Zak
O'Sullivan

Zak O'Sullivan, born on 6 February 2005, is a British racing driver. He took up karting at the age of nine and won the British Super One Rookie Championship in 2014. In 2018 he finished second in the junior class of the German Karting Championship. He moved into car racing in 2019 in the Ginetta Junior Championship, finishing second overall as the best-placed rookie. In 2020 he was runner-up in British Formula 4 with Carlin, just three points behind Luke Browning. In 2021 he won the GB3 Championship with Carlin, and in February 2022 he received the Autosport BRDC Award.

He contested the FIA Formula 3 Championship with Carlin in 2022, finishing 11th with 54 points and two podiums. In 2023 he switched to Prema and was runner-up with 119 points, taking four wins and one pole position. In 2024 he stepped up to Formula 2 with ART Grand Prix. He won in Monaco and in the sprint race at Spa-Francorchamps, which was shortened because of heavy rain. He did not take part in the last three rounds of the season and finished 16th overall with two wins and 59 points.

In February 2022 it was announced that O'Sullivan would join the Williams Driver Academy, which he left after the 2024 season. As his prize for the Autosport BRDC Award, he drove an Aston Martin AMR21 at Silverstone. Williams ran him in the FW45 in first free practice at the 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where he finished 18th, and he completed 50 laps in the young drivers' test. He did not contest a Formula One world championship race. In 2025 he moved to Super Formula with Kondo Racing, and in 2026 he switched to Team Impul. He also made his Super GT debut in 2025 in the GT300 class with CarGuy MKS Racing, driving the Ferrari 296 GT3 alongside Rikuto Kobayashi. In Formula E he took part in rookie sessions for Envision Racing and was the team's simulator driver in 2024-25.

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