Nick Yelloly

Chinese GT

On 24 February 2019, BMW announced that Yelloly would be joining them as a works driver, taking part in his first race for the manufacturer in the China GT Championship in March.^[27] Driving for Fist Team AAI, Yelloly took home five victories from ten races, thus earning himself the Chinese GT title.^[28]

ADAC GT Masters

In 2020, Yelloly teamed up with Schubert Motorsport to drive alongside Henric Skoog for the majority of the ADAC GT Masters season.^[29] He finished 22nd in the standings with a lone victory at the Red Bull Ring, having missed two rounds during the campaign.^[30] During the year, Yelloly also won the 24 Hours of Nürburgring alongside Nicky Catsburg and Alexander Sims.^[31]

Yelloly returned to the championship for the 2021 season, partnering Jesse Krohn in a Schubert-Motorsport-run BMW M6 GT3.^[32][33] With three podiums, including a second place during the season opener in Oschersleben, the pairing of Yelloly and Krohn ended the year eighth overall.^{[citation needed]}

GT World Challenge

Having taken part various rounds of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup from 2018 onwards, Yelloly competed in the series full-time with ROWE Racing during the 2022 campaign. After failing to score points during the first two events, Yelloly and his teammates Augusto Farfus and Nicky Catsburg proved themselves as contenders for the race win during the 24 Hours of Spa, where, having led during the intermediate classifications after six and twelve hours respectively, a puncture set the squad back to sixth by the end of the event.^[34] With more points coming at the final round in Barcelona, the Briton finished twelfth in the championship.^[35]

2023

Yelloly moved into the IMSA SportsCar Championship for the 2023 season, becoming part of the BMW M Team RLL works team which entered a BMW M Hybrid V8 into the GTP category.^[36] Throughout the season opener at Daytona, technical issues would plague the outfit, which went on to finish 49th overall after an early hybrid system problem forced the No. 25 car to spend two and a half hours behind the pit wall.^[37] The team bounced back in Sebring, where, having engaged in battles with other cars in the category for the majority of the race, Yelloly profited from a collision between the No. 10 Acura and the pair of Porsche 963s ahead to take second place.^[38][39] At Long Beach, Yelloly qualified fourth.^[40] The race itself proved to be frantic, with Yelloly tapping the Acura of Tom Blomqvist into a spin at the first corner and keeping third place until the mandated driver change afterwards. Teammate Connor De Phillippi fought for a spot on the podium for the remainder of the contest, eventually securing another runner-up finish after a late-race crash from Ricky Taylor.^[41] Eighth in Monterey followed, as Yelloly lost third with 30 minutes to go before dropping down the order with old tyres.^[42] At Watkins Glen, the No. 25 crew fought up front all day and finished second, though they inherited the win after the #6 Porsche was disqualified.^[43] Yelloly and De Phillippi continued their strong form in Mosport, where they finished third, but multiple incidents for De Phillippi and a later technical issue led to a retirement at Road America.^[44][45] Third in Indianapolis and seventh at Petit Le Mans resulted in Yelloly finishing sixth in the standings.^[46][47]

Simultaneously, Yelloly remained with ROWE Racing in the GTWC Endurance Cup, sharing a car with Philipp Eng and Marco Wittmann. At the opening round in Monza they took a dominant win from pole position.^[48] In Le Castellet, Yelloly lost the lead to Raffaele Marciello and lost two more positions as the car's performance declined going into the night, though a penalty ahead promoted him to third.^[49] Then, a week after Yelloly had given BMW their maiden win in the GTP class at Watkins Glen, he and his teammates won the 24 Hours of Spa — Eng had driven the car into the lead on Sunday morning before Yelloly created a ten-second gap following a safety car with four hours to go.^[50][51] However, a lowly 15th at the Nürburgring and simultaneous victory for the ASP-Mercedes meant that the No. 98 crew went into the Barcelona finale 18 points behind the #88.^[52] Tenth place at the final round meant that Yelloly, Wittmann, and Eng finished second in the standings.^[53][54]

2024

Going into the 2024 IMSA season, Yelloly and De Phillippi remained with the #25 crew.^[55] Seventh at Daytona and fourth at Sebring preceded a missed fifth at Long Beach, where De Phillippi crashed out at turn 6, having pitted to repair damage beforehand following a pileup.^[56][57] More misfortune followed in Detroit: De Phillippi first slid into a tyre barrier on cold tyres after exiting the pits, then broke his car's rear right suspension on the exit of turn 2 minutes later.^[58] Road America saw Yelloly make a race-ending mistake, as the Briton crashed into the wall at Carousel corner.^[59] Fuel strategy conspired to earn the No. 25 its only podium of the season in Indianapolis, as Yelloly's crew came home second just behind the sister car.^[60] Yelloly and De Phillippi finished eighth in the championship, having retired from the season-ending Atlanta event following a technical failure.^[61][62]

After the race, BMW announced that Yelloly would be leaving the manufacturer after six years as a works driver.^[63] During the announcement, BMW M Motorsport director Andreas Roos stressed that Yelloly had "everything a manufacturer could wish for in a racing driver", describing him as "extremely talented", "a great guy", and reliable.^[64]

2025

In 2025, Yelloly made a switch to the Acura Meyer Shank Racing to partner Renger van der Zande in IMSA.^[65] The British driver finished fifth in the overall Drivers' and Teams' Championships, having won the Detroit Sports Car Classic and scoring two podiums, in the 12 Hours of Sebring and SportsCar Grand Prix,^[66] with his individual performance standing out.^[67]

2026

Yelloly continues his IMSA GTP program with Meyer Shank's team in 2026.^[68]

2024

In 2024, Yelloly made his LMP2 debut, contesting the final three races of the European Le Mans Series. Driving in the Pro-Am class at Nielsen Racing as a replacement for Albert Costa, Yelloly scored a class podium at the Portimão season finale.^[69][70]

2025

The second part of Yelloly's 2025 campaign was competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and in the ELMS for Inter Europol Competition alongside Tom Dillmann and silver-ranked Jakub Śmiechowski.^[65][71] Yelloly, Śmiechowski and Dillmann have won the French classic. The number 43 car led the race from the morning, maintaining a lead of no more than twenty seconds over the No. 48 car of the VDS Panis Racing team. The last hour of the race had a dramatic twist; 34 minutes before the finish, the team was given a drive-through penalty as a result of Yelloly's speeding in the pit lane during the previous stop. Subsequently lost lead was regained after another few minutes due to a suspension failure in the rivals' car. Yelloly finished the race with a lead of nearly two minutes over Panis team.^{[72][73][74][75]} The Brit was also the fastest driver of the team and the second fastest LMP2 driver of the race.^[76]

The battle with VDS Panis Racing continued throughout the year in the ELMS series, where it ended with a victory for the French team. Five second places in a total of six races earned Yelloly and his teammates second place in the overall series standings.^[77]

2026

In the 2026 season, Yelloly repeated his 2025 LMP2 program, returning to the ELMS and 24 Hours of Le Mans with Inter Europol Competition, driving alongside Dillmann and Śmiechowski.^[78][79] Yelloly successfully defended his 2025 victory in the 2026 edition of the race, finishing ahead of the sister car of the team. Dillmann, Śmiechowski and Yelloly utilized a slightly different tyre strategy than a sister car, which was in part due to both cars running close to each other in the last hours of the race, as well as saved fuel for most of the race.^[80][81][82]