Reigning ELMS LMP2 champions. A French endurance team since 2016, racing in 2026 under the colours of Forestier Racing by Panis.
2026 season · five rounds out of six, plus the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Esteban won the ELMS LMP2 championship in 2025 with the team and finished second at the 24 Hours of Le Mans the same year. He had already been ELMS LMGT3 runner-up in 2024. Before endurance, he was a double French junior karting champion in 2019, French F4 champion in 2021 and Eurocup-3 champion in 2023. In 2026, he also races in LMGT3 with Akkodis ASP, in a Lexus RC F.
@estebanmassonOliver won the ELMS LMP2 championship in 2025 alongside Esteban Masson. He also finished second at the 24 Hours of Le Mans the same year. Before endurance, Oliver raced in single-seaters. British F4 runner-up in 2022, he joined the Williams Driver Academy and contested the FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2023.
@olliegray_Louis joined the team in 2026 for his first season in LMP2. He comes from LMP3, where he finished third in the Michelin Le Mans Cup championship in 2025 with Forestier Racing by VPS. Before that, he won the Mitjet title with fifteen wins in twenty-four races, then raced two seasons in Porsche Carrera Cup France.
@louisroussetPanis Racing was born in 2016 out of the meeting between Olivier Panis and Stéphane Dilouya, around one conviction: a French team on a human scale can compete at the front in Europe. The first season opened with a start at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and eighth place in class. The team raced under the name Panis-Barthez Compétition in its early days, when Fabien Barthez was driving.
Since 2016, Panis Racing has run young drivers at the highest level of European endurance racing, alongside experienced drivers. Several of them are now professional drivers, manufacturer works drivers or class winners at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In 2026, the team races under the colours of Forestier Racing by Panis, with technical support from TDS Racing.
What we offer does not fit on a car. It is a family, a whole season, a human adventure as much as a sporting one.Olivier Panis, team principal
Four hours of racing punish the slightest approximation. That rigour runs through the preparation, the set-up and every decision taken during the race.
The team has always run young drivers alongside experienced ones. Several are now professionals or manufacturer works drivers.
A family before it is a structure. The same faces from one season to the next, each in their place, and nobody working alone. That is what lets the team move as one.
Podiums in the championship and at Le Mans year after year, with driver line-ups that change. Performance comes from what drivers and team build together.
He has led the team since it was founded. His hallmark: a team on a human scale, where he supports young drivers to bring them up to the highest level.
Winner of the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix · 158 Grands Prix
Former head of the family business Petit Forestier, he built and grew a company that became an international benchmark.
He applies the same approach to racing: long-term projects, and the time it takes to support young drivers and bring them on. Louis Rousset is the proof, backed from his early days and supported season after season all the way to LMP2.
Title partner · Yves Forestier
The team is founded. First entry at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 8th in class.
Continuous entries in the European Le Mans Series and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
3rd in the LMP2 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
3rd at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Win at the 4 Hours of Monza.
2nd in the ELMS LMP2 championship.
3rd in the ELMS LMP2 championship.
Win at the 4 Hours of Imola. 4th in the championship.
ELMS LMP2 champions, three wins. 2nd in class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
LMP2 Hyperpole at Le Mans and 3rd in the race. Two wins and four podiums in four rounds, championship ongoing.
A film about the man who gave the team his name.
The weekend in three minutes: qualifying, the race, the finish.
The workshop, the pit stops, the night at Le Mans, the people you never see on television.
Short content posted through the weekend, from the garage and the paddock.
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Sources: Automobile Club de l'Ouest and European Le Mans Series, 2026. Entry to the 24 Hours of Le Mans is subject to an invitation from the ACO, automatic for the reigning ELMS champions.
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