Robert
Shwartzman
Biography
Robert Shwartzman was born in Tel Aviv on 16 September 1999 and grew up in Saint Petersburg and Italy. He holds Israeli and Russian nationality. He started karting in 2004 at the age of four and won titles across Europe, mainly in Italy. In 2014 he moved into the Italian F4 Championship, and in 2015 he finished third overall with Mücke Motorsport, taking three wins. That same year he also took fourth in the standings of the inaugural ADAC Formula 4 season.
He contested Formula Renault 2.0 with Josef Kaufmann Racing in 2016 and R-ace GP in 2017, finishing third in the latter year with six wins. After testing with Prema in September 2017, he was taken into the Ferrari Driver Academy. In 2018 he won the Toyota Racing Series and finished third in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Prema, also taking the rookie title. In 2019 he won the inaugural FIA Formula 3 Championship with Prema, sealing the title in Sochi.
He stayed with Prema in Formula 2. In 2020 he finished fourth with 177 points and won four races, more than any other driver that year, while team-mate Mick Schumacher took the title. In 2021 he was runner-up to Oscar Piastri with two wins, eight podiums and 192 points. He then left the series.
In Formula One, Shwartzman worked as a reserve and test driver for Ferrari. After the 2021 post-season young driver test with Haas and Ferrari, he drove in first practice for Ferrari at the 2022 United States and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix. In 2023 he took part in a free practice session for Ferrari in the Netherlands and in Abu Dhabi, and in 2024 for Kick Sauber in the Netherlands and Mexico City. He never started a World Championship race, and he left Ferrari in 2024.
He was a Ferrari factory driver in 2023 and 2024. In 2023 he raced for AF Corse in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, and in 2024 he entered the World Endurance Championship in Hypercar for AF Corse and won the Lone Star Le Mans with Yifei Ye and Robert Kubica. In 2025 he drove in IndyCar for Prema and took pole position for the Indianapolis 500, the first rookie to do so since Teo Fabi in 1983. He retired after a crash in the pit lane but was named the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year, and he finished the season 24th in the standings.
Source: Wikipedia, “Robert Shwartzman”. 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.