Algarve Pro recruits Spain's Lorenzo Fluxá for 2025 ELMS LMP2 title push

Karting in his native Spain and across Europe is how Fluxá learned his craft, earning race wins and podium finishes on his way to the world stage.

Like many aspiring professionals, the Palma de Mallorca-based racer stepped onto the bottom rung of the junior single-seater ladder, Formula 4 tests in Italy preceding campaigns in Spain and the United Arab Emirates, where he secured Vice-Champion status.

Formula Regional podiums in Europe, Asia and the Middle East followed, but 2024 saw him make his endurance sportscar racing debut with a four-pronged programme that encompassed the ELMS, Asian Le Mans Series and International GT Open, as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

It was a huge learning curve, but Fluxá’s maiden ELMS season was bookended by victories in Barcelona and Portimao, and the 20-year-old has clear intentions to build on those successes, to help Algarve Pro recover the Overall and LMP2 titles it won in 2023.

“It’s exciting to join a title-winning team that knows what it is to conquer the European Le Mans Series Overall and in LMP2,” said Fluxá. “There is so much quality within the Algarve Pro Racing team and I will push to get the best from myself with the goal of bringing back the championships.

“I arrive after my first year in endurance racing. In 2024, I discovered a whole new world where you take a completely different, longer-term approach to racing, and I loved the whole experience, learning masses. In fact, it was one of the best changes in my career to date and to improve so much was hugely rewarding.”

Fluxá continued: “I will leave no stone unturned in what will be my first year as a Gold-graded driver. I’ll no longer be the lowest ranked and my role will subsequently change. I’ll be asking more of myself because I’ll be compared to top-tier competitors, but I’ll be in an environment where I’ll have all the tools to learn.

“The 2024 season was strong in terms of results but I hoped for more – you enjoy racing the most when you’re winning. However, the ELMS is incredibly competitive and I'm expecting every LMP2 team to have fast driver line-ups capable of victories, so consistency will win championships – it’s about taking race victories whenever you can but maximising your results when you can’t.”

Algarve Pro Racing Team Principal, Stewart Cox, said: “We’re genuinely excited about our LMP2 line-up for what should be a very competitive 2025 season in the European Le Mans Series, if 2024 is anything to go by. Lorenzo (Fluxá) made an instant impact in endurance racing by winning last year’s season-opener in Barcelona and following that with another victory in Portimao. He’s clearly very quick and a fast learner, and he has the right attitude and approach to racing for a title-winning team like Algarve Pro, which always wants to secure more championship victories.”