Matías Rossi · Biography

Matías Leonardo Rossi won his first championship in 2002, taking the Fórmula Súper Renault title with a TOM'S-run single-seater. Born on 2 April 1984 in Del Viso, Buenos Aires province, he is an Argentine touring car driver. He has won Turismo Carretera, TC2000 in its different eras, Top Race V6 and Turismo Nacional, and he has also raced in Brazilian Stock Car. Paddock nicknames include “Granadero” and “Misil”.

From karting to single-seaters

He started karting in the mid-1990s. In 1996 he raced Sport Kart 125 and Sudam Pre Júnior. In 1997 he won the Metropolitan ICA 100 Júnior and the Buenos Aires provincial Sudam Júnior championships, and in 2000 he took the Buenos Aires 2000 title in Sudam Sénior. By then he had already raced abroad: the North American Formula A championship in Canada in 1999, then the Formula A World Championship in Portugal and the European championship in 2000. That same year he made his car racing debut in Fórmula Renault Argentina. In 2001 he also raced in Fórmula Súper Renault, finishing eighth, and he won the title the following season.

Turismo Carretera and the first TC2000 titles

He made his Turismo Carretera debut in 2003 with Satriano Sport. In 2005 he moved up to TC2000 with the Pro Racing Chevrolet, and he won the title with that team in 2006 and 2007. In 2007 he was also runner-up in Turismo Carretera with JC Competición, and that year he received the Olimpia de Plata for motorsport. He had won the Fangio de Plata as rookie of the year in the two previous seasons. From 2008 to 2010 he drove for Renault in TC2000 and made his Top Race V6 debut in a Tauro Motorsport Mercedes-Benz. In 2010 he received his first Konex Award.

The Toyota years

In 2011 he joined Toyota Team Argentina and won his third TC2000 title. He was third in Turismo Carretera that year. He stayed with Toyota when the series became Súper TC2000, finishing runner-up in 2012 and winning the title in 2013, a season that included wins at Rosario and La Pampa. In 2012 he had also been second in Turismo Carretera, and he finished runner-up in both series again in 2016. He was second in Súper TC2000 once more in 2019, and in 2020 he won the title again with Toyota's YPF Infinia team.

The 2014 double

On 7 December 2014, in heavy rain at the Oscar y Juan Gálvez circuit in Buenos Aires, Rossi finished second in the season finale and became Turismo Carretera champion in a Chevrolet. He won five races that year. A week later he clinched the Turismo Nacional Clase 3 title, a class he had raced in since 2013. In Turismo Carretera he was runner-up in 2015 and 2016 with Donto Racing, and from 2017 to 2019 he raced with Nova Racing.

Top Race and Stock Car

He won the Top Race V6 title in 2019 and 2020. In 2020 he made his Brazilian Stock Car debut with Full Time Sports while racing in both series. In 2022 he drove for A.Mattheis Vogel in Brazil, winning at Velocittá in May and finishing fourth overall, his best championship result there. He returned to Full Time Sports in 2023. That year he received a second Konex Award, following the one in 2010, and in 2024 he was runner-up in both TC2000 and Top Race V6.

A sixth TC2000 title

In 2025 he raced in TC2000 with a Toyota Corolla Cross for Toyota Gazoo Racing YPF Infinia. With Santiago Urrutia he won the 200 Kilómetros de Buenos Aires. The title was decided on 21 December 2025 at Junín: Rossi finished third in the final, ahead of his teammate Emiliano Stang, to claim his sixth title in the series (four in TC2000 and two in Súper TC2000). He became the first TC2000 champion to win in an SUV, and it was Toyota's fifth title in the category.