🇨🇳 Zhenrui Chi

Zhenrui Chi is a professional racing driver competing in the junior single-seater categories. His Racer Rating of 4,428 places him in the professional band; he competes at the level of a national championship front-runner and beats semi-professional fields comfortably. Through 2025 and 2026, Chi has contested 28 races across three series, with most of his activity concentrated in Italian F4, where he secured a podium finish rate of 20 percent and one victory for Prema Racing, a team with a strong recent record in junior categories.[1]

Chi's record against his peers shows mixed relative performance. Across shared races with established professional drivers, he has run consistently in the middle order; his average finishing position stands at P9.9 across classified starts. Against Kean Nakamura-Berta, a championship-level rival, Chi finished ahead in five of their twenty-one encounters but trailed in sixteen, reflecting a decisive gap. He has held a roughly even head-to-head record with Salim Hanna and Maksimilian Popov, both professional-rated drivers, while dominating semi-professional rivals such as Kabir Anurag, whom he beat in seventeen of their twenty-one shared races. Chi has beaten established professionals in single instances; he finished ahead of Alex Ninovic, a former champion, twice in his record.[2]

Chi's competitive position remains at the entry end of the professional category. His main work in Italian F4 demonstrated capability to win in a one-make formula, but his six starts in Formula Regional European produced no podiums, indicating difficulty in stepping up to a stronger field. As of April 2026, he joined the Aston Martin Aramco Driver Academy, a development pathway into the top level of motorsport.