🇮🇳 Kush Maini

Kush Maini is an established professional driver with a Racer Rating of 5,910, placing him among the sharp end of a strong feeder series and a full-time seat at a competitive level. The FIA grades him Silver in endurance racing, denoting a professional-level driver early in their sportscar career. His record spans eleven seasons from 2016 onwards, with 217 starts across Formula 4, the Formula Renault Eurocup, Formula 3, Formula 2, and the World Endurance Championship. His primary portfolio is Formula 2, where he has contested 95 starts for ART Grand Prix since 2023, securing 3 wins and 9 podiums; he averages a ninth-place finish across all his classified starts.[1]

Maini's competitive record is defined by his sustained campaigns against a cohort of professional-level drivers rather than by clear dominance of any field. His most frequent rivals include Victor Martins, a dual champion of the Formula Renault Eurocup and FIA Gold graded professional, against whom Maini holds a 22-67 head-to-head deficit across 89 races; Jak Crawford, a stronger-rated driver with whom Maini shares a 23-55 record over 78 encounters; and Roman Stanek, whom he has beaten slightly more often (38-37) in 75 shared races. Against Amaury Cordeel and Juan Manuel Correa, both FIA Silver graded, Maini has the edge, leading his records 47-25 and 38-31 respectively. These patterns show a driver who consistently runs among professionals but occupies the middle ground of their peer group rather than its upper tier. He has on occasion finished ahead of much stronger drivers; he beat Oscar Piastri, a generational-level driver and 2021 Formula 2 champion, once, and has posted results ahead of Andrea Kimi Antonelli nine times, though such isolated showings do not establish a pattern against drivers of that calibre.[2]

Maini remains active in 2026, holding reserve positions with Alpine in Formula 1 and Mahindra in Formula E while continuing his full-time Formula 2 campaign. Recent headlines indicate he is working toward higher-profile opportunities and continues to develop his craft under high-level mentorship.