🇨🇴 Sebastian Saavedra

Sebastian Saavedra is a professional racing driver from Colombia competing in a range of national solo-seat and sports car championships. His primary indexed career spans IndyCar and its feeder series Indy NXT, where he raced for AFS Racing and Andretti Autosport as a single-car driver on ovals and road courses alike. He holds an FIA Gold grading, the full-professional classification for endurance and sportscar racing. Most recently he has been active in Lamborghini Super Trofeo and the Zenith Racing Series.[1]

Saavedra's record across 112 starts and 11 seasons dating to 2010 shows a career built on consistent presence in established championships rather than breakthrough results. His two wins and nine podiums in Indy NXT across 23 starts between 2010 and 2012 form his most productive stretch; he then moved to IndyCar for 66 starts between 2010 and 2017, competing across 37 oval events and the remainder on road and street courses. His sole IMSA WeatherTech win came in multiclass prototype racing with DragonSpeed in 2014–2019. Since 2023 he has competed in Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America, where he took three podiums in ten starts, and currently sits 18th in the 2026 Zenith Racing Series standings after two rounds.[2]

Saavedra's racing places him in fields populated by graded professionals and established competitors. Among those he regularly encounters are Charlie Kimball, an established professional with Formula 3 Euro Series and substantial IndyCar experience, and Helio Castroneves, a Platinum-graded professional, a three-time IndyCar champion, and the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech DPi champion; against both he typically finishes behind. He has on occasion outpaced much stronger drivers: he beat Fernando Alonso, a two-time Formula 1 champion with a World Endurance Championship title, once in IMSA competition, and finished ahead of Dario Franchitti, a four-time IndyCar champion, seven times across their shared races.