🇪🇸 Dario Cabanelas

Dario Cabanelas is a semi-professional driver who competed in French F4 across two seasons in 2021 and 2022 with a Racer Rating of 3,248. This places him in the semi-professional band, meaning he raced among full-time professionals and stronger drivers but did not establish himself as a consistent front-runner. Across 39 starts, he scored two podium finishes and no wins, finishing ninth in the championship standings in his final season. His average finishing position of P8.4 across all classified starts reflects mid-field consistency rather than championship contention.[1]

The competitive context reveals a difficult head-to-head record against the field's strongest drivers. Cabanelas was heavily outpaced by Hugh Barter, the 2022 French F4 champion, finishing ahead of him only six times in 38 shared races; he was similarly outmatched by Alessandro Giusti, a professional-level driver rated significantly higher, beating him 11 times in 37 races while trailing in 26. His record against peers closer to his own level was more even; he finished ahead of Enzo Geraci and Pierre-Alexandre Provost in roughly two-thirds of shared races, and had positive records against Enzo Richer and Elliott Vayron. The two podiums came against a reasonably strong field, but the inability to convert frequent opportunities into wins or a sustained podium run limited his impact in a competitive formula series.[2]

Cabanelas is now retired from active racing. The biographical record indicates he held Swiss, Spanish and Ukrainian nationality and had competed in the Ligier European Series before stepping away from the sport, though his primary record of note remains the two French F4 seasons in the lower junior formula where he demonstrated competitive but ultimately uncompelling performance among his peers.