In the early days, GT racing had a reputation for being for older drivers. However, the trend soon began to change, with more and more young drivers coming up through GT racing alongside single-seater careers. The youngest FIA GT race-winner was Jeroen Bleekemolen, who won the Budapest round at the Hungaroring in 2001. He shared the nr 3 Carsport Holland Chrysler Viper GTS-R with Mike Hezemans, and the two of them finished as runners-up that year to Christophe Bouchut and Jean-Philippe Belloc in the Larbre Competition Viper. Bleekemolen was 19 at the time.

While that record was never broken, that of the youngest pole-position man changed in 2009, when Martin Ragginger took GT2 pole in Adria in the Brixia Porsche.