🇨🇴 Sebastian Saavedra

Sebastián Saavedra is a semi-professional racing driver competing across multiple series in the United States. A Colombian native from Bogotá, he holds an FIA Gold grading in endurance racing. He competes in prototype and sports car racing, most recently in the 2026 Zenith Racing Series for Medusa Motorsports, where he sits 17th in the championship standings with two rounds raced so far.[1]

Saavedra's career spans 16 years from 2010 to the present across 112 starts. His early focus was single-seater racing in the Indy NXT, where he took two wins and nine podiums between 2010 and 2012 with AFS Racing and Andretti Autosport. He progressed to IndyCar between 2010 and 2017, collecting 66 starts with the bulk of his racing on oval circuits; he also contested nine IMSA WeatherTech rounds in multiclass endurance racing from 2014 to 2019, taking one win in prototype competition. More recently he has raced in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series in North America, adding three podiums in ten starts in the Pro class in 2023.[2]

In IndyCar and Indy NXT, Saavedra regularly competed against established professionals and multiple-time series champions. He usually finished behind Charlie Kimball, an FIA Gold driver and established professional with extensive single-seater experience, and behind Hélio Castroneves, the four-time Indianapolis 500 winner and Platinum-graded driver with hundreds of IndyCar starts. His strongest result came in beating Fernando Alonso once, a two-time Formula 1 champion and elite professional; he also outfinished Scott Dixon, an IndyCar five-time champion and Platinum-graded driver, on 11 occasions across their meetings in the series.