Robert Shwartzman

Robert Mikhailovich Shwartzman (Russian: Ро́берт Миха́йлович Шва́рцман, IPA: [ˈrobʲɪrt mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ˈʂvartsmɐn]; born 16 September 1999[2]), is a Russian racing driver competing in the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship. He is a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy.[3] He is the 2018 Toyota Racing Series champion and the 2019 FIA Formula 3 champion.[4]

Not to be confused with Robert Schwartzman.

Robert Shwartzman
Shwartzman in 2018
Nationality	Russian
Born	(1999-09-16) 16 September 1999 Saint Petersburg, Russia
FIA Formula 2 Championship career
Debut season	2020
Current team	Prema Racing
Car number	21
Starts	12 (12 entries)
Wins	2
Podiums	4
Poles	1[lower-alpha 1]
Fastest laps	0
Previous series
2019 2018 2018 2016–17 2016–17 2015 2014–15	FIA Formula 3 Championship FIA European F3 Toyota Racing Series Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC ADAC Formula 4 Italian F4 Championship
Championship titles
2019 2018	FIA Formula 3 Championship Toyota Racing Series

Career

Karting

Born in Saint Petersburg, Shwartzman began karting in 2004 at the age of five. Throughout a seven-year career of karting professionally, he claimed karting titles across Europe (predominantly in Italy).

Formula 4

In 2014, Shwartzman graduated to single-seaters, partaking in six races of the Italian F4 Championship with Cram Motorsport, finishing sixteenth overall.

The following year, Shwartzman partook in the championship full-time with Mücke Motorsport, claiming two wins and finishing third in the standings behind the Prema Powerteam duo of Ralf Aron and Guanyu Zhou. He also partook in the inaugural ADAC Formula 4 championship, finishing fourth in the standings.

Formula Renault

In 2016, Shwartzman moved to Formula Renault 2.0 with reigning series champions Josef Kaufmann Racing after testing with the team at Motorland Aragon.[5] He claimed two victories in the Northern European Cup and finished sixth in the standings. In the Eurocup, Shwartzman finished eighth.

For 2017, Shwartzman stayed in Formula Renault 2.0, but decided to switch to the R-ace GP team.[6] He lost thirteen points to his teammate Will Palmer and finished in the third place in the driver standings, but was able to win six races, having podium finish at all rounds excepting Red Bull Ring, and at Circuit Paul Ricard.

GP3 Series

In November 2016, Shwartzman was listed among the drivers partaking in the post-season test at Yas Marina with Koiranen GP.[7]

Toyota Racing Series

Shwartzman made his Toyota Racing Series debut during the 2018 off-season, competing for M2 Competition.[8] He finished all fifteen races in the top-five and was the only driver in the season to do so. He won the Denny Hulme Memorial Trophy and the series title, ahead of the M2 teammates Richard Verschoor and Marcus Armstrong, who have raced in the series in 2017.[9][4]

FIA Formula 3 European Championship

In September 2017, Shwartzman tested the European Formula 3 machinery with Prema Powerteam.[10] After his tests with Prema he was included into the Ferrari Driver Academy.[3] In December 2017, it was confirmed that he will race for Prema in 2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship.[11] Shwartzman took his first European Formula 3 win in the third Spielberg race.[12] With his second win in the season finale he outscored another Ferrari Driver Academy member Marcus Armstrong in the drivers' standings, completing the top-three with claiming the rookie title.[13]

FIA Formula 3 Championship

Robert Shwartzman at 2019 Macau Grand Prix.

Following the merger of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship and GP3 Series into the new FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2019, Prema announced Shwartzman as one of its drivers for the inaugural season.[14] Shwartzman qualified on pole for the first Barcelona race and initially finished the race in second before being promoted to race winner following a time penalty to Christian Lundgaard.[15][16] In the following day’s race, he finished fourth.

He took third place at qualifying in Circuit Paul Ricard and finished second in the first race, losing only to his team-mate Jehan Daruvala. After starting from seventh in the grid, at the sprint race, he took his second victory. At the Red Bull Ring Shwartzman qualified only 12th, after suffering from technical issues. He went up to 5th in the first race, and in the next race he battled with Marcus Armstrong, but at the final lap made contact. Armstrong retired and Shwartzman crossed the finish line in first, but was given a five-second time penalty for causing a collision, dropping him down to third behind race winner HWA Racelab driver Jake Hughes, who took victory here last year, and Jehan Daruvala.

At Silverstone he qualified sixth. It looked like he would finish in the same position, but with 3 laps remaining he overtook Christian Lundgaard. Later, Pedro Piquet also overtook him. On Sunday, he finished second with the fastest lap, behind Hitech Grand Prix and race winner Leonardo Pulcini who took two victories in the 2018 GP3 Series – at Sochi and Abu Dhabi – all victories for the Italian were at the feature races. At the Hungaroring, it was the first weekend for the Russian driver to not score any podiums - he qualified P4, but had a very bad start, and he finished only in 5th. A following day, he was on his way to take third position, after his tyres were really bad, and he lost it to Felipe Drugovich. They made contact, Drugovich and Shwartzman later retired. At the Spa-Francorchamps he qualified at 4th position, however, he overtook Jehan Daruvala, and Marcus Armstrong, and he finished in 2nd place. Day later, he finished third behind Yuki Tsunoda, and Marcus Armstrong.

