🇺🇸 Hayden Bowlsbey

Hayden Bowlsbey is a competitive amateur, with a Racer Rating of 2,699. This level means club and regional racing, though Bowlsbey's record spans stronger fields; his career sits at the entry end of professional competition, where results come rarely and rivals are mostly semi-professionals and experienced amateurs rather than full-time racers. Across six seasons from 2020 to 2025, Bowlsbey has made 84 starts in single-seater racing, concentrated in Formula Regional Americas and US F4, accumulating five podium finishes but no victories. An average finishing position of P8.4 places him firmly in the middle of the grids he has entered.[1]

Bowlsbey's record against his most frequent rivals tells a consistent story of a mid-field runner. Against Kevin Janzen, a club-level driver, Bowlsbey has a strong head-to-head, finishing ahead 24 times and behind twice across 26 races. However, against semi-professionals and stronger drivers, the pattern reverses sharply. Ryan Shehan, a professional-level FIA Silver graded driver, has finished ahead of Bowlsbey 23 times to 11 in 34 shared races. Nico Christodoulou and Dylan Tavella, both semi-professionals, beat Bowlsbey 19 and 17 times respectively in head-to-head comparisons of 23 and 19 races. Bowlsbey has occasionally upset stronger drivers: he beat Bijoy Garg, a semi-professional with a national championship to his name, four times across their meetings, and he has single results against three drivers of considerably higher calibre, including Kyffin Simpson (the 2021 Formula Regional Americas champion) and Noel Leon (the 2023 Euroformula Open champion). These are isolated achievements rather than patterns, and his main work has been in Formula Regional Americas, where his four podiums came across 50 starts between 2022 and 2025.