🇮🇹 Brando Badoer

Brando Badoer is an established professional competing in single-seat racing across European junior and intermediate categories. He drives for Rodin Motorsport in Formula 3, where he races in both the FR1 and FR2 classes across a field spanning 13 countries. His career on record runs from 2022 through 2026, with 96 starts across Italian F4, ADAC Formula 4, Formula Regional European, and Formula 3.[1]

His breakthrough came in Formula Regional European during 2024, where he took seven podiums from 18 starts. That form carried into his first season in Formula 3 in 2025, when he scored a win and three podiums across the year. The 2026 campaign saw him consolidate with another podium finish, extending a pattern of consistent results in competitive fields mixing amateurs through to graded professionals. He finished sixth in the Italian F4 championship standings in 2023 and has built his record across teams including Van Amersfoort Racing, which fielded him for 58 of his 96 starts.[2]

Against the established professionals he races regularly, Badoer's record splits: he typically finishes behind James Wharton, an FIA Silver-graded driver with 40 Formula 3 starts across his portfolio, but usually runs ahead of Nicola Lacorte, a professional competitor with similar experience. He has beaten elite-level drivers in one-off encounters, including Arvid Lindblad, an FIA Platinum graded driver with 27 Formula 2 starts, and 2022 British F4 champion Alex Dunne, though these remain isolated results rather than patterns.