🇫🇮 Patrick Kujala

Patrick Kujala is a Finnish professional sportscar racing driver competing at Gold level, the FIA's grading for full-time endurance and GT racing professionals. His career spans 11 seasons from 2012 to the present across 103 starts, though his path through racing has been lengthy and incremental rather than a rapid climb through single-seaters. He began in junior formulae; GP3 from 2013 to 2014 and Formula Renault Eurocup in 2012 produced no wins or podiums, establishing him as a competitive but not dominant figure in that category. His real development came through sportscar racing, where he has been most active since joining Barwell Motorsport in the GT World Challenge Europe in 2019.[1]

Kujala's record in the top-flight GT World Challenge Europe over six seasons yields no wins or podiums despite 28 starts, placing him in a support role within a strong team. His more consistent form emerges in secondary sportscar series. In the British GT Championship, he took one win and four podiums across 12 starts from 2020 to 2025. His strongest single-season performance came in 2022, when he contested Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America, scoring one win and seven podiums in ten rounds to finish fifth overall; he also recorded two podiums in five IMSA Prototype Challenge starts that year. Against the frequent rivals supplying most of his competitive context, Kujala maintains a mixed record; he has finished ahead of Patric Niederhauser, Maro Engel and Nick Yelloly in isolated instances but trails them decisively over their shared race history. He has occasionally outrun Alexander Albon, a much stronger driver, across their limited meetings, though this reflects the particular races rather than a competitive pattern. At a rating of 3,338, Kujala sits in the professional middle of the sportscar grid, substantially below the front-running specialists he regularly races against.[2]