Lirim Zendeli

With 74 points he finished in 13th place in the championship, whilst he ended up fifth in the rookie class.

The following year Zendeli contested a double programme in both the ADAC and Italian Formula 4 championships, again with ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg.

In the German series, Zendeli took his maiden single-seater win at Oschersleben.

However, his title challenge was derailed when he suffered two retirements and two non-scoring finishes in the next three rounds.

Despite this, he would win again in the Nürburgring and during the penultimate race at the Hockenheimring.

The German classified fourth in the standings with 164 points, he also had a further two podiums.

In the Italian championship, the German scored two podium finishes, but was not included in the final standings as he did not take part in the final race weekend at Monza.

Lirim Zendeli (born 18 October 1999 in Bochum) is a German racing driver of Macedonian-Albanian descent who currently competes in the 2023 USF Pro 2000 Championship with TJ Speed Motorsports.

He last competed as a substitute driver for Campos Racing in Formula 2.

Zendeli began his motorsport career in karting in 2010.

In his home country, he finished third in the KF3 class of the ADAC Kart Masters in 2013 and won the KFJ class of the series in 2014.

That year he also made the switch to European championships and competed in the CIK-FIA World Championship in the KF Junior class, among other categories.

He claimed two second places and ended 14th in the standings.

In 2015, he concluded his karting career in the KF class of the South Garda Winter Cup, where he finished 11th.

2016 was Zendeli's first season in single-seaters, racing in ADAC Formula 4 with ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg.

He failed to score points in the opening two rounds, but after that, regularly finished in the top 10.

He even achieved a podium finish with a second position in the penultimate race weekend at Zandvoort.

The next two rounds went poorly for Zendeli, starting at the Hungaroring where he suffered collision damage in Race 1 and had to retire, with 16th place in the following race.

In Silverstone, he had no pace and did not score.

For 2018, Zendeli moved to the US Racing-CHRS team, partnering David Schumacher, Mick Wishofer and Tom Beckhäuser, for a year that would prove to be his breakout.

Zendeli dominated throughout the campaign, winning four of the first six races.

Amazingly, Zendeli won at every round, and this allowed him to claim the title during the penultimate round at the Nürburgring.

Zendeli rounded the season with two wins.

He dominated the season by taking eight pole positions of a possible 14, winning 10 races out of 21 and finishing over 100 points ahead of nearest rival Liam Lawson.

He missed the final round, and ended 18th in the championship with six points.

He competed in the FIA Formula 3 Championship with Charouz Racing System in 2019 as the reigning German Formula 4 champion.

After the 2019 F3 season, Zendeli competed in the 2020 Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand before joining Trident for the 2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship, where he won a race at Spa.

He made the step up to Formula 2 in 2021 with MP Motorsport.

Zendeli progressed to Formula 3 in 2019, continuing with Charouz and alongside Fabio Scherer and Raoul Hyman.

Zendeli's only points came at the Red Bull Ring, finishing eighth and seventh place.

In the latter result, Zendeli had started on reverse pole but lost out to the faster cars.

He was set for another strong result in Monza, but suffered a puncture while battling for the lead.

Following the season, Zendeli made a one-off appearance in the 2019 Formula Regional European Championship.

During 2020 pre-season, he competed in the Toyota Racing Series with Giles Motorsport.

Zendeli took four podiums but no wins, and managed to end up eighth in the standings.

In Formula 3, Zendeli signed for Trident Racing to partner David Beckmann and Olli Caldwell in the 2020 season.

Zendeli managed to qualify second in his first race at the Red Bull Ring, but dropped to fifth at the flag despite momentarily being in the lead, and followed it up with fifth in Race 2.

He scored his first Formula 3 podium finish at the rain-shortened first race of the second Red Bull Ring round.

The German made a brilliant start from sixth, soaring to second on the first lap and nearly snatching the lead from the Frederik Vesti.

He remained in the position until the conclusion of the race.