🇵🇱 Kacper Sztuka

Kacper Sztuka is a Polish professional driver competing at the national championship level. His Racer Rating of 4,117 places him among professional drivers; this represents a competitor capable of leading in strong single-seater fields and beating semi-professionals comfortably. Sztuka's career rests on a dominant 2023 season in Italian F4 with US Racing, when he won nine of eighteen rounds and finished champion. That title marked the peak of his record; across five seasons from 2021 to 2025, totalling 83 starts, he has won eleven times and finished in the points on eighteen occasions, with an average classification of eleventh place.[1]

Sztuka's record shows a steep decline after his Italian F4 championship. His sole season in Formula 3 during 2024 yielded no wins or podiums across twenty starts, placing him outside the front ranks of a driver population that includes Platinum-graded professionals. His current work in Formula Regional European has produced no results in six starts through 2025. The calibre of drivers he has regularly faced tells the story; Sztuka repeatedly finished behind Arvid Lindblad, an elite professional and Platinum-graded driver rated at 7,913, losing their head-to-head fifty-three times across thirty-five races. Against Leonardo Fornaroli, a two-time champion rated at 6,706, Sztuka won thirty-two of their thirty-three meetings, yet this outlier cannot be read as evidence of strength given Fornaroli's superior overall standing. More instructive is his losing record against professional peers such as Nikita Bedrin and Charlie Wurz, both rated in the mid-4,800s, showing his level within the professional band rather than above it. The headlines surrounding his removal from the Red Bull Junior Team in 2024 and his own comments regretting his path through Formula 3 underscore a career trajectory that peaked early and has not recovered.[2]