🇦🇺 Joey Mawson

Joey Mawson is an Australian racing driver who competed as an established professional in single-seater racing from 2015 to 2023. He raced primarily for Van Amersfoort Racing in his early career, winning the 2016 ADAC Formula 4 championship, then moved between several series before finding consistent success in S5000, where he drove for 88 Racing.[1]

Mawson took 29 wins across 124 starts in indexed racing. His breakthrough came in ADAC Formula 4, where he won 15 of 45 races and secured the title ahead of Mick Schumacher. He stepped up to FIA Formula 3 European in 2017 with Van Amersfoort Racing but managed only a single podium from 27 starts in a field including several drivers who went on to stronger careers. He had brief stints in GP3 Series and Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup in 2018 and 2019 respectively, taking two podiums and one podium across those campaigns. His record picked up markedly in S5000 from 2021 onward, where he took 14 wins and 19 podiums across 26 starts and won the championship in 2022 with Team BRM.[2]

In his most competitive environment, S5000, Mawson regularly raced against Schumacher and David Beckmann, both established professionals at a similar level to himself, and finished ahead of Lando Norris, a generational talent, in three separate meetings. His career showed the pattern of a driver who excelled in junior categories and found his strongest footing in a national-level professional series rather than in the international ladder, where higher-graded competition and larger grids presented a steeper challenge.