Callum
Ilott
Biography
Callum Ilott was born in Cambridge on 11 November 1998. He came into motorsport through karting, making his debut in 2008. At 13 he won the WSK Masters Series and the WSK Final Cup in 2012, and in 2014 he took the CIK-FIA European Championship. He entered single-seaters in 2015, racing in the Toyota Racing Series and in the European Formula 3 Championship, where he drove for Carlin. Red Bull took him into its junior programme that year but dropped him at the end of the season. In 2016 he won two races for Van Amersfoort Racing and finished sixth. In 2017 he was fourth in the standings with Prema, winning six races, and afterwards joined the Ferrari Driver Academy.
In the GP3 Series he finished third in 2018 with ART Grand Prix and won two races. In 2019 he contested a full Formula 2 season, finishing eleventh and taking his first pole position at Monza. In 2020 he won three races and took five poles for UNI-Virtuosi, ending the year as runner-up to Mick Schumacher.
Ilott never took part in a Formula 1 Grand Prix. He drove a Formula 1 car for the first time at a test in Barcelona in 2019, for Alfa Romeo. In 2021 he was a Ferrari test driver and an Alfa Romeo reserve, driving in first practice for the team in Portugal and Austria. For the 2022 Miami Grand Prix, Alfa Romeo called him up again as reserve driver.
In 2021 he joined Juncos Hollinger Racing for the last three IndyCar races of the season. He raced full-time for the team in 2022 and stayed with them in 2023, when he finished fifth at St. Petersburg and again in the season finale at Laguna Seca. In 2024 he stood in for Arrow McLaren at St. Petersburg and finished eleventh in the Indianapolis 500. In 2025 he raced for Prema.
In endurance racing, he made his debut in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2021 and finished third in the GTE Am class with Iron Lynx. In 2024 he won at Spa in the World Endurance Championship, giving Jota its first Hypercar victory. For 2026 he joined Wright Motorsports in the IMSA SportsCar Championship.
Source: Wikipedia, “Callum Ilott”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.