🇪🇪 Juri Vips

Juri Vips is an established professional racing driver competing in international single-seaters and now sports cars. FIA Gold-graded, he won the 2017 ADAC Formula 4 championship with Prema Powerteam and has spent his career primarily with Hitech Grand Prix across Formula 2, Formula 3, and one-off campaigns in Super Formula and IndyCar. He currently races for RLL Team McLaren in the IMSA WeatherTech Championship, making his sports car debut at the 2026 Rolex 24 at Daytona.[1]

Vips spent most of his early career in the lower single-seater ladder. He won twice in ADAC Formula 4 and Italian Formula 4 during 2016 and 2017, then moved through FIA Formula 3 European with Motopark in 2017 and 2018, taking four wins across that spell. Formula 3 in 2019 brought three more victories before a single start in Super Formula for Team Mugen that year. His primary focus from 2020 to 2022 was Formula 2 with Hitech Grand Prix, where he accumulated three wins and twelve podiums across 59 starts, competing in both SR1 and SR2 classes. Attempts in IndyCar came in 2023 and 2024, where he started three road and street course races for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing without points finishes. His indexed racing record stands at 178 starts, 15 wins, and 50 podiums across these series.[2]

The single-seater fields he inhabited were closely competitive. Vips regularly raced against Marcus Armstrong and Felipe Drugovich, both established professionals, with records against them that remained closely matched. He finished ahead of Oscar Piastri, a generational talent now racing in Formula 1, on multiple occasions, and outfinished Liam Lawson, an elite professional, dozens of times across their overlapping campaigns in Formula 2 and Formula 3. Hitech Grand Prix, his primary team across 69 of his starts, fielded a strong operation with 48 wins across the index and has developed elite-level drivers including Isack Hadjar. Vips made his IMSA sports car debut in the GTD PRO class at Daytona in 2026, joining a new chapter after a decade in international open-wheel racing.