Michaël Benyahia (born July 21, 2000, in Miami) is a Moroccan racing driver.
Benyahia was born in Miami of a Moroccan father and a Belgian mother. His father, Karim Benyahia is a businessman in hands-free technologies. His mother, Pascale Van Cleemput was Honorary consul of Belgium in Miami between 2002 and 2005.
Benyahia began karting in 2007 at the age of seven, claiming numerous titles in his career.
In November 2013, Benyahia took part in the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals held in New Orleans, where he finished sixth of the Mini Max category.
In 2015, Benyahia graduated to single-seaters in the French F4 Championship, where he earned nine points and finished 17th. The following year he repeated this series, finishing 3rd and claiming a victory and six podiums.
Benyahia signed with the R-ace GP Team and became 2017 Formula Renault FR 2.0 NEC Champion. As part of his prize for becoming the 2017 champion at Hockenheim, Benyahia paid a visit to Renault Sport's F1 facility at Enstone.
Between June and October 2019, Benyahia joined the development program of the British team Carlin Motorsport to prepare for a series in F3.
In September 2017, Benyahia joined Venturi Formula E Team as Development Driver, one month later he took part in the pre-season test session in Valencia, then in January 2018 at the Rookie Test of the Marrakesh ePrix where he was the youngest among the twenty participants, in which he finished 19th in the first session and 18th in the second.
Benyahia was one of four confirmed McLaren DDP drivers that would drive two McLaren 570S GT4s for Tolman Motorsport for the 2020 season, after he, Katie Milner, Harry Hayek and Alain Valente were the top-four drivers in an 18-driver selection at Snetterton.
Benyahia would represent Morocco in the FIA Motorsport Games that would be hosted from October 26 to 30 at Circuit Paul Ricard in the GT Sprint discipline.
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â As Benyahia was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points
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