Ádám Hideg (born 9 January 2008) is a Hungarian racing driver. He most recently competed in the 2024 F4 Spanish Championship with Cram Motorsport, and is set to compete in the

2025 Eurocup-3 season The 2025 Eurocup-3 season is the third season of the Eurocup-3 series. Eurocup-3 is a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seater open wheel formula racing cars held across Europe, created in 2023 as an alternative to the FIA-sanction ...

with Palou Motorsport.

Career

Karting

Hideg drove a kart for the first time in

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when he was 4-5 years old and continued to develop his skills on a local karting track from the age of 7. Not much later he started competitive karting. His first test took place in

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, and at first he participated in championships in

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and neighboring countries, including the Moravian Cup. In 2018, he competed for a Hungarian team in Italy in the 60 Mini category in the prestigious WSK series, and from 2019 he became a permanent participant in the field with Lennox Racing, BabyRace and Kidix teams. He entered the junior category in 2021, at first with KidiX, then from 2022 with the DPK Racing team linked to

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, before becoming a factory driver for Sodi Kart. In addition to WSK, he also competed in the Champions of the Future, the FIA Karting European Championship and the FIA Karting World Championship, and was selected as a member of the Hungarian Motorsport Academy. With his 2nd place in the OK Junior category at the 2022 FIA Karting World Championship, he achieved a unique success in the history of Hungarian karting. After the World Championship, at the end of 2022 and at the beginning of 2023 he competed in the adult OK category, before starting his preparations for his

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career.

Formula 4

In January 2024

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announced that Hideg would join the Swiss team to compete in Formula Winter Series and the

Italian F4 Championship Italian Formula 4 Championship is the first formula racing series regulated according to Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA Formula 4 regulations. The inaugural season was the 2014 Italian F4 Championship, effectively replacing the F ...

. He started his season in the 2024 Formula Winter Series, where he impressed, scoring points in the third round at MotorLand Aragón. He then secured a pole position for the race which was resultantly cancelled in the final round at the

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, as he finished 20th in the standings, with 10 points. It was later confirmed that Hideg would not be continuing with

for Italian F4, and confirmed his move to Cram Motorsport for the 2024 F4 Spanish Championship. Hideg scored points in the first weekend at Jarama, finishing sixth, in what would end up being his highest finishing position of the season. His only other points finish of the season was a seventh-placed finish in the fourth round at Aragón. He ended the season 17th in the standings, finishing above all his teammates and scoring all fourteen of Cram Motorsport's points in the championship standings.

Eurocup-3

For 2025, it was confirmed that Hideg would step up to join Palou Motorsport for the

. He also drove for the team in the Eurocup-3 Spanish Winter Championship. He is currently 21st in the championship, with a best finish of 13th place.

Personal life

He comes from a rallying family, his grandfather is a two-time Hungarian rally champion, and his father, Krisztián Hideg, is a three-time Croatian rally champion.

Karting record

Karting career summary

Racing record

Racing career summary

Complete Formula Winter Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete F4 Spanish Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete Eurocup-3 Spanish Winter Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete Eurocup-3 results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

References

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