeworth points title. The next year he took four championships, including the ORC title at RAF Bovingdon, and then retained the Spedeworth points title after successes at Arlington, Eastbourne and Wimbledon Stadium.
How did Tandy move into Mini Se7ens and Formula Ford?
He moved on to Mini Se7ens for the 2001 Winter Series and finished third in the championship. The main series in 2002 was a struggle, and he finished tenth. He ran a second Winter Series campaign and finished runner-up, one place better than his earlier result. In 2003 he won four races in the main championship.
The 2005 BRDC Single Seater Championship brought 11 wins from 14 races and a Silverstone scholarship. He then joined the British Formula Ford Championship in 2006 and finished runner-up with 365 points, more than 150 behind the champion, Nathan Freke. He began that year at Raysport, but a car short of upgrades led him to join his brother's new team with four races left.
He won the 2006 Formula Ford Festival on track, but a ten-second penalty for a safety-car infringement dropped him to fifth. In 2007 he was third in the championship, with six wins and ten other podiums, and he took the Festival title after a two-second penalty for Callum MacLeod.
A late deal in the Formula Palmer Audi Autumn Trophy followed. Two wins and a fourth place, with the fourth discounted, gave him the Shootout title, but he missed out on the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award to Stefan Wilson.
What did Tandy achieve in Formula Three and Porsche racing?
In 2008 he moved into British Formula 3 with his brother's team, in a Mygale chassis that was not competitive. He began with three retirements, then improved, taking his first podium at the overseas round at Spa and two more at Silverstone and Donington Park. He finished ninth overall.
The following season his brother Joe died in a road accident on 13 May 2009, and the team chose to continue in both Formula Three and Formula Ford. Eighteen days after the accident, Tandy won at Rockingham with a dominant drive. He set four fastest laps in the first eight races of that Formula Three season.
His sportscar career then grew through Porsche's customer teams. He made his Porsche Carrera Cup Germany debut at Dijon-Prenois, finishing second without any testing, and he added a second place in the Porsche Supercup at Abu Dhabi. In 2010 he raced the full Supercup season, won at Silverstone on 11 July 2010 and fought Rene Rast for the title to the final race at Monza.
He returned in 2011 with one Supercup win, at Abu Dhabi, and finished fifth overall. That year he also took the German Cup title with three wins and seven podiums.
How did Tandy become a Porsche works driver?
The 2012 calendar included American Le Mans Series rounds, ADAC GT Masters races and the International GT Open. Tandy finished runner-up in the GT Open with Marco Holzer at Manthey Racing, and he won the Porsche Cup, which honours the most successful privateer driver using Porsche machinery.
Porsche then took him on as its tenth works driver. His first race for the team was the 2013 24 Hours of Daytona. That year he won the GT class at Petit Le Mans and finished third at the 12 Hours of Sebring with Team Falken Tire, alongside Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers. He also won two European Le Mans Series races in the GTE class and finished third in the standings.
In 2014 he joined Porsche's factory team in the United SportsCar Championship and shared a GTLM-class 911 RSR with Richard Lietz. The pair and Patrick Pilet opened the year by winning the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
In 2015 he partnered Pilet, won four races and finished third. Pilet took the drivers' title, and the team also won the teams' championship. Tandy won the overall Petit Le Mans in a Porsche 911 RSR that year.
He also joined Porsche's LMP1 factory team for the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, winning the French classic. He drove a KCMG Oreca Nissan in five WEC rounds, and that team finished runner-up in the LMP2 standings.
What were Tandy's later results with Porsche and Corvette?
In 2016 he shared a factory Porsche 911 with Pilet in IMSA's GT Le Mans class, winning at Long Beach and finishing second at Austin. In 2017 he returned to the LMP1 team for the WEC, where he scored several podiums without winning.
When Porsche quit prototype racing for 2018, Tandy went back to IMSA with Pilet in the No. 911. He took two wins and finished seventh in GTLM. In 2019 he was runner-up with three wins, and he finished third at Le Mans with Earl Bamber as his third driver. In 2020 he partnered Frederic Makowiecki, won twice and finished fifth in points, and that year he also retired at Le Mans in an Aurus LMP2.
Corvette Racing signed him for 2021, when he and Tommy Milner won four IMSA races and finished runner-up in GTLM to their teammates. In 2022 he drove a factory Corvette with Milner in the WEC, scoring one win and two runner-up finishes and placing sixth in the GTE drivers' ranking. In 2023 he returned to Porsche to race a 963 prototype.
| Season | Series | Team | Highlight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | IMSA and European Le Mans Series | Porsche factory | GT class win at Petit Le Mans; third at Sebring |
| 2014 | IMSA | Porsche factory | Class win at the Rolex 24 at Daytona |
| 2015 | IMSA, WEC and Le Mans | Porsche factory and KCMG | Petit Le Mans overall; French classic win in the LMP1 class |
| 2018 | IMSA | Porsche factory | Two wins; seventh in GTLM |
| 2019 | IMSA and Le Mans | Porsche | Three wins; third overall at Le Mans |
| 2021 | IMSA | Corvette Racing | Four wins; runner-up in GTLM |
| 2025 | Daytona and Sebring | Porsche factory | Overall wins at the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring |
What counts toward Tandy's Grand Slam?
A driver needs the overall win in each of four major 24-hour races. Tandy's four are Le Mans (2015), the Nurburgring 24 Hours (2018), the Spa 24 Hours (2020) and the Daytona 24 Hours (2025), and no other driver has put together that set.
His Big Six milestone came with the overall win at the 2025 12 Hours of Sebring. The 2015 Petit Le Mans overall win had come earlier in his career.
