🇯🇵 Kanato Le

Kanato Le is a professional driver who competes at the level of a national championship front-runner, with a Racer Rating of 4,680. He races in the junior single-seater ladder, currently in the FIA Formula 3 Championship with ART Grand Prix as he works toward the top of the category. Across four seasons from 2023 to 2026, he has recorded three wins and eight podiums from 89 starts, an average finishing position of P11.3.[1]

Le's career has followed a conventional path through the feeder series. He began in British F4 in 2023 with Hitech Pulse-Eight, scoring two wins and four podiums across 30 starts. He stepped up to GB3 in 2024-2025 with Hillspeed, where he won once and took three podiums in 12 starts, before moving to Formula Regional European with ART Grand Prix in 2024-2025, recording a single podium across 37 entries. His 2026 campaign moved him into Formula 3 proper, where he has competed in ten races without yet reaching the podium.[2]

In the competitive fields Le has raced, his record against rivals of differing calibre tells a mixed picture. He holds a losing head-to-head record against most of his most frequent opponents; against Matteo De Palo, a FIA Silver-graded professional, he finished ahead only 13 times in 43 races. However, he has beaten several drivers of considerably higher standing on occasion, including two-time champion Freddie Slater six times across their meetings and two-time champion Rafael Câmara twice. Most significantly in his favour is a decisive advantage over Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi, a semi-professional competitor, whom Le has outfinished 29 times in 40 shared races. These patterns indicate a driver solidly competitive within his generation but not yet consistently outperforming the strongest of his peers as he pursues the Formula 3 championship in 2026.