🇬🇧 Oliver Oakes

Oliver Oakes is a professional-level racing driver with a career rating of 4,611, placing him among the competitive front-runners of professional motorsport. His racing record spans four seasons from 2006 to 2010 across three single-seater series, totalling 32 starts without wins or podiums; his average finishing position of eleventh across classified races indicates consistent mid-field performance in the fields he contested.[1]

Oakes raced primarily in the Formula Renault Eurocup (2006–2007) with Motopark Academy and the GP3 Series (2010) with CRS Racing, with a single outing in the Formula 3 Euro Series. His most frequent rivals included drivers of comparable standing such as Tobias Hegewald and Pedro Nunes, against both of whom he held winning head-to-head records. More notably, Oakes finished ahead of several much stronger drivers on multiple occasions; he beat Daniel Ricciardo three times, Jaime Alguersuari six times, and Rio Haryanto seven times, demonstrating competitive moments against elite-level talent, though these results were isolated within his overall record against them. Against the most consistently dominant rivals he faced, such as Stefano Coletti and Robert Wickens, he was outpaced; Wickens in particular defeated him 14 times across 15 shared races, suggesting a clear gap between them.[2]

Oakes retired from racing after 2010. Since then, his career has moved substantially into motorsport management and administration, culminating in his appointment as Team Principal of the Alpine F1 Team in July 2024. He stepped down from that role in May 2025, and has since become involved in team ownership structures in junior motorsport, taking on a leading role at Hitech GP.