🇨🇳 Martin Cao

Martin Cao was a professional single-seater and touring car driver racing for Fortec Motorsports in FIA Formula 3 European and Formula 3 Macau, and latterly for Team Hyundai N in the TCR World Tour. His indexed career spans 24 starts across three seasons between 2014 and 2024, with a rating of 4,255 placing him at professional level; a driver at this level typically competes in established national or international championships against a field mixing semi-professional and graded professional entrants.[1]

Cao's indexed record in European single-seaters came in 2014 and 2015, when he made 17 starts in FIA Formula 3 European and three at Formula 3 Macau, both grids that field a spread of amateur, semi-professional and established professionals in the same race. His most recent indexed activity was the 2024 TCR World Tour, where he took four starts for Team Hyundai N and finished 15th in the championship standings. A gap of nine years separates his European Formula 3 campaign from his TCR World Tour entry, with his racing in that interval unindexed here.[2]

Cao finished ahead of Kenta Yamashita, an established professional graded FIA Platinum and 2024 Super GT GT500 champion, once in their meetings; he also beat Alexander Albon, a Formula 1 driver with 144 starts in the series, once. His most frequent opponents in the indexed record were Jake Dennis and Felix Rosenqvist, both established professionals with graded FIA credentials and multiple championships across their careers, against whom he typically finished behind. His tenure at Fortec Motorsports coincided with Charles Leclerc's time at the team, one of the grid's generational talents.