James
Calado

James Calado was born on 13 June 1989 in Cropthorne, England. He began karting in 1999, won the British Cadet Championship in 2001 and took the ICA class European Championship in 2005. In 2006 he moved up to Formula A and finished runner-up in the International Kart Grand Prix in Macau. In 2008 he entered British Formula Renault with Fortec, finishing seventh overall and second in the Graduate Cup, and then won both the British and Portuguese Winter Series. In 2009 he took eight victories and finished runner-up to Dean Smith. In 2010 he raced for Carlin in British Formula 3, winning five races and finishing second to Jean-Éric Vergne. In 2011 he was runner-up in GP3 with Lotus ART behind Valtteri Bottas, with a win at Valencia.

He made his GP2 debut at the non-championship round at Yas Marina at the end of 2011 and won the sprint race. In 2012 he finished fifth in the standings as the best rookie, with wins in Malaysia and at Hockenheim. In 2013 he was third for ART, with two sprint wins and 157 points. That July he took part in the Young Driver Test at Silverstone for Force India and set the fourth fastest time on the first day. The team named him third driver for the 2013 Italian Grand Prix, where he was due to run in the first practice session. He never started a Grand Prix. In Formula E he drove for Jaguar alongside Mitch Evans from 2019 and scored his first points with seventh place in Diriyah.

In sportscars, Calado joined AF Corse in 2014. In 2017 he won the World Endurance Championship in the LMGTE Pro class with Alessandro Pier Guidi. With Pier Guidi and Daniel Serra he won the GTE Pro class at the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, and he added another win there in 2021. In IMSA he won the Petit Le Mans in 2016 and 2019. In 2023, in the Ferrari 499P with Pier Guidi and Antonio Giovinazzi, he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright. In 2025 the trio won the World Endurance Championship drivers' title in the Hypercar class.

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