At Monza, he qualified third, and despite a five-place grid penalty, was able to win his third race of the year. In the Sprint, he took eight place by just 0.067 second over Christian Lundgaard and was able to take the final point. Shwartzman took the pole position ahead of his home race at Sochi, but he can't save his race lead on the race lap and finished second behind Armstrong. But his point advantage on Daruvala was enough to clinch the championship title.[17]

FIA Formula 2 Championship

Shwartzman joined Prema Racing for the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship, partnering Mick Schumacher.[18] The season was planned to begin in March, but was postponed until July due to COVID-19 pandemic. On 18 April 2020, Shwartzman's father died of COVID-19 aged 52.[19]

Shwartzman took a podium finish on his Formula 2 debut at the Red Bull Ring, taking 3rd place in the feature race.[20] He then took his first Formula 2 victory at the feature race of the second Red Bull Ring round, dedicating the victory to his late father.[21]

The next feature race at the Hungaroring Shwartzman started from the eleventh position. He left the first turn of the first lap five places ahead. He had a tire strategy different from the front-runners and had better tyre management, winning the race with a 15 second gap.[22]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Podiums	Points	Position
2014	Italian F4 Championship	Cram Motorsport	6	0	0	0	0	26	16th
2015	Italian F4 Championship	Mücke Motorsport	21	2	4	3	8	212	3rd
	ADAC Formula 4 Championship	ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.	20	0	0	4	8	167	4th
2016	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Josef Kaufmann Racing	15	0	0	0	1	75	8th
	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC		15	2	1	2	3	206	6th
2017	Formula Renault Eurocup	R-ace GP	23	6	7	7	12	285	3rd
	Formula Renault NEC		3	0	0	0	1	0	NC†
2018	FIA Formula 3 European Championship	Prema Theodore Racing	30	2	3	1	11	294	3rd
	Macau Grand Prix	SJM Theodore Racing by Prema	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	9th
	Toyota Racing Series	M2 Competition	15	1	3	3	9	916	1st
2019	FIA Formula 3 Championship	Prema Racing	16	3	2	2	10	212	1st
	Macau Grand Prix	SJM Theodore Racing by Prema	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
2020	FIA Formula 2 Championship	Prema Racing	12	2	1[lower-alpha 1]		4	103*	2nd*

^† As Shwartzman was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
^* Season still in progress.

Complete FIA Formula 3 European Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	DC	Points
2018	Prema Theodore Racing	Mercedes	PAU 1 8	PAU 2 9	PAU 3 6‡	HUN 1 3	HUN 2 5	HUN 3 Ret	NOR 1 6	NOR 2 Ret	NOR 3 7	ZAN 1 8	ZAN 2 7	ZAN 3 11	SPA 1 5	SPA 2 4	SPA 3 2	SIL 1 8	SIL 2 9	SIL 3 10	MIS 1 3	MIS 2 9	MIS 3 7	NÜR 1 2	NÜR 2 2	NÜR 3 2	RBR 1 2	RBR 2 3	RBR 3 1	HOC 1 2	HOC 2 5	HOC 3 1	3rd	294

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2019	Prema Racing	CAT FEA 1	CAT SPR 4	LEC FEA 2	LEC SPR 1	RBR FEA 5	RBR SPR 3	SIL FEA 5	SIL SPR 2	HUN FEA 5	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA 2	SPA SPR 3	MNZ FEA 1	MNZ SPR 8	SOC FEA 2	SOC SPR 3	1st	212

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position points) (Races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2020	Prema Racing	RBR1 FEA 3	RBR1 SPR 4	RBR2 FEA 1	RBR2 SPR Ret	HUN FEA 1	HUN SPR 4	SIL1 FEA 14	SIL1 SPR 13	SIL2 FEA 8	SIL2 SPR 13	CAT FEA 2	CAT SPR 13	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	MUG FEA	MUG SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	2nd*	103*

^* Season still in progress.

Notes

1. 0 poles achieved during qualifying, and 1 pole given as a result of the reverse grid in the sprint race.[1]

References

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20. Suttill, Josh (4 July 2020). "Callum Ilott wins F2 season opener after team-mate Guanyu Zhou drops out of lead". formulascout.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
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22. Elis, Joe (18 July 2020). "Shwartzman Wins Tyre Wear Affected F2 Feature Race". thecheckeredflag.co.uk. The Checkered Flag. Retrieved 18 July 2020.

External links

• Official website (in Russian)
• Robert Shwartzman career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Thomas Randle	Toyota Racing Series Champion 2018	Succeeded by Liam Lawson
Preceded by Lando Norris	FIA Formula 3 European Championship Rookie Champion 2018	Succeeded by None (Series ended)
Preceded by Inaugural	FIA Formula 3 Championship Champion 2019	Succeeded by Incumbent