Robert Shwartzman

Robert Mikhailovich Shwartzman (Ро́берт Миха́йлович Шва́рцман; רוברט מיכאילוביץ' שוורצמן; born 16 September 1999 ) is a Russo-Israeli racing driver who is set to compete in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship driving for AF Corse.

He last competed in the 2023 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, also driving for AF Corse.

Shwartzman also serves as a reserve driver for the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team.

Born in Israel and raised in Saint Petersburg and Italy, Shwartzman began karting in 2004 at the age of five.

Throughout a seven-year career of karting professionally, he claimed karting titles across Europe (predominantly in Italy).

At the Red Bull Ring Shwartzman qualified only 12th, after suffering from technical issues.

He went up to fifth in the first race, and in the next race he battled with Marcus Armstrong, but at the final lap made contact.

Armstrong retired and Shwartzman crossed the finish line in first, but was given a five-second time penalty for causing a collision, dropping him down to third behind race winner HWA Racelab driver Jake Hughes, who took victory here last year, and Jehan Daruvala.

At Silverstone Shwartzman qualified sixth.

It looked like he would finish in the same position, but with 3 laps remaining he overtook Christian Lundgaard.

In 2014, Shwartzman graduated to single-seaters, partaking in six races of the Italian F4 Championship with Cram Motorsport.

He finished in the points four times out of the six, to rank sixteenth overall with 26 points.

The following year, Shwartzman partook in the championship full-time with Mücke Motorsport.

Shwartzman claimed his first single-seater podium at just the first race at Vallelunga.

He later took his maiden wins at Adria.

Overall, Shwartzman claimed three wins and finished third in the standings with 212 points behind the Prema Powerteam duo of Ralf Aron and Guanyu Zhou.

During that year, he also partook in the inaugural ADAC Formula 4 championship.

He had a run of six consecutive podiums but did not record a win.

He was unable to finish the season, but finished fourth in the standings.

In 2016, Shwartzman moved to Formula Renault 2.0 with reigning series champions Josef Kaufmann Racing after testing with the team at Motorland Aragon.

He claimed two victories in the Northern European Cup and finished sixth in the standings.

In the Eurocup, Shwartzman finished eighth.

In November 2016, Shwartzman was listed among the drivers partaking in the post-season test at Yas Marina with Koiranen GP.

For 2017, Shwartzman stayed in Formula Renault 2.0, but decided to switch to the R-ace GP team.

He lost thirteen points to his teammate Will Palmer and finished in the third place in the driver standings, but was able to win six races, having podium finish at all rounds excepting Red Bull Ring, and at Circuit Paul Ricard.

He won the Denny Hulme Memorial Trophy and the series title, ahead of the M2 teammates Richard Verschoor and Marcus Armstrong, who have raced in the series in 2017.

In September 2017, Shwartzman tested the European Formula 3 machinery with Prema Powerteam.

After his tests with Prema he was included into the Ferrari Driver Academy.

In December 2017, it was confirmed that he will race for Prema in 2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship.

Shwartzman took his first European Formula 3 win in the third Spielberg race.

With his second win in the season finale he outscored another Ferrari Driver Academy member Marcus Armstrong in the drivers' standings, completing the top-three with claiming the rookie title.

He was a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy, and is the 2018 Toyota Racing Series and 2019 FIA Formula 3 champion.

Shwartzman made his Toyota Racing Series debut during the 2018 off-season, competing for M2 Competition.

He finished all fifteen races in the top-five and was the only driver in the season to do so.

Following the merger of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship and GP3 Series into the new FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2019, Prema announced Shwartzman as one of its drivers for the inaugural season.

Shwartzman qualified on pole for the first Barcelona race and initially finished the race in second before being promoted to race winner following a time penalty to Christian Lundgaard.

In the following day's race, he finished fourth.

He took third place at qualifying in Circuit Paul Ricard and finished second in the first race, losing only to his team-mate Jehan Daruvala.

After starting from seventh in the grid, at the sprint race, he took his second victory.

He previously competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2020 and 2021 where he finished 4th and 2nd respectively.