🏳️ Rasmus Joutsimies

Rasmus Joutsimies is a semi-professional driver; his rating of 3,607 places him in the competitive amateur band, meaning he raced regularly against paid professionals but finished behind them more often than ahead. His single season of racing on record came in 2022, when he contested 17 rounds of ADAC Formula 4 for Jenzer Motorsport. He scored one podium finish and averaged eighth place across the season, ending in eighth in the championship. His results show he was outpaced by the field's stronger drivers; he finished behind Andrea Kimi Antonelli, a Mercedes junior and 3-time champion, in all 14 shared races, and behind Taylor Barnard, a much stronger professional rated 6,270, in 16 of 17 encounters.[1]

Joutsimies's competitive context reveals a driver who found occasional pace against mid-field rivals. He beat Jonas Ried, an FIA Silver graded driver, nine times in fifteen races, and defeated James Wharton, another Silver graded professional, twice in twelve meetings. He also outran Michael Sauter, a weaker driver, in twelve of fourteen races. However, he was consistently beaten by Nikita Bedrin, a professional-level driver rated 4,852, finishing ahead only twice in fifteen shared races. His single strongest results came as isolated performances: one podium finish in the field, one victory over Barnard and one over Rafael Câmara, a 2-time champion, though these do not form a pattern against drivers of that calibre.