Roy
Nissany
Biography
Roy Nissany was born in Tel Aviv on 30 November 1994 and is Israeli. His father, Chanoch Nissany, was also a racing driver and a Formula One test driver for Minardi. Roy started karting at the age of six. His car racing career began in 2010 in Formula Lista Junior, where he finished eighth. In 2011 he moved to ADAC Formel Masters with Mücke Motorsport and finished 11th. He competed again in 2012, finishing ninth and winning a race at the Red Bull Ring. In the FIA Formula 3 European Championship he finished 22nd in 2013 and 17th in 2014.
In Formula Renault 3.5 he took 13th place with Tech 1 Racing in 2015. In 2016 he won three races and took three pole positions for Lotus, finishing fourth in the standings. In 2017 he was fifth in the World Series Formula V8 3.5 with RP Motorsport, including a win at Jerez. In Formula 2 he drove for Campos in 2018, but after the Monza round he was replaced by Roberto Merhi for the final two rounds. He did not race in 2019. In 2020 he returned with Trident and finished 19th. With DAMS he was 16th in 2021 and 19th in 2022, and he took his first Formula 2 podium in the Monaco sprint race in 2021. In 2023 he drove for PHM Racing by Charouz, scored no points and ended the year 21st.
He first drove a Formula One car in October 2014, a Sauber C31 at the Circuito Ricardo Tormo. In December 2019 he took part in post-season testing for Williams at Yas Marina, and the team named him its official test driver for 2020. Williams ran him in first practice at the Spanish, Italian and Bahrain Grands Prix in 2020, and at the Spanish, French and Austrian Grands Prix in 2021. On the first day of pre-season testing in 2021 he completed 83 laps in Bahrain. In 2022 he remained in the Williams Driver Academy but did not take part in any practice session. He never started a World Championship race.
At the end of 2024 he took part in the European Le Mans Series rookie test, driving a Ferrari 296 GT3 for AF Corse. In 2025 he contested the series full-time with Duqueine Team in LMP2, alongside Reshad de Gerus. His best result was seventh at Le Castellet, and he finished 15th in the standings. In 2026 he returned to the ELMS, joining Nielsen Racing.
Source: Wikipedia, “Roy Nissany”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
This driver has no race starts.
Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.