🇨🇿 Zdenek Chovanec

Zdenek Chovanec is a Czech driver who competed in Formula 3 with Charouz Racing System, a team long associated with developing central European talent in single-seater racing. Of Czech-Portuguese-Venezuelan background, Chovanec built his career through the junior single-seater ranks before reaching the FIA Formula 3 Championship, where he represented Charouz Racing System across his time in the category. His path also included stints in sports car and endurance-style competition, reflecting a broader motorsport background beyond open-wheel racing alone.[1]

Across his Formula 3 career, Chovanec made 12 starts without securing a win, podium, or championship, and his Racer Rating of 2,396 places him 4502nd among active drivers on a scale where the sport's elite sit between 10,000 and 11,500, indicating a career spent outside the category's front-running order. In his 2026 season, he contested four rounds without a win or podium, finishing 36th in the standings. Chovanec's career status is now listed as retired, closing out a Formula 3 tenure spent with Charouz Racing System without a breakthrough result at the series level.[2]