🇬🇧 Rob Austin

Rob Austin is a professional who raced single-seater Formula 3 cars and touring cars between 2003 and 2020. He competed primarily in the British Touring Car Championship for Power Maxed Car Care Racing and Handy Motorsport, starting 123 times across a six-year span from 2015 to 2020. Early in his career he contested Formula 3 Euro Series and Formula 3 Macau with limited grid time.[1]

Austin took a single BTCC win across 123 starts in the series, alongside seven podiums spread across his involvement. His best results came as a regular midfield competitor against the championship's established grid. He finished ahead of Ash Sutton, the three-time BTCC champion, on 24 occasions. In a rare standout moment, he finished ahead of Lewis Hamilton in their only recorded meeting in Formula 3 Euro Series, though that came early in Hamilton's career as a professional contender who would go on to win seven world championships.[2]

Austin spent most of his touring car years with Handy Motorsport, a small team that fielded three drivers across the index with one race win to its name. Against his regular opponents in BTCC, he typically finished behind Tom Ingram, a Gold-graded driver who became a multiple championship winner, and ran closely matched with professional peer Adam Morgan.