Johnathan Hoggard (born 15 November 2000 in
Spalding) is a
British
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racing driver who most recently competed in the
FIA Formula 3 Championship
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for
Jenzer Motorsport
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.
Career
Karting
Hoggard started
karting
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in the UK when he was 13 years old. He competed in series such as and Senior Rotax Karting Winter Series Valencia, Hoggard won his first karting championship in 2016 in
Belgium
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with the Max Challenge Senior Rotax and BNL Senior Rotax Kick-Off. In the same year he became MSA British Junior Karting Champion.
British F4
Due to a successful karting campaign in 2016,
Fortec Motorsport
Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team that races in the GB3 Championship, GB4 Championship, and F4 British Championship. The team was bought in 1995 by current owner Richard Dutton.
Past drivers for the team include Juan Pablo Montoya, ...
s signed Hoggard up to race for them halfway through the
2017 British F4 season Hoggard scored his first points in the 3rd race at
Snetterton
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where he finished tenth. At the penultimate round of the season in race three at
Silverstone
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Hoggard finished 3rd, securing his first single seater podium of his career.
In 2018 Fortec signed Hoggard for a full season where he won 8 races and finished on the podium a further 2 times. Hoggard finished the season on 339 points and in 3rd position behind Kiern Jewiss and Ayrton Simmons who finished first and second respectively.
British F3
Following his performance in the British F4 series, Hoggard was again signed up by Fortec to race for them in
British F3
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championship in 2019. In the second race of the final round of the season himself and championship rival
Clément Novalak
Clément Novalak (; born 23 December 2000) is a French and Swiss racing driver who competes in the European Le Mans Series for TDS Racing.
Novalak won the GB3 Championship, BRDC British Formula 3 Championship with Carlin in 2019 BRDC British For ...
collided meaning they both finished at the bottom end of the points. Hoggard finished 15th whereas Novalak finished 12th which gave Novalak 4 points, despite Hoggard winning the last race he still fell short of the title. He finished the season 23 points behind Novalak with 482 and 7 wins, more than anyone on the grid. His performances across the season also meant he won the Sunoco Whelen Challenge and with it, a drive at the
2020 24 Hours of Daytona
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with
Precision Performance Motorsports
Precision Performance Motorsports (PPM) is an American professional sports car racing and former stock car racing team that currently competes full-time in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship using a GT Daytona-class Lamborghini Huracán, Lam ...
.
Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver
Hoggard was nominated for the
Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver in early November 2019 along with
Enaam Ahmed
Enaam Ahmed (; born 4 February 2000) is a Pakistani and British former racing driver. He last competed in the 2023 Indy NXT driving for Cape Motorsports. Ahmed previously competed in the 2022 Indy Pro 2000 Championship driving for Juncos Hol ...
,
Jamie Chadwick
Jamie Laura Chadwick (born 20 May 1998) is a British racing driver who competes for IDEC Sport Racing, IDEC Sport in the 2025 European Le Mans Series, and previously raced for Andretti Global in 2024 Indy NXT, Indy NXT. She won the inaugural 20 ...
and
Ayrton Simmons
Ayrton Miguel Simmons Fernández (born 29 April 2001) is a British-Spanish racing driver, who last competed in the 2024 Ultimate Cup Series with TS Corse. He last competed in the 2022 Euroformula Open Championship for Drivex School and the 2022 ...
. Hoggard won the award, and with it a cash prize of £200,000 and a
Formula One
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test.
Daytona and Formula Renault
Hoggard started 2020 competing in the
24 Hours of Daytona
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for
Precision Performance Motorsports
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, sharing a
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo with
Brandon Gdovic
Brandon R. Gdovic (born February 28, 1992) is an American professional racing driver. The Yorktown, Virginia resident competes in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series, driving for Precision Performance Motorsports. He has also raced i ...
,
Mark Kvamme
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Business career
Kvamme founded Drive Capital with Chris Olsen ...
and
Eric Lux
Éric Roger Lux (born 19 December 1967) is a Luxembourgish businessman. He is the CEO of Genii Capital, co-founded with Gerard Lopez, an investment management and financial member of the Genii Group and former owner of the Lotus F1 Team. He ...
. They retired after 608 laps due to gearbox problems.
Hoggard was originally set to twin the
Euroformula Open Championship
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and the
Porsche Carrera Cup Asia
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during the year, driving for
Fortec Motorsport
Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team that races in the GB3 Championship, GB4 Championship, and F4 British Championship. The team was bought in 1995 by current owner Richard Dutton.
Past drivers for the team include Juan Pablo Montoya, ...
s and Absolute Racing respectively. However, both plans fell through due to the impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, as Fortec pulled out of Euroformula and the season of the one-make GT3 series was cancelled.
Hoggard was later announced to drive for French outfit
R-ace GP
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in the
2020 Formula Renault Eurocup
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in round two at
Imola
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in June. He replaced Indian driver
Kush Maini
Kush Maini (, ; born 22 September 2000) is an Indian racing driver, who competes in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for DAMS as part of the Alpine Academy, and serves as a reserve driver in Formula One for Alpine F1 Team, Alpine and in Formula E ...
, who was unable to compete due to financial reasons caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. He retired in the pits in both races but was classified as 18th in the second one.
Formula 3
Having already driven for several teams in testing, Hoggard joined
Jenzer Motorsport
Jenzer Motorsport is an auto racing team based in Switzerland. Founded in 1993 by Andreas Jenzer the team is currently competing in FIA Formula 3, Italian F4 and F4 Spanish and has had a number of drivers who would turn out to be successful in ...
to compete in the
2021 FIA Formula 3 Championship
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, replacing
Pierre-Louis Chovet
Pierre-Louis Chovet (born 11 April 2002) is a French racing driver.
Junior racing career Karting
Pierre-Louis Chovet practiced many sports during his childhood such as skiing, BMX or tennis. He attended the 2011 Monaco Grand Prix and quickly ...
, who left the team after the opening round. Hoggard scored his first point in the series, at the 2nd sprint race at Austria.
He drove for
Hitech Grand Prix
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in the post-season test but was not signed to the British-based team or any other team.
Formula One
After winning the
Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver in 2019, Hoggard conducted a one-off
Formula One
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test with
Red Bull Racing
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at
Silverstone
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in October 2020.
Karting record
Karting career summary
Racing record
Racing career summary
Complete F4 British Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete BRDC British Formula 3 Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete Formula Renault Eurocup results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
† Driver did not finish, but was classified as they completed more than 90% of race distance.
Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)
References
External links
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2000 births
Living people
BRDC British Formula 3 Championship drivers
Formula Renault Eurocup drivers
R-ace GP drivers
Jenzer Motorsport drivers
British F4 Championship drivers
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers
Karting World Championship drivers
Fortec Motorsport drivers
English racing drivers
People from Spalding, Lincolnshire