🇨🇿 Jan Charouz

Jan Charouz is a professional driver who raced in single-seater and multiclass endurance championships across seven seasons from 2006 to 2014. His primary involvement was in Formula V8 3.5, where he ran 22 starts for Gravity-Charouz Racing over 2010 and 2011, and the World Endurance Championship, where he contested 13 rounds in LMP2 prototypes for Sebastien Loeb Racing between 2012 and 2014. He also took a single start in FIA GT Championship shared-car racing in 2006 and a SKUSA SuperNationals entry in the Rotax DD2 class in 2013.[1]

Charouz took one win across his career, in WEC, and a second podium finish in the same series, giving him two top-three finishes from 13 starts in that championship. His Formula V8 3.5 tenure yielded no podiums from 22 starts. In the multiclass and shared-car fields he raced, he typically finished behind the professionals he met regularly; against Nelson Panciatici, a Platinum-graded professional with extensive experience in Formula V8 3.5 and WEC, Charouz usually finished lower, and the same held against Albert Costa, a Formula Renault Eurocup champion and established professional with 30 Formula V8 3.5 starts. In single-seater racing, Charouz finished ahead of Daniel Ricciardo, the 2010 Formula V8 3.5 champion who went on to Formula 1, on three occasions, and beat Martin Brundle twice, though Brundle's primary career lay in Formula 1 and single-driver categories where the comparison is less direct.[2]