Charles Weerts started his GT Racing career back in 2019 with Team WRT in the GTWC Europe championship. Even though WRT switched from Audi to BMW in 2023 Weerts stayed with the Belgian team. Becoming a factory BMW M Motorsport driver as a result. With 4 Sprint Cup championships since 2019, Weerts became a big name in GT racing. The Belgian won his last GTWC Europe championship together with Kelvin van der Linde and Team WRT in 2025. Claiming both the Sprint Cup and the Overall championship, while they finished third in the Endurance Cup.
Speaking exclusively with Pit Debrief, Weerts opened up about his time at Team WRT and how the team helped him grow on his journey.
Learning-driven teamwork as the foundation of Weerts’ racing identity
Weerts saw the team as a tight unit where everyone stayed connected and backed each other, at the track and away from it. Around him, drivers, engineers and mechanics worked side by side and treated every result as something they owned together. Rather than chasing status, no one tried to stand above the rest, and personal pride never stood in the way of progress.
In that environment, Weerts learned from the people around him every weekend and pushed himself to grow in every session. Over time, those habits shaped the way he behaved in the garage and in the car. With new teammates, Weerts set the tone early, showing through his actions that openness, trust and teamwork formed the core of life at Team WRT and how they become successful in GT Racing.
“So, yeah, so for me, WRT, before anything else, it’s like a family where everybody is really close to each other, where we’re always there to help each other. And I think there’s also no really egos between any drivers or between anybody, and we are really always learning from each other. I think this close relationship that you have with your teammates, with your mechanics, with your engineers, is something that is really special.”
How Weerts turns Team WRT’s close-knit culture into everyday progress in the paddock
For Weerts, that closeness in the team turned into a daily tool for progress. He spent long stretches in conversation with the people around him and dug into every detail of their work together. Over time, those exchanges built strong relationships and gave him a clear sense of how each person thought and operated. Any newcomer walking into the garage, whether a driver or a mechanic, felt that straight away and settled in quickly. They saw that this sense of welcome and constant dialogue ranked among Team WRT’s most striking values.
“This proximity also helps to just get better at a lot of stuff because you speak a lot, and you can have like ideas, and you just have a great relationship, and you really understand the people with who you’re working with. And I think that for any driver or any new person that comes into the team, it’s probably one of the values that stands out the most and one value that they appreciate a lot. And that it’s maybe that you don’t really find at least as much in other teams.”
“So I would say that’s probably one value, one of the things that stand out the most. And obviously for new drivers or new mechanics, it’s something that’s I mean, they feel welcome straight away. I hope this was the question that you asked.”
Weerts’ journey from Kelvin van der Linde to Sheldon van der Linde and back again – and what it taught him
The Belgian stressed that both brothers, Kelvin van der Linde and Sheldon van der Linde, lifted the level of any crew they joined. Weerts first shared a car with Kelvin van der Linde in the Audi era, then teamed up with Sheldon van der Linde when Team WRT switched to BMW machinery in 2023. Before ultimately reuniting with Kelvin van der Linde again in 2025. That sequence almost felt like a long back-to-back test to him, the kind engineers usually did with setups and concepts. Showing how ideas evolved and how a second stint with a familiar teammate could change his view on what worked.
“Yeah, so first of all, there are two extremely talented drivers. I mean, I used to drive first with Kelvin [van der Linde] in the Audi days, then with Sheldon [van der Linde] with the BMW. So from 2023, I believe, until last year, actually, we drove together.”
“So 2023 and 2024. And now back with Kelvin [van der Linde]. It’s funny to do the back to back to back, something we usually do sometimes also with setups, you know because sometimes you have your ideas and times change, and you think one thing is better than when you go back, you realise things that you did not realise at the first glance.”
Session after session, he saw the same thread run through both brothers: raw speed and natural feel for the car. Their pace set a hard reference in every run, forced him and the team to dig deeper, turning each weekend into a constant search for marginal gains. In his eyes, that shared strength did more than just decide lap times. It drove development forward and raised the overall standard inside Team WRT.
“So, yeah, I would say one thing in common they have is for sure their talents and their pace. And yeah, that’s something for sure they have in their body, them both.”
