🇪🇸 Juan Cota

Juan Cota is a professional driver competing in Spanish Formula 4, where he holds a Racer Rating of 4,331. This places him in the professional band; he is a national championship front-runner capable of beating semi-professional fields comfortably. Across three seasons from 2023 to 2025, Cota has amassed 61 starts in Spanish F4 for MP Motorsport and latterly Drivex Team, scoring 4 wins and 11 podiums. His average finishing position of P12.7 reflects a mid-field operator in a competitive grid, though one capable of occasional strong results.[1]

Cota's head-to-head record against his peers tells a mixed story of progression and inconsistency. Against semi-professional rivals, he dominates decisively; he has finished ahead of Filippo Fiorentino in 37 of 41 shared races and Wiktor Dobrzanski in 37 of 39. Against established professionals, however, the picture reverses. Against Griffin Peebles, an FIA Silver-graded driver rated 734 points higher, Cota holds a marginal 23–18 advantage across 41 races, suggesting a genuine competitive balance at close quarters. Against the 2025 Spanish F4 champion Thomas Strauven and Keanu Al Azhari, both stronger drivers, Cota has been heavily outpaced, finishing behind them in 26 of 38 and 27 of 39 races respectively. He has beaten stronger drivers in isolation; he bested 2023 champion Théophile Naël and professional-level drivers Pedro Clerot and Noah Strømsted on occasion, but these are scattered results rather than a pattern of superiority.[2]

Cota remained in Spanish F4 for a third season in 2025 rather than pursuing a promotion to Eurocup-3, a decision reflected in his 2025 campaign of 20 rounds yielding three podiums and a seventh-place championship finish. He is an active driver operating at the top level of national single-seater racing in Spain.