Ricardo Feller, born on 1 June 2000 in Aarau, Switzerland, began his motorsport career in karting in 2011 and finished runner-up in the Swiss karting championship a year later. In 2016 he joined Mücke Motorsport’s Formula 4 team and worked his way through the ADAC Formula 4 championship towards GT3 racing. In 2021 Feller, alongside Christopher Mies in an Audi R8, won the overall ADAC GT Masters title, one of Europe’s most prestigious GT3 championships.
As an Audi factory driver with Abt Sportsline, Feller entered the DTM in 2022 and was immediately among the front-runners, finishing third overall in 2023. Over four seasons with Abt, the driver from Aargau collected three race wins and seven podiums. When Audi scaled back its factory commitment as part of its move into Formula 1 with Sauber, Feller’s future briefly looked uncertain in 2024; in 2025 he ultimately raced privately with the Land Motorsport Audi and won at Spielberg.
Since 2025 Feller has been a Porsche contract driver and made his debut for Manthey EMA at the 24 Hours of Daytona in January 2026 in the Grello Porsche. For the 2026 DTM season he moves permanently to Manthey EMA as the successor to outgoing champion Ayhancan Güven, driving a Porsche 911 GT3 R in the series for the first time after four years behind the wheel of an Audi.
It is already the Swiss driver’s fifth DTM season. Alongside the consistency of racing next to teammate Thomas Preining, he is particularly drawn to the professional environment at Manthey, whose record of two championship titles in the past three DTM years speaks for itself.
Championship History
ADAC GT Masters Title (1)
- 2021
Ricardo Feller in the News
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Ben Dörr Wins Race 2 at Sachsenring Ahead of Tightly Bunched Top Group
Five drivers from four different teams were separated by just 3.245 seconds at the front, while five cars…
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Maro Engel Secures Pole for Race 2 – Wittmann Drops to Grid Spot 19
After claiming the quickest time on Friday, Marco Wittmann missed the top group considerably in the second qualifying…
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Wittmann Secures Pole in First Sachsenring Qualifying
The Schubert driver reversed his practice trend, leaving Preining and Gounon narrowly in his wake.
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Feller Ahead of Preining: Manthey EMA Sweeps Top Two in Second Practice at Sachsenring
Ricardo Feller posts the quickest lap in Practice 2 ahead of teammate Thomas Preining, while Marco Wittmann’s third-fastest…
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Preining Leads the Way: Manthey EMA Sets the Pace in Opening DTM Practice at Sachsenring
Manthey EMA proved the class of the field in first practice on Friday, though the grid behind them…
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Manthey EMA Takes the Lead: Preining and Feller Dominate Second Practice at the Nürburgring
After a subdued opening session, Thomas Preining and Ricardo Feller showed what the two Manthey drivers are capable…

