José María "Pechito" López (born 26 April 1983) is a veteran Argentine race car driver who is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Akkodis ASP.

[4] He also drove for Cram in Italian Formula Renault that year, where he became champion, taking four wins, beating Robert Kubica to the crown.

López also returned to Argentina in 2007 to race in TC 2000, the country's major production-based touring car championship.

In November 2009 López confirmed that he had a deal in place with the new US F1 Team to race in the 2010 Formula One season, provided he secured an eight million-dollar sponsorship package.

[5] Sources close to López claimed he already had eighty percent of the funds needed to secure his place in the team.

[7] Former F1 driver Carlos Reutemann, a close friend of US F1 principal Peter Windsor and a leading politician in Argentina, helped put the funding package together for López.

Complications in USF1's progress and uncertainty over whether USF1 would be able to stay in F1 for 2010 caused rumours to surface that López was in talks with rival team Campos, to secure his place in F1.

He made his World Touring Car Championship début with Wiechers-Sport at the 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Argentina, substituting for their regular driver Fredy Barth.

José María López finished the season with ten victories, close to the Yvan Muller's record.