🇷🇴 Filip Ugran

Filip Ugran is a retired Romanian racing driver with a professional-level sportscar career, holding an FIA Gold grading. His Racer Rating of 4,489 places him among professional drivers, though at the lower end of the established professional band; this reflects a career spent in feeder series and endurance racing against stronger fields without securing results at the front. Across 85 starts over seven seasons from 2018 to 2024, Ugran scored a single win, in Italian F4 in 2019 while driving for Jenzer Motorsport, and seven podiums across his whole career.[1]

Ugran's progression through single-seaters showed the characteristic plateau of a driver unlikely to reach the top. After early runs in Italian F4 and ADAC F4 in 2019, he contested 22 Formula 3 races for MP Motorsport in 2021 and 2022 without podium finishes, then moved to Euroformula Open where a single third-place finish represented his only result outside the front-running field. His record against stronger rivals in these categories tells the story plainly: he finished behind Dennis Hauger, a three-time champion, in 39 of 42 shared races, behind Jonny Edgar in 45 of 55 shared races, and behind Oliver Rasmussen in 36 of 45. He occasionally beat elite drivers such as Gabriel Bortoleto and Leonardo Fornaroli, but these were scattered results across different seasons rather than a consistent competitive threat.[2]

Ugran's later career moved to endurance racing, where his FIA Gold status reflects his standing as a professional in that discipline. He contested eight races in the European Le Mans Series from 2022 to 2024, accumulating one podium, and seven World Endurance Championship rounds for Prema Racing in 2023, finishing as high as 23rd overall. His average finishing position across his entire career was 13th place, a figure weighted heavily toward his stronger early results in Italian F4; his later single-seater and sportscar outings typically saw him finishing further down the field. Ugran retired from racing after 2023.