Here is the thing, Alex Quinn is getting his shot at the top table. Team Peugeot TotalEnergies has officially confirmed that the Brit will step up from his testing and development duties into a full-time race seat in the FIA World Endurance Championship for 2027, locking in a brand new multi-year agreement with the French manufacturer.
It is a stunning rise for a driver who started out in karting before carving up the junior single-seater ladder, where he bagged Rookie titles in both the British F4 Championship and Formula Renault Eurocup. When he turned his focus to endurance racing in 2023, he hit the ground running by contesting IMSA’s LMP2 division in the United States with PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports and hauling in two rostrums from four starts.
Stepping up to a full-time race seat is something I am incredibly excited about and something I feel ready for after my recent successes in other championships.
By 2024, his CV got even heavier. He finished runner-up in the European Le Mans Series LMP2 Pro/Am standings with Algarve Pro Racing and made his maiden voyage to the 24 Hours of Le Mans with AO by TF, finishing sixth in LMP2 and second in the Pro/Am fight. Last year, he repeated that ELMS championship runner-up result off the back of victories at Spa-Francorchamps and Silverstone. That kind of pace simply cannot be ignored, and Peugeot brought him in for a run in their Hypercar during the FIA WEC Rookie Test in Bahrain.
That test led directly to a role as test and development driver for the French manufacturer, where the 25-year-old (yes, that's right—a farmer day-to-day) spent the campaign helping develop the 9X8 for its heavily upgraded 2027 spec. And what a 2026 season he had elsewhere, too: a class win at the Rolex 24 At Daytona, LMP2 Pro/Am glory at Le Mans, and the IMSA LMP2 category crown clinched on the absolute final lap of a wild Petit Le Mans finale.
"Becoming an official driver for Team Peugeot TotalEnergies in the FIA World Endurance Championship is a dream come true," Quinn said. "Stepping up to a full-time race seat is something I am incredibly excited about and something I feel ready for after my recent successes in other championships."
Team Principal Emmanuel Esnault pointed to Quinn's technical feedback, hard work in testing, and relentless on-track performances as the exact reasons he earned the nod. This marks the second time Peugeot has pulled a young star straight out of the LMP2 ranks into a factory Hypercar race seat, and they are clearly betting big on his speed for the evolved 9X8.
