🇺🇸 Hudson Schwartz

Hudson Schwartz is a semi-professional racing driver with a Racer Rating of 3,629, placing him in the competitive amateur to early semi-professional band; this means he wins occasionally in pro-am and one-make classes and runs mid-pack among full professionals, though his record shows a driver still finding his feet at the professional level. Categorised as FIA Silver in sportscar and endurance racing, a grade for professional-level drivers who are typically young or early-career, Schwartz has spent four seasons racing across single-seater formulae and GT4. His career began in 2021 with SKUSA SuperNationals; he then progressed to Italian F4 and USF2000 in 2024, finishing ninth in the latter series, before moving into GT4 competition in Europe. Across his single-seater campaigns, he recorded three podiums from 48 starts without a win, averaging a 12th-place finish among classified finishers.[1]

Schwartz's head-to-head records against his most frequent rivals tell a consistent story. Against established professionals rated around 4,300 to 4,500, drivers such as Reno Francot, Juan Cota, Nathaniel Tye, and René Lammers, he finished ahead in roughly one-third of encounters. He holds a notably better record against Christopher Feghali, a semi-professional at 3,420, winning 14 of 22 shared races, and was outpaced consistently by Wiktor Dobrzanski, a much weaker competitor. He has beaten several drivers from stronger fields in isolated instances, including former champion Thomas Strauven twice and higher-rated professionals like Griffin Peebles, Maciej Gladysz, and Rashid Al Dhaheri once each, but these results do not form a sustained pattern.[2]

Currently active in GT4 European Series and ADAC GT4 Germany for CRT Sport, Schwartz remains engaged with professional-level racing after his single-seater campaign. His progression reflects a driver working to establish himself in the professional ranks, competitive enough to take occasional results against stronger fields but not yet demonstrating the consistency or pace to challenge front-runners regularly.